day 45

Well the boy is off with his Grandparents and the house is clean and quiet! Madeline sleeps most of the time and come to think of it so do the dogs! The highlight of Andrew's summers is his Granddad taking him fishing, the only problem is that he is a little spoiled when it comes to fishing, not liking to touch the bait or unhook his own fish (we won't even get into cleaning his own catch here!!). It may even be too hot for them to get out this trip, but if they do, this is what happens every time!

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poster round 2

they like this one!

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day 44

 Diamond mining in Murfreesboro, ARK is a lot like going to a casino, you put up your money or time and expect a big payout.  At least at the casino, you get a cocktail! At the mine, maybe heat stroke!

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band posters

Sorry for the lapse in posting, busy, busy! Here are two Bunnies posters, one they will use and the other they will not (The Vitruvian Man, back to the drawing board!). It's hot here, so, not much else to do but draw and clean the house!

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where you been?

Sorry for the absence! I've been working on some storyboard/character design for a friends screenplay and all the stuff is copyrighted. I can't share any work here at this time! Please check back as I promise to get back to daily cartooning as soon as possible!!!

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day 43

Well, I fell off the wagon hard this weekend, no cartoons for 3 days!  Family first, lotsa cleaning and entertaining done over the last few days, part of living this life! I will try and catch up, but I think getting in a toon every day may not be practical, but will still be attempted.  Such is life!

This is a large toon about the park on the local river where I take my son fishing! It's an old dam that once had a grinding mill on it. This river, in addition to having a major Civil War battle fought on it, also has the most old mill dams. A very beautiful place usually filled with some of the most butt-ugly people on the planet! I just had to give the lit'redneck Coopertone girl a Pitt-bull instead of a nice little puppy! Really, just had ta'!


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day 42

Man, I screwed this one up bad! Ran out of my regular paper and at the last minute used this paper I found in a stack of old supplies from the 80's. The minute I started to erase, everything smeared and it's way too late to start over tonight, so! I took the Boy fishing today and noticed how much stuff is involved in fishing now! I remembered my grandmother taking me fishing in the summers when I was his age and we did it on the cheap, caught more and had twice the fun!

I got up early to fix the wife's lunch and though I would fix this cartoon also. This one is composed better and has no smear lines!
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day 41

Got too hot today mowing the yard and almost didn't post tonight! It was the Madeline show last night at the graduation! She got a ton of awards and seemed to be up on stage every five minutes! The boy got a little jealous and showed out some! We survived. Different style tonight, loose pen work, mainly due to running out of time, but I will deny that if cornered!

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day 40

Our daughter graduates the sixth grade tonight (and they said she would never go far,,,,well, maybe I said she would never go far!). She is a beautiful and bright girl and will go far in this world if she can successfully walk the minefield that is the teenage years! So far she has shown good taste in friends and activities which we survivors know is half the battle. Last night the Boy got the dogs all stirred up late. I told him not to do it, but, does he listen? No! So, at eleven last night we can still hear the dogs fighting/playing and the Boy screaming "Shut up, you stupid dogs!" I just smiled and rolled over.....such is life!

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day 39

We went last night with no AC, the units were froze up! We go through this about once a year, small leak somewhere in one of the units. Apparently, who ever installed our heat pump was a world class dumb-ass! The guy who works on our units told me that they don't make the coolant we use anymore and it's only getting harder to find and more expensive. The new approved stuff will actually explode if put in contact with the old stuff we got in now, lucky us! Well, it's cool in here now and it'll probably last till next year. Such is life......

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day 38

 Got on the bike today and rode the Greenway in town, got me a new bike computer and I know the distance was 14.45 miles with an avg speed of 9.6 mph!  Not too bad for an old man in hot weather!  As we crossed this footbridge over the Stones River, these rednecks were jumping 30 feet off the top of the bridge into water that was recently 30 feet over flood stage, no telling what new stumps or rocks had been moved into the area?  But what are the eternal last words of a true redneck?  "Hey y'all, watch this!"

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day 37

Ok, I came close to blowing off today, it's 1015 at night, I'm tired and almost just went to bed. The three beers in me are not helping either! We won the last soccer game!!! That's over, but it was a great team and more fun than I ever would have expected! The wife took me shopping afterwards cause she got a gift card to Victoria Secret. That turned into an hour long ordeal. I can handle shopping OK, but I'm not a "let me hold your purse" kind of guy. I don't mind getting out every once in a while. It took forever for her to find the right bra and then get the girls to quit chatting and help her! Guess that's why I'm not in the underwear business! Me and the other two guys in there were doing our best not to stare, but the posters up in that place look right outta' Penthouse or something!! Some woman took her 6th grade boy in there and he was so bug-eyed I thought he was gonna' explode! All in all a good day!

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day 36

We turned in Madeline's oboe yesterday, she tried to play it, really! We told her it was a hard instrument to learn, but she didn't listen. I'm glad to be rid of it, it was un-goddly expensive and it sounded like a flock of chickens getting molested! Now the boy wants a bugle or trumpet but that can wait till the 6th grade. Madeline hates it when I go in music stores with her and ask to play stuff, she thinks I'm beyond uncool and a total embarrassment! But then, haven't I always been?



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day 35

School is almost out, we're down to one last soccer game and the dance recital is on the horizon, then I'm in full bore summer trouble!  I gotta keep the monkeys occupied and myself sane at the same time, I guess it's gonna be a lottsa' trips to the YMCA pool!  We got the new volleyball/badminton set out the other day and it took me an hour to set up by  ( with their help,,,3 hrs!).  The kids are a tad challenged with the games to say the least but they are catch on, myself, I would be happy with a beer and the Bocce set!



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day 34

All is well here, the weather is good, the soccer team played a good team  last night to a tie and we feel great about that! Bruce is getting around better after his surgery and I was thinking about what dogs must  think about the whole "getting fixed" process....

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day 33

I said I would only do new work here, but a long lost poster just surfaced that I had forgotten about from back in the day when I ran the Cafe' and I had to run it here! Happy Birthday to my beautiful wife, whom I love now more than the day I married her. Bruce is recovering well and getting around better, but still giving me the stink eye!! As you can tell from the poster and the splash panel to the blog, I love this Renoir painting, "The Luncheon of the Boating Party" and have done at least a dozen different version of it, this was, I think the first one back in 88.



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day 32

We had the dog fixed today. I know it was the right thing to do, Bob Barker tells me so!  Still, getting the old stones chopped off is not something a self respecting dude does without forethought! He seems ok, a little pissed off, but ok. Today is the one year anniversary of my father's death, that was not one of my best days on the planet, but we survive and hopefully thrive....such is life!



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day 31

Well, I did it, I made a month!!! This daily cartooning is harder than I thought it would be, but overall, I am happy with some of the work coming out. It has been an education to say the least. We went to the ballpark last night and saw the local minor league team, the Sounds beat Portland. It was fun and the weather held until we left, then the bottom fell out! The boy wanted a foul ball soooo bad, but we had good seats behind home plate and none came our way. Tomorrow, Bruce goes to get fixed, film at eleven!



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day 30

We won today big time, 7-1! Had team pictures the other day and not all the guys made it, so, I thought I would do a team caricature instead! Bad weather tonight, might not make the Sounds game, which would blow! Fingers crossed!



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dAY 29

Going to be a busy weekend, In-laws in town, soccer game in the morning and a Sounds Baseball game tomorrow night. Spent the day at the school helping with the end of the year fun day activities. Stood at the start of a blow-up castle thing and kept the kids from walking all over each other.



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