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Fire and Flagstone

By Jimmy Johnson



The occasional Saturday post here isn’t out of the question, but I thought I’d go ahead and wrap up the chiminea sequence. I’ve mentioned several times in the past that I occasionally draw with felt-tip pens, but I don’t like them as much as my old pen nibs and India ink. This series from 2002 was drawn with a felt-tip pen, I have noticed, and I think it worked in this case. For once, I was able to loosen up and take advantage of the pen’s sketchy quality. It depicts well the screwball action.

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85 responses to “Fire and Flagstone”

  1. Morphy Avatar
    Morphy

    Also check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius_of_the_Species , sounds like a lot of our jokes regarding our feline masters. With a stab at Communist incompetence.

  2. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Ghost is sound asleep and needs it. He is so protective of me.

    When we try to tell people how we met it sounds so odd that Ghost says we should say a senior citizen dating service. I said a blind date night be easier to say. Misti who is working part time for us is reading A and J now and she says I am Janis so much, Ghost is Arlo clearly, even the sense of humor.

    Substitute Dickens for Ludwig and you have our version.

    I need to buy a copy of Janis directing her clothes like the Mickey Mouse Sorcerer in Fantasia to music. Poor Misti is dealing with organizing all of mine!

  3. emb Avatar
    emb

    TIP blogspot. They do look alike. Cheapskate may have used two views of the same model.

    http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/

    Peace,

  4. Mark from TTown Avatar
    Mark from TTown

    Jimmy, Spiderman’s no spring chicken either. He was in high school in the early 1960’s. Good one!

  5. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Made a fast chess pie just before coming to Tulsa this time, made from Ghosts grandmother’s recipe. He said that I nailed it but he hadn’t had any in 50 years. His grandmother was from Tennessee.

    I brought entire pie with us in truck and had a large slice myself. Got to hotel and one of our favorite night managers was on so I have him big piece for snack. He said it was best he’d eaten, better than his sistets. I promised to bring him recipe. Then I gave him last big slice. He is so sweet and kind.

    Spent last hour reading variants of chess pie, buttermilk pie, lemon chess, chocolate chess, maple chess, pineapple chess, butter pies.

    Did anyone know chess pie is Bill Clinton’s favorite pie?

  6. Mark from TTown Avatar
    Mark from TTown

    I like chess pie, too. Never had it till I moved to Tennessee. There is a really good one in the Nashville area made by local bakery and sold in stores there. Called Mama Turney’s after the owner’s mother. They also have a fudge pie and a pecan pie. All good, but the chess is the best of them.

  7. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Good morning Villagers….

    Jackie, they say it’s hard to keep a good woman down…..making pies at that too. I look forward to your postings…they’re so positive and uplifting. Happy that Nurse GR is with you.

    So., I am sending you a bunch of ‘snuggles and hugs’: http://cheezburger.com/3832581/these-cats-just-love-to-snuggle

    Miss Charlotte, was worried about you and that storm that ‘bombed’ the northeast. Yeah, whether.com had a name for it, check it out. Something about barometric pressure dropping.

    Never had chess pie…need to look it up, I have no idea what is even in it besides pie dough. I don’t eat much pie, especially the fruit pies like apple pie, don’t even try to get me to eat a slice of cherry pie…shudder.

    gotta go….

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