I’m not much of a sketcher. I don’t have a lot of doodles or rough drafts lying around my office. So, what is all this junk lying around? But that’s another topic. I attribute this mainly to being a writer first and a graphic artist second. All my life I’ve had a knack for drawing, but it turned out to be a secondary talent. I marvel at the manic impulse to doodle that possesses so many of my cartooning peers. I wish I were more like that. However, every now and then, I turn out a sketch for the sake of warming up, or improving my chops, or—rarest of all—because I feel like drawing something. Anyway, I drew this one last week; I think it was a subliminal desire to be at the beach. I thought I would share it with you.
Sea Fever
By Jimmy Johnson
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290 responses to “Sea Fever”
Yesterday a 15 you girl, with a brand new learner’s permit, mixed up the accelerator and brake petals and crashed through my old store (around the corner from where I manage presently). Jumped the parking bumper, sailed through 32″ of buffer zone, cleared the sidewalk, destroyed an innocent water display, and crashed her suv halfway into the store.
I was at home, asleep on the couch. I was out cold by 2p and when the phone FINALLY woke me up, it was 7:30p. I had four missed calls, a voicemail, and several text messages. My phone was right next to me. I was TIRED.
Wow, Mindy from Indy, what a story! I bet the parents of that girl were extremely dismayed and upset! Hoping that neither the girl or anyone else was hurt. What a mess the store must have been. You sure were asleep, have been doing too much and gotten very tired.
Miss Charlotte – Mom was in the passenger seat, screaming “BRAKE!” Absolutely demolished the solarium side of the store. They couldn’t even properly board it up the first night. They are closed until further notice. My store is picking up already. No one was injured.
If you click my name, I have the post on my Facebook page,
Oh my, Denise – that is a GOOD one!
Saw the pic, Mindy, but had no idea that was your old store. Wow! Glad no one was hurt.
She is really a beauty, Ghost!
“…destroyed an innocent water display…” Priceless, Mindy, and I’m thankful no one was hurt and that it’s not longer your store at this point!
Mindy: Any chance you could put the link here? You wisely have your FB privacy settings such that not everyone can see your posts.
Here’s an apparent BBC promo for a strange nature documentary…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oHmNSAtqZE
It answers the question of what if animals had our favorite weaponry.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CIi55A-UEAAmuwN.jpg
Another angle
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CIijxY1W8AAiC1h.jpg
Thank you for posting the pix, Mindy — fascinating! I went to your FB page but couldn’t see them there. Hope you are catching up on your sleep now and won’t have such a stressful week. How is Blacklight these days?
What Charlotte said 🙂
Locally we’ve had similar accidents, but the drivers were all much older than that young gal. I’m also glad no one was hurt.
In Denver area tonight, going to see a friend who builds the Sage sailboats here. These are fiberglass production boats but very good small boats, won best boat in small size last year Ghost, Sand, others, they also manufacture Spydeco knives so I will run over to that building as well, maybe buy a souvenir
Like flashlights, Jackie, one can never have too many knives. Among others, I have three Spyderco knives. Tell them they have at least one satisfied customer.
Lady Mindy, I know your life is a soap opera, but this is getting ridiculous. 🙂
Debbe 😉 We’ve known each other a while now, haven’t we?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obDo8Btfdhc
GR 😉 virtually….in your eyes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=M3hiYI5mBFI
Food morning Villagers….
Good grief Indy Mindy!!! I am glad no one was hurt, and you must have been one tired little girl to sleep through all those ringtones….take care of yourself girl. stress does age one…and i speak from personal experience.
And Denise, yesterday was much better, I slowed the conveyor belts down and the packer speed down so that the eggs came in slower and didn’t have the breakage I was getting. Takes a little longer, but not as messy. They got the top belt fix in a couple of hours, hahaha, right after I had Skittles transfer all the eggs.
I remember watching Tarzan as a youngster….and thanks for all the jpg’s….forgot how good he looked in that loin cloth 🙂
Anxiety is building up in me. Tomorrow my Dad will have surgery on one lower leg to clear the main artery. They will schedule another surgery for the other lower leg He has poor circulation and has difficulty walking. The other option was amputation. I will be there with my three younger sisters, which should be interesting…they don’t exactly have the highest opinion of me; but, heh….it’s my life.
GR 😉 enbiggenate?? You just love for me to word search, that’s a $100 word I had never heard.
Ya’ll have a blessed Monday
Miss Charlotte – Blacklight is alive and annoying. This morning, she pestered me every few minutes for ear scritches – starting at 2am! She still doesn’t like Prince hanging around *her* front stoop.
Thanks for the “good sleep” wishes sent my way. However, you all keep missing the cat. 🙂
Debbe – Just tell Skittles it builds character to do extra work. Keeping my fingers crossed for your dad.
It’s raining. I’m relieved. I was beginning to worry; it hadn’t rained in almost 24 hours. :-/
Mindy, I heard from all of my friends and relatives in the Central Indiana that it has only rained twice there all summer….Once for 25 days and the other for 35 days. Many communities set an all time record for rain for any month and there is still today and tomorrow to go.
Ran/walked a 5K last night near my home. Many people from my Church were there as were old friends from my running days. I kept looking at people that looked for familiar and trying to figure out where I knew them from. I think one of the ladies was a mother of one of my daughter’s friends. My daughter graduated in 2006, so that was a while ago.
Prayers for you and your Dad, Debbe. Just remember, all you have to do tomorrow is breathe and be there; all the rest is in the hands of others, and God will guide them. As for your sisters… We Villagers think the world of you, and we have them outnumbered! Take along a book or a craft project, make eye contact and listen when your sisters speak directly to you, and ignore them the rest of the time. That technique relieves my stress with my not-nice sister-in-law; I bet it works on sisters, too. Are they installing stents in your Dad’s arteries to hold them open? Is your Dad diabetic? I ask because my Mom had a similar surgery which restored her circulation.
MIndy, Blacklight is sure lucky to have you. If someone gratified my wishes every few minutes, I’d wake them at 2 am, too. 😉
Do any of you share this Irish girl’s problem?
http://funnyasduck.net/post/7097
Eat your heart out Ghost and others, Sal Glesser owner of Spydeco is giving me personal tour after lunch and taking me out to dinner tonight for sushi.
Jackie, if he offers you a gift, ask for this one, the Delica 4 Stainless Steel. Would make a great lady’s purse knife. (Especially around salt water.) You know, for opening packages, cutting twine, etc. 🙂
http://www.spyderco.com/pix/products/large/C11_L.jpg