5/30/19

Leoda was a stickler for things symmetrical and in their proper place. She liked her pictures even, her lamps facing east and her men, like Chester, horizontal...

Mrs. Breyer warned Alura over and over again not to pose in her tulle ballet costume so close to the rose bushes and, in fact, thanks to all the snags it suffered, she was relegated to the third row on the night of the big recital.

Chipper didn't trust Mrs. Greene to fetch the correct Ken-L Ration dog food from the local Piggly-Wiggly during her weekly trip so he hopped up on ol' Bullet with her and rode along so he could supervise the shopping!

5/28/19

Stevie turned out to be quite the hero at the Groesberger house. When he saw that Todd was about to open the utensil drawer when held serving forks, carving knives and other deadly implements, he pressed his young charge up against the cabinets until Todd's mother could come and spirit him away.

Valerie took one swimming lesson from the hotel's instructor Tonio and liked it so much she asked for and was granted another private lesson that evening after the pool was officially closed and there would be fewer distractions.

Brenda Kate was instantly irritated when she posed for a photo at Disneyland with Myron and the young man who was manning the camera looked at his own dad and said, "Hey, look, Pa... there are three Matterhorns in this picture!"

5/23/19

Happy Memorial Day 

from Krazy Kaptions!

Leo spilled a bit of red wine on his trunks while entertaining Loretta, but he hoped she'd either not notice or not mind...

At first Mary Ann was petrified to have been captured by the cannibalistic headhunters, but soon she found that they threw some rather festive parties, not that she got to enjoy her first one all the way to the end...

Regardless of how descriptive his account was, and it became more and more animated each time, Barbara simply wasn't going to believe Stan's story about the sea monster he discovered while snorkeling that morning!

Klaus got up early to go looking for shells along the shoreline, but all he found were some mussels...

Clayton had the misfortune of scheduling his annual camping trip directly after a train carrying pallets of Lipton tea bags had derailed up river. Nevertheless he tried to enjoy himself the best he could... THE END!

5/21/19

The summer of '61 was a bittersweet one for the residents of Happy Valley as it was the first one since a mysterious plague had done away with 94% of the female population. The remaining inhabitants had to cope the best way they could...

Ramona had a beastly attraction to Eddie but this was the first time she'd ever taken notice of his particularly lupine behavior during a full moon. She wondered what she was going to be in for as the night wore on...

And so, as they waded at the water's edge on their Siesta Key holiday, Patty asked Scott if he could now finally admit that pasting all those S&H Green Stamps into booklet after booklet had paid off, and how!

5/16/19

Eddie was bound and determined to at least place in the Top 3 of the Pavlo Provias Elementary School Talent Show so he practiced his plate spinning every day with his mother's service for twelve, nine, six, four of Fiestaware...

While all three gals were talented, it was the newly-blonde center one who had the edge when it came to singing lead and naming them Linda Lemmon and the Meringues.

While older brothers Burton and Tony worked on their tumbling in the desert sand, it was Gino's duty to be sure that no tumbleweeds or cactus had managed to find its way into their practice area.

5/14/19

Liza ran into a real issue that Halloween because she was all made up and halfway into her Cleopatra costume when Rich came by informing her that they needed to go as ghoulish zombies instead!

Having replaced Monica's stuffed cat with his own demonic self, Lucien awaited her usual bedtime ritual so that he could then rest on her face and suffocate her overnight!

After a long evening at the Shaker Island Festival and Fish Fry, Patrice was ready to curl up with three of the treats she'd brought back home, her two stuffed bears and Leroy (not pictured.)

5/9/19

Renate and Patrice liked to make quite the impression when they headed to the Mother's Day Pancake Brunch at Big Sam's Cash 'n Carry with Dining Counter.

Bruce believed in resistance training, but couldn't quite grasp why it has getting harder to clear his thighs whenever he attempted to curl the 100 lb weights he'd always done before with ease...

Cynthia wanted more than anything to attend the Azalea Ball, but was instead assigned second shift at Burton's Steak & Keg and also didn't have a thing to wear in any case, so she wished and wished for her Fairy Godmother to come and solve things. Unfortunately, her own guardian angel could only get her out by 9:15 and could only fashion a formal by adding about a foot to her waitress uniform...

5/7/19

And so, at Darlene's 20th birthday, her Aunt Myrna and Aunt Susan's long-standing competitive spirit was once again brought to the surface when all of Darlene's friends devoured Myrna's Strawberry Jell-O Surprise while Susan's parsley-laden tray of chicken salad remained untouched...

Smiles were pleasant, but forced, as Leroy and Kent met up with their dates Susannah and Carol Beth prior to the dinner dance at which one of the gals was to be crowned Miss Buttercup of Walnut County.

Enjolie's mother said she would make her a prom dress modeled on the one she had worn herself twenty years prior, so she got out the old albums to look over what she was in for...

5/2/19

Jaded by so much hype and false advertising with various products, Mrs. Armstrong could hardly believe her eyes when she switched Tod's morning cereal from Frosted Flakes to King Vitamin!

Bob had been informed by some of the guys at the office that Sharon became more "friendly" after a little sip of something with a little kick to it, so he went to the car and brought her back a beer... or four!

Batman warned Robin over and over to use spirit gum for his mask lest it come off in the heat of battle and his secret identity of Dick Grayson be revealed to the world, but, like so many other youth, he was slow to heed any advice...