Lynn's Comments: My granddaughter draws M-birds now. I think it’s charming and I don't really want her to draw them realistically.
Monthly Archives: July 2018
Monday July 2, 2018
Tuesday July 3, 2018
Lynn's Comments: Say goodbye to a tidy living room…for 8 years past the youngest child’s birth. When time goes by and you finally have a tidy house, you miss the chaos!
Wednesday July 4, 2018
Thursday July 5, 2018
Lynn's Comments: This happened to me. I had Aaron on my back and he pointed to a complete stranger in a supermarket (a very down and out character) and said, "Daddy!" It was a cringe-worthy remark. I was a single mom at the time.
Friday July 6, 2018
Saturday July 7, 2018
Lynn's Comments: I lived for drawings like this one. This is when you know the muse is with you. There were times when I’d look up to some invisible source and say, "thank you." Most cartoonists and stand up comics will tell you they feel that they often have "help"! Maybe we channel some comedian from the past who still wants to create gags for a living!
Sunday July 8, 2018
Lynn's Comments: The great fun in doing strips like this—making up goofy words and dialogue and funny names for things. When I came up with the title for the country song, I wanted to write all the lyrics. In my next life, I'm gonna be a musician. I won't make it big, but I'll be laughing!
Monday July 9, 2018
Tuesday July 10, 2018
Wednesday July 11, 2018
Thursday July 12, 2018
Friday July 13, 2018
Saturday July 14, 2018
Lynn's Comments: It isn't that my children grew up too fast…I grew OLD too fast!
Sunday July 15, 2018
Monday July 16, 2018
Tuesday July 17, 2018
Wednesday July 18, 2018
Lynn's Comments: When I was a teenager, The Pacific National Exhibition grounds were a short bike ride away. My friends and I would ride over the Second Narrows Bridge and around the bend to where we could see the big arc of the rollercoaster. We'd go to the park even when the fair wasn't on, and without too much in the way of security, we could roam around quite freely. One time, there was an opening in the fence around the roller coaster, so we went under the huge track and looked up at what was, for its day, one of the scariest rides in Canada. We looked at the way the ride had been engineered and how the struts had been anchored to the ground. This was exciting. The best part of our adventure was finding stuff that people had lost while they were on the ride. I found a hat, glasses, some loose change and a toy or two…but the funniest find of all was a set of dentures. We could only imagine the anger and frustration of the person who got off the ride…without their teeth!
Thursday July 19, 2018
Friday July 20, 2018
Lynn's Comments: These drawings were done with all of the sounds, sights, rides and disappointment I could remember. The only thing I ever won at an arcade was a big box of chocolates. Crazy with excitement, my friend Marian and I opened them up on the bus on the way home. Inside we found the dusty, grey, broken remains of what must have been the oldest chocolates in the world. Oh well, we did get a story out of it, which in the end, is better than a first prize after all!
Saturday July 21, 2018
Sunday July 22, 2018
Monday July 23, 2018
Tuesday July 24, 2018
Lynn's Comments: My first house cost $27,000. It was a 2-bedroom bungalow with no basement, but it did have a nice sized lot on a ravine with a beautiful view. I'm guessing that same house today would cost well over $800,000.
Wednesday July 25, 2018
Lynn's Comments: It’s interesting to be reading this in 2018—a time when house prices have skyrocketed far beyond our wildest predictions, at least in Vancouver and Toronto.
Thursday July 26, 2018
Friday July 27, 2018
Saturday July 28, 2018
Lynn's Comments: My first husband had Phil’s philosophy. We saved and saved for the down payment on a house and when we were ready to buy, he suddenly wanted to spend it on a sailboat. We bought the house.
Sunday July 29, 2018
Lynn's Comments: My partner hates to shop for clothing. If I am lucky enough to steer him into a men’s wear store, I have to be careful not to be too enthusiastic, too desperate or too demanding. A few weeks ago, we were successfully collecting things for him to wear on a Mexican vacation. Miserable, he had tried on shorts, shirts and two pairs of light pants. Some of these were going to work!
As I waited outside the changing room, I could hear him mumbling about the music. It was the awful boomf-boomf you hear everywhere; the kind with a wailing auto-tuned voice and repeated lyrics, repeated percussion. Suddenly, he burst out of the cubicle and sprinted for the exit door. I ran after him with the clothing and he told me to leave it all behind. "What’s wrong?" I hollered as he headed for the car. "I can't stand the music any longer!" he cried. "It’s driving me crazy!"
It had been driving me crazy, too. As we drove away without our purchase, I wondered who in the world chooses that awful music, and if anyone had done a study on the economic loss to retail shops, bars and restaurants since this stuff began to "stream"!
As I waited outside the changing room, I could hear him mumbling about the music. It was the awful boomf-boomf you hear everywhere; the kind with a wailing auto-tuned voice and repeated lyrics, repeated percussion. Suddenly, he burst out of the cubicle and sprinted for the exit door. I ran after him with the clothing and he told me to leave it all behind. "What’s wrong?" I hollered as he headed for the car. "I can't stand the music any longer!" he cried. "It’s driving me crazy!"
It had been driving me crazy, too. As we drove away without our purchase, I wondered who in the world chooses that awful music, and if anyone had done a study on the economic loss to retail shops, bars and restaurants since this stuff began to "stream"!
Monday July 30, 2018
Tuesday July 31, 2018
Lynn's Comments: We once bought a house that had been lived in by lady who had cats. After a year of cleaning and painting, we had to remove the drywall to get the smell out of the bathroom.
