Uncle Dan: Browse The Strips
Thursday December 14, 2017
Friday December 15, 2017
Tuesday December 19, 2017
Wednesday December 20, 2017
Thursday December 21, 2017
Saturday December 23, 2017
Sunday December 24, 2017
Saturday December 30, 2017
Friday July 17, 2020
Lynn's Comments: My brother-in-law (the farmer) said, "Never name anything you’re gonna eat." His pigs and miniature horses were safe, but the cow…well, she was never named.
Saturday July 18, 2020
Lynn's Comments: In Manitoba, you stop looking for hills and other landmarks and start looking at the sky. At night, the stars go on forever, and during the day, you can see a storm coming from far in the distance—for miles and miles!
Friday July 24, 2020
Lynn's Comments: From time to time, our whole family would go to the family farm in Manitoba to work and to visit...but mostly to work! One summer, I was asked to paint the wooden grain bins that were on the edge of the property. I was handed a paint sprayer, some red paint and a few rags.
Saturday July 25, 2020
Lynn's Comments: I hadn't used a sprayer before. With a strong wind whipping across the fields, the paint landed on me covering my face, my clothes and my hands with red paint. To get the paint off I used gasoline. One of my worst moments in time was sitting in the bathtub covered in gasoline, which burned like crazy, and hollering because there was no hot water. In fact, there was no water at all. Stories about the farm could fill a whole series of graphic novels!
Monday July 27, 2020
Lynn's Comments: I got the idea to have the pig wear nylons from a movie in which Gene Wilder is flirting with a sheep that is provocatively wearing fish nets.
Wednesday July 29, 2020
Thursday August 6, 2020
Lynn's Comments: This is from a summer I spent in Quebec. I was 16 and had gone to Montreal to learn French and to help my Aunt with my young cousins. I wrote letters to the "boy I left behind," and he never wrote back to me. I was heartbroken. Just one letter would have been nice. He didn't have to say anything personal...just "Hi" and I would have been thrilled.
Saturday August 8, 2020
Lynn's Comments: I allowed my letter problem to ruin some otherwise great days. Looking back, I wish I’d enjoyed the wonderful time I was having—or should have been having!