And we are back.

Thank you very much for your patience this summer. I am a stay-at-home dad these days, so when the kids are out of school, I am out of time to do any creative work. By the end of the vacation, I ran out of ideas to amuse them/keep them busy, but even before then, the recession put a damper on a lot of outside the house activities. I think next year I am gonna bite the bullet and pack them off to day camps. They will benefit more from that than from my lame attempts to stave off boredom.

If you had dropped by in the past few days, you probably saw a notice from Google that this site had been hacked. Just a spammer attempting to win your commerce by annoying you with a redirect. I don’t understand that business model, but it failed. I worked with Google and they have verified that the site is now clean and clear for safe browsing. I have also taken extra steps to increase security on the site.  It beats me why anyone would bother with my humble webcomic when there are so many more popular targets out there (and I don’t mean other webcomics; I’m thinking certain sites of disinformation and evil); but then I have better things to do than mess with someone’s personal website. Got my own, thanks! Anyway, it’s all safe now.

See you next week!

I thought a little re-cap of just how Sheldon got into this big ol’ mess in the first place would be nice. Seeing as how the scene of his flight from the shrink’s office was depicted almost two years ago.

Who knows how old that orange juice is? But I reckoned it would have to be nicely fermented by the time Sheldon guzzled it down. Hence the ginormous belch.

(I find it odd that my spell check accepted “ginormous” as a word.)

Thank you for your patience in waiting for this week’s update. Life, blah blah blah.

I am glad I am back to a weekly schedule, however.

A little late today. I’ve been catching up with everything that got put on hold during my recent road trip from Oregon to Montana. If you have not already, check the News section of this site to see Sheldon participation in the photo documentation of the event.

See you next week! Thanks for your continued patience.

The National Bison Range is about an hour north of Missoula, Montana. It protects some 400 bison, several herds of mule deer, elk, big horn sheep, as well as black bear, and several species of bird. On our visit we saw only herds of bison in the distance, as many roads were closed for the Winter Season, a pretty late event in Montana. And this is as close as we could get with a telescoping lens. Still, Sheldon got closer. Perhaps too close.

Here is a view of the Blue Mountains from U.S. 395, somewhere around the Umatilla National Forest between Long Creek and Pendleton.

Sheldon though he would enjoy it better via parachuting. He was wrong.

Click to see the full size image.

Sheldon hams it up with a fossil.

Get it? “Ham”? I slay me. Or should.

Anyhoo, this continues Sheldon’s journey with me and my family through Oregon, Washington and Montana. Stay tuned. There shall be more.

Sheldon on the John Day River as it runs parallel to US-26.

Sheldon decided to tag along with me and my family as we make our way through central Oregon, southeaster Washington, Idaho, and western Montana on our way to Great Falls. We will place him back in the whale’s belly on May 12. Meanwhile, I will post periodically pics of him enjoying the scenery on our trip.

Thanks for your patience!

I thought I’d give the whale the name of a great rescuer, and it’s hard to find one better than Tuvia Bielski.

Okay, Harriet Tubman, Oskar Schindler, Sojourner Truth … Moses … to name a few.

But a) Tuvia is a great name, b) sharks : Nazis, and c) what a story that guy (and his brother, Zus) had! So good, they made a movie about their leadership of the Jewish resistance in the Belarussian forests; Tuvia himself was played by none other than Daniel Craig.