Snark It Up, FuzzBall!

(Well, it was my birthday yesterday.)  I got lots and lots of wonderful birthday wishes.

And I even got some Very Wonderful mashups! Can you believe it?  From Nehemiah Scudder and our favorite green-skinned Mad Scientist:

And a really scary one (Count Weirdly’s a piker when it comes to nigh-on horror): Amos Snarkadder risked many pixelated paper cuts to produce this beauty!

When I was little, some of the banks downtown had lovely mural inside their lobbies, filled with scenes of Arizona history and vignettes of the desert landscape.  Maybe it was the era (early 60s), but I think this montage, “Ad astra per aspera” (To dessert through adversity. is a rough translation) would’ve been a natural there, up on the tall walls amongst the  spooky-looking kachinas…

THANK YOU, EVERYONE! I’ve got crazy fabulous friends!

Why not!  This potentially fun story (well, it is if you live in Tucson and can imagine Mary ruining a lot of people’s vacations here at our uber-expensive healthy resorts) has turned into one huge platitude swap.  Meh.  Yep, and I’m still going to be really pissed off if this let’s-cure-June crisis is the only “adventure” in this story line (particularly if you consider that this is Mary’s FIRST DAY AT THE RESORT):

Of course, Mary may not make it home to Charterstone…

UPDATE:  Mary most likely will make it back to Charterstone.  June, from wherever she’s from? I’m not so sure…

And in spite of how lame this part of Mary’s vacation has been, I really want another story here in Tucson before she leaves.  Kind of a Science Fiction Double Feature…

…but I’ll be really ticked off if this is the ONLY meddle that Mary does while at the Pax Wellness Resort:

…some folks can be resistant to help.

Especially yours.

Particularly yours.

Overwhelming yours.

Oh, Mary, this is nearly as wonderful as a Charterstone pool party!  Many ‘mudgeons were of a like mind on this, and even mr. bat :[ contributed…he who usually stays well out of the mashing way and says, “That’s nice, dear.”

Maybe the Pax Resort will take care of our little “Mary problem.”

(Thanks to CC’s  jim in wisc. for providing an exceptional challenge for Mary!)

Well, to be honest, Mary…you had stopped breathing for several minutes:

No, I mean it!

…this new story in Mary Worth is huge news for the folks in the Old Pueblo.

Huge, scary news.

Of course, no one’s sure if she’ll be with a companion, or just “baching” it…

…pray for us.

It’s a new story in Mary Worth (no, there wasn’t even a freakin’ pool party!), and she’s coming to Tucson to recharge her batteries at a health resort!  Maybe the cost will knock her for a loop, but at the moment she seems bound and determined to take advantage of everything the resort seems to offer…