Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 25, 2015

Not tenses — adjectives, two cases.

Night: All the tenses of the verbs seem perfectly normal.

Nice zinger, Caufield. You almost fooled Miss Plainwell.

He’s at his Frazziest.

Just be mindful of those falling leaves.

As long as we are talking language, did you know the Brits stopped saying ‘fall’ for autumn a few centuries ago? The Shorter Oxford Dict. shows it as “chiefly N Amer.”

And Michigan maple syrup is different from Vermont and Canadian maple syrup. And BETTER! How I miss it now that I live on the west coast….

So much nicer today! I am so glad it was not another “scared of leaf” comic.

David HironimusThe sugar maple may be the national emblem, but as you know, is fairly rare in BC. You just can’t tap a vine maple.

You can harvest maple syrup both in the spring and in the fall. In one season much of the sap is flowing up towards the leaves etc and circulating, and in the other it is draining back down towards the roots in preparation for winter.

THat should be “Oh Canad-Eh?” (Not tobe confused with “Hosé can you see?”)

As I often say …

K.I.S.S. … Keep It Simple, Stupid.

bigpumaAs pointed out two hours before your question, it is a stylized sugar maple, same as on the flag and aircraft roundel. At one time, the roundel had the actual sugar maple shaped, but that required too complicated stencils to paint.

@comicsssfan@StratmanronLast spring my son and I collected 17 gallons of sap from a single tap on a 13" dia. maple tree. We boiled it down to about 1.25 quarts of syrup.

Supplies cost us about $20. Not counting the <5 minutes a day (over 2 months) to collect the sap, we spent about 8-10 hours boiling and filtering the sap into syrup.

This spring we’re tapping 3 trees!