Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for November 29, 2016

The bird is crazier than the squirrel…

The bird is flying away.

I think the bird out witted the squirrel and is leaving.

This strip must be set in California. How many walnut trees do you have in YOUR neighborhood? (I’ve lived in New York, Mass., Tennessee and Maine and nary a one…)

Depends on what you mean by walnut. I live in Connecticut and Black Walnut trees are everywhere, also butternuts, which are a kind of walnut. English walnuts are very rare here. But none of them have nu ts that look like what those squirrels carrry around.

There should be a fifth panel with the bird flying off with the nut in his claws.

Definitely have a bunch out here in Cali. The crows love them and throw them down on the roads. A lot of the nuts don’t crack when they hit the pavement but the birds know they will when the cars run over them. Kind of messy, and you have to watch for the brave/stupid crows that are more interested in the feast than moving out of the way of vehicles.

For the nut supply, we have far more pecans than walnuts; but the most abundant form of nuts are in Austin with the state government.

There is a Black Walnut tree in our neighbors yard and my uncle had 23 English Walnut trees in his yard some time back and this is in Ohio!

TMO1

Black walnuts can most easily be found in rows, three sides of a square, where they were planted around a long gone farm house. My parents put black walnuts in the driveway and let the car crack them. They also had permission to pick hickory nuts (which do not taste at all like Grape Nuts), and a major pecan orchard. They also grew bull nettle (seeds used like pecans in pies).