Pickles by Brian Crane for December 12, 2019

not just blond like Calvin and wears a red t-shirt like Calvin, but Nelson is also the same age as Calvin? wouldn’t have thought

“Small sample size” strikes again!

Who are we to disagree?

His mom doesn’t bake much.

Pretty much what I was thinking when it snowed here in Phoenix and every stray cat was looking around like it’d never seen anything like this in its entire life. “Yeah”, I thought, “all seven years of it”.

Seems logical to me

Since he’s a cartoon kid of 6 he doesn’t age so ummmm… :D

Live in the moment.

Complimenting grandma for more fudge?

They will be the best ever—-until you bake him some more!

trying for seconds, Nelson?

And I thought Opal was going to say “You may only have one because dinner is 15 minutes away” …..

No need to tease about his age, Opal. He’s been six for about twenty years.

Fudge is cooked on stove . It either get hard or you eat it with a spoon .

See’s fudge. . .BEST IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD!!

Food always tastes better at grandmas….

Oh, my mother had a full time job raising five children, and grandmother STILL always had more desserts to spare for us!

It’s a gramma thing, not a mom thing, nor even a working mom thing.

Six years is a long time when you’re six.

Well, actually past lives too. During one I was an ant on fudge at a picnic and I died and went toward the light, but it was just Tommy with his magnifying lens.

“And what was wrong with the fudge I made last week?”

It seems longer from his perspective.

(Just take the win.)

I must be old fashion. When Nelson was asked if he would like some fudge and he answered “Yeah” he wasn’t corrected. Sadly manners are extinct.

Back about ‘49-’ 50 making FUDGE became a fad at the local high school (Sequoia – Redwood City, Ca).My sister Lou and her fiends almost killed us with it…Strangely enough, my DAD made the Best….Make it myself sometimes too…Now where is my double boiler…Learned to mix in Blackberry brandy at the right moment for killer Fudge…Got me a promotion at work when I gave some to the ladies in the personnel dept…

Angling for another piece?

That’s a good way to get a second piece.