Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 31, 2020

Calvin loves it when a plan comes together.

That’s my retirement plan! Sloth and indolence suit me…

Nothing like that little extra push.

watch out for leeches, Calvin

Stepping in a pond counts as something

And a good plan it is.

Just like school except he doesn’t get in trouble for it.

Just remember, you have a lot of nothing to accomplish before school starts.

We’ve been having some nice hot weather. Too bad the creek is ice cold and a mile away. (So cold you can get numb feet in less than an hour while wearing wool socks and long johns inside the waders. So I’m told.) For myself, my feet go numb in about 30 seconds while wearing nothing.

Doing nothing is my favourite pastime

Greatest plan!!

Nice plan, except for the inevitable, “Where are your shoes, young man!”

It’s been so hot that I’ve seen squirrels using oven mitts to gather nuts.

Usual dull and overcast here….

Calvin, since it is so hot and you have never been a slave to fashion or social restrictions, isn’t it time to go au naturel?*

au naturale for others(And stark nekkid for our mountain friends)

5AM 7/31 52deg with predicted high 72 in UP of MI

Got to love those rare moments when things work out as planned!

Hot weather brings out Calvin’s creativity, and his shoes…

This is my favourite comic strip and I was born in 1966 which was why I chose my user name. Today is my older brother’s 68th birthday and would have been our Dad’s 92nd birthday as my brother was born on Dad’s 24th birthday. This is our first birthday without our Dad who died from pneumonia in March.

I always though Calvin’s plan was to cause mayhem even on a hot day.

I hate it when it’s too hot to do anything but nothing.

Allowing a child to go out in the woods alone?? Quick, somebody call Child Protective Services!

Remember when life was as simple as Calvin’s?

going to be that way today in So Cal anyway – - might as well be prepared

July has been brutal in upstate NY. My plans are to wallow in my chair and do nothing but my kids still want adventures. So, I grab my sweat hankie and my water bottles and we go to the creek, the river and the woods. It actually is well worth it.

When I was a child one of my favorite things to do was just lying in a field watching the clouds. All through my life with schools and work none of those accomplishments ever matched that same feelings.

The problem with doing nothing is it’s hard to know when you finish.

That’s my plan for every day.

There remains division over if children having ‘unstructured’ activity time is good or bad. Observing my sister’s sons, I say they need a little more structure. The pandemic is making that hard, I’m sure.