Pickles by Brian Crane for December 17, 2020

Earl get off your duff and help Opal out. Everything will get done quicker and should be less exhausting for you.

What really wears him out is hearing Opal complain about doing all that stuff.

Why does she do all that? Did he decorate the tree one year and she criticized his work so much that he refused to decorate again?

Always remember: “Work” is a four-letter word.

And that it’s fascinating: You can spend HOURS watching someone doing it.

Thank You Earl for that insight ! Now Help!

It’s the season, here we are again catching up on all that networking we neglected through the year.

Don’t forget about cleaning up the mess caused by the crash of the Christmas tree yesterday!

Sigh, if I dont do it, it dont get done.

All those things are done. Pkgs were mailed a week ago. Today I get to be exhausted watching hubby deal with the snowblower and 16" of snow in our drive and the two nearest neighbors’ drives. Luckily they are all pretty small. You can’t keep an old firefighter down, they just can’t help themselves from being helpful. But I worry so I’ll be keeping an eye on him. (I’m in a wheelchair so I’m no help)

Earl, like a few I know, love work! They can look at it for hours!

Work is fulfilling, I could watch it all day.

Is that Christmas tree still on the floor? Someone had to clean up all the broken ornaments. I’m going to say they did it together.

How you want to celebrate determines how much work you have to do.

O M G ! He needs a swift kick in the butt, a fire lit under his butt, get off your butt!

Earl must have been a great employee!

Why do humans complain about work? I can sit, and watch it being done, all day.

And I’m not at all tired, when I’m through.

Gifts bought, wrapped and shipped. Christmas cards sent. Vacation scheduled. Cash sent and donated. House decorated. COVID Tests completed (required for all guests). My wife does the baking and that is this weekend, I’ll do the cooking for the family gatherings. The only think left is cleaning the house thoroughly next week and then enjoying the holidays. Am I gloating? You bet I am.

Just do not celebrate christmas after all, it is a pagan holiday

My sentiments exactly, Earl. It is exhausting watching my wife do all that work! ( Just kidding, dear … heh, heh, heh. )

My mother used to say “I love work. I could watch it for hours.”

Dad loved doing the tree and the train.

Earl makes a great supervisor, that wears him out.

You should take a nap after all that watching.

Wait for it…………………SMACK!

This is boring. Maybe Opal and Earl should swap clothes, just to make things interesting.

It hurts when I do that.

Then don’t do that!

Watching Opal do Christmas exhausts me..

Then don’t watch her! Duh!!!

ah yes- the season of guilt

Twinges of guilt, mind only small twinges.. but nevertheless are tiring.

When Jesus took my wife, that holiday decorating ended. Our neighbors haven’t noticed.

Earl is darn close to being useless. In all ways. No wonder Pearl loathes him. I thought she was being mean.

That’s a man for you! :)

During this pandemic I look forward to my chores for something to do. I can’t read the comics all day long (and the comments, although they are good). My wife has been doing a lot of cooking lately – full Thanksgiving dinner just for the two of us, including homemade pie, and she boiled down the bird for soup afterward. Lots of Christmas baking now. I do the dishes without complaint even though I’ve had to run the full dishwasher three times one day (and plenty of hand washing and drying, too) and twice many others.

I think this is a repeat……. but STILL funny..!!!!

Just go to a different room.

Earl loves work, he could sit and watch it all day!

Earl every women who has seen this is out there with a paddle getting to whip your backside good and hard.

Someone’s about to get hurt!

We haven’t sent cards out or decorated the house in YEARS. We do have a tree.