Pickles by Brian Crane for December 09, 2022

Maybe they can find Snoopy’s doghouse and get some awesome decorations.

dreadful

Time for a new tree.

I planted some 4’ evergreens this year, 1 is 99% dead but it still has one super green branch…I ain’t giving up! (my avatar is 1 of the deaths, my green thumb)

Good Greif, Earl!

It hurt Nelson, maybe it’s the kite eating tree.

To quote W.C. Fields, “Stay away, kid, you bother me.”

Okay, who sneezed?

If yesterday’s strip wasn’t a reminder that you need a new tree, Earl…today’s should!

One time, my dopey little brother didn’t put out our mom’s Christmas tree on tree collection day. So, it hung around in her yard for a whole year and eventually I threw it out on next year’s collection day. With bits of tinsel still hanging on it, it looked worse than the tree here. When the garbage man picked it up to throw it on the truck, he stood it up and just stared at it. I always wonder what was going through his mind.

I needs to be put in the fireplace.

The tree is past it’s prime. Go get a new tree, Earl.

Look on the bright side, Earl. At least you don’t have to worry about Muffin hiding in the tree.

Hold on…..have you priced the trees lately?

They’ve been staring at it now for TWO DAYS..!!!!

Go with a festivus pole, you can’t lose.

Stand back, Nelson! It’s a Lucy tree…..

Does the kid live with his grandparents? Who keeps a natural Christmas tree more than 1 year?

Nelson, Grandpa is confused again, that’s not their Christmas tree, that’s their May Pole.

It jumped right out and poked you. I saw it! Quick, surround it with orange traffic cones… and make everyone in the household wear hard hats, safety glasses, steel toed shoes, hi-viz vests and thick leather gloves… Just in case.

All it needs is a big garbage can.

December 9th is the anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965

Gotta Love that.

Linus would just keep walking.

No love there,

It doesn’t need love. It needs compassion. Let it retire with the little dignity it has left.

tough love

Must have been infected by a plastic-eating Grinch blight!

Get a real tree. They don’t poke so hard.