Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 09, 2010

LOL, poor Calvin….

Karma is catching up with the lil tyke :)

Try meditating while sitting on a fire ant nest that might help Calvin.

True! Try to jump!

Calvin is itching to get out of that place !

haha his expression in the 1st panel is superb!! :D

15 years from now, Calvin will probably join the Army and learn to love camping!

Poor Calvin. Hobbes can be so infuriating when he’s all relaxed and reasonable like that.

Or, he’ll tell his kids about how he “roughed it” in the forest…..hiking up hill both ways…..in the snow…..

GM everyone

love hobbes fourth panel, like my grade school teachers

Calvin, live and learn,, for Calvin” NOT” :-)

Yup…camping can be fun! Where’s Dad’s sharing of his wilderness training now? What am I thinking, Calvin wouldn’t have listened to him anyway?!

Oh Calvin, I feel with you! I hate itching bites as well. And I’m still looking for the best medicine to help against itching.

Calvin, roll in the poison ivy before you break your arm.

Way to bury the lead, Hobbes…

Now you’ll be distracted by something else.

One place we lived had commercial-sized poison ivy. The plants were over 15 feet high down the whole fence row.

Itchy Itch.

This is precisely why Dad brings Calvin out here - the kid is so out of his element, he’s not in control.

Boy, we building some character now!

Great, now I’m all itchy :(

From bad to worse……………………….Hang in there, Calvin!

G’Morning, Grog, Marg & Mike!

Wait’ll he gets a load of diamondbacks and bears.

I hate itching bites, but I hate poison ivy more!!! I am super susceptible to that diabolical creeper! Once I was at my grandmother’s house and a man was burning brush A MILE AWAY and didn’t know there was poison in it. I ended up with it all over my face, my hands, and in my mouth, down my throat. The doctors said I was very lucky it didn’t get into my lungs!!! It was AWFUL!!

Make Calvin lose all control? Wow, what a brilliant torture for a budding ENFP child like him! It almost qualifies as child abuse.

Anyone else think this doesn’t really make sense from a continuity standpoint. Typically, Calvin’s favorite activity is exploring the wilderness with Hobbes.

stupendus_spiff… yes but it’s quite different when you are being FORCED to do so with your parents!! I LOVE to bicycle… however when I was younger and my father said “we are going on a bike ride” I never HATED anything more than bike riding!! Now if he asked me if I wanted to go, or I suggested it, it was great…

Here in Oregon we have poison oak - I’m immune, but my husband gets nice oozy sores when he gets in it. The best way to deal with it is ice it - numbs it, so it doesn’t itch. And, here, if someone burns it, people with asthma just stay INSIDE - otherwise, they end up in the hospital. Experience is the best teacher, after all.

“Poison Ivy” - The Coasters “Say It Isn’t So!” - Sarah Vaughan For your sake I hope Hobbes is just bugging you, Calvin, and there’s no poison ivy!

We don’t have much poison ivy here, but we have plenty of nettles. I taught a friend visiting from California a helpful lesson after he walked down our path to the creek and brushed up against some nettles. I told him to grab the fronds from sword ferns which usually are growing nearby nettles. I told him to rub the ferns over the itchy areas. The ferns help relieve the itching. Isn’t nature amazing?

LeslieAnne, You were just itching to tell that story, weren’t you? I used to get poison ivy when I was growing up. Sometimes it was very bad, but I think you had it worse. I haven’t had poison ivy for a ‘lung’ time. I hope it ‘leaves’ you alone “From This Moment On”.

LeslieAnn, I am the same way with poison ivy. When I was little, the neighbor burned off the hill behind our house and I ended up with all 3 ivies, according to the MD. Couldn’t eat, swollen all over, etc. Now, at 65, I use the long garden gloves I can only find on Amazon, and wash every time I come in from the garden with a poison ivy removal scrub that really works for me. I feel for Calvin, even as grumpy as he is….!!

Rise22… Yes.. I have asthma which is why the doctors said I was so lucky. Unfortunately I didn’t know he was burning it because he was so far away!! And we have oak here as well. sumac too :(

Poison ivy, watch out Cal. Once I was immune to it then one day - BAM - I was covered with it. Talk about itchy itchy!

That Hobbes is a whole mountain of information

Good morning Calvin and Hobbes fans

MontanaLady said: Or, he’ll tell his kids about how he “roughed it” in the forest…..hiking up hill both ways…..in the snow…..

….. don’t forget bare-footed too!!!!!

;-)

Well, he won’t be thinking about the bug bites anymore!

It can always get worse.

As long as Calvin is already covered in the stuff, he might as well get into his dad’s suitcase & rub the stuff into his underwear.

Spiff, Leslie Anne, you’re overlooking Calvin’s greatest attribute, his imagination. All of those great wilderness adventures that he and his pet tiger go on all take place in his own back yard, never more than fifty from the house.