Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for December 31, 2020

And I don’t think he (the narrator) means for “entertainment” purposes.

Mr Carlisle is not fooling any squirrels.

Phil has always been squirrelly.

Watch out there squirrel, he’ll steal your nuts.

Stay away from our bird feeder Carlisle!

Who let Mr. Carlisle out again. I thought Mrs. Carlisle had double locks installed on the front door….unless he went out the window.

Poor woman, she carries a heavy burden.

SHERIFF!

Mr. Carlisle is the biggest nut that squirrel has ever seen.

Let’s just hope that Molly isn’t taking Duke for a walk right about now.

His condition worsened after trying to eat out of a Rosy’s spinning squirrel feeder. It threw him on to the Pan fountain headfirst. After coming out of coma, he said he had a strong urge to run in front of oncoming cars.

No nononononono. Mr Carlisle has joined the RODENT REVOLUTION!

He tried that with me once. His cottontail was off to one side and dirty.

I bit him. Hence the gloves.

Does Mr. Carlisle know that there are bears watching? Maybe he figures if they think he’s loonie, they’ll leave him alone.

Or did I stick in a comma where it didn’t belong.

And not just by squirrels… ㋡

Nuts!

A little known Marvel fact. Thanos of the purple skin and the butt chin from THE AVENGER movies was once defeated in a comic by a character called Squirrel Girl who controls those nasty rodents. Squirrels can be scary!

Perhaps even institutionalizing.

Tomorrow, Mr. Carlisle watches bears.

The squirrel recognises one of its own!

Mr. Carlilse needs to be commited.