Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 28, 2014

Great strip – love the art, and so very true.

I bet everyone scrolls back to the first frame just to see if all the leaves really did fall…

You do, and you’ll clean it up!

5th panel: Carpet of snow and icycles hanging off their noses

I started eating like a pig about a month ago: I felt the huge need for fatty foods: bulking up for an early winter. I SO hope I’m wrong!

It’s supposed to be almost 80 today where I am in Maine. Although I already heard that prediction, as well, because everyone loves reading that thing up here.

Carp diem – catch one fish each dayCrape diem – try to have a better dayCarpe dime – Save a 10 cent piece each dayVeni, Vidi, Visa – I came, I saw, I boughtWe had to learn Latin in Florida schools, because we were so close to Latin America.Or so they told us.

Boy, I wish my leaves would fall that fast. As it is, I know what I’ll be doing on a regular basis for the next two and a half months. And those darn oak leaves, they’re so tenacious some of them wont fall off the trees until next spring.

Beautiful artwork.

Clever use of the dog-walker as a timing instrument.

So that’s why they call it “fall”.

So it is time to fall for all that.

“But now the days grow short, I’m in the autumn of the yearAnd now I think of my life as vintage wine from fine old kegsFrom the brim to the dregs, it poured sweet and clearIt was a very good year.” Frances Albert Sinatra

In the panhandle of TX it is in 60’s at night and mid to high 70’s during the day. Almanack says we will have mild winter but I don’t believe them. Insects are already going into hibernation.

The 2013 Farmer’s Almanac said that Chicago was going to have a mild winter.It was the complete opposite of that.So, as usual, i never believe what this fraud puts out in PR ever, because, if you look carefully, they never, ever say whether the previous year’s prediction was correct, which it rarely is.

Let the leaf-blower wars begin! Up Nawth, I had a northwest wind favoring me, so my pore neighbor never stood a chance after a dry windy fall day.I cut the offending trees down and then the fun began with a new, but alcoholic neighbor. I’ve found that stupidity and it’s cousin, dumbness, is both acquired and in DNA.

nosirrom, I grew up under Willow trees, I thought they were were the messiest of trees, but now I’m under four huge oaks..They win. I can’t walk bare foot in the grass, Acorns everywhere, they are pointy on both ends!) Twigs and whole branches drop without warning…limbs in a storm, and yeah those stupid leaves…

What’s the Latin for “seize the leafblower” ?

Last two years the Almanac was bang on here….said tons of snow, we got records. Said long and cold, cold, we got that. Regular weather forecasters were about 3 feet of snow too low, then 10˚ too high. Five years ago the Almanac said a dry spring, local weather predicted a massive, record-setting spring snowfall. No snow.

It’s been in the 70’s and low 80’s here in Chicagoland, but I made a double batch of Chili yesterday. I’m ready.

Chicago land is the land mass between Chicago and Michianna…

Why are the men and the bench not covered in leaves?

One of my favorite pieces of all time. Thanks so much bringing it back into my awareness today. A long time ago on first hearing this song, I thought it would be “terribly strange to be 70”. Tempus fugit.

Run for your lives the climate is changing. Aeeh!!

Something like that CAN happen if there was a freeze the night before. The ice forming a the joint where the leaf connects to the branch separates the leaf from the tree, but holds the leaf until the sun warms the ice and causes it to melt. In less than an hour, most of the leaves in the trees are now on the ground.

This is just beautiful and touching. Thankyou.

Thanks for posting, one of S $ G’s most evocative songs. Now that I am approaching 70, it does seem “terribly strange”.

Awww! I’m so glad other people remember and love this, too! Simon and Garfunkel were my first musical loves… well, them and The Beatles. But theirs were my first albums, thanks to my mom’s surprising decision to defy my dad’s ban of anything resembling rock music. So, they were and are very special to me. Nice choice!

i gather these two guys are a “regular” in this comic. my favorite is still Danae.