Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 24, 2010

I gotta get me one of those!

A leaves-umbrella that dumps in the other guy’s yard for every tree!

I have five trees in my backyard. Where can I get several of these?

Every deciduous tree in our yard is placed in a spot that doesn’t require raking. Now if I could place every blade of grass in a spot that didn’t need mowing. sigh

Don’t know which I enjoy more - the gag or how Wiley tells the story! Great art - Great gag!

My wife would not let me rake the leaves - she says they add “rustic charm” - I think she might buy our neighbour one of those!

I enjoy raking leaves. It’s very theraputic.

Okay, this is like the 30th comic that I’ve read this morning whose subject matter was ‘falling leaves’. Is this some kind of cartoonist conspiracy or are they strapped for ideas? Just wondering…

Raking leaves never bothered me, but snow shoveling…..

Hey Grog, Move to Texas, now matter how bad the weather gets here, we don’t have to shovel it. Bail it out manbe but not shovel.

Hey Wiley: where can I get one of these?

Ronco could buy the rights to market these. He’d be a billonaire in no time.

There’s always a good wind to blow the leaves down the street: you just have to wait long enough.

I love it! What a great idea! I’m sure the neighbors don’t think so, though!

Ok, i hate to do this but…

I bet he borrowed tools and money from his neighbors to build this device. I am sure he promised he would solve the leaf problem.

Does this make him a democrat or republican?

Fabulious!

I want to add how great reading a comic in this format on an iPad is because you can view it one panel at a time leading up to the punchline. It makes for much better comic timing.

I took a break from the first raking of my back yard, by doing the last mowing of the front yard. I still have half the back to finish. Leaves I would mulch with the mower, but this is a bumper crop year for acorns, and they really give you a workout. I did 5+ hours yesterday, and am good for nothing but watching football today.

mamazilla, I live in Texas now. But I didn’t have a choice in where I was born & raised.

I used to have a neighbor (God rest your soul Jack) who manicured his lawn only to see the prevailing winds blow leaves from across the street into his yard while he stood in the middle of the street cursing and shaking his fist at the trees.

I would use my little rider with bagger attached to go across the street and mulch and pick up as many leaves as I could and put them on my and another neighbor’s gardens. -To anyone who does this, remember to add some lime too to neutralize the tannic acid in the leaves.

With the umbrella, why not just top the tree, though?

I admit I did almost fall out of the chair laughing when I got down to the punch-panel….

If Wiley reads this board, why can’t they give him administration privileges so he can delete the spam? And why can’t the spammers sell real things we can use, like the leaf guard?

Man, the spammers are out in force today.

Great toon, Wiley. We don’t rake our yard–the leaves self compost.

AWSOME!!!

HMMMMMMMMMMM would save me firing up the tractor and mulching………..

I need one of those for my pool. The pool is a magnet for every leaf from every tree within 50 yards.

Both of my neighbors have these devices. I have fibromyalgia and don’t “rake”, but do have a lawn mower that mulches… fortunately.

Too bad that reality gets in the way. The wind blows almost constantly in autumn, and will sweep leaves under that contraption with ease.

I don’t have iPad and I read online and the paper but I have always loved the Sunday format ! Enjoyed the back-story note Wiley.

Hey “momazilla”…. for many years I am “mumzilla” to all my family and friends in Japan. I am a mum and I love Godzilla. I live in the southwest too…. Arizona !

from the looks of the contraption i dont think it would work as shown

I’ve got an evergreen in my yard. Guess what? The neighbor’s tree to the North of me dumps it’s leaves in my front yard when the wind blows. And it’s 20 to 30 ft from it to my front yard!!

I have no trees in my yard. The neighbors however have two large trees which hang over the fence onto my property. Thus, I get to rake, or mulch leaves depending on my mood. I also get to trim branches so they don’t hang over the garage or wind up in the electrical service lines at the back of the house. I don’t complain too much because the trees provide shade for my patio, and keep it cool during the summer.

ATTACK OF THE LEAVES!! Film at 11

Wiley, You’d better get a patent on that great idea. This way, if you quit your daytime job, you can coast on the royalties this baby will pull in!

What a plan….better than running your riding mower in circles and mulching.

i concur with the lawnmower treatment. the “mulch” layer will kill off the grass, and i won’t have to mow the lawn all summer! yay! problem(s) solved! cheaper than mowing with RoundUp, too.

This reminds me of a Billy Connolly joke about prescription car windscreens “so you never need worry about forgetting your glasses”… Silly enough to be funny but plausible enough for people to try and find where to buy them! Wiley, patent this idea while you still can!!

Wiley, even on my large screen PC I like to scroll down for a good one like this. Here in AZ, my leaves fall on gravel so I generally blow them together and put in compost- and I moved here because no snow and year-round flowers ;-)

Be vewy vewy quiet. We’re flagging spammers!

I’m sure the piles of leaves will make it easier for the neighbors to blow their snow back into his yard. An autumn-winter yin-yang haiku! But who’s counting?

Brilliant! Thanks for the laugh Wiley. I agree with the posters, you should patent this idea!

No Republicans, no democrats… No ultimate agenda to appease… No Ekert, no Conglomerate rats… Only the falling of the leaves… Such a simple and sane life to lead… Without the need for awful mistakes… Why then require the righteous to bleed… When we’re all in the same state…

I think you are my neighbor. Bring back my saw and cordless screwdriver now.

When can we get back to the ekert storyline. I’d really like to see how that plays out. It’s been a while.

Clever, but how did the guy go from standing on it, to being under it? there was no hole for the platform to go around him as he is cranking it up!! CONTINUITY WILEY!!!