Pickles by Brian Crane for June 15, 2020

Now he’s gonna have to check it out to see if that’s true.

Don’t all mothers?

I had a female friend who liked Halloween. One year, she went as a Mummy (yeah)… but THIS mummy had a wig with a very realistic eyeball looking out the back. The crowd we were with was pretty with it, so she got a lot of kudos.

Roscoe is very concerned about that concept. :)

And she likes walnuts.

I’m told the third eye comes with motherhood.

I don’t really believe in telepathy, but my wife seems to read my mind often enough that I’ve learned to be careful of what I think around her.

It never pays to listen to Earl.

Nelson’s in his late 20’s by now. He isn’t going to fall for that!

Wait until Nelson tells Opal this one !

Earl, you need to know it’s not the eyes that find out about things. It’s the ears.

My grandmother always seemed to know what I was going to do before I did.

So you SEE, you can’t fool Opal…..

It’s what they would have us believe, but it is a lot of bull

Cue the Twilight Zone theme.

My wife is different . Her’s is in her forehead. Unfortunately, It’s the only one she has in front.

And there are the other senses such as hearing and smell. They will rat you out.

If my daughter-in-law hadn’t seen Wyatt in over a minute, she would start to panic and seek him out. He will be three come August, if he makes it. The reason it is uncertain is the same reason she worries. A week or two back she found him in the ditch beside the 4-lane highway. He has no idea of danger and is VERY good at slipping out.

I never expected his father to make it this far either. It is sometimes bad when your children take after you

(I appreciate her and make sure she knows I do.)

Gadzooks, I saw the same thing on The Outer Limits, and it was all John-Boy’s fault.

I remember being out on a friend’s back porch playing D&D with them, another couple and my husband. My daughter, 3, was running around (the porch was closed off because they had dogs and didn’t want them coming up out of the yard and bothering us on the porch. One of the first things I noticed when we went out, was a metal bucket under a faucet they used to water their dogs. I wound up sitting with my back to the bucket, but had caught my daughter out of the corner of my eye, going behind my back. I called out to her to stay away from the bucket just as she was reaching out for it. She turned around and toddled over to the other side of the porch where her toys were. Our friends (neither couple had kids) asked how in the world did I know what she was doing?!?! There were several things she COULD have been looking at/going for, but I knew HER and her fascination with water (later (much later), we found out she was autistic and water seems to be a magnet for many autistic children). It wasn’t hard as a parent to put 2 and 2 together, but to them, it did seem like I had eyes in the back of my head and could see exactly what she was doing.

Roscoe didn’t know that either.

Is it just me or does Nelson seem to be getting a little bigger?

I’m told my older brother used to search and search the back of my mother’s very curly haired head.