Close to Home by John McPherson for October 17, 2020

Those kids must have had help from Bleeb to get on that balcony. Looks like their should be a caption for the lady.

I think you better treat.

Looks like Bleeb’s bag is big enough to hold about one M&M.

Man, that is one low balcony railing! I lived for a year on the 36th floor with an open balcony like that. My friend walked straight to the railing, leaned over it, and said “Whoa! Gets you right in the nads!” We dropped a couple of grapes off to watch them fall. Not pennies – too dangerous.

Daddy is a window washer, apparently.

Her mouth is open like she’s speaking but I don’t see a caption.

A COVID-19 Halloween. Let the kids dress up, go outside and ring your doorbell. And multiple visits are allowed this year.

And mom still ate all the good candy.

“Make it good or we will egg the place!”

Shouldn’t they be dressed up like Spiderman, or maybe Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible?

Close and lock the balcony door and watch to see how they leave. An Uber copter, perhaps?

I’d say that the kid downstairs, dressed as a hibachi, has the best costume.

I really enjoy cooking on my Weber grill, but I’m on an acre. Do people really use them on balconies on high-rises? Seems kinda rude to me.

Don’t see the problem; they’re all wearing their masks.

They landed in the space ship on the lower balcony and beamed up.

Bleeb trick or treating with a little bag is really cute

Very inventive. They will go far in life….

OK, where is Mary Poppins hiding?

I think there’s a typo and a caption is missing.

Okay, I would give them all the candy I have and maybe a little money, just to know how they did that.

The missing caption is in my newspaper today. She says,

“Don’t look at ME! I don’t have the SLIGHTEST idea how they got out there!”

“Awww, honey look, how cute! A little robot, a little witch, a little ghost, and a… um, weird-little-yellow-alien-bug-looking-thing! Well, you’ll all get extra candy for being so smart with all your costumes! Honey, don’t be so grumpy, don’t you think they are cute in their little costumes?”

“Yeah, yeah, they’re cute, they’re cute! Now, how’d the heck did they get up here? Aw jeez, the little ghost just stepped on that bug! I ain’t cleanin’ that up!

“… AND WHAT THE HECK IS THAT SMELL!?”

“Oh honey, you should have seen them land. It was so cute!”

The kids are just hopped up on sugar…

Looks like he’s thinkin’ ‘Darn, I thought we wouldn’t have to deal with them up here’.

In the world of “Star Trek,” the transporter has the potential to take trick-or-treating to a whole new level.

Yep that’s definitely New York trick or treating

Happy Trick or Treat, Bleeb! Don’t take any healthy granola bars, Little Alien Dude! :)

Those kids obviously had Bleeb’s help getting up there; he deserves extra candy for being so nice.

I have to assume the kids live there!

This might have been funnier if there were a rope hanging from the upper balcony to the lower one.

They aren’t children…