Close to Home by John McPherson for November 23, 2020

Would a modern kid know how to frolic in leaves? That’s what I’d like to know.:/

Memories, sweet memories. Even Bleeb gets it. Rolling in the leaves. Even better with a dog.

On a more modernistic level, I sure hope they got those leaves on Amazon Prime.

A sucker is born every minute!!

I dont know…I live in Las Vegas and there are leaves everywhere. And the Flame Maples are gorgeous. They must be in Florida.And yes there is a palm tree in my neighbors yard.

They’re imported, and therefore special.

Gwyneth Paltrow offers them on GOOP along with the customized leather watermelon bag, the bread lamp and vagina steaming (I kid you not). You can find more in an article at thecut.com.

A box of snow is more fun

I thought the “normal” joke would have been the kids playing in the box

One man’s yard waste is another man’s treasure…

Great for allergies, too! Of course, we can’t go back to the days when people raked them off the curb and burned them. Loved that lingering smoke for days!

Way past season now!

That may be their second best export, following the syrup..

As far as I’m concerned my leaves are nothing more than puppy poop camouflage.

https://tinyurl.com/y32bfssy

She can have mine for free.

Shoot – I could be a millionaire (here in Ohio)

I know people who would pay for this. Will file this in my “Why didn’t I think of that” box.

Also looking forward to “snow in a box”

What is that behind the tree?

Got plenty on my front yard

I live in Florida and there are lots of live oak trees and skads of leaves and we still have palm trees!

Are Palm trees that green?

Cool idea. Lemons to lemonade….

That would make a good song title.

Please post a link- I’d like a box!

They can do that when they’re done cutting the grass!

Mission Viejo, California, USA. The only thing missing in that scene is the irrigation system and a Honda Accord in the drive way (of course the ‘wife’, but she ran off with a spiritual health guru five years earlier…)

Hi Little Alien Dude! Hi Everyone! Lookie! Bleeb’s making a leaf angel! Better go inside when the leaf blower comes out. Bleeb, you look too much like a leaf yourself! :)

Boy do I have a deal for you, I’ll even supply the box.

It’s surprising they aren’t ignoring the Vermont leaves and playing with the box instead…

True story. Don’t remember where I saw it on television but it was part of a serious news program. A woman living in one of the prairie states was learning to start a webpage and thought it would be funny to offer to sell tumbleweeds. She was shocked when she was contacted by people asking for a price list! Apparently one person was planning a big party with a ‘Western’ theme. Amused, she figured out how much it would cost to put some in boxes and ship them. Luckily there is absolutely no shortage of tumbleweeds because she eventually had so much business that she had her neighbors helping to pack up these nuisances. I wonder if that was a short-lived fad or if she still gets orders.

“Dang it, Junior! I told you not to just jump in that pile of leaves without checking it first… I saw a weird lookin’ yellow bug in there earlier and… oop, never mind, Sissy stepped on it!”

“So, like I was tellin’ ya, I paid $25 bucks for that box of leaves, and you’d think they’d keep the bugs and junk out of ‘em! Say… do you smell sump’n?” シ

At last, we have an answer to Sally Brown’s question.

https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1963/11/10

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu3HN-MmJc4 Will make your whole day!

In City Park, New Orleans, they would blow huge amounts of artificially made snow into a huge pile for the kids to play in close to Christmas. They did it near the front of Carousel Gardens and would bus in kids from the poor neighborhoods to participate, too.