Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for December 20, 2021

They’ve acheived liftoff, something all the other cars aren’t doing!

Even worse: a seedling.

Our neighbors always put their tree up on Christmas eve. And take it down on New Years day….why bother. We put ours up the day after Thanksgiving and take it down on New Years. If it going to take me 3 days to decorate it, I want to enjoy it for a while.

My brother decorated our tree. Then my mom did it over again.

The broken top of a tree……..

Food Pyramid is a good name for a supermarket.

Bit of a worry how they seem to be the only car driving to the Food Pyramid, Petey might me onto something.

Soon you will just run the “Christmas Tree” program for your AR glasses.

Just drive up the comix page to family tree. They’ll hook you up.

A good buddy of mine, who was so tight you could read the coin dates through his pockets, waited until the tree lots were ready to close on Christmas Eve. Then he’d low-ball them and get a tree for cheap. But the kids were usually in bed and didn’t get to see the tree until Christmas AM. To each his own.

I can see that as the Cul-de-Sac Christmas special. “The House with the Christmas Stump”.

Either way, there will be no catsup fountain under ole stumpy, or twiggy. If it’s a stump, Alice may do a little dance, or maybe a tantrum in the style of an exploding catsup volcano.

This season, the tree was smaller, the price higher and it stopped drinking right quick. I, on the other hand, started drinking more.

Hey! Peter already brought a tree on his Honda-Tonka-Cuisinart! Yes, it was small. But so is Alice. That doesn’t mean we like them less!

Have the rest of the Otterloops decided to join the masses who think “bigger is better”?

we put it up shortly after thanksgiving and leave it till valentines day, we switch the directions around.

Another point for artificial trees. We never have to beat the crowds to a nice tree (or any tree) every year. Instead, we simply open the tree bag we store it in and set it up!