Red and Rover by Brian Basset for December 16, 2022

Most of the Christmas catalogs come in emails now

Presents are dwindling, Christmas tree’s spindling, Sellers are swindling, (Brothers are Ringling?)

Orange? Wait, no, that doesn’t work either…

I don’t think I’ve received any except The Sharper Image. I miss the days of the old Sears Wishbook!

Heee!

Love the way Rover is sitting in panel 2. My shiba sits like that, too.

Shoppers are mingling while cash registers are jingling!

While they technically work as kindling, it’s just too much nasty smoke and embers.

Now it would be “ dwindling kindling.”

And they keep on coming!!!

Swindling, dwindling, mingling…

lingering, mingling, sprinkling, tingling, tinkering, tinkling, twinkling

how about rhyming the lyric word “Trash”… that might be easier.

That’s ok, some things are not meant to rhyme. Yip yip yip yip yip

Except for the Sear’s catalog. Back in the day, my siblings and I would go through it and mark the toys we wanted for Christmas!

How about dwindling?

To put firewood into a hobo’s cloth bundle: bindling kindling…

Dwindling…

And the religious attitudes towards Christmas are dwindling