Pickles by Brian Crane for January 14, 2023

㋡ Earl dusted off another golden oldie

Maybe Opal thinks that she’ll live longer if she does the cooking.

Gramma probably also thinks that only she can do it right.

Hers is the right way to cook and Earl’s way is the wrong way.

I save our family from spiders and flies.

Do you eat them as is or use a recipe?

Only Gramma knows where all the cooking utensils are. And she wants them to stay that way.

And Roscoe barks all the time to keep the Kangaroos off the roof.

It’s an old politician’s ploy; because you elected me, $#/@&* didn’t happen. I save you and our country.

Grandma Pickle does all the cooking?

I thought Nelson would ask about the mushroom soup incident that was brought up yesterday…

He has learned to hand the stress.

An old joke, but a classic one!!

Apparently Opal does all the addition in the household, while Earl only subtracts.

sometimes as you get older and older it’s the little chores that count. like tying shoes, helping put on socks, or maybe just making a cup of cocoa. it’s not so much the who does what as to why they do it and how it helps.

My wife and I both enjoy cooking too much to leave it all to the other.

Poor Nelson‼️ between Opals snide remarks and Earls fantasy lies, this kid will grow up so confused‼️‼️☺️

She provides the food and drink and he provides the hunger and thirst.

I’ve applied alligator repellent around the exterior of my house. So far, so good.

Earl should have said…”lions, tigers and bears.” Then Nelson would have said…”oh my!”

Amusing.

Ohhhhhhhhh……….. I get it.

Grampa’s in charge of keeping the chair warm, folding the newspaper the wrong way and leaving the lid up.

as far as I can remember, no bears nor mountain lions on Mount Graham, Arizona where my maternal grandparents had the family cabin

There’s no fool like a young fool.

When you are as successful as Earl is, nobody appreciates how well you did.

“What’s with this military buildup?”

“It’s part of our peace offensive.”

“Peace offensive? Isn’t that an oxymoron?”

“Certainly not. Here, let me show you. Attack me.”

“Attack you? No way. That would be crazy.”

“Why?”

“Because you are a marine and are trained to…. Ohhh, peace offensive.”

He is doing his job?

You’re just like Lisa Simpson’s tiger-repelling rock; aren’t you, Earl?