Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for May 25, 2023

…but in really fun ways…

Another gem~

Even Einstein was wrong, occasionally… https://www.npr.org/2014/03/20/291408248/

Big Pink Prune Discovered In Tub – Girl’s Whereabouts Unknown

…and if you plant prunes in the ground and water them, they’ll grow back into people.

This made me laugh out loud. I ❤️ Dill.

I thought things shrank down, not up.

No, Alice. Prunes are not people. Soylent Green is People.

Sounds like something Calvin’s father would’ve told him…

No, Alice, but raisins are. That’s why they should never be put in cookies!

Dill, we love your adorable wrongness, keep being you!

I had to leave in mid read. The ice cream truck came!!!

Dill is striving to maintain his identity against his energetic, inventive, older brothers. He does this by prodigious feats of solemnly-proclaimed imagination. Alice is a Dill Believer, but Madeline provides the needed dose of skepticism….

I always thought those california raisins resembled somebody…

Dried fruits are commonly re-plumped by soaking, preferably in brandy.