Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for November 01, 2023

The sequoias are disappearing from California due to climate change. Californians are now planting new seedlings in Oregon and Washington to prevent their extinction.

Sequoia National Park. Family vacation in 1959. Remember it like it was yesterday

Hammie. Sequoias grow forever to reach the height you’re thinking. You want a fast growing tree if you want a tree house. Sequoia is also a conifer so I don’t know about your dad not minding raking all those needles which is much harder to rake than deciduous trees which leaves are larger hence easier to rake and lose leaves only seasonally which is mostly in the fall while conifers shed on daily basis all year around. I would know because in my former Phoenix Arizona home, a neighbor planted a conifer tree that grew taller than my fence and shed its needles into my pool everyday. We skimmed our pool all the time.

And Zoe sees you stuck at the tippy-top and just smiles.

I think most trees would not grow fast enough for a tree house before the kids grew up!

He’s thinking ahead for grand kids to enjoy the tree

That would be fatal Hammie.

By the time it is big and strong enough to support a tree house,Hammie’s grand kids will be old enough to enjoy it.

Hammie, he said a tree house, not tree apartment high rise.

A pin tree grows very fast! I have one in my backyard that we planted a few years ago. It’s now taller than the house.

Think big Hammie, think big.

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Hammie my boy, you will never live long enough to have a tree house in a Sequoia. Maybe your grandkids.

They get really tall and get lots of girth but it’ll take about 500 yearsHammie.

Darryl, here is a thought, plant a tree that is native to your region. They will thrive much better than bringing in something from some other region. Where I live the river birch was a popular landscaping choice. Problem was it isn’t native to our area and they would only thrive for about 10 years before they began to die off. They don’t do well in clay soil. So many people have had to cut their dying river birch trees down and replace them with something else.

Sounds like you want a fantasy tree. ;-)

By the time it gets that big, hammie will be an adult.

Pin oak is an 80 year tree. Black oak is a 400 year tree.

Austrees grow 6 to 8 feet a year, make shade, and are drought resistant.

By the time a sequioa gets big enough for a treehouse, Hammie’s children will be ready for it.

Real kids would be grown and off to college etc. before the tree would be big enough for a tree house. This comic may last long enough to show a tree with a tree house.

Depends where you are. In the mid-Atlantic, on the east coast of North America, one of the fastest growing, and largest trees is Liriodendron tulipifera aka tulip tree or tulip poplar. But, you’d better plant it in the back yard; it will tower over your house in no time. Westward to at least the Mississippi, tulip trees grow almost anywhere that was native forest. Taller than almost every other eastern tree, they are excellent lightning rods.

dON’T PLANT A CRABAPPLE TREE.HAD ONE IN OUR FRONT YARD YEARS AGO.nOT ONLY WERE THEY INEDIBLE,LAWN A SQUASHD MESS

By the time it’s big enough for a tree house, Hammie will be grown.

Uh, I haven’t met a tree that isn’t! When we had ours, it was always the last one to shed.

Sweet cherry trees are gorgeous. Big, dark green leaves, bark that looks like tree jewelry as the tree gets older: silvery and shimmery. To keep raccoons and possums from climbing it and stealing the fruit, put an Erva bunny cage around the bottom of the trunk and do not tie it down with stakes, let it rattle freely if anything touches it. Even the squirrels don’t like them because they think they’ll be in a cage if they run down the tree. It worked!

I’m sad we never got to see Zoe’s costume. So much buildup…it feels wasteful at this point.

Haha! (＾▽＾)