Pickles by Brian Crane for December 13, 2024

Only if she doesn’t leave them in the oven too long.

No Earl, you are baking the cookies this year.

Way to tell someone to relax, Earl…

Baking and decorating Christmas cookies with Nelson sounds like fun. Earl may have one if he stays out of the way.

Cookies are one of the easiest things to make.

Earl, shut-up and hide the rolling pin, before she uses it on you

Why bother baking cookies? Just go to any site on the Internet and you’ll have all the cookies you’ll ever need.

mmmm⠄⠄⠄

fresh-baked cookies to go with the fresh comic strip

I don’t think I want to eat cookies with stamps on them.

I’d rather bake cookies and give them to family, friends and neighbors. Store bought doesn’t send a love message to others in my opinion..

Opals gonna be singing the Dixie Chicks any second, now. “Turns out Earl was a missing person, that no body missed at all.”

“Cuz Earl had to die.”

When our son was about 5yrs old, he’d be playing outside with friends (in the cold winter days) and about 3 minutes after the cookies came out of the oven, he’d be at the door with his friends, all the cookies disappeared. Needless to say, better half was well liked, even now 35yrs later some of his friends stop us on walks and talk about those days, what memories!

Baked my gingerbread yesterday :-))

Don’t worry, Opal! They’ll be returned to you and you can resend them! Hopefully reaching their destination before Christmas!

Nope, buy them from a bakery.

Priorities

Earl, this is the time to bring Nelson over and have him ask for freshly baked cookies.

As long as EARL’s happy……… THAT’S ALL THAT MATTERS

I double check before I drop them in the mailbox.

Oy! Not now, Earl…..she’s re~calculating. LOL

I am going to bake cookies later today.

Why can’t Earl help Opal at this time of year instead of expecting her to do all the work. This is why a lot of people hosting parties are stressed out because of the lack of contribution from family members. Only certain people are EXPECTED to do everything, according to family traditions.

We’ll divide the labor. You bake them and I’ll eat them.

A recent spam email: nice Russian cookies want to meet you…

These days you’re lucky if the mail gets there, stamped or unstamped.

These days you’re lucky if the mail gets there, stamped or unstamped. Thanks, Louis.

don’t forget to frost them…the cookies not the envelopes…

No need of spreading the stress.

Thank you Earl…..

I’m on Keto and don’t advocate buying products as they lie but instead make everything from scratch. Going to make some chocolate peanut butter no bakes next!

priorities……besides, all the cards will come back with nasty stamped messages on them

These are hitting too close to home for this widower.

I’ve imagined the yearly box of pulverized crumbs, aka holiday cookies once started out as cookies but along the way someone picked up the package and shook it to say “sounds like cookies” before handing it over to the next several hundred curious package inspectors performing the same inspection on route to my house.

Support your local bakery!

“I’m just asking because I know it helps you relax, of course.”

Priorities right there folks. Christmas cookies.

I did all the cards, stamped them then dropped them off at the USPS drive thru box last night, pick up was 8:30 am

How apropos, the butter is softening while I have lunch and read comics. The mixer will soon be fired up and cookie making will commence!

Long before the Internet, my mother would spend weeks making cookies. It started with Snicker-doodles before Thanksgiving, as they had to mellow. All six sibs helped. I liked making cookie press cookies the most, ribbons especially. We had a cheap press that you had to push the dough out, no screw drive!

Long before the Internet, my mother would spend weeks making cookies. It started with Snicker-doodles before Thanksgiving, as they had to mellow. All six sibs helped. I liked making cookie press cookies the most, ribbons especially. We had a cheap press that you had to push the dough out, no screw drive!

My grandmother used to make Chinese noodle cookies that had melted butterscotch, peanuts & chocolate chips in them (ETA:I found out they’re called Haystack Cookies)

Read the room, Earl.

And I want kleiner, snickerdoodles and cut out cookies! We have our grandkids coming out for Christmas this year. They’ve never seen snow, caught a snowflake on their tongue, or had hot chocolate while the snow flies around them. Memories to last for a lifetime.

Now’s not the time, Earl.