Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for January 12, 2025

Definitely time to get that fire hazard out.

Hammie will smell like stale pine now.

Maybe you should have taken it down a bit sooner!

They used to have big plastic bags that would hold the entire tree. Install from the bottom and pull upward until the whole tree is enclosed.

Some people use an old sheet.

At least it’s not on the indoor floor, it’s outside in nature where it belongs.

Darryl, quick! Blow your nose and get the poor boy out from under that pile!

Let’s play Find the Hammie in a stack of needles

Let’s see. A “real” tree costs $100 and is used once. A “fake” tree costs $100 and can be used for 10 years. That my friends is why I gave up on real trees 25 years ago.

The vacuum cleaner should be right there with you.

Lay a sheet down and set the tree on it, then drag it, sheet and all to where you want to put it! Shake the sheet and you’re good to go!

I remember needles in the carpeting for months after. Then my parents finally got a fake one and life was easier after Christmas.

Good God. Whatever happened.

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the needles didn’t budge while they removed the lights and decorations

Whoever that happens too, just get a fake tree already.

Hammie – “Now I know how porcupine kids feel when they snuggle up to their parents.”

My insurance adjuster Dad would have had a fit if he saw this!

Break out the leaf blower. Problem solved.

Good gosh, Hammie’s covered in fir! ッ

Why did you buy a really dry tree?

I not-so-brilliantly decided to burn our tree in the fireplace. Dam thing went up like a bookie joint’s flash paper. Luckily (because thought didn’t enter into it), I had cut it into smaller pieces and had decided not to push it in a bit at a time like the Yule Logs of old.

(We’ve had an artificial tree ever since)

Something similar happened to Hammie January 4, 2003

Hammie is probably liking that.

For us no fresh Christmas trees, we have artificial one.

That looks like it was already dry when the decorations were put up.

They took the tree out in the wrong direction, you should always lead with the top of the tree, in harmony with the lay of the branches.

A wonderful case for artificial trees.

That’s gonna itch

So much for shredding the needle

I do hate when the Christmas trees come down. Seeing what had been the centerpiece of festivity, joy and celebration lying in the gutter waiting to be dragged away as garbage is one of the most melancholy sights I know of.

Maybe don’t buy it in November and wait until Mid-January to throw it away.

Hammie shouldn’t have eaten that candy cane before handling the tree.

Switched to artificial tree a few years ago,now I wonder what took me so long

That would make more sense if Hammie was standing right on the threshold.