Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for December 05, 2020

never skied myself (on the slopes or even being pulled by a boat)

Lucy will get back when they play football.

Now that you’ve got the bunny slope down, there’s a hill in the back yard…

Looks like Charlie Brown is going to “Ski-daddle”!

I wanted to water ski but never found a lake with a hill in it!

I used to ski but my skis never magically changed color from red to yellow. Made you look!

one of my all time favs

I guess she’s going to be there awhile

When I was first working with my boss, I made a comment on a pretty scenic photo on his office wall. He said that it was Sunday River. He asked me if I skied. I said, “If God had meant for me to ski, I’d have been born with 10-foot-long feet.” That was when I found out that he was an avid skier. We’ve been together for 12 years now, and he still kids me about that conversation.

Nothing too ri-ski for little Lucy, eh?

I’ve been water skiing a few times, but never snow skiing. An engineer I worked with was going to teach me cross country skiing, but it did not snow for 5 years. By that time, she was the boss and it just wasn’t appropriate.

Little Lucy was a cutie.

I like this version of Peanuts better, CB isn’t so outcast or socially bullied.

I’ve always preferred the simpler childhood life’ strips to the later run.

She’s strengthening some muscles, holding that position perpendicular to her skis while stationary on a slope.

Next up: Bungie jumping.

I remember this strip so well. It was very funny then and it is very funny now.

That’s what sleds are for.

I still have memories of going sledding in our front yard as a toddler, memories I assumed much of my childhood meant we had at least a small hill in the front yard as we’d moved out of the area before I was old enough to start kindergarten. Wasn’t until I was in my teens before I saw that house again and saw there was no hill in the yard. My memories, as it turned out, were sledding down a snow bank dad had built up. Maybe about waist high on a grown man, but to a kid of two or three it was a hill twice that high.

we miss you walter tetley!