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Happy Friday, earthlings and otherlings! And happy Dailies Day to you all. ☀️

I can't believe this is the first time this has ever happened:

He WAS harmless! Ron was pleased that he got to pretend to be a fireman for a day and save me from my ridiculous situation. Bless you, Ron. (Original art's for sale here!)

You may be asking why there's a lock on the OUTSIDE of my door. Back before I did daily comics, I occasionally made comics that I called "Stuck at 32." Funny enough, the last comic up there explans why I've had to resort to LOCKING the door from the outside every night so that Pip can't get into it. (At least I ditched the chain idea!) He's a genius, which is simultaneously cute and annoying.

Both Karli and Ryan's birthdays were last week! So for Art Night, I baked a cake for both of them. This happens literally every time I bake a birthday cake:

I mean, it always gets done, but you'd think I'd have learned by now! (Here's the original! Use DAILYSMILE50 at checkout for your 50% off Patreon discount!)

I didn't take a final photo of the cake but I drew a baby heron on it with icing, because at the last Art Night we talked about how ridiculous baby herons look. Luckily Karli got a good photo before we ate it:

For a good time, look up baby heron photos.

I wrote a two-pager about BAMBOO (peak Danielle content), but it was really wordy and still only covered half of the process, so I'm keeping it out of this comics-plus-commentary feed down here! It's in the image carousel at the top of this page, though, so you can still read it if you want. It's sort of a how-to about harvesting bamboo and turning it into a raised bed for your garden.

Here's the one I made for my peas this week! (These photos kinda pick up where the comic left off.)

(Be sure to line it with packing paper so the soil doesn't fall out through the cracks!)

I love making these things but holy cow they're time-consuming! But, I repeat: I LOVE making these things. Weaving is addicting.

On Wednesday my brother and I had a nice sibling lunch in Frederick! It was gorgeous outside, we got sidewalk seating, I even found street parking right out front of the restaurant! And I got to share some good news about Julie (my new-used car that I got last year, for those just joining us):

Couldn't have not-happened to a nicer guy! (Brent drives all day for his job, so it's better that it happened to me, the stay-at-home cartoonist.)

My brother rules, he was chill and knew just what to do. There's a scrape on one side and the bumper came clean off with the removal of a few screws, so hopefully it'll all be a big inconvenience rather than a heartbreak. (I hunted for MONTHS to get this specific car, I don't want to go through it again!)

Turns out the entire bumper fits perfectly in the back! Poor Julie had to drive all the way home with her ass hanging out like this:

On that note, I need to post this now so I can call back the... adjuster (I had to look at my notes to get that title right, this is all new to me). I hope all of you have a lovely weekend, and none of you has your ass ripped off by a backing-up delivery truck!