Dailies on a Saturday! (Patreon)

Happy in-between-Christmas-and-New-Year's! I got home from Christmas visits last night, hence, Saturday dailies for you. :)

There's a 2,000% increase in the time it takes to run errands if those errands are in town a few days before Christmas.

Whoever LEFT A GIFT CARD at Dogwood General Store for me, THANK YOU!!! That knocked me off my feet!! (If you're local and you've never been, Dogwood is too charming to handle and Mary is the sweetest person alive.)

I can bite my tongue & let it go with strangers, but I can't help my facial expressions.

(If this comic doesn't make sense, read this article by Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl! In short, never apostrophize a name. Just add an -s or -es. For example, my family would be The Corsettos, not The Corsetto's. Luke's would be The Harteises. More than one Mary would be Marys, not Maries! English is weird.)

Here's the real reason I'm posting my dailies a day late this week:

I don't have the heart to put those skeletons away. Look at how much fun they're having.

If you happen to have our missing copy of Charlie Brown Christmas, I beg you to let me know!! Only 361 days before we go through this disappointment again!

Despite pushing our plans back a couple days, Sick Christmas wasn't all bad...

Thanks to all of our experience with covid, my friends knew exactly how to make my day without risking contamination. <3 

All I could think of for Christmas gifts from Luke was pots for all my plant babies, but I didn't actually expect him to MAKE me pots!! Here's a terrible photo of them, they are actually LOVELY:

(And a Weakerthans album!)

I also mentioned at some point that I can't believe I don't have any of those old Garfield collections that i used to check out at my elementary school library over and over again, and how frustrated I was that there didn't seem to be a published script for the original Ghostbusters movie (my all-time favorite), so:

(That's a print-to-order bound copy of the script, and the novel based on GB that I've never read!)

In short, Luke is very good at gifts.

I didn't get him anything special - a couple records, a pair of baoding balls - but I did get him a strangely similar main gift, which was:

Fake plants for his classroom, so he can enjoy the ambiance of greenery without it quickly turning to brownery.

I left my daily comics binder at home, so there are only a few comics this week (I've gotten much better at taking time off from "work!"), but for those wondering, I DID get to give my dad his belated birthday gift! 

I'll post more about it later. But, yes, he loved it, and no, I am not switching careers to drawing cars full-time.

Happy Last Day of 2023 to y'all, and I hope you have a fun/safe/completely dead asleep New Year's Eve!!