Why I Called You Here

I remember this Peanuts comic strip from my childhood.  It was wintertime and Linus was making some small snowmen.  They were probably about a foot tall.  He must have made about (50) of them.  He had them all facing in one general direction.  He then made some sort of stand (or maybe he had a stand there already) and addressed the crowd of small snowmen, “You may be wondering why I have called you here today…”  I like most of the Peanut characters but I think I liked Linus the most (with Snoopy a close second).  He was wise beyond his years and was always waxing philosophical.  He was also the only one who could quote the Christmas story in “Merry Christmas Charlie Brown”.  I was reminded of this comic strip this morning as I went into the daughter’s room and saw this scene on her bed…

In this case it is Oreo and not Linus who has called the meeting and his audience is stuffed animals and not snowmen but it still reminded me of that old Peanuts scene.  I tried very hard to find a copy to point you to as a comparison but my google skills could not accomplish it (update, a faithful reader provided me a link to the comic strip that I was remembering).

I mowed down the cantaloupe patch in the front yard yesterday as the last of the fruit fell off the vine (indicating it was ready I guess even though it was still green-ish in a few parts).  Amazing, but with 3 passes of the mower you cannot even tell there was a garden there.  The tomato cages are still there as they have yet to give up all there fruit and having witnessed what happens when you do (a meeting with the mower), they may never allow those last tomatoes to turn from green to red.  The back yard garden is far gone with the last of the cucumbers not quite making it to adulthood.  I can’t quite mow it down as it is a raised bed garden but I can stop yelling at the dogs when they get near it and it should be demolished soon enough.  We have plans for a much bigger garden next year, we might even have to rent a tiller (or whatever those things are called).  I am sure it will be an adventure worth blogging about.

Jon