FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for November 07, 2015

Hmm. Around here one doesn’t have a month between when the leaves are all off the trees and when the snow flies, or at least below freezing temps.

This one has the exact same joke as For Better or Worse

In an O Henry story, a young lady is sick and watching leaves fall from a vine through a window. She becomes convinced that she will die when the last leaf falls. An artist friend of her’s very vocally ridicules the idea. Over the next few days every leaf falls but one. When that leaf stubbornly refuses to fall, she decides that it’s intended to show her not to give up. She’s on her way to a full recovery when she discovers her artist friend just died from pneumonia. He caught it the cold rainy night he painted a leaf on the wall next to the vine.

Lot of work to keep from raking dead leaves.

Fortunately, we don’t have to rake here in Arizona because our trees don’t lose their leaves in the fall and because lawns are comparatively rare due to our desert climate!

In my comics queue FBoFW is just before this comic, so today’s read was very deja-vu like.

Nice try, Peter, now rake the leaves.

I actually don’t mind raking leaves (and we have 4 huge maples) because I put them in my compost pile. But the best thing you can do for your yard is mulch them—chop them up with a lawnmower and leave them on the ground. I recently heard a gardening expert on the radio say it baffles him why people will rake their leaves and then buy fertilizer, when if they would just chop them up and leave them it’s free fertilizer.

@Kerovan I remember that story. O Henry loved to write ironic short stories like it and The Magi.

Next time, use Superglue.

No duct tape involved in keeping the leaves on the maple trees around my house.

As we said frequently one summer at a Camp where I volunteer every year (during Superheroes Week) …

“Sounds like a job for … Duct Tape Man!”

isnt there the exact same comic exept it with his dad and superglue