Pickles by Brian Crane for October 31, 2020

You’re a good man Earl. You and Nelson have a good time.

what an awesome granddad you are there, Earl

You know you’d share with other young’uns.

Love the smile on Nelson in the last panel.

Grampa Earl, you are just the BEST!

Alert the hospitals! I think two people will exhibit high blood sugar levels soon.

Real pooped popcorn, sliced apples and caramel dip, strawberries and chocolate. Them! and The Creature from the Black Lagoon. A good old couch and a warm old woolen blanket.

This is a lovely heart-warming comic today. I have been feeling depressed after seeing the riots and grid-locked roads in Paris after their new lockdown conditions were announced.

Good grandpa, Earl!

I love that idea, Earl! That’s great; just don’t eat it all at once, guys!

way to improvise, Earl!

Huzzah!

Good Grandpa!

Guys don’t tell Opal until you ring the doorbell ! Would love to see the look on her face with Nelson standing there with a sheet on …. and holes for the eyes :-)

Earl sure knows how to cheer up a kid!

Finally, Earl’s getting some lovin from the gallery.

If your not going anywhere you don’t even need the eyeholes – you can see right through the sheet. Just keep ringing, just keep ringing…

But where’s Roscoe? Not as good without the dog.

(Just filling in for the missing old doofus)

!! What !! , !! WHAT !! did I just miss the Precious Roscoe sitting to the left of the hair with a happy tail ?

AWWWWWWW! Earl, you’re so sweet!

Earl, you’re not that same kid that rang my bell a minute ago; are you?

I have had three trick-or-treaters over the last 45 years I’ve lived here. That averages out to 0.06667 kids per year. I expect that average will go down this year.

Earl is the grandfather every kid wished they had.

Sounds like something my dad would have said to my sons.

most excellent

Thanks to the trump pandemic, not only is Halloween cancelled, but many kids have lost their parents and grandparents, despite the “almost nothing” claim by the White House.

OH BOY…….. look at that SMILE..!!

Very good!

You can always count on a Grampa to make things better!

Grandpa and Nelson can enjoy their goodies, do not leave Grandma out.That is what parents should do have treats for the family. Does Nelson ever go home? For us metro town some areas discourages treaters not if homeowners decorate, there are divisions of smaller towns that are growing also disbanded Halloween. We opted out.

Several years ago, our town “moved” Halloween to the day before because it fell on a Sunday. SMH…

Sometimes Grandpa is just what a kid needs.

best grandpa ever!

Everyone makes fun of Earl, but this is when Earl shines.

Now, that is a Grandpa after my own heart.

This is sweet. I washed my hands and put treats into individual baggies. I placed the baggies on a tray halfway down the driveway, then set myself up about 15-20’ away up the driveway. Great fun to be able to see the kids’ costumes and still give out treats without having to get close to each other. Still, only about 36 trick-or-treaters. Our usual average is more like 80-85.

That’s a grandpa.