Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for October 25, 2020

Being naughty, Wiz?

Two little boys!

In Summer… steal watermelons. Spring… skip school to go fishing. Winter… snowball fights that blacken eyes. And apparently… these two little boys scatter leaves for others to rake back up! ;)

I thought Henry liked to burn em leaves.

This is the second cartoon, this morning, that mentions “yard” but I only see lots of grass. Is this another difference in American English? The English definition of a yard is “an enclosed area outdoors, often paved or concreted and surrounded by or adjacent to a building;court”. At the back of my house I have a beautiful garden, with an orchard, a permaculture vegetable patch, and lots and lots of grass.

I used to rake up the turkey oak leaves at Byrneville Elementary and jump in. Good fun.

Boys will be boys, But it does make Blanches job dragon….

Where I live the leaves tend to be a wet soggy mess when it is time to rake them up. I for one wouldn’t want to jump in the middle of such a pile. A pile of DRY leaves on the other hand… maybe.

Ain’t that the truth!

I’m in the U.S. and I believe a yard is 3 feet or 91.44 centimeters.

Furrin talk

Next up: Wiz and the Dragon burn the leaves…is that still allowed anywhere?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDH7ZZxhkrM

Wiz is a 800 year old (age?) KID! I LOVE IT!!!

The one who raked the leaves should have taken a page from Over The Hedge and put an anvil under that leaf pile.

A garden is a planted area of vegetables or flowers for the use of one family, with some to give away. If such produce is raised to sell, it is a farm. A yard is the area inside your property lines, even if it isn’t enclosed or covered with grass.

My parents had two acres to clean each year. That meant me having to help my dad rake those two acres several times during fall. Soon as I left for collage he got a riding mower to make bag those leaves easier.

I remember when we used to burn leaves in my home town. The fall smelled fantastic. Then, after decades of leaf burning, the city council decided it was dangerous. So all that “dangerous” leaf burning stuff came to a halt. Amazing how dangerous it was after the mayor decided smoke made his sinuous act up.