Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for November 26, 2021

Not settled. We just agreed to not talk about them, so as not to upset Ingrid and Iner during Thanksgiving dinner.

Acorns make a tasty bread, with a flavor not unlike artichoke hearts. https://playingintheworldgame.com/2012/09/25/acorn-bread-and-other-meditations/

An ear of Corn is better peaches and cream than field variety. Then Cornish Hen can be depicted as twice a sweetheart.

And while they were deeply enthralled in their spirited examination of the acorn problem, the squirrels snuck in and solved it for them.

Ten Headless Music Box Dancers, Nine Annoying Relatives, Eight Cheesy Bread Winning, Seven yams with sprinkles, Six McMuffin Alignments . . . Five Golden Tater Tots! . . . Four Squirrel Jerky, Three Mocking Frogs, Two Mince Pies, And a Spork Hanging From a Pear Tree.

Eleven squiggly green jello cups, Ten Headless Music Box Dancers, Nine Annoying Relatives, Eight Cheesy Bread Winning, Seven yams with sprinkles, Six McMuffin Alignments . . . Five Golden Tater Tots! . . . Four Squirrel Jerky, Three Mocking Frogs, Two Mince Pies, And a Spork Hanging From a Pear Tree.

My CRABBY neighbor’s Acorn tree drops acorns in my yard, which attracts all the chipmunks, squirrels, raccoons, and deer! They dig in the snow for a feeding fest. In the middle of winter the tree finally drops it’s huge leaves in my yard also.

Yet another backroom deal. Watch for smoke coming from under the door!

The squirrels went nuts over the deal.

On the twelfth day of Frogsmas, the Resplendent Cartoonist gave to me . . .

Twelve Squiggly Green Jello Cups, Eleven Headless Music Box Dancers, Ten Teresas leaping, Nine Annoying Relatives, Eight Cheesy Bread Winning, Seven yams with sprinkles, Six McMuffin Alignments . . . Five Golden Tater Tots! . . . Four Squirrel Jerky, Three Mocking Frogs, Two Mince Pies, And a Spork Hanging From a Pear Tree.

THREE X 2 = 6 days … ‘til what? Dec. 2nd … National Mutt Day …! So get out your collars and sweep the mutt clean …!

i had issues with acorns until i learned to not pitch camp under an oak tree.

Well, I for one am glad that dreadful contretemps has been resolved!! Kindly cross the acorns off your oaken bucket list!

Snipped his acorns and he was a she, she said “Hey babe, take a walk on the lame side”

Crab and Butterfly sittin’ in an oak tree

K-I-S-S-I-N-G

First came love, then came Lame

Then came little baby acorn whathisname

Then came family shame, and basically they were ostracized, and crab couldn’t get a job and turned to a life of petty crime to try and provide for his family, and they lived out of a beat up old station wagon with wood paneling, fleeing from town to town, trying to stay one step ahead of the law. It wasn’t a pretty life, but they loved each other, and took pleasure in the simple things, and found a little solace in the footloose and fancy free lifestyle of gypsies and knowing that they weren’t oppressed by the man.

Why a left handed crab. Don’t they bring bad luck?

On the thirteenth day of Frogsmas, the Resplendent Cartoonist gave to me . . .

Thirteen Pickles Peeking, Twelve Squiggly Green Jello Cups, Eleven Headless Music Box Dancers,

Ten Teresas leaping, Nine Annoying Relatives, Eight Cheesy Bread Winning,

Seven yams with sprinkles, Six McMuffin Alignments

. . . Five Golden Tater Tots! . . .

Four Squirrel Jerky, Three Mocking Frogs, Two Mince Pies,

And a Spork Hanging From a Pear Tree.

Today’s offering is exactly why I keep reading Frog Applause

Happy trailing my dear Dale, hurry up little pup. Take it away Roy, steal the show, the stakes are high.

You Oak Tree Society members may have acorn issues, or maybe some Buckeye fans do, but I for my part am happy with acorns as they are and me as I am. Now, ain’t that just peachy? So, don’t be all crabby and bent out shape, Little Butterfly.

Peach pits, on the other hand, can be a problem….