Peanuts by Charles Schulz for March 14, 2022

oh, but he does mind; put the dirt back

maybe you can put the plant in the lineup Vharlke Brown. it’s WAR would be probably be higher than Lucy’s!

Good funny arc starting!

I used to know a guy who would have blown his stack at Lucy. Not for taking the soil for her plant, but for calling it dirt. He worked as a soil scientist for the US Forest Service. If you called it “dirt,” you would get an angry lecture about how you could have dirt under your fingernails, or in your clothing, or on your shoes, or on your face, but if you want to grow something in it, it was soil.

what is a pitching mound without dirt?

At least she took it out of the back side of the mound.

What are you doing Lucy? Are you interested in playing baseball or interested in gardening?

Drats! They censured my comment.

NOOOO THE DIRT-

“They” can’t even keep the batter in the batter’s box.

It’s OK. It wasn’t being put to good use anyway.

I wonder if Lucy’s new plant happens to be a pitcher plant?

It looks like someone took a bite out of the pitcher’s mound.

It seems Lucy the gardener is better than Lucy the baseball player!

So, maybe now, when Charlie goes to level off the mound to get rid of the cut, he’ll end up with a mound more his size. Afterall, it’s supposed to be a pitcher’s mound, not a pitcher’s mountain.

Grass doesn’t even grow on a pitchers mound, might not be the best choice for a flowering plant.

Why’d you bring a plant to the field?

The opposing team will have to pitch from that same spot at least Charlie can compensate for it..

I am much more sneakier than Lucy. I would have taken the dirt, but spread it around afterwards so you couldn’t tell.

I was wondering how she scooped the dirt in that shape, then realized she probably just used the pot itself. Still, I got a bit of a chuckle out of imagining Lucy taking a giant ice cream scoop to the pitcher’s mound.

Exactly how is it retaining it’s shape?

But Lucy, that’s a plastic plant!

Is Snoopy the groundskeeper?

Lucy’s calculus was “Better to ask forgiveness than to ask permission”, I guess…

Of all of the dirt on this planet Van Pelt had to pick a pitchers mound.

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With Lucy around expect the unexpected.

Plant it in Lucy’s mouth.

She could of at least a smoothed out the area, which probably would have meant lowering the mound a little….but then again it’s Lucy….why should I be shocked

Dang, Lucy! There’s soil in certain parts of the ground.