FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for October 18, 2022

More hands make the work go faster, Roger. Get Jason to help Peter.

Just wait til the snow covers them over.

When we had chores like that, I tried to do them with my kids (though sometimes just assigned the work when necessary). Always felt like it was a bonding time.

You could at least give him a full sized rake.

And when you’re a dad, son, you can delegate this task to my grandson.

If the leaves are knee-deep, you need more that a rake. You need heavy machinery.

“Ah yes, my fatherly work is done. I sent the eldest son out to do the job. Now where did I leave that remote?”

That’s how the king operates.

Our family never rakes leaves. We let Mother Nature do all the work; 30 mph winds blowing continuously for days, send all the leaves into the next county.

Those leaves are over kneehigh.

The ‘lord of the manor’ doesn’t do this sort of thing.