Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for December 18, 2022

The HOA will be on you.

Yeah that would be kind of hard to do that. And not have the neighbors notice a tree missing out of their yard.

Okay … We’re using your fence in place of Yule logs.

Did you notice we sprayed it with skunk essence yet?

Once the deer are done, none the the evergreen trees in my neighborhood would ever be a candidate for decoration. They’re trimmed alright!

My parents had 10 acres of land behind their house. One year my mother was walking out in back and noticed that someone had cut the top off one of the evergreens. After Christmas when the neighbors set their tree out for the trash she saw that it was a perfect match to the beheaded tree, but of course had no way to prove it.

No one noticed the grammatical error? Coal in his stocking for that!

Didn’t know their kids’ names until I saw the stockings hanging from the mantle

There’s a suggestion to buy a balled tree each year and plant it in the spring