The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for December 23, 2022

Actually your family will be out till January 2, 2023.

That’s so much fun. /s

Lying down on the cold ground using a bow saw to cut the tree near the roots. And then the tree falls on you. (true story)

I just can’t picture him walking into a department store with a chain saw.

“That’s a honey of a tree, Clark.”

Yes. It’s all part of our protest against the commercialism of Christmas.

Ford was using a Milwaukee rechargeable chainsaw to cut down a Christmas tree to sell electric F50s.

I’ve probably watched “A Charlie Brown Christmas” fifty times and just now caught this nugget from Linus talking to Charlie Brown…“Gee do they still make wooden Christmas trees?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jiq_VvgEC1Y&t=1s

Brutus is thinking that he saved a lot of fuss and bother by getting one from the department store and he can reuse it again and again. Unless of course he got a real tree…☺︎

Stihl chainsaw here. An axe butchers a tree. Only axe I know of is the old battle axe.

“We let the department store people cut the tree down for us.”

We discovered that my youngest daughter was allergic to the real tree that we bought.

were they mad when it landed? :D

Not even this little girl can be that dumb, unless she’s being sarcastic.

Even she has her child’s innocence moments. Good to know….

LOVE Brutus’s expression in the third. “I have a finite number of breaths in life. Not going to waste one here.”

I live out in the boonies. Our “stores” are basically fields. lol

That’s right Haddie…

Brutus looks dumb founded?

Shhh! Not so loud. Macy’s might hear you.

Good ole Hurricane Hattie, she will make a perfect wife for Wilberforce someday.

If I had been Brutus, and my artificial tree was clearly in sight and one of my child’s friends asked that question, my answer would have been “yes.”

A spy and snitch. Give her an alum cake. Naah, forget the alum. Substitute extra chewy caramel.

Hattie will make a great Attorney and future politician. For sure. Her fact checking is perfect.