Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for September 23, 2023

Give them a break, they’ll soon be feeling hollow inside.

Somebody just drew an X over my decorative gourd.

I’m still struggling with the fact that the supermarkets here in Germany started selling the Christmas sweets 3 weeks ago. I thought I had completely missed Halloween already and had forgotten to make a pumpkin pie.

Or, if you don’t have your dead gourd display up by now, you’re decorative to me.

X marks the spot!!

Fall has officially started, the Rapture is supposed to have happened; get with the program!

It’s your funeral

Competitive (Weaponized?) domestic?

You’re too late. I’ve already got my New Year’s decorations up.

Goblets and chez plated resting away,

Hope she’s not out of her gourd then.

Won’t take my comment today.

yikes – What’s a little tardy face carving between friends?

try a rutabaga

What … no low hanging gourd jokes?

The neighborhood association will allow only 3 moderately sized gourds and they must all be a natural color.

Kierkegaard might have something to say about that.

(if he wasn’t, you know, dead)

rest in peace

The off-panel speaker has spoken …!

( balloon-speak )

Well, it IS decorative gourd spice season.

poor girl :+(

this is where it goes from casual to dangerous

But, but…! The paint is still drying on my Decorative Gourds, which once done will mostly be humorous Heads of various characters!

Issue no threats, ‘cause, speaking of “dead,” I’m gonna be keeping my trusty old scatter-gun close at hand, just in case….

I’m feeling lame because I was nearly gourd by the bull and could have ended up as a decoration.

Guarding guardian guards in the garden of gourds. Funeral for friends of the great pumpkin al’linus to, Chuck in the grave for company.

How ’bout some Decorative GORE with that!!

…are you out of your gourd?…

… he asked commissioner Gorden…

…Pumpkin Spice wasn’t one of the Spice Girls, he replied…

…this puzzled the Scarecrow…

…But your colorful gourd and plastic leaf display is nice…

…Don’t make fun of my autumn display…

..Phft!…

…the gas smothered the commissioner’s face…

…ha ha ha ha ha…

…now, you are really commissioner Gourd-on…

…ha ha ha ha ha…

…hmmm…

…said the commissioner…

…that’s more cinnamon than pumpkin, sorry…

…I’ll get you, yet, Gourd-on…

I hate early Halloween decorations.