Peanuts by Charles Schulz for December 21, 2023

Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul,

With a corncob pipe and a button nose

And two eyes made out of coal.

Needs the magic top hat to bring him to life.

Dr. Frankenpatty. “It’s alive! ALIVE!!!”

Very creative ways to delay the inevitable, Patty…

Channeling Anna and Elsa years before “Frozen”

Displacement activity, the one thing PP is good at.

Peppermint Patty definitely is weird, as she’s wearing flip flops in cold, snowy weather. One would think even she would wear boots outside in winter.

In the many decades I have read “Peanuts”, I never realized how often Peppermint Patty is the focal point of so many story lines. When I think “Peanuts” I think mostly of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, and Linus. Not a bad thing, just something I just now noticed. Peppermint Patty and Marcie do add a nice quirkiness to the strip.

That’s a well thought out excuse, very complexly thought out and she created her own logic for it make sense to her.

I never saw enough snow to build a full-size snowman.

Better be careful Patty, that you don’t unwittingly summon the Snow Demons and create a Snow Goon…

As long as no one is forcing you to create him…

“Life, do you hear me? Give my creation LIFE!”

I prefer writing stories and sketching to play God.

She’s channeling into “Frankenstein”. Maybe she should read that for her assignment. She’s also channeling into my son, who has no problems wearing sandals in the snow.

Justified laziness, PP?

Get Calvin to help with the snowman!

PP, it won’t hurt you to read the book.

I love her imagination!

I just thought of a great book for P.P. to read. Isn’t “Snowman Is an Island”, from a book of Sermons by John Donne, called “Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions”. If you devote your book report about your theory on the living Snowman you can say your assigned book report has been Donne — and hand it in.

thank you Marcie!

She Peppermint Patty, Marcie. Of course, she’s weird.

Leave it to Peppermint Patty to put things off till the last second.

You don’t need to be literate and be a math to be happy, but it helps.

Excuses, excuses Peppermint Patty.

White lives matter

You go, P.P. I felt the same way about a guitar I once built.

barely qualifies as weird in today’s world

You can’t fool me, Patty – you have been reading – “Frankenstein.” (“Look… no blood, no decay – just a few hunks of coal.”)

This has becomea ‘Tale ofTeo Kiddies’.

Creative excuse none-the-less…..

Next, she’ll build his family since he has a right to have one

LOL :)

Is the apparently bandaged left arm part of the story?

Sure, some days are too nice to stay inside and read—but have you considered reading outside? Find a nice park or courtyard or something, grab a bench and read a good book while the word passes by—weather permitting, it’s one of my favorite ways to while away the hours.