Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for July 01, 2024

Her cousin, Big Bubba, will show up with a chain saw and a pickemup and a lazy dog who will lay off to the side, watching the work.

Come on, you know it will turn out to be Joel and Rufus.

First panel, Walt with a magnifying glass to read the paper, sometimes that’s me!

Gertie is nice to have around, eh Walt?!

She’s VERY well drawn, I admit.

More about the tree?

Lets hope to god its not joel or rufus. But then Gertie is smarter than that

If the tree had hit the house, the insurance would pay for it. Learned that from personal experience last year!

She may not have been called an angel before, but fifteen years ago Earl Lee Bird called her “Angel Eyes”.

I thought you had to be dead before you became an angel.

Like Della Reese on Touched By An Angel :)

Insurance companies won’t help Walt because they say the fallen trees were “an act of God”.

And Walt says—“I’m OLDER t han God, pay up!”"

Lots of nurses and caretakers qualify as “angels”

For my first two trees all it took was telling people at church they could come get firewood. For the third I had to ask a neighbor who has a fireplace. He was able to get most of it but the rest will have to be done by the guy who cut up the trunks from last time. I’m still waiting on him.

Cue Bertha Tillman……

Gertie is a real angel.