Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 29, 2024

For Capt Eddie, there was only one vision board … for lobstah season.

She’s forgetting Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day – always worth celebrating. My son’s birthday is Sept. 13; that was the launch of our holiday season, and it didn’t end until we ate enough candy, treats and big meals to last us from Easter to his birthday. Ya see, it’s all about planning…

And of course, Groundhog’s Day! We usually got ourself a big enough groundhog that after roasting by Easter we still were making GH sandwiches from what we stored in the freezer with dessert being chocolate chip cookies using chopped up leftover Valentine’s candy. You’re right about planning. Once the groundhog season passed there weren’t that many large ones to be had. Just little packages of GH breast and GH sausage.

Don’t forget, Spooky Season begins on July 5, since there’s no major celebration until Hallowe’en!

Did Grandma really say that she’ll be fine?

Remembering the captain’s ‘tales’, we can conclude that he is Danae’s mentor.

Must be nice to be a child who can afford Dom Perignon.

Danae always has a plan. The rest of the world can follow or get out of the way!

I didn’t know they were Catholics

Of course, we in the US seem to speeding things up this year — Halloween decorations and pumpkins in the stores in August and Christmas ads by Labor Day. They’ve even been running some “Christmas classics” on TV [e.g., Die Hard, Home Alone]. I wouldn’t be surprised to see “Black Friday” sales start on 1 November.

When you’re talking holiday food observances, cultural appropriation is appropriate.

Don’t forget The Count’s favorite double dip Holidays… The Marine Corps Birthday and Veterans Day November 10 and 11. God Bless America!

The long slog ‘til Easter is usually broken up by a week off after President’s Day.

Every school kids dream schedule. Only the important events worth their effort.

Reverse the turkey and the pumpkin, and you’re in Canada.

“But what about after that?” It’s a comic strip – there is no “after that”; somewhere during summer is “Reset Day,” when everybody’s ages go back to where they were in the previous year.

I did something similar with my ETS from the Army and my retirement day from my work. Have at it……

Love the Halloween lamp

Actually, Cinque de Mayo is a day of mourning for Mexico. It’s well known that the Titanic was carrying a large shipment of mayonnaise, which the Mexican people love. When it hit the iceberg and went down, the event was mourned as Cinque de Mayo. I got this from a reliable source, Cap’n Eddie.

Actually, Cinque de Mayo is a day of mourning for Mexico. It’s well known that the Titanic was carrying a large shipment of mayonnaise, which the Mexican people love. When it hit the iceberg and went down, the event was mourned as Cinque de Mayo. I got this from a reliable source, Cap’n Eddie.

Didn’t we all see things that way as school kids?

One of the great things about atheism is that we get to celebrate everybody’s holidays without ever having to worry about being accused of blasphemy, heresy, apostasy, or (worst of all) evangelism.

Since when is Thanksgiving after Halloween? It’s always the second Monday in October.

St. Swithun’s Day for the win!

Lobsterman is my favorite!!

I mentally charted the holidays. The big gap between what we called Easter Vacation and Christmas Vacation in the ’50s bothered me a lot.

Life is a Madison Avenue production! Show me the money!

Can’t wait to celebrate the “Trump is gone forever” day!

Not sure what grade Danae is in…but maybe she’s just into goodies.

As kids, we only cared about days off from school, so it was just Thanksgiving, Christmas/New Years, and Presidents’ Day. There was usually a spring break and some random “in-service” days to help break up the drudgery.

In early elementary, Danae’s choices like Halloween and Easter, along with Valentine’s and St. Patrick’s, were goof-off days when we had parties, treats, and little or no academic work. After 3rd grade or so, those were mostly ignored by teachers, other than perhaps reading Edgar Allan Poe stories around Halloween.

So if she’s visited by the Ghost of School Days Future, she’s not going to like what he tells her…

“The best laid plans o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley …”

Danae’s art is pretty good