Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for November 10, 2024

Hope the pumpkins don’t fall off and squash the kids.

Wanda has no intention of making pumpkin pies from that much scratch.

A bit late for Halloween, Wanda.

Look on the bright side. Your car will smell like pumpkin for the next week.

pumpins

It’s a shame he couldn’t find any bigger pumpkins.

75% success

Yep, you’ve got to limber up to fight the crowds on Black Friday, Darryl. You can’t just expect to ram your way through with that honker of yours.

That one pumpkin looks precariously balanced don’t get to close to the back of that wagon, kids!

Next, Darryl gets a double hernia.

Cartoonist Calendar not working again? Halloween was um 9 + days ago…

Those pumpkins don’t look real stable in that wagon. If you don’t pay attention they’re going to fall right on your precious children.

When they go get the forklift, just say “no”.

Wren is a happy pumpkin!

Well, all three are!

That’s a whole lotta pumpkin pie.

Love the different colors (white) of pumpkins and the new types of squashes introduced the past few years, lots of variety available.

Can we all imagine the spastic fits this would give Linus?!

We had a rule for the kids when hunting pumpkins in the pumpkin patch. You could have any pumpkin you wanted, but you had to carry it out.

And a week or so later there were pumpkin brains all over the porch, lawn, and street.

Wife made arrangement to take our 3 dogs to a new vet. Last minute she backs out of helping. I came to realize for her, when the going gets tough she won’t help.

Wanda gets to be the one to make pumpkin pies out of them!

Why did the kids even came if they aren’t gonna help?

Wanda, ya got some pies ta make. ’It’ll be FUN’ Won’t mention the big pumpkins are not so good for pies.

She means the one where the huge orange pumpkin became POTUS

Those pumpkins are going to crush those kids :o

It’ll provide a place to contain the kids for awhile (she said.)

The deer are starting to come down from the near by ridge and ‘dispose’ of the Jack-O-Lanterns on people’s porches. They also fertilize the yards as a thank you.

ThanksGiving

a matter of speech I’m sure. :J

Perfect time to invoke the “I caught it, you clean it” rule.

He still has to get those through the front door

You buying three huge pumpkins was all on you Darryl…You could have told the kids- One for each of you- what ever you can carry to the car!

At least the kids are together… at the moment..

Ho Ho Ho……

“Come out to the coast, we’ll have a few laughs …”

Wait till he gets rhe bill. Worse than a Christmas tree!

One big upside for Darryl, think of all those home made pumpkin pies. :)

Yippie ki yay!

So many folks are skipping Autumnal decoration and attaching pumpkins only to Oct. 31.

Also pumpkin bread is easier to make than pumpkin pie.

:/ End of snit. :)

“ ‘It will build muscle.’ She says”

Yeah but since it’s 11/10 those pumpkins were probably on sale.

Those pumpkins will not fit in Alice and Petey’s dad Peter’s car.

This would have been more appropriate last month. Just sayin’.

“Going out of Business” bargains?

When my little boy back then 35 years ago, in preschool went to a pumpkin patch, he was excited he brought in a very tiny pumpkin. I had to be happy for him, pumpkin he could hold in his hands.

Hammie is probably thinking of crawling inside one of them! The more gross the better! Can almost hearing the squeals of his sisters as he now has something to torment, especially the older sister.

now all you need is a lotta pumpkin spice an’ you’re good to go!

Wow, those are some BIG pumpkins!

Is there a delay between when the strip goes to the newspaper and when it appears here?

What do you call a large hairy hominid who hangs around pumpkin patches?

Sa-squash.

The best solution for Darryl is to show the pumpkins to Wanda with great enthusiasm and excitement, telling her she was absolutely right and regaling her with all kinds of stories about what a wonderful time he had — with special emphasis on how much he’s looking forward to doing it again next year.

She’ll never let him near a pumpkin patch again.

Darryl, of course, could have said, “Sorry, kids, pick pumpkins that you can carry.” On the other hand, they now have the potential for several pounds of roasted pumpkin seeds. Yum!