The Buckets by Greg Cravens for May 22, 2012

Lady, it is your offspring – deal with it. Use a stick if you have to.

I dread it.

the voice of

Yeah, Dooooooooooom! Seriously, I liked this cartoon the minute it occurred to me. If you made a horror film about the beginning of Summer, you could call it “The End of Quiet Days.” Chilling.

Two words for this situation … Duct tape…

an ill wind that blows nobody good

I would suggest a hypodermic tranquilizer, but half the kids sleep the summer away so that might be redundant. We spent the entire summer outside – sunrise to past sunset. There wasn’t enough time for swimming, baseball, shopping, hiking, exploring, go-carts, frisbee, camping, tree house, star-gazing, cloud-watching, …

Greg … the angle you drew Eddie at, adds to the ‘evil child’ persona! Also, the side stepping he does… LOL

I’m guessing Sarah doesn’t like this one bit!

You’ll be counting down the days with dread, Eh Sarah?

LOL xxx

Once again, Greg, you have let your brilliance show.

love that raised eyebrow on Eddie…it does sort of make him look evil…

Shouldn’t that be August, December and April, to make the off months equally distributed? My son’s school is just finishing its final year as a year-round school. I am REALLY going to miss it, since I believe that he (and his classmates) do much better with the 9 weeks on/3 weeks off schedule they’ve had. Much less burn out before they get a break, and three weeks is long enough that they are ready to go back when it is done. I would wish that they would use that scheduling in all schools in our district, elementary through high school. I’d bet that there would be fewer drop-outs and that the kids could be much better prepared for college too.

creepy