Pickles by Brian Crane for July 25, 2009

Don’t forget, Grandma: Nelson is a boy, after all.

Are you going to draw a big splat too, Nelson?

You spoke too soon, Opal.

Just picture all the creatures in the forest screaming as the car approaches

Roadkill Commercial.

My son once asked his grandma to draw a picture of a shark eating a cow.

Nelson has been watching to many commercials……eeeeiiiiii, iiiiiieeeee, ooooooohhh!

If there’s a boy this age at home, this is true. Except a Transformer is about to step on the squirrel.

See: Bambi vs. Godzilla

Kid’s progressed beyond the old chicken and the road jokes. Precocious little booger.

My brother drew a picture like that once, and he wrote a story about the squirrel and the events leading up to the tragedy, because he had to write a story for his English class.

Oh, my. What Calvin-like creativity Nelson has there.

I don’t think Calvin would make it happen with pictures. He’d go out there and make it a reality -using Dad’s binoculars or tools!

I planted a “flat squirrel” under my Blueberry Bush several years ago - back to Nature & that bush produces some of the sweetest blueberries. I try to honor the little critters who meet an untimely death with a proper burial near trees & bushes. Or at least drag them out of the middle of the road (if it can be done safely).

my wife wrote a poem about a splattered frog for English class once….and this was in high school.