Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for December 16, 2017

Oh, yeah, the rats are having a blast on “Friday Night Teasing.” Better than TV!

Roscoe, being the grammarian that he is, is thinking “That is something up with which I will not put!”

Sammy Squirrel is coming home from a big birthday party in Bertie Squirrel’s tree…

400 of Bertie’s closest friends and relations from the neighborhood…

Nuts, and cheese….. and yes, balloons and party hats, blowouts and confetti.

Everybody dancing in what’s left of the garden, picking apples from the tree, showing off pictures of all their recent litters….

Why, Sammy’s daughter, Sophia, is only two years old… her daughters, Stephanie, Soleil and Saucy have had six babies each.

All right there, in Roscoe’s back yard.

Roscoe just didn’t feel like sending Bertie a card.

PS… hang in there, Mudd!

We’re working on it!

FREE MUDD !!!

I know him. He’s a jerk, even for a screwy squirrel.

Always trying to hide his nutz in my hedges and shrubberies.

Good morning, MUDD.

The squirrel got into the beer nuts.

Sammy, Hammy, Nub, Scrat, and now… Razz!

The three noisy chattering squirrels in my back yard I named “Target”, “T-two”, and “You-too”.

We call that “HD cat TV”, and its why the inside of the window is covered in nose prints…

Hi MUDD! We’re working on getting you sprung!

Our grandoggie likes to chase squirrels, but if a squirrel turns around and looks like he is gonna chase back, grandoggie runs and hides behind us! Discretion the better part of Valor and all…………..

Is that stupid squirrel still tormenting Roscoe?

Let it go, boy.

Just let it go.

HI Mudd!

Does that squirrel have his finger to his nose? That might push Scooter over the edge……