Category: Charles M. Schulz

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Peanuts Advent-ure

The 60th anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas is next Tuesday, the 9th. To celebrate, my twinster Jean sent me this fun and nifty Peanuts tabletop mobile, counting down “the 12 days leading up to Christmas.”

Peculiar thing about this mobile. It isn’t a 24-day Advent calendar, neither is it a way of marking the Twelve Days of Christmas that start on Christmas Day.

The instructions say, “Ask an adult for help.” As soon as I find someone with the necessary maturity and patience to assemble the stand, I’ll put a photo of it here.

I put it together all by myself, with Obi Wan’s words of encouragement. 😉

Foot Don’t Fail Me Now

Snoopy accurately captured my present situation in yesterday’s Peanuts reprint (presented here with permission, for a nominal fee).

PEANUTS © 1977 Peanuts Worldwide LLC. Dist. By ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.

I’m in physical therapy for the collapsed arch in my right foot. I’ve been good about doing the exercises at home, and the results are promising.

Yesterday, the foot felt good enough to go running, but I don’t dare risk undoing the progress I’m making. As I told the podiatrist and the therapist, my goal is to avoid surgery. If that means no longer being able to go running, then so be it.