Picking berries one by- YEEEEEOWCH!

Me and Jim were bored yesterday, so we went out to pick blackberries. We went to pick at some bushes out in this otherwise-empty area, where NO ONE ELSE was. This means we didn't have to fight anyone for a bush to pick in, and it seemed like blackberry-picking heaven.





Well, not entirely...

You see, blackberries have some serious thorns, and they're EVERYWHERE! Often times, I would see some really good ones: big, black, and juicy, but they were either too high up, or surrounded by tons of thorns! Grrrrrrr...

After about an hour, we decided we were done. Jim filled his tupperware about halfway with berries, all of which were perfectly large and ripe. How did I do? Well, let's see, I filled about 1/4 of my tupperware, which was the exact same size, and only a few were perfect. The rest of them were partly purple, or even some red.

Overall, Jim got to have tons of wonderfully sweet blackberries, and I got to eat those few "perfect" ones, which tasted really sour anyways. Oh well, maybe next time...

School Shopping... BOOOOOOOOORING!!!

This weekend, Mom, Tina, and I went school shopping. I HATE school shopping, and would much rather be home playing video games. But, no such luck.
Also, it would be nice if Mom took us on seperate trips, because, thanks to Tina's shopping obsession, we stayed in Will and Peters Department Store for the ENTIRE DAY. If we had only taken me, we would've been out of that store in 5 minutes flat.

Of course, once all our shopping is done, it's not over yet. We then move on to Phase II: Modeling. No, I'm not joking, my mom actually makes me model in all my shirts and clothes. We bought 5 of each, so this took a LONG time. Really, like almost an hour.

I didn't have time to post last night, so I got up early this morning to do so. I'm sure everyone else has gone school shopping recently, so do tell how your trip went. Anyone?

Jim's First Post

Yeah, I know school hasn't started yet, but Jim had a post he wanted to put up, but he couldn't figure out how to put it on himself. So, I'm posting it for him. Here's what he had to say...

Uh, thanks for the news flash, Jim! Can't wait for the next one!

Good Ol' Summertime

Just before summer started, Jim and I went to the end-of-school dance at school. I wore dress clothes for the first time, which was odd. Unfortunately, dress clothes were considered overkill at this dance, as everyone else, including Jim, wore regular attire, which seemed to get the ladies much better than my stylish dressing.

Oh, and whatever you do, don't wear shoes with laces!

The next day, we went to the local pool, and Jim wore an intertube! I laughed at him, but I regretted that later on. See what happened?

See, I knew Big Chug was, of course, BIG, but I didn't know he was heavy enough to cause a tidal wave! Good grief!

We did a bunch of other stuff too, such as making ice cream in a bag, competing with Tina's lemonade stand, going to the beach, getting bored, and ending up in the negative zone!

I'm totally exhausted after this summer. On top of that, it sure seems like the bad luck landed on me EVERY TIME. Eating salty ice cream in a bag, getting zero money from the lemonade stand business, almost drowning while buried in the sand, pulling weeds while Jim got ice cream...

And I finished it all off with a nice little poem reviewing some of these events:

I'm done catching up now, so we come to the present, where I'm starting school in a couple of days. Will it be better than this crazy summer? We'll see...

Meet the Redharts

After a long day at school, I head home. I have a typical family of 4, with my mom, dad... and my evil teenage sister. Here's a first look at my home:

Okay, not too revealing, except for showing my dad's personality but this next look shows much more...

See, Jim and I decided to do a cooking show, and we were doing our pilot episode when my evil sister Tina came by and tried to bust us for it. She called for Mom, but one thing you should know about my mom is that she's not the brightest bulb in the chandelier. She's also a terrible cook, and our first episode was a disaster. Well, not as bad as episode 2...

...and people say you can't mess up while making Macaroni and Cheese. Sorry, guys, you're wrong!

Oh, and if you couldn't see the true evil of my sister, see what happened on the 4th of July:

Darn it! I wanted to see what would happen when we set that baby off!

Next post, I'll talk about the rest of my summer vacation...

Locker Partners...

What kind of job is this, making you still go to school? Well, the tough part is that 9th grade for me was pretty rough. It all started at the bus stop.

I'm not gonna give away whether Jim started a food fight or not, but I will tell you something important: There's three kinds of locker partners.

There's normal ones that just agree that you're locker partners and deal with it.

Then, there's super-annoying ones that talk and talk and talk until your ears fall off. One of those guys is Greg Gregory, who I was lucky enough to get this year. Oh, wait, I mean unlucky.

That's him in the last panel. Oh, and we all know the whole "my locker is stuck" situation, don't we?

Finally, we have big muscular tough guys who'll beat the living daylights out of anyone who gets near their partner. Guess who ended up with a locker partner like this?

Yeah, scary-looking jerk, huh? I got curious and asked Jim what this guy's name was:

"Big Chug". Probably a nickname, but an amusing one. Let's hope he's not reading this post right now...


That wraps up this post!


Next post: My life at home...

From Humble Beginnings

Ahh, the good old days. I still remember when Jim and I signed up to have our own strip. I was affiliated with Garfield, Dilbert, Dennis, and many more folks who had taken the job, and seemed to be having fun with it. After getting the job, us boys introduced ourselves...



Man, how embarrassing! See, as you already know, Jim doesn't talk much, if at all, so I should have seen this coming.

Next post: Starting school...

I HAVE BLOG!!!

Finally, after living the comic strip life for a while, I get my own blog! Now I can tell the world everything behind the comic strip, and things in my life you've NEVER seen.

It all starts with the next post. See ya then!