This is my Super Dad comic – I am reviving him so look for more and archives coming soon.

Candy Raid

The thought of a Great Pumpkin who rises out of the pumpkin patch he deems the most "sincere" and then flies through the air to deliver toys to all the good little children in the world (or at least those who truly believe) may seem silly to the un-enlightened mind, however I have it on good authority that this year the grand fruit (yes, pumpkins are fruit) himself will grace the Roloff Family Farm (I love their show!).

This is a huge slap in the face to Peoria, Illinois, 90 percent of the pumpkins grown in the United States are raised within a 90-mile radius of there and I am sure they were expecting him.

Did you know that U.S. pumpkin production in 2006 was valued at $101.3 million!  That is a lot of pumpkins (556 million pounds to be exact).  At 18 cents a pound I would have to sell like 50,000 pumpkins a year (with an average weight of 12 pounds) in order to make $100K.  If every family purchased an average of 4 pumpkins I would have to sell to 12,500 families!

Or I could just sell 136,000 pumpkins to Wal-Mart at 6 cents a pound…..either way I don’t see pumpkin farming in my immediate future.

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Is it just me or is Halloween just another excuse for parents to make a pig of themselves without guilt?  The kids go to bed and we say "they don’t need all this candy" and take the parental duty of "thinning" their score.

It is hard job, parenting…sampling all that candy looking for razor blades and poison.  You would think the little brats would be gratefully for our sacrifice! 

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HALLOWEEN

By Harry Behn

Tonight is the night
When dead leaves fly
Like witches on switches
Across the sky,
When elf and sprite
Flit through the night
On a moony sheen.

Tonight is the night
When leaves make a sound
Like a gnome in his home
Under the ground,
When spooks and trolls
Creep out of holes
Mossy and green.

Tonight is the night
When pumpkins stare
Through sheaves and leaves everywhere,
When ghouls and ghost
And goblin host
Dance round their queen.
It’s Halloween.

I am using new software from Microsoft called Windows Live Writer. The jury is still out on whether I will use it or now.  This will be its first post and it will automatically post to three sites – in all I want to ad twelve so we will have to do some testing.

A review of the software will come next.  I plan to test others, so I will include a comparison eventually.

I am using new software from Microsoft called Windows Live Writer. The jury is still out on whether I will use it or now.  This will be its first post and it will automatically post to three sites – in all I want to ad twelve so we will have to do some testing.

A review of the software will come next.  I plan to test others, so I will include a comparison eventually.

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