Turkey Time!

 As part of a long-standing Gregoropolis tradition, the kids worked on a special holiday craft project while they waited for Thanksgiving dinner...

Nathan: Are we feeling crafty?

Serena: I'm feeling sleepy.

Dan Ryan: Me too!

Nathan: That's because you guys were up last night

doing the "Turkey-Lurkey" dance. *

Dan Ryan: And none of the rest of you would join us!

Do you know hard it is to do a credible figure eight

with only two people?

Serena: You got that right, Miss De La Hoya of Petty Cash!

Nathan: Alright, enough chatter.  Here's our project.

Serena: Six eyes?!? Is it an alien turkey?

Dan Ryan: It's an extra-turkrestrial!

Serena and Dan Ryan: Hahahahahahahahaha!

Nathan: >Ahem< It's actually three turkeys.

That's one reason we have to get moving.

Uli: Dinner vill be ready in 23 and half minutes! Go vash hands!

Nathan: And that's another reason...

Serena: Hmmm, we might be able to get one finished.

22 Minutes Later...

Serena: Not bad for a rush job.

Dan Ryan: His eyes are a bit off center.

Nathan: Kind of like some of our Gotz siblings.

Serena: Sshh!  They're very sensitive about that!

Holly Belle: Attention, you guys!  Time to unpack the Christmas decorations!

Everyone grab a box.

Meghan: Yeah, show some hustle!

Nathan: Gee, Thanksgiving sure doesn't get a lot of time in the spotlight.

Dan Ryan: Poor turkey-lurkey...

*From the Broadway musical "Promises, Promises"

Video: Cast Of Promises, Promises "Turkey Lurkey Time" on The Ed Sullivan Show

Pete Versus The Elf 2024

 

Noah Conrad:... ♫...hmm...make a little birdhouse in your soul...♬

>THUNK<

Noah: What was that?

Pete Dakota: >psst<...down here!

Noah: Oh for--...what are you doing under there?!?

Pete: I'm hiding from The Elf!

Noah: >Mutter, mutter< I don't get paid enough for this.

Pete: Wait, wait!  Don't tell anybody I'm here!

Benjamin Roy: >Zzzzzzzzzzzz<

Noah: WAKE UP!!

BR: >Zzzsnrkkk< Huh? 

BR: What's going on?

Noah: Come get Pete out from under my work bench.

BR: Under the...oh, I know.  Y'see, Pete thinks there's this Elf--

Noah: Don't care.  Not my clown, not my circus.

Just get him outta there.  Now.

BR: Hi.

Pete: Hi.

BR: The Elf?

Pete: The Elf.

BR: C'mon.  Let's go get a pizza and talk about it.

Pete: >Sigh<  Okay.

Noah: That's better.  Back to work.

This birdhouse won't paint itself.

>tee-hee<

Noah: What was that?  

>Mutter, mutter<  Not again.  I don't see anything...

Noah: A madhouse.  I live in a madhouse.

See Pete Dakota's previous tussles with The Elf!

Pete Vs The Elf 2018

Pete Vs The Elf 2019

Pete Vs The Elf 2022

Reunited

Pete Dakota: Hey Chance! There's someone outside who wants to see you.

Chance Victor: Oh?  Who?

Pete: Well, grab your sweater and come and see!

Denali: Woof!

Chance: >Gasp<  Is it?!

BR: Ha-ha!  I take it you know this canine?

Chance: Ribsy!  

Ribsy: Arf!

Chance: My sweet puppy boy!

Chance: When I moved here, we didn't have room for

my little doggo so Auntie Erin has been puppy sitting!

Ribsy: >Lick, lick<  Arf!

Chance: I'm so happy to see you.

Pete: Now Annabelle and Denali have a brother to play with!

BR: And we can take them all on walkies together.

Chance: Hear that, boy?  We've got a new home and family now!

Ribsy: >Arf< >Woof<

Advent 2024 Teaser

 

Chance Victor: Hey, your name is Kirwan, isn't it?

Kirwan: We've only shared a bathroom for the last month and a half,

but, yes, I'm Kirwan.  

Chance: Sorry, awful at names.  

Anyway, can I ask you something?

Kirwan: Of course!

Chance: So one of the girls came up to me the other day

and she was...rather...uh, forceful about a calendar thing...

Kirwan: Who was it?

Chance: Um, I think her name was Hannah Banana or something?

Kirwan: Hann...do you mean Holly Belle?

Chance: Yes, that was it!  Holly Belle!

Kirwan: >snort< <I'm so calling her Hannah Banana from now on> >Hee!<

Kirwan: Sorry, you were saying?

Chance: Holly Belle was really quite insistent that I 

participate in some sort of calendar event?

Kirwan: Oh, yeah.  It's pretty fun.

Daddies Steve and John get us a big Lego Advent calendar

every year and we take turns opening the doors and putting

together the little prizes for each day.

Chance: Is that all? 

She made it sound like a matter of life and death.

Kirwan: That's just her.  She fancies herself in charge of it all.

Nothing to stress over.

Chance: >Whew<

Kirwan: Then, on Christmas Day, Uli makes a giant

goose-shaped Spam roast and we stuff ourselves silly.

Chance: Um, what?

Uli: WAS?!?!?!

Uli: NEIN!! No Spam in meiner Küche!!

Kirwan: Okay! Okay!  Just a little teasing the new guy.

Uli: Hmpf.

Kirwan: C'mon, we'll talk to BR and see if he can

get Holly Belle to back off a little.

Chance: Great.  What does 'BR' stand for, anyway?

Kirwan: His full name is Big Roscoe. 

He wants to open a used car dealership when he grows up.

Chance: Um, what?

STAY TUNED FOR ADVENT CALENDAR 2024 in 3 WEEKS!

Gotz Envy

 

Barbara: >Tee-Hee<  Oh, Paul, you're so witty!

Beatrix: You're so charming, Paul!

Paul: Oh please, ladies!  You're going to make me conceited.

Christophe: Good grief!  Listen to how they fawn over him.

Kevin: They think he's handsome.

Christophe: A handsome dumbbell, that's what he is.

Intellectually I can run circles around him.  I've read Kierkegaard!

Kevin: Wait, Kirk wasn't a guard.  He was the captain.

Eric: Yeah, the guards were always the guys in the red shirts--

the ones who never made it back up to the Enterprise.

Kevin: True that.  They always got bumped off pretty fast.

That's why I never wear a red shirt.  Plus, it would clash with my hair.

Eric:  There's always that to think of.  

Kevin:

Eric: 

Kevin: 

Eric: What were we talking about?

Christophe: You two are giving me a headache.

Seriously, answer me this; what does Paul have that I don't?

Eric: Hmmm...a navel, maybe?

Christophe: >Hmmppff<  Whatever...