As most of you know, I add a title to Mark’s and Cherry’s adventures. This can make it a little easier when searching through prior strips, as the titles show up under the Categories label.  However, I’ve not yet been able to settle on names for either Mark’s or Cherry’s latest adventures. With regard to Cherry, I’m not even sure what the actual point of the story is just yet. My current assumption is that it will still have something to do with an outdoor festival. Moving on to the review:

We returned to Cherry this past week to see her walking through the Sunny Soleil Society’s gardens with Violet, looking for anything that will give Violet a purpose to enjoy the outdoors. She came up with an outdoor winter festival. Violet was excited by the prospect, especially as she saw an opportunity to play her harp (not sure what kind). Walking past the old bee-headed pioneer statue (cf “Sunny and the Bees”), they came upon a little-used hexagonal meeting/performance hall. Thinking it could be useful, they opened the double-doors, only to be knocked tail-over-teakettle by a swarm of bats that had taken refuge inside. The week ended with the two ladies sitting on the ground and commiserating over the shock.

So where does the story go from here? We’ll likely have to wait a few weeks to find out if this is yet another short tale. In the meantime, squander a few minutes of your time on today’s nature exposé.

People older than they want to admit may recall a red fox named Ferdie in an early episode of the animated cartoon series “Caspar the Friendly Ghost.” He and Caspar were friends, until Ferdie met his end at the hands of a hunter. This resulted in Ferdie turning from red to white as he became a ghost fox, a rare species not usually mentioned in discussions on foxes. But he and Casper remained friends, at least as long as the series lasted.

But it was not destined to last. When the series ended, Ferdie the ghost fox fell on hard times as roles for ghost foxes became as hard to find as, well, ghosts. Ferdie was apparently an “extra” in some of the Ghostbuster movies but was not able to get royalties.  A proposed talk show failed to materialize. He turned to drinking but discovered he couldn’t hold his liquor. Ferdie’s depression only increased when he realized that even suicide was no longer possible. Ferdie tried to sue Casper and his animation studio for wrongful death and illegally withholding earnings, but he didn’t stand a ghost of a chance of winning. Ferdie has not been seen in years.