Rusty skipped Scouts!? Omigosh! A catastrophe. Helicopter Parent Cherry is flipping out. Maybe she should have kept to her original routine of doing Violet Cheshire’s scutwork and generally ignoring Rusty. If Cherry can’t handle this, she should let Olive take over. Olive has a good handle on Rusty, and she certainly set Cherry and Peach straight on Holly Folly (https://thytrailbedone.com/category/is-for-upcycling/).

(Note to Jules: This is not how families react to trivial events. I have some experience in this area, having helped raise four boys. Okay, “helped” may be an exaggeration.)

Art Dept. There is some odd stuff in today’s panels. For example, who is in that raccoon costume in panel 2? Or did Rocky Raccoon eat too many PB&J sandwiches? There is little more to say about that, other than that it’s either just a ridiculous image or Cherry is having an hallucination. And speaking of images, what’s with that cabin? Did Honest Ernest install those windows? Was Rivera looking at Al Capp’s Li’l Abner comic strips as a guide?

Now, aside from Mark’s incredibly small and creepy hands in panel 3, I rather like Rivera’s solution to showing shrubs being passed at high speed. It’s a clever idea, though it could stand a bit of refinement.