I Want a Dog, tonight

The hour-long Peanuts special I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown airs in the US on ABC tonight, and then again on Saturday – which will be a rerun about Rerun!

My posting about the Peanuts pillow book generated enough orders that I thought there might be a general interest in other decorative Peanuts pillows available, so here are some other ones that are available:

I usually think of pillows as “comforting”; it’s hard to say that that last one qualifies…

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