For guests looking to really gain weight, and who can foot the bill for an entire summer of being spoiled, the Foxwood Inn can have every overindulgent expectation fulfilled - guests such as these may stop by once in a blue moon, but are always a delight for Caleb and Sandra to pamper and (over)feed - bears and woodchucks, raccoons and rabbits looking to splurge on the most relaxing way to fatten back up after the long, draining winter's sleep and chilly torpor can count on the best time of the year for an all-out Midwestern picnic.

With rolling hills and sweeping farm fields, nothing makes the Midwestern bed and breakfast complete like a decadent afternoon-long picnic lunch in the perfect weather; just load up the bed of a pickup truck with baskets full of treats, and bring all the appetite you have. if the picnic is especially bountiful, the picnic blanket and an assortment of pillows can double for a very comfortable bed liner for the gorged guest to ride back in. Just look at Faisan, here, looking to feast his way into putting any Thanksgiving turkey or Christmas goose to shame, more than fit to be rolled up onto the pickup bed, with nothing to do but digest and enjoy the warm sunshine on his feathers!


After he's worked on this for doubtless many, many months,  ramzi presented me with his usual excellence and awesomeness in all things stuffed round and huge in this commission of Sandra, Caleb and Faisan all enjoying an early summer picnic together, admiring just how handsomely the pheasant's fattened up! Thanks so very much to him for this, I can't tell you how delighted this makes me to see them all drawn in his style!

And hey, Fat Tuesday, no better day to post something like this, right?