The General is Mr. Jim’s mule Thurman in the greeting card story. Mr. Jim gave the General and Clown Dog the task of recovering the stolen apples.  This will send them on an adventure deep inside spooky “Dark Woods Holler”.

In the greeting card story the possums stole the farmer’s (Mr. Jim) apples which were in turn stolen from them by some thieving raccoons and crows. 

There were some mischievous crows in in the greeting card story, so I created this “Bird with No Name” for the fence. The signs turned out to be more work than the paintings, as the lettering had to be cut out on my band-saw.