Jun 29th 2012 08:03 am Frisbeen
I think I recall actually researching the above cartoon before drawing it. Of course, I’m talking about a pro Frisbee, official size and weight. I can’t speak for those cheap freebie Frisbees that have proliferated since the Golden Age.
Posted by jimmyjohnson / Vintage A&J
81 Responses to “Frisbeen”
Jeff in Ann Arbor on 29 Jun 2012 at 8:11 am #
Did Arlo buy the boat?! Really?
Jeff in Ann Arbor on 29 Jun 2012 at 8:12 am #
Well, of course not really really. It’s a comic strip, after all.
Dave in MA on 29 Jun 2012 at 8:17 am #
Just posted this, then realized it was on yesterday’s thread….
Lost in A**2, WinNT ??? Let’s see, since Win NT came out we’ve had Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows Millenium, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7…… I doubt they want to go back to NT…..
Beg, John, beg! Hmmmm, I think Mindy is revealing a little too much (about their relationship!)….
As for whether or not Arlo “bought” the boat, no, Gus gave it to him. But it does appear he signed the papers…..
billinbossier on 29 Jun 2012 at 8:23 am #
A Friday update….WOW!
redagainPatti on 29 Jun 2012 at 8:33 am #
Whistling Rufus, GO HOKIES Hokies! for sure ..
My fingers are crossed that my daughter will finish and walk next Spring
Dave in MA – about -” …Who makes up this arbitrary garbage” – about who are considered a boomer or whatever the nick they want to call different age groups? — It is created by writers who like to clump, group, or lump folks into different classes and then make statements (sometimes pure lies) about the group as a whole. Then you get whatever is named or said about the group.. repeated loud enough.. often enough.. folks start thinking it is true or a fact to in turn repeat to others who never read/check the background behind things.
sigh!! It is so much worst now with almost any *$%** able to throw up a web page to voice their … sometimes funny but a lot of the times.. hurtful junk. And with the lost of once dependable newspapers going under.. there is a lot more junk out there..
Neal in Bahstawn on 29 Jun 2012 at 8:45 am #
With that handshake, I feel as though we’ve embarked on “A&J – Part II”.
Does anyone have a good name for the boat? Here’s mine: “Ludwig’s Nightmare”
Jim Fulton on 29 Jun 2012 at 8:59 am #
Congratulations to Arlo (and to Gus). Arlo can now fulfill his dream. He will also learn that BOAT is an acronym for Break Out Another Thousand. Often, the lower the purchase price, the more expensive the boat.
Mindy on 29 Jun 2012 at 9:05 am #
Dave in MA, for the record, John has never had to beg me for anything.
Except, perhaps, to get me to stop singing the song with the lyrics, “I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now…”
There was an old television program when I was but a wee tyke [I have some cheap oceanfront property for sale in Iowa if you believe that] where a diminutive person started each show with the shout, “The plane! The plane!” [Or words to that effect, I can’t remember because I never once, honestly, watched it. After today, every time the actions moves toward the water, Jimmy can have someone yell, “The boat! The boat!” I for one am happy Arlo finally got his dream. I just hope the pleasure lasts.
redagainPatti on 29 Jun 2012 at 9:40 am #
Neal in Bahstawn, .. a bit long of a name but I truly LOL on that as I read it..
Will Overby on 29 Jun 2012 at 9:45 am #
Just wondering… who takes care of Ludwig while A & J are at the beach?
Dave in MA on 29 Jun 2012 at 9:48 am #
Neal in Bahstawn, I think “Ludwig’s Nightmare” would be a perfect name!
redagainPatti, I agree.
On a (slightly) related note. I was aghast at the news reports of that poor woman who worked as a bus monitor getting harassed, teased, assaulted, etc, by middle school students because she was overweight.
Then, I noticed something. The very next story on the same news program complaining about the way the kids treated that woman, was a story about “what would the world be like if everyone was as obese as the United States?” And my first thought was, the government has demonized people who are overweight, they have demonized people (and legislated against large portions) who eat or drink large quantities of calories (and I know people who eat about 3,000 to 4,000 calories a day, are NOT very physically active, and who still are thin as rails (and NOT anorexic or bulemic, just really high metabolisms), and here even the news media are criticizing the image of our entire country based on some obese people, and then people are wondering where kids get the idea that someone overweight is a second class citizen worthy of being tortured?
Guess it all fits in with the labeling, grouping, clumping and lumping.
Sigh.
I feel exceptionally old today despite my young years.
Dave in MA on 29 Jun 2012 at 9:50 am #
Will Overby, cats like the beach too, and some cats even like the water.
But to hear a lot of non-cat people tell it, cats are independent and aloof and don’t need people, so what self-respecting cat would need to be taken care of?
Blinky the Wonder Wombat on 29 Jun 2012 at 10:00 am #
Name the boat contest! Winner gets to cruise with Arlo!
“Meagan” would be a great way to welcome Mary Lou and Gus into the family.
Dan McD on 29 Jun 2012 at 10:00 am #
I’m with Neal – with that handshake, Arlo gets his boat, and we enter “A&J TNG”. (As long as there’s not some horrible reversal or dream sequence or some nonsense, but I don’t think that’s going to happen.)
No, what I see at work here is that great rarity in comics: characters that CHANGE, that step outside their well-established roles and limits.
Which of course means their old gags and easy yuks may need to change, too.
Which means their CREATOR must likewise grow, change, stretch, and evolve. But all of this means you risk alienating the fan base, or drifting out of a cozy marketing niche.
It’s a scary thing when you look at it that way. But I’m not worried – “Plot is what happens to characters I care about,” and I care about what happens to these characters. Like others, I can’t wait to see what happens when Arlo’s tiki fetish and wanderlust meets reality, and I’m sure he’ll still be just as entertaining.
All ahead full, and godspeed!
(Fingers still crossed for a pin-up of the new boat under sail.
Dave in NC on 29 Jun 2012 at 10:25 am #
…not necessarily A&J 2.0 ….. just because Arlo has legally taken possession of the boat, doesn’t mean he will ever get to sail it. There’s still plenty that can go wrong. A hurricane could swamp it. The farmhouse could burn down, leaving the boat as the recourse
Alyre on 29 Jun 2012 at 10:58 am #
I am a recovering Frisbee addict!! …I used to have 3-4 different Frisbees for different forums…1 or 2 trick Frisbees….a skipping Bee, long distance Bee… and of course a football Bee…ah, the days where that much energy abounded and my knees were intact….
redagainPatti on 29 Jun 2012 at 11:35 am #
We need an editing button in here.. I forgot what I wanted to write after reading todays strip…
… then my kid texted me about a hot air balloon thing down in Jackson Ms.. and I forgot again… seems my brain retired back in May when I closed down the classroom..
OK, back to the main thing in here – GRADS and Hurrah!!! for the new character within our storyline… I hope it and the cat gets along together… name for the boat? “Spirit of Love & Dreams” … SOLD for short.. or SOL/D
May all of us have our dreams come true.. earlier enough also as so we can enjoy them before we need help getting out of the rocking chair!
Bob, near Mark on 29 Jun 2012 at 11:53 am #
Arlo could name it “My Son’s Boat.”
Norm in Utah on 29 Jun 2012 at 11:58 am #
Arlo, as non-traditional as he is, should just name the boat “Boat.”
Russel Trojan on 29 Jun 2012 at 12:29 pm #
I’d name the boat “What Now?” It’s seems with Gene embarking on an adult life and Arlo stepping into his dream, the world is a different place. I don’t know about you folks, but from my observations, it’s a rare thing to be able to, how you say, give your fantasy a go. I’m looking forward to an interesting and entertaining journey.
SusiQ on 29 Jun 2012 at 12:41 pm #
Hip-Hip-Hooray!!! Arlo has his boat! A dream come true! Good things do happen to people. I’m as excited as if it were real. Can’t wait to see where you’re taking us next.
Steve from Royal Oak, MI on 29 Jun 2012 at 1:18 pm #
Or he could call it Das Boot
DiverRick on 29 Jun 2012 at 1:19 pm #
@Norm in Utah
Arthur Godfrey (anyone remember him?) did just that, except his boat had a transom hung rudder, so he split the word BOAT into BO|AT, with the vertical line being the rudder. People were forever trying to figure out how to pronounce it,or what it meant. Most common was Bo At. Most of them felt pretty foolish when informed that the word was boat!
sideburns on 29 Jun 2012 at 1:43 pm #
I’m not particularly a frisbee person, but I do know, slightly, a member of the family. The frisbee started out, btw, as pie tins from the Frisbee Baking Company in Los Angeles. Alan Frisbee is a Patron Saint of LASFS, and by a curious coincidence, last night was his Patron Saint night, when we say Nice Things about him and give him three cheers.
Ghost Rider 6 on 29 Jun 2012 at 1:52 pm #
No, no, Mindy, I didn’t misunderstand you; we’re still on the same page. You were the one who introduced the idea of a “stranger” getting the benefit of a peek that may have been “offered” to me. (Which does sound a bit creepy.) I was only interested in how the peek related to me. (Me, me, me! Can you tell I’m a Boomer?) So I’m still going with your original opinion, not with the revised one that “all peeks are accidental.”
And as far as PEEK/PEAK goes, that’s why, when were discussing the mystique of the sundress recently, I said something like “sundresses often have their good points.”
And as far as begging goes, I’m not going there.
Ghost Rider 6 on 29 Jun 2012 at 2:04 pm #
A couple of weeks ago, when the “negotiations” for the boat began, one name I suggested was “401 (k).” Since Arlo (hopefully) didn’t have to bust his pension plan to come up with the $10 purchase price, I’ll withdraw that one. But I still like “Best Revenge.” (Assuming “Wet Dream” would be out of the question.)
Blinky the Wonder Wombat on 29 Jun 2012 at 2:14 pm #
sideburns-
I heard it was the Frisbie Baking Company in Connecticut and Yale students were the first to fling the pie tins.
Hmm, according to the-ever-reliable-Wikipedia, there’s a bit of truth in both our stories:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_disc#History
Bob, near Mark on 29 Jun 2012 at 3:08 pm #
I’ve always liked the name that the late CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite gave his boat – “Assignment.”
Many times, when he wasn’t on the air, the fill-in anchor could legitimately say, “Walter Cronkite is on Assignment.”
Boise Ed on 29 Jun 2012 at 4:35 pm #
Bob, that’s a terrific name. It reminds me of one town I lived in that had a major bar called “The Office.” And another that had “The Library.”
Mary in Ohio on 29 Jun 2012 at 4:44 pm #
Dave in MA – the story I read mentioned that they were also taunting her about the death of her son, who had committed suicide several years ago. I can’t tell you how many times I bit my tongue because the faculty and staff would never have been allowed to talk that way to the little dears. Where was the bus driver?
Which reminds me of the classic faculty lounge joke: What’s the difference between a school bus and a porcupine?
The porcupine has the little pr**cks on the outside.
Mark in Boston on 29 Jun 2012 at 5:08 pm #
The Boston Globe printed Arlo & Janis without the dialog again! Can someone fill me in?
With regard to boat names, my favorite is Buster Keaton’s in the silent short “The Boat”. It’s an absolute classic that should be seen by everyone who loves boats and wants or has his or her very own. There’s some wonderful nonsense: the boat is floating down the river and everyone is below decks when suddenly they are thrown aftward as the boat goes up a hill, only to be thrown foreward as it goes over the top and down the hill. Rivers have hills just like roads do, right?
Anyway, the boat’s name is “Damfino.”
When they get lost in a storm, Buster radios for help.
“Who is this?” asks the maritime officer.
“Damfino!”
“Well neither do I!” says the officer and refuses to answer any more calls.
Mary in Ohio on 29 Jun 2012 at 5:18 pm #
Mark – I don’t think the REAL strip for today HAS any dialog! But The Gazette printed TOMORROW’S strip, dialog and all – I didn’t realize that until I got on my comics page here! So I have seen the future, and it is -heheheheh
Robin in Fl on 29 Jun 2012 at 5:41 pm #
No dialog, but Gus has what we’d call around here a s**t eating grin.
Jerry in Fl on 29 Jun 2012 at 6:14 pm #
The Wet Spot. I always wanted to name a bar that but a boat will do. 63 btw. And again either you get it or you don’t but no explanation. Never got a drop of rain here Robin and we’re back in a drought after the flood of 2 weeks ago.
Steve from Royal Oak, MI on 29 Jun 2012 at 6:17 pm #
Gee Mary, why don’t let us know what will happen tomorrow? You can type SPOILER ALERT and if someone doesn’t want to read tomorrow’s strip they can skip your post. lol I guess I can wait till morning!
phil in Missoula, MT on 29 Jun 2012 at 7:09 pm #
So, you were wondering why those store-bought tomatoes never taste as good as they look?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/science/flavor-is-the-price-of-tomatoes-scarlet-hue-geneticists-say.html
Mary in Ohio on 29 Jun 2012 at 7:35 pm #
I think you will all be happy with tomorrow’s episode!
Mindy on 29 Jun 2012 at 7:44 pm #
Store-bought tomatoes [to-MAY-toe or to-MAH-toe?] are always too hard, not quite ripe, or, the next day, soft and soggy and pithy. Nothing beats home grown! The bugs that flock to eat them before they can be picked are proof of that!
Jerry in Fl on 30 Jun 2012 at 1:28 am #
Mindy, Mindy, Mindy. Please go back and read the comment about the grin on Gus’s face. That’s what bugs do which is why I don’t eat unwashed tomatoes or apples or potatos without peeling them. I have to admit that I still eat grapes right off the vine. Can’t resist.
Mindy on 30 Jun 2012 at 1:50 am #
Oh. Okay.
Tom (somewhere in Georgia) on 30 Jun 2012 at 7:38 am #
Mary in Ohio- so, tomorrow Arlo will admit that he doesn’t actually KNOW how to sail. Then starts the sailing lessons… Maybe?
Tom (somewhere in Georgia) on 30 Jun 2012 at 7:39 am #
Mary- You meant tomorrow June 30 and I mean July 1.
Steve from Royal Oak, MI on 30 Jun 2012 at 8:01 am #
Yeah I had several reactions to the June 30th (is it that late in the year already?)strip. My first thought was that they were out at sea and next week they would encounter “The Perfect Storm” (Hollywierd version). The other was that Arlo was so thrilled to actually be owning a boat, that he has wasted half the day before actually going out in the water (something JJ would create)
But I really think that Janis is reminding Arlo that they have been on vacation long enough and that they need to go home, without the boat. Which, of course, is reality. For those wondering about Ludwig, I think Gene is at home, taking summer school classes to complete the degree, so maybe he is taking care of the cat.
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 30 Jun 2012 at 8:59 am #
Some cats can go a few days as long as there is a litter box, ample food, and water. More days than that, you get a cat sitter. One of the best things that ever happened to wife and me was cat-sitting at a friend’s [former student's] home in Mpls in July ’09, near a light rail station and armed with the annual restaurant issue of Mpls.St.Paul magazine. Lunch one day, doggie box half of that for the next night’s supper, lunch somewhere else the next day, doggie box . . .. Mostly ethnic. Stayed several days before our friend went with a white-water canoe group through the Grand Canyon [120F in the shade] and several days after, because we three always found ourselves good company. Cat a rather aloof neutered tortoise shell. We ate at a score of restaurants, cooked a few meals ourselves, and got to see a few TC area friends and relatives. And the month of July that summer was unusually mild. We had the AC on only 2-3 days. Neat.
Alyre on 30 Jun 2012 at 9:01 am #
Poor Arlo…he’s spent how many strips agonizing over this boat?… Negotiations finally conclude…mental anguish finally resolved, time to relax and enjoy the fruits of his finely honed negotiation skills and sail the Carribean…what’s that you say?…gotta go home?!…
I don’t wanna go home!!….work tomorrow??…I don’t wanna go to work tomorrow!!…I wanna sail in my new boat!!!!… {mother,mother ocean….I have heard your call…}
Ghost Rider 6 on 30 Jun 2012 at 9:35 am #
Women…don’t you just love ‘em? One foot grounded in reality and the other firmly planted in the real world.
Mindy on 30 Jun 2012 at 10:01 am #
I know, Ghost, can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em, right?
Mark from Maine on 30 Jun 2012 at 10:15 am #
I agree with Neal in Bahstawn – and hoping that Phase II has much of of the Gene and Mary Lou adventures. Bravo JJ!
Symply Fargone on 30 Jun 2012 at 10:18 am #
@Mindy & GR6,
Once got a card from the ex wife(back when she still liked me) that said (with a pic of an urbane suburbanite type woman drinking coffee on the front) “Men! Can’t live with them” and when you opened it it said “Can’t play mind games with out them” then in her print it said “Remember the Bobbits” don’t think I slept for a month(JK)! Back then it was a joke, now I wouldn’t be so sure…..just saying she’s feeling kind of Fargone now that she got her wish….
Symply Fargone on 30 Jun 2012 at 10:20 am #
@Mark from Maine,
Could not agree more and what delightful weather we are having up here in Vacationland! Symply wonderful and the Art festival in Bethel today…btw is there a link for where’s JJ, his itinerary is harder to find than Waldo or my youth!
Ghost Rider 6 on 30 Jun 2012 at 10:28 am #
Personally, Mindy, I’ve always preferred to live with ‘em than without ‘em.
How goes The Great Bamboo War?
Mindy on 30 Jun 2012 at 11:07 am #
Simply Fargone, a woman scorned and all that…when I read your comments at first I had to wonder what the heck J. R. R. Tolkien had to do with anything. And then I saw the light. I’ve always wondered what the EMT, male or female, thought when the “recovery” mission was accomplished.
Ghost, The Great Bamboo War lingers on. Disgusting. I’ve cleared a section about 60 X 50 which is 25% of the total. That’s on hands and knees — no smart comments, please — digging by hand, almost like an archeological dig. And the stuff keeps sprouting behind me as I work my way toward the DMZ. Fortunately, those new sprouts are few and small so I still say I’m winning. John says I have an amazing “blue” vocabulary. I had to look that one up. Why blue? I’d think flaming red for heat, invective, aggression and censor’s pen, no? But it’s just too hot to dig right now. I’m thinking about just lying out in the sun for a very short time lathered with sun block to limit burning so I can even out the tan lines, so to speak.
And I’ve picked out my sundress for the Fourth! Or at least limited the choices to red, blue or yellow. An idiot I know told me that it was sinful to celebrate the Fourth since it “glamorizes war and savagery and death.” I told him to celebrate a certain part of his anatomy and sent him on his way before John could erupt. I’m a thoughtful and protective person, y’know.
Neal in Bahstawn on 30 Jun 2012 at 11:16 am #
Just a cotton-pickin’ second here… it was just a few days ago that Janis stood goggle-eyed as a dolphin breached in front of her (“cue the deer!”) and thus was sold, lock, stock and halyard, on the idea of the Good Ship Megan (I bow to whoever came up with that one). Now, with the papers signed and one world-class hug on the prow, Janis is ready to go back and weed the vegetable garden! Poor Arlo….
Symply Fargone on 30 Jun 2012 at 11:31 am #
Poor Arlo so close yet……
@Mindy,
Just realized I have the same life and death struggle going on as you do with bamboo…only my adversary is named Bittersweet, an invasive plant that is killing my town and hauling down trees in the Upton State Forest on my border as well. It is a vine very Tarzan like, pretty orange and red berries and a killer with a taste for both deciduous and pine….at my place in Maine I just found it in my garden, the birds eat and deposit and now I have a new front to watch as well as the one in Massachusetts….not looking forward to this, I might get all Fargone on ‘em too!
Mindy on 30 Jun 2012 at 12:37 pm #
Simply Fargone, if the link works, here’s some information on Bittersweet. The final page has some data on how to get rid of the vegetation.
http://landscaping.about.com/cs/groundcovervines1/a/bittersweet_3.htm
Symply Fargone on 30 Jun 2012 at 1:18 pm #
@Mindy,
You and all the other folks here are a self moderated blessing. thanks JJ for making our commune possible(you hippy you)…BTW the link worked, here’s hoping the bittersweet will be Symply Fargone soon!
Boise Ed on 30 Jun 2012 at 1:21 pm #
JJ, I love the look on Arlo’s face in the last frame of June 30. “What?? Leave??”
Mindy on 30 Jun 2012 at 1:28 pm #
Why does JJ remind me of Jimmy Buffet? Without wasting away anywhere.
Or the Beach Boys singing “The Sloop John B” as a break from their normal genre.
Jerry in Fl on 30 Jun 2012 at 2:09 pm #
Now I know why I haven’t been cranking. My battery is dead. I have a gizmo that can tell whether it is off or on, dead or alive and two weeks ago it was alive, but unknown to me it was very weak. When the hospital checked it this week it was dead so now I know why my symptoms have been getting much worse. I go back in two weeks and they will remove the neural stimulator and put in a new battery. Then hopefully I will be the Eveready bunny.
Ghost Rider 6 on 30 Jun 2012 at 2:14 pm #
Mindy, Mindy, Mindy. My, my, my. Where do I even start?
Let’s start here. As noted, we have a multiplicity of Mindy’s here. My partial solution was to dub the other Mindy “Lady Mindy of Whydid” or “Lady Mindy” for short. But then I got concerned that might be construed to mean you were “Not-A-Lady-Mindy.” Since you demonstrated a willingness to answer my silly questions about female behavior and psychology, I’ve decide to call you “Dear Mindy” (like unto “Dear Abby”).
Ghost Rider 6 on 30 Jun 2012 at 2:51 pm #
Dear Mindy:
Dang, girl. You keep feeding me these great straight lines, then forbidding me to give the punch lines Well, I’ll just have to improvise.
A little known detail of the Bobbitt saga is that when Lorena left home with the, ah, object and threw it out her car window, there was on-coming traffic…two good ol’ boys in a pickup. The, ah, object bounced off their windshield, and one GOB turned to the other and said, wide-eyed, “Did you the see the size of the —– on that bug!”
Mary in Ohio on 30 Jun 2012 at 3:16 pm #
Now that you’ve all seen the 6/30 strip (there is no Sunday Gaette so I can’t help you there!) I can relate that this is exactly what happened on my one trip to Arizona : Aunt Marion and I drove from Phoenix to the Grand Canyon, got out, walked to the rim – and Aunt M announced that we better leave so we could get back to Phoenix by nightfall. I put my foot down and insisted we get a room and go to Monument Valley while we were there (and Canyon de Chelly, too) and we did, but she groused the whole time. Typical, alas, of my Mother’s side of the family, who had a knack for making sure you never got too happy. My Dad was just the opposite, thank God.
Galliglo in Ohio on 30 Jun 2012 at 3:23 pm #
Today I am very fortunate. There were violant storms yesterday afternoon with 70 MPR winds. Not much damage at my place except tree limbs are down and our little mailbox area is destroyed.
Evidently the power supply is in patches. I have power – there isn’t any accross the street. The town of Gallipolis is completely out… most other local areas… I looked at a Ohio power outage map for American Electric Power – a swath from the Toledo area thru Columbus and the eastern and southern parts of the state. Ohio & West Virginia governors have declared states of emergency. According to national news, Washington DC has problems and parts of Virginia. No problems for you, John and Mindy?
The power company is saying it could be several days before it is restored. With the high temperatures that have existed the past few days, it could get difficult.
Hurricanes… floods… winds… fires… we have been taking a licking. But, like Timex, we’ll keep on ticking!
Galliglo in Ohio on 30 Jun 2012 at 3:24 pm #
Jerry in FL: Sure hope you get your “power” back soon!
Mary in Ohio on 30 Jun 2012 at 4:18 pm #
Galliglo – hadn’t realized Ohio had been hit so hard! (I haven’t had the news on) – we had thunder last night but not much rain. Hope all of you are safe ! Lots of folks in the store today commented that we were supposed to get nasty weather but no sign of it yet. And the wildfires!
Robin in Fl on 30 Jun 2012 at 4:25 pm #
Jerry
You weren’t trolling for a jump start were you?
Hope they get you patched up and, like a Mazda, going zoom zoom again soon.
Jerry in Fl on 30 Jun 2012 at 5:49 pm #
Thanks everybody! Somebody has to say it. With all of the Mindys, Robin , is your last name Williams? I just watched a video that demonstrates how weak man is against the forces of nature as a ground crew attempts to put a tarp over a baseball field. The tarp and all of the people went flying with the wind. Even a truck parked on top of the tarp was moved. With that I have made a relunctant decision. Knowing that I will be better in a couple of weeks I will observe but not participate for awhile. It is just too difficult and even painful to type for now so good luck to everyone with the weather and you will see me in a couple of weeks.
Tom in Southern Ohio on 30 Jun 2012 at 6:05 pm #
Here in Southern Ohio we’ve had power back for about an hour, after 24 hours without. The night was miserable; not just with the heat and humidity but when you depend on a CPAP to breathe at night you don’t get much sleep without it.
We have a number of large branches down on our property, one of which took down our phone line to the house. I’ve got at least two very large branches broken off and hung up in branches of two trees, with one of the supporting branches showing a large crack. I have another branch dangling directly over the driveway but too high up for me to reach. Could get interesting if the 30% chance of thunderstorms in the morning becomes 100%. Actually, I rather hope it does and all the branches in question come down; otherwise I’ll have to call for a tree trimmer, and they aren’t cheap!
Silver maples… they shed branches like other trees shed leaves!
All in all, though, I count ourselves fortunate for having power back so soon. Say, have I ever told you about the 48 days without power at my house on Guam after Supertyphoon Paka?
Cheers,
Tom
Robin in Fl on 30 Jun 2012 at 6:31 pm #
Tom
Glad to have you back intact–hope all the East Coasters are OK.
Jerry: we’ll try not to get too racy. Nope, not Williams, or Hood either! And I’ll be off the web for a week or so as well, but due to travel (to a place where I confuse people because guys spell with an i and I ain’t a guy!
redagainPatti on 30 Jun 2012 at 7:26 pm #
I hope all our friends in here who got under that storm Friday night are ok.. My daughter up at Vir. Tech is fine… She is one of the lucky ones with power… Now but none during the night.
no a/c but has fans.. I hope they do not get the heat up around 110F …
Mindy from Indy on 30 Jun 2012 at 7:43 pm #
The middle part of Indiana got walloped pretty well yesterday as well. I got to see it blow whilst at work. We had a poor delivery guy bringing stuff in as it came through! Had to drive to Ohio after work, LOTS of huge trees down, broken antennas, loose sheet metal, a few places with chunks missing in their roofs, a couple of almost down power lines, and a trampoline in a corn field. Speaking of corn, we’ve got fields already tasseled and others barely knee high. Going to be a rough harvest.
Ghost Rider 6 on 30 Jun 2012 at 9:42 pm #
Dear Mindy: I, like John, appreciate your pre-emptive strike on the idiot. But of course, this one of the reasons we served, so idiots can continue to have the freedom to be idiots.
We would probably both approve the patriotic connotations of a red or blue sundress. (However, and don’t ask me why, I think yellow might be your color.) Of course, the most important thing about a sundress is not its color, but the fact that it IS a sundress.
No sundresses where I was this evening, dang it. Had to make a quick trip to the Gulf Coast (Lower Alabama Division). Did get to enjoy some excellent grilled shrimp at a local eatery among hoards of touristy types. Tank tops and short-shorts showing a lot of tanned legs and a fair number of peeking tramp stamps. And that was just some of the guys.
Lady Mindy: Glad you made it through your bad weather outbreak. You never know. Every time I come to the Coast now, I find myself thinking, “Will this all still be here the next time I’m here?”
Mark in Boston on 30 Jun 2012 at 10:04 pm #
Arlo should take the boat and deliver gravy up and down the length of the Mississippi, just like he did in his “gravy boat” daydream.
Lost in A**2 on 01 Jul 2012 at 12:12 am #
Re the timeline: I suspect it’s been a weekend, not an extended vacation. Sunday dies, and Monday beckons.
Mindy on 01 Jul 2012 at 10:27 am #
SW Virginia is getting battered a bit, nothing like the last storm. WX radar doesn’t show where the cell came from and if it keeps current course it’ll end up on the North Carolina coast. From what I hear this one is merely a heavy T-storm with winds, so far, under 30mph gusts. The outside temperature has dropped 11.3 degrees in an hour according to our little temperature measuring thingie on the back porch. Thermometer! Yeah. I was hung up on thermostat for a while there and knew that was wrong. Duh. Stay safe, A&J People!
Judy in Conroe on 01 Jul 2012 at 11:02 am #
Glad to hear that our A&J friends have come through the storm. Best wishes to those we haven’t heard from, who may still be without power and other amenities. Here in Conroe we’ve enjoyed some much needed rain. Not as much as we’d like, but adequate to the season. We were hoping for some of the tropical weather to soak us, but no such luck (luck?) so far.
Jerry in FL – I’ll be lurking along with you more often than not. I don’t get a chance to visit every day, and so often the comments I would make as I catch up on the reading are too late to post. You and me, we’ll be sitting together on the sidelines. Thanks for the company, and hope your “power” gets up to normal sooner than you expect.
Symply Fargone – thanks again for the fabulous blueberry recipe. I went out early Friday morning for what is probably the last time this season and my husband and I got 6 pounds each. Yesterday I made oatmeal blueberry muffins with plenty to put in the freezer for future enjoyment. We also got a bunch of home grown tomatoes at a vegetable stand near the blueberry field, so today we will make and can some salsa. (YUM! Can’t wait!) Thursday when I go to Book Club I can take your wonderful muffin cake and everyone will love me for it.
redagainPatti on 01 Jul 2012 at 5:32 pm #
Hello Judy in Conroe..
Enjoy the blueberries… I went out to pick early am on Saturday to find the field was closed.. Their season only lasted three days? Sure I can go to Kroger and pay 6 bucks for a qt… but rather pay 6 for a pound when you pick them yourself….
Sigh… we also do not have any homegrown tomatoes yet here in my area of Mississippi.. stuff just is not growing well.. I personal have lost three plants in my backyard..
I do hope the rest of you are doing better with the small gardens and such..
Sorry for the rant…
redagainPatti – down in middle part of Mississippi..
David in Austin on 01 Jul 2012 at 8:25 pm #
Patti,
I feel your pain on the tomatoes. Last year we started having temperatures in the 90s in April, and most of May was over 100 degrees. I had very few tomatoes. This year has been somewhat better. I have canned about 50 pints of roasted tomato sauce.
The heat of the past couple of weeks seems to have just about ended the crop. If I water, I may harvest another 20-30 pounds of tomatoes and get one more batch of sauce. I will have to fight the mockingbirds and cardinals, though. In recent days, the heat and drought have forced the birds into the garden. About half the ripe fruit is damaged. I leave it when I pick, in the forlorn hope that the birds will visit the damaged tomatoes again before starting on other ripening fruit.
Mindy on 01 Jul 2012 at 9:35 pm #
Simply Fargone, thanks for the warning. After finding the link for you a lightbulb flashed. After I changed it I came back to the PC and Googled “Bittersweet” again and guess what? We had [note the operative word, there] some growing near where I’ve been killing the Viet Bamboo…or would it be the Bamboo Cong? Anyway, forewarned is lucky and the Bittersweet is no more. Thanks for the heads-up. John thanks you also since this saves him a lot of resonating comments he would otherwise have had to tolerate being as close by as he is.
Galliglo in Ohio, I didn’t mean to ignore your earlier post. Between heat, grocery shopping, and minor medical emergencies involving burned bare skin and dehydration, plus cleaning up after minor strong winds, I simply overlooked it! Friday I saw the storm that hit you on WX radar, but, but that time, it was already out of Ohio and pounding W.Va. and parts of Virginia. We lucked out and it skirted us by about 55 miles! Friends in the Roanoke Valley got hit fairly hard, though. Today’s thunder boomers bypassed us again to the north but dipped south and tore into neighboring counties for the second time in three days but not nearly as bad. Just extremely large balls of hail.
The heat is the killer now. I filled the birdbath while watering plants this evening and two birds rushed down to splash and cool off…while I was within arm’s reach. Those two have always been far less afraid of us than most wild birds would be.
Time for beauty sleep. If I can get John to go do bed. I don’t need it, of course.
Yellow, Ghost, yellow it will be!
Lost in A**2 on 02 Jul 2012 at 5:19 am #
In today’s strip, I discover that I overestimated the length of the visit. Thank you, Mr. Johnson, for clearing it up.
Mark in TTown on 02 Jul 2012 at 6:47 am #
“And the spirits have done it all in one night”, E. Scrooge