I realized this morning that I had inadvertently skipped one of the cartoons from the above sequence, the one about 10,000 comic-strip writers being out of work, which isn’t as funny as it once was. Anyway, here’s a bonus cartoon for today, two strips about Arlo up a tree.
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Pier?
“Dock of the Bay”? Just guessing though.
Love, Jackie Monies
Ghost, i was nineteen and in college, not paying a lot of attention. I went home for the weekend and remember that my mother and her friends were all upset. Then the darned thing hit and she had a pair of her friends (with like eight cats!) move in with her for weeks! I couldn’t take it and stayed at the dorm, though they were very nice (except for the cats!) . I remember how glad my mother was when they moved out into an apartment. That is the most unselfish thing I remember my mother doing, and she griped about it, plenty. We had a few families move into vacant rooms in our dorms, but they didn’t fit in and we ignored them. I was busy with classes and studying and pretty much ignored the whole thing. Pretty self-centered, huh? But, that’s teenagers for you
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2014/02/14#.U8tBJPldWSo
Check out Gus’ final statement here. But Gene now says Gus is closing the restaurant. So the speculation that he plans to sell the property for redevelopment looks much more likely. And in one of the preceding strips Mary Lou tells Gene that Gus has arranged for them to get a ton of money.
Debbie, we are adding fence across the field behind the house so I can raise a calf to butcher. It will be grass fed, all natural beef. The steer I have lined up is a registered Lowline Angus. They are smaller than standard Angus are are supposed to be better grass converters and have higher carcass conversion rates. We’ll be calling the first calf “Sir Loin.”
Jackie, two possibilities for ML’s hair color change. One, started blonde and changed to brown as she got older. (happened to me). Two, she got older, went to work and no longer had the time to sun on the beach and get natural bleaching. Either one sound likely to you?
Lily, I am Episcopalian and not sure what faith (?) you are now as a Christian but most Episcopalian or Anglicans are pretty broadminded and ecumenical. Not that I follow that strip mentioned but we tend to believe that those in a committed relationship are o.k. whether married or simply living together. In fact we don’t even care which gender you are I would guess.
Of course, I am about the most back slid Episcopalian you will find since Henry VIII. But I would say you would find N9CW to be described as hedonistic and selfish in their character’s behavior in most instances.
Wait, I am getting confused over which viewpoint I am defending here—– I think I vote for hedonistic? And I am fairly sure we don’t encourage coveting thy neighbor’s wife or plow?
Love, Jackie Monies
I don’t intrude on people’s relationships or publicly shame them. I quietly pray for them to find God’s path for them and to make the wisest choices they can. When patients at the hospital ask for advice in making choices, I ask them to select the consequences they want to live with.
Jackie, I too, am a high-church Episcopalian, but I don’t follow the higher-ups very closely. I’m not about to get into relationships since I fight shy of any except friendship and unconditional love. But it is not the Evie/Arnold relationship as such that makes me uneasy, it is that there are people that care about Evie (like Alix) that she seems to be ignoring. We are talking about Stone Soup. Bill and Francine in 9CWL are caught in a war zone and can do what they want for all of me.
Yep, I’m another big fan of Stone Soup and was wondering if such a wedding would ever occur. I don’t see marriage as being at all selfish; when an available man and an available woman decide they want to be together, marriage is certainly better than shacking up. Too, the happily married pair are, apparently, great at building Habitat houses and long may they continue doing so.
Grandma (Evie??) has no responsibility for raising the grandkids even though she’s been kind enough to help. That job is the responsibility of the parent(s).
If I am being blind to some kind of selfishness, I hope someone will explain.
Mark, I vote that Mary Lou was using peroxide to bleach hair or the coloring ladies mixed the dyes at the syndication office a little too light?
I find her new look to be softer and frankly the long braid, softly gathered is a much more voluptuous look. In fact, she has most definitely gotten better looking as she has aged. Now the granddaughter apparently took after her unknown father? Who had darker hair? Unless that was Gus’ original dark hair color?
Personally, I married a man whose entire genetic pool seemed to come from the Mediterranean and everyone had dark or silver hair, dark skin, dark eyes, tanned REALLY dark. So we have first child who I name Malia since we thought we’d still be in Hawaii.
We were expecting Hawaiian surfer girl. We got natural blonde Barbie doll who looked like Cinderella most of her life. Whose baby was that? She was born in a hurricane, so she says switched at birth?
Some blondes are real.
Love, Jackie Monies
Wow! 3 or 4 new posts since I started to compose mine!
CEXP- Some of us just type fast and don’t think or edit. Free flow, like the monkeys who can write the Bible or dictionary, I forget which!
Goodnight Gracie!
Love, Jackie Monies
All the works of Shakespeare, Jackie.
Actually, I like this version better: If you chained an infinite number of monkeys to an infinite number of typewriters for an infinite amount of time…the stench would be horrendous.
Oh, and real name of The Dock…
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2008/08/22#.U8tZ1_ldWa8
Punchier than usual, I thought for a minute there we were talking about Pigborn again and Shakespeare. No, make that Pearls Before Swine where pig just got called home by death……..
Heck, I have been writing letters trying to pin down all my boating programs and lectures, watching videos that included Orca’s swimming beneath the boats during the Fastnet races, a friend who’s up in Georgia Bay and sent me video from yesterday running a tidal bore, all the while reading and writing with you guys! No wonder I am more than a little nuts!
Who sent link to a great “Brown Eyed Girl” recording that was NOT Van Morrison’s or Jimmy Buffett’s? I can’t find it now!
Good night again, Love, Jackie Monies
That would have been me, Jackie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lIG4SAG6Ds
Good morning Villagers….
Running late….have to set out the ingredients for my ‘griddle cakes’ so Andrew’s girlfriend can assist little Brooklynne in making them…….Brooklynne Rose wants griddle cakes and she’s going to get them 🙂
David…Sir Loin…..good one.l
GR 😉 that is a good song, I remember when you posted it.
But what I want to know is who sings that song in the Budweiser commercial link I posted above….come on guys……
later……………off to work, it’s been almost 4 weeks since I’ve seen the Boss man, talked to him once…..I answered the phone a couple of days ago, and he said “yeah, Debbe, this is Mike.”….and I replied “Mike who?” He’ll be around now that the county fair is over. I told my husband he takes one month off and works the other 11 months, every day.
ya’ll have a blessed Sunday
Debbe 😉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBumgq5yVrA
Anything else I can do for you, hon? 🙂
And when the #^@& are you getting a day off?
My PSA for the day:
Today is National Ice Cream Day. It is also National Lollipop Day. (It is also obviously not National Diabetes Awareness Day.)
We now return you to your regularly scheduled blog.
Good morning, Villagers. Just back from my wind sprints. I am definitely getting better. My endurance is stronger.
My dog is, as usual, all hurty because I left her behind the fence when I went off. Silly thing, I have been doing it this way for months. When will she get used to it?
Debbe, I just have to admire your sticktoitiveness. Give Brooklynne Rose a hug for me.
Today is 45th anniversary of the first landing on the moon by a fellow Purdue graduate, Neil Armstrong. Never forget.
Buzz Aldrin recently made news by punching a conspiracy theorist in the face. At 79, I an impressed!
Get ’em, Buzz. Of all silly theories, I have never understood that one. What would be the point?
Dear c ex p, I heartily agree with you, and am glad to find a fellow fan of Stone Soup. Let’s hope that Lilyblack’s comment was thoughtlessly sarcastic, or something. Alix will miss her grandmother very much, but when a woman wants to marry and share her life with a wonderful man, other family ties have to stretch farther. That’s just the way it is. Grandma will visit as much as she can, I’m sure.
Debbe is at top of my list of “Most Admired Women” right alongside Mindy from Indy. I know strong women when I meet them. To Hades with idiots like the K. K. K. Women, Kim, Kloe and Kourtney!
True beauty is something altogether different!
Love, Jackie Monies
You guys made me look at Stone Soup, which I had not for a long time, so I had to go back and read archives to see what was going on. Love can be rewarding at any age or stage in life and is deserved by all.
As a florist, I had a rule, “No holiday weddings” which I broke for a wonderful 86 year old customer who married her childhood sweetheart on Valentine’s Day. They refound each other after all those years and refound love.
Hedonic all the way! Go Seniors!
Love, Jackie Monies