I’m sorry! It’s been a very busy few days. I have not abandoned you here. In fact, the new Web site of which we spoke earlier this year is going into production finally. We’ll see. I actually have a cookie jar such as the one above. It’s battery operated and plays a recording of a chattering dolphin when opened. I’ve had it for years, and I love it. Unfortunately, I don’t keep many cookies in it anymore. It has occurred to me that much of the furniture in Arlo & Janis is similar to pieces in my own household: the sofa, the orange table with the Queen Anne legs, the simple mannish bedroom furniture, all exist in my real world. I guess that makes sense. The sofa I don’t actually have any longer, but I did have one very similar when I began to draw the strip. It turned out to be such a good comic-strip settee—low, simple, easy to render—that I’ve kept it all these years. It probably could use re-upholstering by now!
Cookie Mobster
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327 responses to “Cookie Mobster”
Lunch! I’d forgotten a local use of ‘lunch.’ One evening, prob. Fall ’59 [my 2nd yr. here], I was finishing up after working late in my office / winding up my doctoral thesis, when a student who had befriended me stuck her nose in and recruited me to help unload props and such from the theater one floor up to the basement one down. So I did.
“Afterwards, there’ll be lunch.” And there was. I should have had a smaller supper before returning to school. In outstate MN, and probably much of the upper Midwest, lunch = any group feed [usually substantial] at any time of day. Funerals our specialty. Best fast a few hrs. beforehand.
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That is such terrific news, Charlotte!!! And a definite plus that it works with a normal shoe so that you havel a support system for both your ankle and foot while you recover your strength and normal gait. Is the brace for daytime only, or do you wear it at night, too?
Gal, I remember visiting family in NC in the third week of May a few years back. It was 93 by 10:30 in the morning, and I knew right then that my internal HVAC was not built for southern summers.
True, Jerry, but some of us have got to be Northerners or the continent would tip and everyone would slide off into the Gulf. 😉
Prayers for Mary and Ernie, Old Bear, and their family and friends.
Debbe, I’ve known a few tools that had interesting names. 😉 I’m glad you feel good today. You make each day a little better for me. Your story about chasing Miss Prissies today makes me think about Meg and her little brood.
Jackie, I remember a Peanuts cartoon in which a character said they didn’t have any downs, that they just went from an up to uppity up. You are going from adventures to adventurous-ier adventures!
Outlander, I remember that program with Patrick McGoohan! I loved how its weirdly eerie premise developed from episode to episode, the way in which the viewer shared McGoohan’s sense of being the only Villager awake in his confining nightmare of the Village. I didn’t understand the reference in your earlier post about a gated community; thank you for clarifying! Do you happen to know if it was based upon a book? So many really good British series seem to be.
Hurricane level conditions in south Texas this morning. Will reach me this afternoon or earlier. Did you see the rowing teams that stirred up the leaping carp? They were leaping like crazy. They weigh 30-40 lbs. If you get hit by one of those you may have to go to the hospital and see a sturgeon. Credit or blame to TWC for that one. The video was real.
Wasn’t the Prisoner after Secret Agent Man? He was the same character, but after you quit being an agent, the village was like a semi-permanent “debriefing” you had to live in. … .. So I have an edging knife, that I’ve never used and don’t know where I got. … .ok, kids don’t have dinner at school.
Charlotte: Good news about your cast! I cannot imagine how difficult it was for you to co-exist with that thing for so long. You are probably feeling – Free! Free at last!
Outlander: I did not get the reference either. I must not have been a big fan of the show for, although I recognized your description, I don’t remember the show itself.
Old Bear: Prayers for Mary and Ernie and their family and friends. When we care of others, we hurt too.
I have not actually worked in a garden since I was a kid at home. The discussions of garden tools have been fascinating! The Village is an educational place!
Oh my! Today’s real timer should open a Darwinian floodgate.
Good morning to all. I’m chugging along with the new kidney.
Jerry, I didn’t see anything to apologize for, either. Occasionally we stray into areas that could be political, but generally done with good grace. Your list is generally what I perceived as reasonable boundaries for the group. I think that most here could manage more controversy, but that isn’t why people visit. There is plenty of that elsewhere.
Old Bear, I have an implement similar to your description. We call it a stirrup hoe or a scuffle hoe. It is shaped like a stirrup, with a sharp blade on the bottom. It is used by scuffling it along, just under the edge of the soil to cut small weeds and loosen the surface of the soil. I have a similar tool that attaches to my wooden high wheel cultivator. It is called a slicing hoe. It makes cultivating row middles as easy as walking. (Not so easy, for me yet–foot is still broken.) It is much more quiet than the 2-cycle Mantis-style cultivator I have. I’d post a link to a picture, but I can’t seem to find anything that isn’t an ad.
Debbe, I’m working on my wife to let me raise a few hens (even though our deed restricts poultry) for fresh eggs. Neighbors had a couple of hens a few years ago. We had fresh brown eggs, buttermilk biscuits with butter & molasses, and my home-cured and smoked bacon for supper last night.
Have we heard from John in Richmond in the past couple of weeks? Given everything he had happening I hope all is well.
So, John, see you are ok…I was busy typing. Even Google searched the blog site for your last posting, to be sure I didn’t miss. Color me embarrassed, but glad to see you here.
Galligo, gardening is something that you do either if you have time, or if you need it. Growing up, it was an important part of my family’s spring, summer, and fall menu (along with jars of produce in the winter). Now, I do it because I have time. It is therapeutic for me– might not be for others. My sister still has a 40-year-old jar of vegetable soup my mother canned when I was in high school. She keeps it on a shelf as a memento, since my mom died from kidney disease and heart failure within a year or two of making that batch. It is still almost as bright and colorful as it was the day she canned it. I’m working on teaching my daughters some of the same gardening and preserving skills. One daughter made her first dill pickles on her own last year.
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