I scanned this old Sunday this morning, just for you. I drew a lot bigger back then! It took two passes on my 11X17 flat-bed scanner to get it all. That is the very reason I began drawing smaller, shortly after this cartoon appeared in 1995. It was about that time I started scanning the daily cartoons and digitally transmitting them to my editors in New York. I started drawing smaller so I could scan a cartoon in one pass of the scanner. It was sometime later before I began transmitting the Sunday cartoons, because they simply were too big to transmit by dial-up modem. As it was, I remember it would take 12 to 15 minutes to transmit six daily cartoons. Now, it takes about three seconds.
Forward to the Past
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314 responses to “Forward to the Past”
HEY, I got to see it! Checked in just in time!
Jackie
I think that I missed it.
Looks like a lovely day for the race though.
Ok, it was an old joke, but then so am I.
About St. Augustine, doesn’t grow well north of Dallas, doesn’t grow way up here (another zone higher) at all. Houston, Dallas and south cannot live without St. Augustine in their perfect yards.
I met a sweet older lady in a garden center here who lived in one of Houston’s oldest and most exclusive neighborhoods on a couple of acres. She wistfully commented that her husband kept talking of retiring and returning home to our area of OK. She said she’d waver about it until she remembered Bermuda grass and the total lack of yardmen and landscape crews.
Only Tulsa really has any semblance of that civilization.
Love, Jackie
I’ve always had St. Augustine, but I’m tired of fighting fungus. I’m doing centipede in the new lawn.
Oh! St. Augustine is a plant! I wondered why you all had the patron saint of brewers in your yards.
Thought about that for about 5 seconds while typing it, that some would think it was like burying St. Joseph upside down in your yard to sell your house.
Maybe that is the answer for the fungus that plagues the grass down in Florida, bury a statue of St. Augustine upside down under the turf to get him to cure the grass!
Heck, I just want to kill all the Bermuda, etc. in yard and install rocks like they do out in El Paso and New Mexico, Arizona! But I know no matter what I do the neighbors’ will contribute poison oak, poison ivy, Johnson grass and a host of thousands of weeds due to wind, birds, washing rain flow, etc. I had a grass spraying company turn down doing my yard because they said I’d blame them!
Probably would, too.
Love, Jackie
I suppose you could just 86 the greenery altogether and go Japanese Rock Garden.
http://phototravels.net/japan/pcd3860/rock-garden-tofukuji-5.3.jpg
Ask NZ in AZ about her lawn.
Too Zen for here. A dog would come scratch it up or more likely a cat.
And a snake would wiggle thru and mess up patterns.
Love, Jackie
I remember reading a bit about a lady who was trying to sell her home. She bought a St. Joseph to help, but kept getting varying accounts of how to place it. She tried all of them to no avail. She finally got annoyed and chucked it. Two weeks later, she read in the paper the local landfill sold.
That is funny! Daughter buried St. Joseph, house took forever to sell, she moved, didn’t unbury St. Joseph, had to go back and sneak into yard and unbury him, clean him up.
Idea seems to stem from superstitions about “torturing” or “punishing” Saints to make them grant your appeal. Never having done so, I have no idea but you can even buy St. Joseph “Sell Your House Kits” on line shopping sites.
Love, Jackie
Dropping by to say hello. Nothing going on here of note, so no news. Haven’t disappeared, at least yet.
The “here” referenced above is my physical location, not a commentary on the electronic community on the blog…
Was anyone else as amused as I by Gene’s “deer in the headlights” expression in today’s (3-16-14) cartoon? I can think of a couple of reasons why he might look that way. Anyone else have a thought on that?
It looks to me like a laid-back male has married an obsessed gal with control issues! Yep, that’s the look in his eyes!
Good morning Villagers…..
Sideburns….you don’t, I was being facetious (there’s ya a $50 word for the day 🙂 ). I thank you for serving our country and I am glad the government has instituted the VA to take care of our veterans. It beats the alternative….which I am still toying with, Obamacare!
My husband is disabled and draws Medicare, but he does not qualify for any Medicare supplements until he reaches 65. He qualified for disability benefits immediately without any hearing. Yesterday, he went to see a bone specialist, had X-rays taken, and they found two dark spots on his hips. He is now scheduled for an MRI…..we have to pay the remaining 20 percent. That hurts when one is also on a limited income.
Enough of that……
TR….you nailed it, couldn’t have said it better.
Read the comments this am over on Dark Side, and GR got them started. one is saying the third panel (which shows a bird flying) may signify a stork….gosh, what kind of coffee do they drink?
GR 😉 I don’t think bourbon on Cheerios would be tasteful, in more ways than one. But now Kahlua is a different story…and that’s a story from some 40 years ago. Man, those were the days.
Jackie…you have to figure out how to post pics when your flora fauna is completed. I love wildflowers, and you belong among the wildflowers (yeah, I know, there’s a song there 🙂 ).
later……………
Indy Mindy…ever try this, think I will just for grins and giggles……
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8318672640/h9DF6A799/
I’ve brought home some feathers from work and have tied them to a string….at the age of nine, my Snowee can still jump….not as high as she once could, but it’s good exercise.
=^..^=
JJ- Where are you? Very few daily updates in last few months!
Debbe, I also am disabled and on SSDI because of my weird heart arrhythmia. In my state I have the option, which I chose, of selecting a Medicare advantage plan. It is better than most traditional Part B plans; it limits the out-of-pocket expenses with a lower deductible and reasonable co-pays. This year the premiums for it are withheld from my SSDI before I ever see it and are costing me just $109 each month.
Jimmy, how goes the wine making? Love the heron in today’s piece… and those silly kids 🙂
OF predicted to erupt at 9:27pm CDT ± 10 minutes, but it looks to be going to start sooner.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Started about 0910, winding down now. Few spectators this early.
Jimmy not ‘The Rendezvous’, reminds me of a club I use to frequent. I second the heron, nice surprise panel or whatever it is called.
Sandcastler, “The Rendevous” was also a club we used to go to when I was in college but it was set up as a supper club and night club for the more affluent citizens of Monroe, LA, not college kids.
Something’s never change! Trite names for southern towns’ locals, I guess. Fifty years later.
Blue Heron or something like that is more creative.
Love, Jackie