Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for April 10, 2014

Autumn planting done here… carrots are up and so are the broad beans!

Like waiting for water to boil…………

Pretty soon the little plants will be shootings up to the sky..Olivia!

Maybe she’s just having problems getting up from the ground – old age is a bitch !.

“GROW, CURSE YOU, GROW”

Hope she knows a good chiropractor.

I thought she was putting salt (or borax?) or something into an ant hill. But there isn’t any hill. Gophers it probably is. She wouldn’t be patting the soil with her bare hands if she had put anything injurious to human beings in there.

This is the best part anticipation. The worst part is seeing it die because of animal, insect, or disease.

All this has made me think of mole crickets. Back when I did things out in the yard, we in Florida battled them because they played havoc with lawns. I haven’t thought of them for years, but I intuit that they’re still around. To see some of these darlings, google-image mole crickets

This is the last thing I’m going to say today, pinkie swear. I thought Pajama Diaries was unusually gigglesome today. See it at http://www.seattlepi.com/comics-and-games/fun/

Saw a weed???…

I do my gardening at the supermarket. Less work. More variety. Doesn’t take up as much space. Cheaper (the most expensive tomatoes I ever ate were the ones I grew myself). And no chiropractor bills.

That’s a seed packet in the first panel, so she’s not poisoning anything.

Everybody sing: “The wa-a-ait is the hardest part.”

“An-ti-ci-pay-ay-tion is making me wait.”

So, does Janis get cloned to watch all the plants?

thinking of trying to get up

Sorry I broke my pinkie swear. The preferred spelling is “pinky,” however, so maybe what I put doesn’t count.

well, this part of the world I am has pretty mild winters – NO SNOW!!! and even though it is ‘Autumn’ here now it is still 24c (75f). It rarely gets below 8 or 9c (45-46f) and we seldom have frosts. Bit different to Penn!