Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for May 08, 2015

Few things smell as good as sheets dried in the sun.

I’d take my chances ;-)

Why don’t people hang their underwear outside in the yard anymore? I miss that!

Some of the soot from that power plant is from using your electric dryer. Clothes smell better and last longer when they are hung out; that stuff in the lint filter is your underwear, y’know. And hanging up clothes is good exercise – bend and stretch, bend and stretch. You can get things when you are ready, not when the electric dryer buzzes, ad there’d no grand rush to grab them before they wrinkle from the heat in the machine.

one of my neighbors still has her clothes line and hangs all of her laundry. I love clothes dried outside, never had to press any of the shirts or pants I dried outside, they just dry wrinkle free and smell soooooo good. They have not found a way to duplicate that smell.

Use the dryer in the basement while the birds use the closeline for a meeting ‘ground’.

I was gonna say . . . there’s a grand rush to grab them when a storm hits, to keep them at status “sprinkled” instead of “soaked.” In our case, our neighbor had a mulberry tree in her back yard, and the neighborhood birds were not shy about unloading onto our laundry. As I recall, we weren’t shy, either, about people seeing our unmentionables on the line. Did they think we went around without wearing them?

She has more sheets than the KKK…..

Perhaps hanging up the clothes to dry is her ‘happy place’, singing to herself and remembering a simpler time..I’d love to hang out the clothes to dry (we get sunshine most of the year), but the house I rent is in a ‘deed-restricted’ community (DRC), so no outdoor clothes lines, limited on the colors one can paint their house, even the number of bird feeders in the front yard. One neighbor asked for a variance to put up solar panels on his roof (we do get hit with hurricanes and the power does go out for about a week): from the reactions at the community meeting, you’d thought he was trying to install another Three Mile Island (“it ruins the property values” was one of the more printable comments). He sold his place and moved out. And got his panels in another DRC..When I go to purchase a house, I will be putting up a clothes line. And solar panels.

I am guessing Janice was singing Clean Sheets to the tune of Green Sleeves.

We lived in Ohio, and my poor Mom had to hand clothes out in the middle of winter. They froze, but dried.

It’s a continuation of yesterday’s strip — the novelty of the new clothesline hasn’t worn off yet.

Also perhaps someone could explain why there isn’t just one long panel?

@bawana“Let’s think about the soot falling from the power plant, diesel exhaust from the hwy, acid rain, Yea, hanging your clothes outside today is wonderful;)!”.If they are putting out soot, they are in violation.If the diesel is smoking, they are in violation.If your laundry is out in the acid rain — or any other kind — you aren’t doing it right..What you really need is nuclear.No smokestack emissions

No fossil fuelsNo greenhouse gases

With Arlo’s wood to light a romantic fire, and Janis’ enticing sheets to cuddle in, they could make beautiful music together. A Rhapsody for Two.

My deed prohibits clotheslines and fences. (No-one has been busted for the required fence-around-the-pool).

Neat the way Jimmie divided the strip into 4 panels but it’s really just one panel

You’re still the best comic Jimmy! Live in condo area. No clothes lines allowed. No solar panels either. Would love solar panels and a wind turbine.