Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 05, 2016

String-trimmedBut the sign language was good too.

we call it weed wacked but if I were being proper I’d go with “edged”

One of those nouns that refuses to verb itself.

Good for you, “weedeater!”

Meanwhile… towards the end of yesterday’s comments, I wrote an answer to those of you who said it was OK to use a barbecue in the garage, or that maybe I should worry just as much about having a stove in the house…For safety’s sake, I kinda hope you’ll check it out.

comicsssfan: try that in my neighborhood and you get an 8X12 bright orange notice taped to your door.

Arlo’s day sounds like my yesterday….

Whipped and snipped. With a whipper snipper.

Maybe he meant that he chipped the stuff. But the main point here is Arlo’s senior moment, where he can’t think of the damn word but has an image of it just the same.

I’m glad someone else understands that people actually get “brain freeze” and DO talk like that. You should have seen me try to “sign” that I saw quail on the porch to my hubby. Just could not remember the word!

If you switch the first two words around in the first speech bubble, this strip has a completely different meaning.

I had nearly forgotten that WeedEater was a brand name for weed-whackers.

Whipper-Snippers. Whipper-snipped for past tense :)

Sounds tasty, nah!

Dirty mouthed Ralph York is back. Go away and play with yourself.

We used to have a 1 2/3 acre lot outside Helena. We had a couple of nice, small pieces of lawn near the house, about 40 trees, a vegetable garden, and an acre or so of native vegetation with lots of wildflowers. Of course, around mid-June we’d get out the John Deere and mow it all, just in time to prevent the local idiots and their fireworks from starting a disastrous range fire. By August the grass would be back and late-summer wildflowers would be in full bloom.

The main nuisance was the (non-native, invasive) noxious weeds. Knapweed and Dalmatian toadflax were the worst.

Oh yeah… That weed ateing – has to be done…