Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for April 02, 2019

Aha! The first disillusionment.

Just paint them so they look like Indian artifacts then the chips and cracks won’t matter.

Well, there’s cosmetic. And then there’s structural! Not good to have the side fall off the pot of your favorite flower. If you can wait it out, probably lotsa used pots available soon.

Buy motorcycles, boats, and pots in the fall.

Pot prices are outrageous!

SShe could take up pottery and make her own.

Perhaps it’s time to move into a condo.

Every Spring my wife’s church lady group has a pot party. Piqued my interest, but when I heard all they do is pot new plants and have I pot luck dinner, I didn’t want to go anymore.

Sometimes you can find ones at garage sales and such. Even if they are ugly, you can spray paint them. I’ve done that. yeah, those pottery stores are ridiculously expensive!

We found this to be hilarious and reflected perfectly the humor in early spring gardening. Great strip.

Time to purchase plastic.

It’s so sad to see how this strip has gone to pot(s).

My wife wants me to paint the deck, but it’s covered with pots and bins.

OMG, she’s actually doing it. Here comes the porch-potted-plant garden!

She needs to go shop at Ollies.

Perfect follow up to yesterday’s strip. :o)

If you can’t understand this just by looking at it, you shouldn’t be reading it.

reduce, reuse, recycle!!!

Sometimes the sublime is super

I use my pots till they fall to pieces. I would love to add beautiful new ones at least once in a while, but they are, indeed, unholy expensive.

Janis!!!!! Go to a 2nd hand store!!! My nicest plant pots have come from those & the most I spent on 1 was $20

This one is easy to get. She wants shiny new pots. Then she sees the price, and decides she can live with the crackpots.

In the end, she’s gonna wind up with a flower garden, when the plants have to re-potted because the pots fall apart.

I love this strip! I’m sure Janis and her green thumb will make those old chipped pots chic!!!!!Actually I’m rather fond of imperfect things. It shows they’ve been well used and well loved.

You really have to be their age, and Empty-nesting to recognize what’s going on. With my wife and I straddling 70, we get a real laugh out the the recent threads…

Sometimes I can’t quite figure out the strip. If one asks nicely, other readers are usually glad to explain it. I still enjoy reading, despite the occasional head-scratchers. I especially like the Ludwig strips, since I’m a cat owner. I almost couldn’t figure it out today, but I did see the price tag on the pots in the store, so I thought that was it. Then I had it confirmed in one of the comments above.

Been there done that.

you need to have a brain to understand, geez. So obvious.

Janis’ preparing for gardening.

Cracked/chipped pots are charming.

Maybe she can get help from Ed Crankshaft.

I’ll show that Pottery Barn place!

Terra cotta pots give and give. Use them whole and use them cracked. After they disintegrate in your hands, you can use the shards for drainage in the bottom of any pots you have which are still functional.

She has the same problem I have, sigh.

The (plastic) pots come free with the plants we buy. Husband keeps them afterwards – we really have to get rid of some of them.