Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 18, 2022

Must have just been a suggestion. The instructions weren’t very clear.

Subtle as a train wreck.

Ash pits are a pain in the ash.

I’ve worked with people like that.

A paper trail.

Note to Janice, This is the age of equality, women can do anything a man can do (or so the popular feminist narrative says). If Arlo can do it, you are equally capable and Arlo wouldn’t want to be SEXIST and demean you by doing something that you can do.

The problem with claiming you’re equal is sooner or later you might be treated as an equal.

If it isn’t the farm or cows…it doesn’t get done. We live in MY home sooo I either do it myself or wait…and wait…threaten to call someone…then wait. Right now I’m looking at a support beam in the ceiling that has come lose. This should be interesting.

Hearing the garbage truck rumble by while I’m reading Gocomics with the garbage sitting right by the door waiting…I mean, I set the bags there. You’d think I’d look at the clock as it got light out. I could use a little help.

The next meeting of Procrastinators Anonymous will be delayed indefinitely.

He does have ash-pirations.

A man needs to ease into to a chore like that.

My nine-year-old son lost it when I explained to him that there is an ash-hole at the bottom of the fireplace that has to be cleaned out now and then. I told him that his mother might have a different word for it.

Mrs. Lemon Juice does that!

Get your ash in gear

Both of our fireplaces are natural gas, we use them. The last place both were designed for wood, I blanked them off.

[SOAK]

You can lead a horse to water….

Some paper trails are not followed!

Pro tip: this is a very bad marriage move. You either leave a trail of tags, or, you nag. You don’t do both. Nagging after the trail is like saying “I think you’re stupid as well as lazy.”

Sometimes nagging is counterproductive

…2nd thought: isn’t it surprising that in this high tech day and age ash pits still have to be emptied by hand? (or that ash pits, exist, really)

When coffee’s finished…

Ash pit?

“Is it April yet?”

On my to do list…..

Yup. Call me on St Patty’s day if the snow is not too deep.

I don’t understand why she doesn’t do it? Judging by the trail of sticky notes, she’d likely already been nagging for days now! Just this morning, I emptied the ashes from our wood stove, cleaned the glass, and got it started back up.If something needs doing in our household, the person that notices it, does it.

Some fireplaces have a metal door outside. Easy and not messy.

This behavior is just not typical for them. Maybe a different comic, but not this one, unless it’s a game they play.

Well, get on with it.

…..I should have gone straight to Heathcliff!!