Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 03, 2024

Gene is saying that Arlo has a rock like a head. I"ve been told I’m hard headed too.

They can’t be “snow bird” types? My most envied friend has a beach place in Oregon, a cabin in Northern Calif , AND an easy pace when vacationing. I wish she’d take my bills along and lose them someplace.

So Arlo likes to settle down and get to the bottom of things?

A Definition of sedimentary:(of rock) that has formed from sediment deposited by water or air.

I think Gene is saying Arlo stays put where he is until outside influences (Janice!) convinces him otherwise.

Arlo is slowly disintegrating

Of course he does. Gene has known him literally his whole life.

Gene sleeps topless like Arlo. I’ve never been comfortable sleeping like that.

That’s sedentary and sentimental combined.

Hard-headed; Rocks in his head; Grows fungus wherever you put him… That’s our Arlo! ☺

I’m sort of like Arlo then.

So, he descends to the bottom of the sea in a constant, gradual rain of particles and then hardens into layers of rock. I can definitely see the advantages of that!

My mom moved to California to wait while my dad was in the pacific during WW2. After the war, they moved back to NYC. Each separately told the story of compromising for the sake of the other. At age 10 I vowed I would never live in a place I hated (and I don’t)!

Sedimentary rocks have layers.

Geez, put on some clothes, Gene.

Sedimentary, my dear Arlo.

there will be no move, at least if Arlo has anything, anything to say about it

I stopped reading for awhile because there was nothing going on. Long-time fan, but Arlo and Janis at home can get pretty repetitious. I decided to check back last week to see if anything had changed, and here they are, back at Gene and Mary Lou’s. I’ll stay with this arc, and if at the end they go home and start thinking about packing while talking to the cat, I’ll probably stop again.

It seems to me the right descriptor for Arlo is “sensible”.

I too am sedimentary.

(he said proudly)

Will Arlo like the sea after his first hurricane?

What does either word have to do with the sea?

Arlo has layers?

If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate.