Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 28, 2024

I like this strip but sometimes I don’t get it.

Arlo still remember the hot tub experience?

Reminds me of the 50s, except for the light switch and the thermostat.

If “normal” means he’s helping his wife, that’s a good thing.

Hey, he’s pushing BUTTONS!

To have light with the flip of a switch, ambient temperature always just how you like it and machines that wash our clothes for us is a freaking miracle compared to how many people live in the world today and for that matter, to the lives of almost any human throughout most of history. And lucky us, we call it normal.

Timely here in West Michigan. Storms blew through on Tuesday morning. Much of the area without power. Many trees down. My friend stated he was looking for life to get back to normal.

Everyday around here has been chaos lately. Guess that has to be my normal for a while.

What’s the symbol in panel 2 supposed to be? The number 7? If so, that’s one chilly house.

Look at that look Janis gives Arlo when she brings in the laundry. Good golly she is in love with him!

I’m offering my “2 cents”; we seem to have broken out of the “dilemma of moving” story arc and moved into an older story arc based in winter. Lost electric, fireplace and blankets, now setting the thermostat and wearing long sleeve clothing. Hope we return to “normal” soon so we find out if they move! :o) BTW Jimmy: what ever happened to Arlo’s sailboat?

Seventy one? Does Arlo have heart disease?

Arlo’s daily routines have narrowed!

Have they returned from the Beach? If so…not much of a transition….

What IS “Normal”?

Of all the modern technological miracles that we take for granted, the most impressive and most important – in my opinion – is a reliable supply of clean water.

Just to make sure I don’t take electric power for granted after the last week with this strip, we have had power bumps three times in the last few minutes. They were just bumps, meaning they were on the 69kV level. Not my circus, not my monkeys, now either way!

“Home is knowing where the light switches are.”

We take electricity for granted… few people (in the USA) have to chop wood or carry water or light a candel!

Power back on. Look back at yesterday.

71 is a good temperature for the winter but we go for 77 in the summer.

“You don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone.” Joni Mitchell

Before they left for Gene and Mary Lou’s Arlo had a heart-to-heart talk with Loodie. How come we haven’t seen him since they came back ?

Husband and I as children lived through the big blackout of the mid 1960s in the NE US and then another one a decade or two later – plus all the shorter term/smaller ones.

In theory we can go out to our tiny RV if we need to do so and start up its generator and stay in there. It was a lot scarier when I was a child than it is now – though back then I did not worry about having to throw out food which went bad or frozen pipes bursting.