Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 11, 2015

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    Sean David  over 9 years ago

    You only have to sell at cut-throat prices, if you have not distinguished yourself with a separate “must have” brand name. “Jelly is jelly, but with a name like Smuckers, it has to be good.”

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    Varnes  over 9 years ago

    I was under the weather for a while and I didn’t plant any tomatoes this year….I really miss them now…..

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    SR  over 9 years ago

    “The guys on the end are cheaper.”“Their produce is dull and lifeless. And you are what you eat.”

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    joedon2007  over 9 years ago

    No 9-11 memorial ?

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    Mavromatis  over 9 years ago

    Only one of my comics mentioned 9-11 today

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    mourdac Premium Member over 9 years ago

    Need to start a subscription service.

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    KEA  over 9 years ago

    uh, is there a point to this arc?

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    bsqnbay  over 9 years ago

    I really don’t like Mary Lou’s character. I’ve said it before, but I could see ML being killed off and Gene raising shrimp as a single father. It would be one hell of a story arc.

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    Chuck_it_all  over 9 years ago

    Try being on the “Weekend in the Park Art Show” circuit. All the cons and you cannot make compost from the stuff that does not sell. The art work you put a week and your heart into sells for $150, if it sells at all.

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    Varnes  over 9 years ago

    kea, you just proved it’s great writing….You don’t know where the arc is going…..But you want to know, so you have to keep reading it…..That sounds like fine and clever writing to me…

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    Pipe Tobacco  over 9 years ago

    This arc is rather interesting. I wonder if it is leading somewhere…. like Gene, ML and “Squirt” will move back to the “city” where Arlo and Janis live to get a more traditional job/lifestyle? Or, is this simply a brief arc about how hard it is to farm for your livelihood and Gene, ML, and “Squirt” are just talking about the experience, but are otherwise financially ok where they are at?

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    mggreen  over 9 years ago

    This is why I grow only for my family. Any excess, I give to my neighbors. Been there, done that, ain’t going back . . .

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    unca jim  over 9 years ago

    The point of the strip was “Farmer’s Markets” and the hardship of sales. Here in FL, I’d have to drive 80 miles just to take Ma one or two miles from her hovel, just so she could save 8 cents a pound, etc… All this was when gas was $3.00+ a gallon and had to drag every toolbox I owned to fix whatever she’d broken that week. And just so’s you remember, it was 14 years ago that a bunch of Arabs stole my sister’s birthday, not to mention 3,000+ others.

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    Flatlander, purveyor of fine covfefe  over 9 years ago

    My kitchen is full of beets, yesterday it was corn. A friend drove his tiller over to do our garden, we’re scaling back from 90′ × 90′ for enough stuff for the two of us.Beet pickles and Borsch for the next year

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    Gokie5  over 9 years ago

    People have mentioned this before, but Jimmy or someone (someone else, I ween) sure draws characters differently when he goes to Geneland.

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    Tarredandfeathered  over 9 years ago

    And, if you Market it right, you can sell the Compost at the Farmers Market, too..Sometimes for More than the Veggies that went into it if you head for one close to a Really Pretentious neighborhood..“Artisan Compost” anyone?

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    Tarredandfeathered  over 9 years ago

    Using their Restaurant experience, they could branch out into Jams, Jellies & Pickles and sell them Online..Just have to find ways to Ship Them without breakage..

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    RonBerg13 Premium Member over 9 years ago

    Vegetables are a cut throat business.

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