Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for December 15, 2015

You mean like believing that the other houses they show were on the market?

So… he wants the stone cottage? I would want a cottage rather than a house near a noisy quarry.

I had a chance to rent a cute little house on a pretty little lake…That’s kind of how I viewed it for the first few weeks…Then one day, while driving home, it occurred to me that the house was pretty small, and was more like a cottage, than a house…..And that I actually lived in A Little Cottage By A Lake. For some reason that made me feel good….The mind is funny… Still living on this spring fed wooded lake, different house, same lake……But I own this one..

Does watching it right involve a football game instead?

I guess I don’t understand as I don’t watch the show except flipping channels. Why would one want the house with asbestos and next to a noisy rock quarry?

He’s watching like it’s a sporting event.

I don’t want to watch HGTV either.

Remember that the G stands for garden? And they actually did gardening segments?

We had friends on Buying Alaska, they didn’t buy the house they chose on the program, in fact they didn’t buy any house—and the other two were not even for sale. So much for reality.

I think he’s pulling for the underdog.

You can’t bring an ESPN mentality to a HGTV program.

I’m put off by the constant use of the word “space” on HGTV. “Oh, isn’t this a nice space?” What happened to the word “room?” Sorry, folks, “space” just sounds too pretentious for me. And I’d say more but if you’ll excuse me I’ve got to visit the bathspace. Sorry. Back in a few minutes.

He is watching it “right”! And by the way, these are houses not homes. It’s a home when lived in as such.

Been there, done that. Worse yet is when contestants on Wheel of Fortune continue to request letters and buy vowels after my wife and I have solved the puzzle. “Why are you wasting money on vowels you idiot. Just solve the puzzle.”

I went Arlo-balistic at one program where the “clients” were looking for property in the $1.5 million range and rejected one place because the appliances were the wrong color!

It’s rare that I read an A&J and have no clue what Jimmy/Arlo is talking about. Reading the comments helped clear up my confusion (somewhat).

Heck, my wife would be right there with Arlo bitching out the home shoppers!

Hard to imagine Arlo EVER being sarcastic, (just like me), so he may be thinking of the durability of asbestos siding (like my house had in my earlier youth) and the joy of swimming and fishing in an abandoned gravel lake (what we call ’em).Further, such a body of water would be an ideal heat sink/source for a heat pump.