For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for December 18, 2016

uh… oh, sure, blame the kids

It happens.

We gave our dog a comforter, folded into a square, so it was nice and thick and comfortable. He loved it.

It was arguably more comfortable than our couch.

Lynn’s Notes:My mom called these small annoying carpets “scatter rugs.” I never really thought about it until I had hall floors to protect, then the word “scatter” made sense.

We have a commercial entry rug…. the type that’s solid rubber with a kind of fiber embedded. Cleans shoes a treat, but is not pretty. It really protects the flooring and who really cares what it looks like anyways.

I knew the dog had done it.

We called them scatter rugs, too. Not sure what else I would know to call them!

Throw rugs were what we called them when I was a kid—still do for that matter, if I have a reason to refer to them.

Elly looks like she needs some milk of magnesia in the second panel

With all the comics reruns now, I can’t be sure whether this is Farley or Edgar.

Why not blame poor old Farley? After all he eats the kid’s homework, crumbs off the floor, doesn’t chase the buggers, pees in the hall and licks you in the face after licking his rear. Sure to get a lump of coal in his stocking. But you guys love him. He really needs a good lawyer . . .

Elly sure comes across as a $itch a lot of the time……

Elly is drawn with a severe cervical curvature of the spine, and this is before the advent of the smartphone (so the condition is now called “text-neck”).Regarding the bunching up of the throw rug, in my house it’s the cat skidding on it.

I call them throw rugs though my mom never used them. We do place throw rugs around furniture to have longer lasting carpet. Then with our Christmas tree I did with a tool and yarn on canvas made a Christmas theme to place around tree. Cat used to love sleeping on it.

Cute lil Farley xo

And this is exactly why anti-skid rugs and underpads were invented. Double sided tape works, too.

This is soooo true!

I always get blamed for these things..Buddy gets away with EVERYTHING.