Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 17, 2019

You’ve got a tall order to fill, Arlo.

The smile was a dead give-away!!! :o)

She needs someone taller.

Just don’t think of being the nearest handy tool.

Like where else would he be?

Get the step ladder! Or maybe we’ll get another “Arlo lifts Janis” strip?

“There you are” is not quite as bad as “We have to talk,” but it can still chill you to the bone.

Chill, Arlo! You could impress her with your size and agility, which could lead to… well, you know

Ya, me too.

My husband hates to hear, “you are an engineer, right, or You have a Master’s degree, right?” That means I expect him to do something a smart person should be able to do.

Come on, Arlo, get down in that shop of yours and build her a footstool! Help her reach that dish and you help her for a day. Build her a footstool and you help her for the rest of her days.

I usually call out “Oh tall person”

What up with the winter clothes…?

You know, good step-stools can save a marriage.

I think she just needs a taller person to get that bowl down for her.

When did they retire? Just curious.

Good for something!

…or a stay-seated-long kind of statement.

“Oh, good, there you are!”

“Yes, I just got back.”

(or "Yes, I escaped.)

That is when I point out the cat has hacked up a hair ball on the carpet. Go and get the cleaner and end up at the store buying ice cream bars. Works every time.

Oh baby

I usually get yelled at for climbing up instead of calling him – he is whopping 5 inches taller than my 5’1" – he will just have to climb up also. He has often has trouble even now remembering I was taught how to use tools, and do things for myself.

Our reenactment unit had built a small (sort of) reproduction 18th century wooden fort at the local restored village for an event we had the weekend before this last one. This past Saturday was the taking down of the fort and the storing of it in a barn that the restoration is letting us use for same so when we do the event again in 2 years we can rebuild it. He brought both battery drills as he knows that I would insist on working with “the guys”. (As a board member I feel that I should participate and not sit back just because I am female.) When we arrived another member had come the day before and took most of it down. We mostly only had to stack the pieces. The first set of pieces were about 4 ft tall and I helped pass them along the line . The next set of pieces were about 7 feet tall. I started standing one up to carry – he had a fit and told me that I could not carry them they are too heavy. Well, too heavy for him maybe, but not me and I picked the piece up and carried it the entire 8 feet it had to be moved. Of course after proving my point I only stood up the pieces for others to pick up and move. Many hand made quick work of putting it away.