Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 21, 2020

In with the new; out with the old. Show no mercy!

Her expression in the last panel: “I can neither confirm nor deny your allegation.”

Janis Octavius has gestured.

Janis is at large and in charge!

My aloe vera is getting too big to fit through the door and had 4 pups this year.

Because of covid, sales for lottery jack POTS have dropped 40%

There’s a specter haunting me.

My wife brought most of the “sensitive” in Monday night, the big jade and the Meyer Lemon are still out.

Depending on the season, it is a part of a woman’s persona to tell husbands, “Move this here…no, no move it there…wait, put it by the window.”

It’s the annual Move-The-Insects-Inside Day

“Watch it, bud. I’ve got an itchy thumb, and I’m not afraid to use it…” ✋ ☺

Bottom line is, “If you don’t grow during the Summer, you die in the Autumn”…..

My first laugh of the morning.

Anyone hearing Brian Setzer’s “You’re the Boss” playing in their head right now? I certainly am.

Janis, Judge of Shrubbery!

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It is a bit weird when Janis invites the neighbors to sit on the lawn socially distanced and cheer or boo before the thumb makes it final. Sometimes the little green thing that has lost its identity but is still going strong on the porch captures hearts and minds.

My wife has some type of ugly stick plant with some thick fronds on top that cannot withstand cold. No idea what it is. Every spring we say that this will be the last year and as I plan to put it on a raft and send it to Valhalla. Every fall I am told to drag it back indoors because it “looks fine” and “we have had for so long”.

Learned long long ago to choose the next battle carefully.

She needs jodhpurs and a riding crop.