Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for August 07, 2023

Janis had been leaning towards moving to the coast but JJ throws her a mountain curve.

Meg has lived by the coastal waters a long time.

Looks like Meg has finally grown out of the homely stage! She’s now on a par with other denizens of the strip!

Hey, who doesn’t want to drive six white horses?

I grew up in flat Alabama and made my first trip to Tennessee and the Smokeys when I was about 14. I felt like Meg does. Now I live in East Tennessee at the base of a mountain. It’s beautiful here.

This is God whispering: Beware the Gulf Coast.

Oh! that reminds me of a happy old song I like… ah, yes, “Mountain Greenery” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn5T7bW6E7w

Mountains? Pfft. Them’s hills. To see REAL mountains you have to go out West.

“Broody” like moody, or “Broody” like about to lay eggs? ☺

I just LOVE Meg’s character! An “Old Soul”, extremely wise for her years, creative, and the type of person that can teach others how to grow.

My face is kind of flat. These characters have snouts.

Ah…Mama Janis….kind of sweet…

And JJ has introduced to me yet another word that was new for me: broody.

The word caused a fair number of jokes to come to mind, but I shall refrain from sharing them. I have no desire to be banned.

Not going to be able to keep Meg down on the (coastal) farm.

Just be careful checking out that greener grass!

https://www.gocomics.com/broomhilda/2023/08/06

Mountains and lowlands each have their charms.

This is actually my goal—start a farm, grow flowers, sell eggs, get very messy.

My uncle was raised on the prairies of Saskatchewan and any time he got close to mountains he’d have claustrophobia symptoms.

Story of life….

Everything being so much greener was what I thought after returning to UK from a couple of weeks in southern California

Glad to see Meg again.

Went over her head Janis.

Husband occasionally mentions moving – at first it was to Lancaster, PA (the place we visit most), then some years later it was Williamsburg, VA (the place we visited pre-Covid twice a year, dressed in period clothing).

I always smile and say something like “maybe” or if he actually sounds serious I will reflect a bit more of what I actually think "how the heck can we move all of this – while standing in his garage woodshop and looking at the big power tools or in our main studio in the house where I say the same.

We were both born on this Island and I plan to stay here permanently – but no reason to start a discussion about it unless it is actually being seriously considered. Plus in our early 70s our niblings all live here with or near their parents and they & their children are our only support system for the future. I even know where we should be buried – there is a historic cemetery (first one under the public cemetery law in the state) which is along the route where our reenactment unit does a couple of parades a year for the local township (which supports the unit financially and otherwise) – seems the perfect place to me. We can watch the parades and see the new generations of reenactors.

The grass is always greener until you find that the cow dumps over there , too . And it’s probably greener because there’s more of it .