Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for August 15, 2023

Eighth grade! Time flies. As my daughter quipped about my Granddaughter, “Turn around and she driving off in a Chevy.”

Tempus Fugit!

Welcome to becoming an adult? The lost of time is the normalcy?

8th grade and she’s polite?

Times sure does fly by!

My Grandson just turned 15 a couple of days ago….last week he was 8.

Time waits for no one……ever!

My grandson just started 8th grade

Apropos of nothing, its International Apostrophe Day today! Theres work to be done!

She’s in her last year of “puberty school” as they call middle school around here.

Just wait until a year seems like a month (or week).

Yep. All the grandkids start school today; One each 6th, 3rd, 2nd, and K, and the twins in pre-school.

You’d think they’d have the decency to wait until their dads weren’t kids anymore………….

Here’s the lyrics to “Turn Around”, done by various artists, but specifically, by the late, great Harry Belafonte:

Where are you going my little one, little one?

Where are you going my baby, my own?

Turn around and you’re two, turn around and you’re four.

Turn around and you’re a young girl going out of the door.

Turn around, turn around, turn around and you’re a young girl going out of the door.

Where are you going my little one, little one?

Little dirndls and petticoats, where have you gone?

Turn around and you’re tiny, turn around and you’re grown.

Turn around and you’re a young wife with babes of your own.

Turn around, turn around, turn around and you’re a young wife with babes of your own.

Where are you going my little one, little one?

Where are you going my baby, my own?

(Note: A Dirndl is a Bavarian style of dress…)

Meg went from little kid to 8th grader in accelerated time, quite the opposite of most comic strips.

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

Lovely.

Meg needs a hair style that doesn’t make her look like an eighth grader from the 1960s.

Sort of like my life…..

You will be displeased to learn that it goes faster and faster and faster as you get closer to the bottom.

Looking for trouble showing that Mouse. Disney is litigious.

Does Gene still call her “Squirt”?

Time flies when you’re having fun.

“Where are you going, my little one, little one, where are you going, my baby, my own? Turn around, and you’re 2, turn around, and you’re 4, turn around, and you’re a young girl, going out of the door….”