Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 27, 2024

The devil is in the details

Do some research on homeowners insurance before you move. You may not be able to afford it or even get it in Florida or the Gulf Coast if hurricanes continue to get worse.

There’s no way I would live near water again. My wife and I lost our house to a flood in 2007. It was several years before we got used to hearing rain without freaking out.

My family lost our very beloved eldest auntie a month ago, today.

Please know that while you were always the ones to help others, it’s very much okay to let that be reciprocal and ask the younger people in your lives to help you with home or personal things that become annoying or overwhelming.

You’re not a burden to us. Please don’t let any broken thing or overwhelming situation cause you embarrassment. It’s just life. It’s okay.

We want to help, like you helped us.

It’s harder at the end seeing all the ways we could have made your lives easier and more comfortable, if we’d only had the chance.

Overall, we’re glad she got to live all but the last week of her 85 years in her own home and on her terms.

We’ve gotten to finish up prior projects and fix other things so it’ll be a very nice house for a vet or other elderly person.

Just really wish she had let us do all of that for her.

Wishing you all well.

Moving to the new house, before selling old house?

Oh to have a genie in a bottle.

I am so tired of this story arc of “will we or won’t we move.”

Death. Public speaking. Moving. 3 great fears.

Moving is hard! Good luck, guys. But just know, your fans (us) will be there for you ;)

If wishes were fishes we’d all swim in riches Arlo.

I’m with you Arlo, just want the move to be over and done with.

I want to move into a nice ranch with a garage and a dry basement. And then I’m done moving.

Just do the modern thing and put your house on the short-term-rental market after you move.

Ah yes, the dream is nice, the reality will be nice — it’s the getting there from here that’s a pain.

I get it! We made what I hope is our final move in February. Everything went like clockwork, but still. . . SO much work on both ends.

I wish we could know when the “will they or won’t they move” arc will be resolved.

AMEN! Arlo… AMEN! in full caps!

I started packing more than a year before we retired and moved. I didn’t know where we were going, but I knew we were going somewhere! I also reduced my books by 90%, which nearly broke my heart, but now I only occasionally miss a few particular books.

If you need help moving, I’m available next weekend. :)

Like traveling. I love being in a new land I just hate getting there

Been there. The struggle is real!

I can so relate to this. Just how I felt before my last two moves. No more. I’m done moving.

Yep, it’s not “The Move”, it’s “The Moving” that kills ya

I hope they realize that after the move, they won’t be able to find anything for years, because they will see it in their minds where it was in the “old” house

Hitting yourself with a hammer because it felt so good when you stopped.

Seems that you are living the dream right now. Take more time to visit those you love….

I’d sell our house for a nickel if I could transplant my garden to the next place

There are companies that move houses. Lift them up off their foundation, put on a flatbed truck and carried to a new spot. How much would that cost compared to building a new house on the empty lot ?

I’m sure these are not the A&J comics I get in my daily newspaper.