Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 25, 2024

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    Yakety Sax  about 2 months ago

    Autumn memories.

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    Clancy23  about 2 months ago

    Notice the similarity in the bill of Arlo’s cap and Janice’s hair? :-)

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    pschearer Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Is there anywhere in the U.S. that leaf-burning is still legal?

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    Ruth Brown  about 2 months ago

    I loved the burning leaves when I was a kid. As an adult, I loved our burn barrel in Illinois.

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    yoda1234  about 2 months ago

    Ah, the golden days when you could burn your leaves and pretend they didn’t pollute the air…..

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    SpacedInvader Premium Member about 2 months ago

    I love the smell of burning leaves. Hard on my sinuses now though. Had a couple fall into my BBQ pit a few days ago as I was starting the fire. Was an accident. Honest.

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    Rhetorical_Question   about 2 months ago

    Teenager dreams?

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    Carl  Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Those were the days.

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    Null Island  about 2 months ago

    Young Arlo has a “Star Trek: The Next Generation” shirt.

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    John Leonard Premium Member about 2 months ago

    I still remember my maternal grandfather burning leaves in suburban Boston. My paternal grandfather piled them up against the house and held them down with tar paper and lathes. They helped insulate his dry stone foundation from the Vermont winters.

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    jruckman  about 2 months ago

    I no longer rake my leaves. I leave them as natural compost for the lawn, as a winter shelter for various critters like bumblebees, plus it keeps them out of the landfill. How cool is that? To feel smugly superior for having an ecological excuse for indulging my laziness! :^)

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    lrpete Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Good grief, it’s a cartoon.

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    Alias1600  about 2 months ago

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    Charles  about 2 months ago

    Farmers used to burn off their fields after harvest. It was a natural way to fertilize the ground and deter weeds and vermin. Now they have to pay big bucks for fertilizer and weed killer.

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    assrdood  about 2 months ago

    I mow my leaves to smithereens.

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    jmarkow11  about 2 months ago

    Lived in Detroit proper; lots of trees, all varieties. Raking was a ritual; my sister and I and dad. Raked them directly into the street gutter and dad would light them up (after some jumping and reraking) and light them up. Same thing up and down the street. I can still see the whole scene in my mind. And smell it.

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Life is where you live…….

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    w2lj  about 2 months ago

    There was nothing like walking home from school to the smell of burning leaves! Most people here had wire bins that they’d pile the leaves into for burning.

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    Jml58  about 2 months ago

    You can think about it, as long as you don´t do it.

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    Chuck2Carol Premium Member about 2 months ago

    For the last few days, I’ve been recalling a front-page cartoon that the Chicago Tribune ran every October, celebrating what used to be called Indian Summer: top half showed a youngster and his/her grandpa gazing out at a field of bundled cornstalks [not wrapped in white plastic like nowadays]. Bottom half showed them after sundown looking at a field of teepees with imagined native Americans moving around among them…at least that’s the way I recall it from way back in the late ’40s.

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    brigidkeely  about 2 months ago

    I really miss the smell of burning leaves but the smoke aggravates my asthma so much.

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    redbaron  about 2 months ago

    As usual, I have no idea what the fluff is happening in panel 3.

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    serial232  about 2 months ago

    Our state is encouraging everyone not to rake leaves. Let them be.

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