Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 06, 2025

According to Merriam-Webster “an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure” is the third definition of the third example of Epiphany. Pretty sure that is what Janis was referring to.

Only if bodies are being buried. Otherwise it’s merely tabled until November.

Perhaps next years celebration will be less if they ever move. Some things will be left behind.

Two comics mentioning Epiphany, hmm.

I did a " no more neighbors inflatables" dance last week.

Just started taking down decorations yesterday. We may not have our epiphany for a week.

The “official” end of the Christmas season for Latin rite Catholics is 1/14, I think; the octave of the Epiphany. The Julian calendar based Orthodox Catholics lasts a couple of weeks longer, according to the Gregorian calendar.

Very clever double entendre, Janis!

Should have waited for tonight; it’s 12th Night as well as Epiphiny

Today is the religious holiday call the Epiphany, so the cartoonist is making a pun.

I have that same attic ladder.

Let’s hope so, Johnson. Time to move on. Valentines Day is coming up and you need to be ready!

I have one of those pull down ladders. The final “fold up”, acts with the swiftness of a guillotine if you don’t control it carefully with the rope….

It’s grey and cold…I’m leaving the lights up for a few more days!

Last year for the strip?

My wife and I did the same thing last Saturday.

Being possessed of a dark turn of mind, I see this strip as also a metaphor for life.

Today is EPIPHANY ( celebrates the arrival of the Wise Men, in the Christian narrative)

No. Quoting Ebenezer Scrooge from the Christmas Carol, in part, after his Epiphany with the third Spirit, “I will keep the Spirit of Christmas alive in my heart everyday”, So should we all……

Gee. I don’t start de-decorating until Epiphany.

Up, today is Epiphany, Christmas decorations come down tomorrow.

“Over? Did you say it’s over? Nothing is over until we say it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? He** no!”….

It happens every year about this time……….

They’re sipping coffee, so it’s probably around time for their morning meal. Janis seems like the sort who loves Breafast Epiphanies!

We had one of those fold-down attic ladders in my parents first home, built in 1954.

Hey! We installed one of those in garage this summer. Talk about epiphany!

My Christmas decorations are staying put. My grand daughter, daughter and son in law have been sick with flu since 3 days before Christmas. We are determined to have our family Christmas together. Flu has been the worst I’ve seen down here in many years.

I have a set of bear figurines that I change out monthly (except in January normally).

This Christmas we were running late. I took out the nativity stable he had made for me decades ago for these bears and put it on the end table I set it up on. Mostly these bears are displayed on two shelves in a corner display unit. We just about got all the decorations (indoor – outdoor went out earlier) out by Christmas Day when I was setting them up.

Or so I thought. Last week I realized as I walked past the nativity stable that I had not put out these bears. They went out on New Year’s Eve and Day. (And part of them were a problem to put out as the Angel band and carolers go on top of our old TV cabinet and he has taken over part of the top of it during the year to put his electronics for the TV we actually use – so I had to fit the angel bears in about 2/3 of the space I normally do.)

Husband thought it odd to bother – I pointed out that if I don’t put them out one year, I never will again – plus they stay out normally through January as I do not have January bears to put out – and they are replaced at the start of February with the February bears from this set.

Jan 6, the twelfth day of Christmas, is Epiphany.

Excellent drawing by JJ of the fold-down ladder.