Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 22, 2024

Bada Bing, Bada Boom. So, we done here?

O God! Can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?

Edgar Allan Poe

T’is easier to plan at home.

Luddie will be relieved.

Their conversation is understandable. Home is where you keep all your stuff. Once it is all packed up and moved into the new place, then that will be “home” from then on.

Thank God! The rose-tint and the glasses are both off!

I spent 6 years out of the country, paying for my house. It took me near on 13 years after that, but I got back to the house I had built and paid for. In those years, I lived lived all over for work and other reasons. It’s satisfying to be back home.

They should have visited so often that they get sick of the drive before moving into the flood zone. How long is the drive home, anyway?

My home town is much smaller than where my wife and I live now, it is 40 miles away, we still go to church there. We have always wanted to move back and my brother always wanted to move away. It doesn’t look like that is going to happen any time soon.

There’s no place like home

There’s no place like home

There’s no place like home

Anyone got any Men size 9 ruby slippers?

Maybe I’m dense, but I still can’t figure out whether this means they’re staying in their original house or going to pursue their plan of actually moving.

YAY. Your vacay place isn’t always where you want or need to live.

Our house is a very very very fine house with 2 cats in the yard. Life use to be so hard…

Our HouseCrosby Stills Nash and Young

Sure, you could live other places and probably enjoy it. But at that stage of life when you’ve been in one place for a long time, you realize there are reasons you stayed there so long. I know many places in the world that I know are nice, but there really are reasons we like it here, in this house that we renovated ourselves, with the few neighbors distant and the house 300 yards from the road. And while conditions are such that we could become quite wealthy by selling and could afford to go anywhere in the world, we have decided to stay here as long as we are able.

This has been a loooong false alarm.

I would think you’d want to spend, at minimum, a month.

And preferably come back for several extended visits, to experience several seasons (if it’s the Gulf coast, I’d recommend at least one tourist season and one hurricane season).

After all, what’s the rush?

never going to happen, both seam miserable

It was a nice place to visit but not live there on a permanent basis. Glad they figured that out.

The last panel says is all. They know where “home” is. It’s not “here”.

Dang I was hoping they would move, something drastic needs to happen to them. You know, like it has for the rest of us.

Go home, keep your home and visit the beach once in a while. Great decision.

Yes Arlo yes……..

I lived in a town called Wasaga Beach for 22 years in the 70’s, 80’s, and early 90’s. met the woman who became my wife. After 18 years in Toronto I retired and we looked north for retirement. She said, Do you want to move back to WB. I kinda went a little off because the town I loved grew from 5000 people to 28,000 people in 15 years and was overloaded with what we lovingly called ‘Citiots’. We found a lovely town with it’s own hospital and it sits on two lakes and has few southerners. (Toronto)

She seems convinced but her eyes say unsure.

Hubby and I made the move from a 100 year old house in the city to a newer waterfront home near the kids and grandkids. Sure, we had to downsize a lot, and I miss my gardens, but we’re happy here, close to family.

Her arms are crossed. That usually says they don’t like to admit something.

JJ’s superpower is to be a conversation starter.

Mosquitoes big as hummingbirds, alligators, hurricanes…it looks like an easy choice to me.

Let’s step back amd and take the “fan” view here: move, and the strip opens up to include more characters – Gene and just family, Gus, and any new town locals. Stay, and we can look forward to more years of Arlo on the couch grumbling about sports, Janis out ruminating on her walks and in the garden, the Ludwig interludes from main storylines, and the occasional innuendo or sideboob to titillate (hah!) the shut-ins.

I vote move.

All of you were great! And, so apropos. Two of my favorite group are Moody Blues and Alan Parsons Project. Especially ToMaIoEAP!

Okay. Maybe they are not ready yet. And the housing market is not good now anyway. Keep the house and spend longer holidays at the beach. That cottage seems pretty inviting and available.

They agree on the destination. What convince Arlo is the “hot tub experience”. Janis wants to feel alive working at the diner.

Is Janis ready to have a daily routine with Arlo?

At home, they have a routine that surround the needs of the house and the cat. Moving would reconnect them to the son and his family.

I still have a feeling J has something up his sleeve. We’ll see. Maybe I’ve just watched General Hospital so long (51 yrs) that I have a soap fan brain. :)

Go home and buy a hot tub :-)

I still don’t get why they can’t keep their house and come down to visit the kids when it’s busy season. Working vacations or whatever you would call it. Or hire them some help.

They came down to decide if they wanted to move. They spent enough time to decide yes, they will move. So, now they can go home.