Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for May 08, 2020

Corona virus falling off! Release the Killer Wasps!

Reminds me of the SNL Skits “We Are The Killer Bees!”

How sad to consider clear air and vivid sunlight a crisis. Apres moi le ensoleillement!

By Arlo’s definition the “New Normal” has been with us for almost 4 years. Doesn’t sound so great to me.

We live about a half mile from I-95. It is amazing how much quieter it is around here. We didn’t particularly notice how noisy it was until the traffic tapered off.

The next plague involves giving Canada Geese hands. Be very afraid.

Clever one today, JJ! Thank you.

For the Tribe of Conspiracists (using your Good Book):

Mark 8:18Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember?

One of your best, JJ!

Arlo is very philosophical.

Living is an existential crisis, we are just not aware of it most of the time

We have the grandchildren with us rather than living with their clinic nurse mother during this Interesting Time. Our two older grandchildren walk along when I walk our German Shepard, Tasha. Tasha has a few days to live (maybe one) as spleen cancer closes in on her; she is my wife’s dog and we’ve both had experience with spleen cancer in dogs so it is her call.

It is late Spring in the mountains – the skies are bright blue with occasional wispy clouds, the trees are bright green. The air is alternately warm and cool, still and breezy. Life is good even when it is headed for a dark spot.

bashing Trump may get old but having Trump sit in the White House is even getting older

Old crises become boring so we need new ones.

(That is a problem with terrorism…it gets boring as well as irritating if it goes on too long. Ineffective and we are apt to wipe out perceived sources (unless we are djt, in which case we make deals with it). Nobody can stay scared forever.)

My life is a permanent existential crisis.

“What is that weird color in the sky?”

“ It is blue from the lack of pollution”

“ EWW…get rid of it!”

“We are de Killer Bees, from South of de Border!”

I was out running yesterday morning at 4:30 am and when I finished at about 5:15 I noticed up in a cloudless black sky the beautiful full Super-moon. It was spectacular. My jaw dropped. Off to the southeast quadrant of the sky I also saw, very brightly, Saturn and Jupiter. Apparently, Pluto was just to the off-side of Jupiter. I was stricken. The scene amazed me. And today’s J&A comic made me reflect: Because of the lack of traffic for the past month, am I able to see the heavens more clearly now? I haven’t felt this way since I was very, very young. Back before smog and car-emissions.

It has been said that the sun is now visible in the daytime skies over Beijing and Delhi.

I miss Janis being ‘frumpy’. Printed that one off.

We live 3 blocks from a local parkway (limited access road suppose to be 60 mph max), and our street is raised over it. Still at night it sounds like a NASCAR speedway.

We have found that the two times we took a walk – one of them coming back from having to drop off car for new battery at mechanic 4 blocks away, even though we are not driving – people do not wear masks (other than maybe hanging around their necks), do not understand distancing and we can actually cross the 4 lane main road we live on to avoid them. Normally we cannot cross this street due to traffic.