Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for April 17, 2024

That’s life. Even favorite times of the year can have drawbacks.

That’s why I use a knock off of NasaCort®.

Need protection!

They are saying start the antihistamines before the plants start dropping pollen.

That really is hard on the eyes

Maybe half the world.

I take allergy medication every day because of this.

Sigh, I know how she feels. I live in an area that prides itself on all the Fir and Spruces we have. Truthfully I am grateful that they keep the house and yard cooler in the summer. But in the Spring I hate them for all the pollen. Turned my grey deck orange, coated the outdoor furniture, and of course my car. I can’t go outside much because of my allergies to the da*n tree pollen (yet grass pollen doesn’t affect me).

Everything is green? No, my car is pollen yellow.

Yikes!

Now that is something to sneeze at.

This is why I go to the comments: I thought he beat her up.

Down south (of King Neptune’s line) we are freed from the heat, humidity, and some of the critters. Sharks and a few other things don’t seem to be affected, though.

That’s how my head feels today.

Given this comic’s propensity for somewhat realistic depictions, I did NOT see that coming. :D

Yikes! Am I at the right strip? New character? This is a very graphic characterization, more effective than coffee for me this morning.

As a fellow allergy sufferer, I agree…

The tree pollen count has been high the last couple of weeks. Elm, Pecan, Pine have been the worst of the offenders.

I cough after cutting the grass sometimes. I mean constant cough for awhile.

I would love spring except for the rampant winds.

What is that thing doing wearing Janis’s clothes?

That’s just a great drawing of how allergies feel. Nice work, Jimmy!

How’d my wife end up in Arlo and Janis?

“Back! Back!”

(⚆﹏ʖ ⚆) ლ✟

Maybe moving to the coast would help…

YEP…that’s me, just like Janis! Allergies KILL me!

The neti pot (or a variation thereof) is your best friend in times like these. And a 1% saline solution. Morning and evening. Nasal lavage is efficient and inexpensive.

Allergies can be rough…….

I use our remaining stock of COVID masks and wrap around protective eye wear when I go outside. I look ridiculous, but it reduces the irritation of my allergies.

My problem has never been allergies, its I can’t smell a lot of things (always this way, not a covid thing). My wife smells flowers and only a few of them are detectible to me. I can’t smell things like garlic, either, which is handy when we drive through Gilroy California, I guess, since I don’t smell anything and I’m told garlic has an offensive odor.

Have we EVER seen Janis with a spring allergy before???? Or am I missing something in the artwork here?

Allergies can be a pain this time of the year…..

“Dothing’s berfect” describes spring perfectly after working in the garden. Good morning y’all!

Woke up this morning to 4 inches of snow and it’s still coming down.

Finally, a boner-killer for old horn dog Arlo.

That looks like a really bad allergy attack, Janis!

You know that old song that goes “Don’t it make your brown eyes blue?” Well, the pollen makes my blue truck yellow.

Too much time out yesterday getting that “farmer’s daughter tan”!

My wife and I moved to Florida after I retired and one of the things we miss is a real change of seasons. And with the hurricane season fast approaching, we both wish we had moved somewhere else.

I’ll thecken dthat

I bet there’s less pollen down by the shore.

Our neighbor thought his wife or son was allergic to goldenrods so we paid us to knock down all the goldenrods in the field near him. Later, I discovered that pollen from goldenrod really doesn’t cause much allergic reaction but it blooms at the same time that ragweed does, so people who didn’t notice the ragweed but noticed the goldenrod blamed the goldenrod. If you make yourself visible, you’re going to get blamed for whatever bad happens.

(If ragweed was around, we didn’t bother it because we didn’t — and still don’t — even know what it is.)

In FL oak pollen season is over by the end of March. April is very nice until it starts getting hot in a few weeks. We had a pleasant 2 weeks of Spring.

the spring is sprung, the grass is riz, I wonder where the tissue is.

Allergy meds daily year round indoor outdoor allergies

Janis’ head look like a balloon and looks like she got a hair cut

LOL….SPRING = Allergy season BLAH LOL

Spring is my favorite time of year…I get allergies in the fall.

ha ha

I can identify with that….sneeze…..sneeze.