Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 23, 2024

And yet you’re buggy

Still too warm here.

Tis the season for box elders and lady bugs.

I think we’ve had our last real warm day in Southern Wisconsin. Still a few bugs out there on Tuesday…

We’re not due for a hard freeze for at least a couple weeks. Mosquitoes everywhere. Thinking of the people here in 1878 praying for a freeze to end the Yellow Fever season, without knowing yet that mosquitoes carried Yellow Fever – they just knew the season ended with the first hard freeze!

A marvelous day for a rain dance. Tomorrow’s forecast? 80° and clear.

Maybe where you live. I killed at least 10 mosquitoes today.

I will admit that’s a reduction, though. Ahhh. Florida’s just about like Eden.

Hilarious?

This is the time of the year when the creepy crawlies come inside to extend the season. I’ve even had a few ant visits, probably from new nests that picked the wrong time to hatch out and start exploring.

Better not move to the kids area then

Regarding Janis’s new “do”. I didn’t start coloring my hair till I turned 65, did it for my birthday. No one noticed, she did a really nice job of blending the gray. So then my husband died and my income was about a third of what it was when he was alive. So I stopped coloring it as a cut and color was about $170, and I figured no one would look at me and believe my hair was still dark brown. I wore it chin length. So two weeks ago I went in for a cut and Monica said “just a trim and shape up?” I said “no, I want it whacked off.” So now I have shorter, (not like I got a crew cut or anything) kind of a shorter wedge cut. I think it makes me look younger because it cut off a lot of the gray! Easier to style, I don’t have to throw my brush across the bathroom anymore! I’m kind of testy in the morning as my husband would have attested to. He liked my hair any way I chose to wear it, short, long, brown, gray, curly, or straight. I only have myself to please. :)

Around here it will soon be “Stinkbugs get in the house” season.

I dig this one the most.

I need it colder, I’ve a wasp nest in the siding when poison doesn’t reach so I need to open up the siding and dig out the wasps. Right now they are still a bit active, even after a frost or two.

Really like Arlo & Janis. They complement each other, support each other, are still in love, and have a great kid! And that cat – yea! Who could ask for more?

So, this ain’t in Louisiana for sure. Although the lovebugs have slowed down a lot, the skeeters are waiting until about lunchtime (pun intended) to come out around here.

Forget the bugs and celebrate the fall colors. That is the highlight of this season.

no boxelders?

Unfortunately, it’s all ladybugs and boxelder bugs here now.

The aspect that there are no/very few bugs help make this a wonderful time of year.

Our weather is pleasant, but the mosquitoes suck…

Fall is a wonderful time! Spring is my favorite, but I underestimate this time of year! Love the artwork!