Pickles by Brian Crane for March 20, 2023

But it makes getting dressed in the morning when you are not totally awake. It is lot easier to lay out clothes and whaterever is needed in the morning, at night when still awake.

Sometimes old people need to downsize. It is not unreasonable to go through your stuff to see what you have.

I just have white socks and black socks. It takes all the guesswork out of getting dressed.

I do some small exercise sets every day. B.o.r.i.n.g… so at least I can count the reps various ways. I count forward and backward in English, Spanish and German numbers, and forward and backward in the alphabet (English only). Since there are 26 letters in the alphabet, I generally do sets of 13. Spouse (and a couple of others I’ve explained it to) just roll their eyes. But I’ve found that if I don’t break up the counting SOMEHOW, I lose track of where I am in the sequence. After I count to 10 fifteen times… or was that fourteen? or sixteen? there’s just no way to know how much I’ve done.

Fortunately, I’m color blind. If any of my clothes are organized according to any system, somebody else must have done it.

Can Earl ever please her? She never stops!

go knit another tea cozy and leave the man be!

Just let him be or he might start coming over to your domain and then what …

Earl will never change.

That is a new one on me, Earl!

“Red Necks, White Socks, and Blue Ribbon Beer” as the song goes!

Well, as long as she’s being respectful…

She should know something to help him keep his hands busy : )

They’re not going to alphabetize themselves!

Strong Sad would be proud.

Watch it, Opal or you might get socked…

Alphabetization. Is that why the right sock is always lost first in the laundry before the left?

How about YOU, Opal? You have enough time on your hands to criticize Earl FOR THE WAY HE ORGANIZES HIS SOCKS!

It’s free time! Why does it matter what he does with it?

What comes next in the sock alphabet?

At times, after a certain age, it’s challenging to remember the significance an object once had.

Sheldon Cooper might approve!

He’s doin’ a good job……. leave him alone

Downsizing is a good thing, sometimes.

One drawer for white socks, one drawer for black socks. I made that switch a couple of decades ago.

I was going to say that sorting socks is about the most exciting thing Jon Arbunkle does, but then I read today’s Garfield.

My clothes are sorted by the spectrum method. Hanging or drawers, both by color. Black at one end, white at the other.

Opal, it’s called RETIREMENT. Everyone should try it once in their life. It’s Great!

There is nothing Earl says or does that OPAL doesn’t shoot him down…

I have a world class 35mm camera I can’t give away but can’t bring myself to throw away.

I am surprised he doesn’t organize them by right and left socks.

Earl is just being….Earl!

I buy a pack of the same socks so I don’t have to match. when one gets a hole I toss it. When I get low I buy a new pack

That’s just crazy, everyone knows you don’t organize colors in alphabetical order, you use spectrum order :)

Long ago Gold Toe offered an entire spectrum of sock colors. It made organizing, and wearing socks more fun.

All my socks start with a D, for Diabetic.

They call him Count because he loves to count.

Watch out Earl, that phrase is a lead in to the new honey do list.

I find organizing by spectral color works well.

I have been retired since 1998. As far as I am concerned there are never enough hours in the day to procrastinate over my wifes latest honey do list

Don’t hassle him, Opal – a lot of women would be thrilled if their hubbies sorted & folded their own socks!

Only until he gets to the Zebra socks.

He’s retired, all of his time is “Free time”. No-one’s paying for it.

You can tell a lot about a man by the way he organizes his sock drawer! ;-p

and to think Jon Arbuckle has a problem organizing his socks

May I respectfully suggest that he’s doing a “make work” task in order to look busy and get out of any other household tasks or jobs she needs him to do?

“I can’t do that now, Opal, I’m busy alphabetizing my socks!”

It’s called being retired Opal.