Recent Comments

1. about 6 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

   Could be worse. A group of us went to the Canadian GP one year and stayed with a friend in Montreal. His sister came home while we were grilling hamburgers. She proceeded to tell us about her day. She was a meat inspector.

2. about 6 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

   The first person to think about eating snails, or crawfish, or oysters, had to be very, very hungry.

3. about 6 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

   Or fresh veggies. My parents had a garden uphill from the house and a trout stream downhill. My mom’s favorite spring meal involved catching a few trout, picking some fresh strawberries, snapping off a few stalks of asparagus, and heading to the kitchen.

4. about 7 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

   I had a work friend who, with his wife, bought a small farm. The farm came with a barn full of cats and two goats. She was happy because she would no longer need to pay to board her own horses. She was not happy when he named the goats—Gyro and Souvlaki.

5. about 7 hours ago on The Dinette Set

   Found it.

6. 5 days ago on Pluggers

   Not an address book, but a mini calendar. For all the years I’ve had a phone, I still find using a calendar app annoying. The people in line behind me at the doctor’s office are probably annoyed when I try to use a calendar app on my phone, too.

7. 5 days ago on Ordinary Bill

   Half a muffin would be $1.50—if you have a friend willing to share.

8. 6 days ago on Cathy Classics

   Keep the suit. It actually looks good on you.

9. 6 days ago on Cul de Sac

   I dunno. Alice might like to have a bat as a pet.

10. 7 days ago on Wallace the Brave

    It was. It also had a daylight basement with a door and a picture window at the back of the house. We used to tie our clip-on roller skates to old couch cushions and ‘surf’ down the sloped concrete floor to the back door.