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   jeffc42 said, 4 months ago

   Speaking as a ibrarian, score one for libraries for providing people like Agnes, who has no chance of having a computer at home, with the means to get what she needs. Your government workers and tax dollars at work!
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   SusanSunshine said, 4 months ago

   Who else thinks she’ll cover a piece of cardboard with aluminum foil and scotch tape it to an old broomstick?
   
   Unless she “borrows” Granny’s cookie sheet and duct tapes it to an old golf club.
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   SUSAN NEWMAN said, 4 months ago

   This story line sounds VERY interesting.
   I can hardly wait to see the finished product.
   :-D
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   frugalnotcheap said, 4 months ago

   @SusanSunshine

   HA!! Love the aluminum idea. My sister and I would use old cookie sheets instead of sleds (re-snow saucer era) to slide down the hill across the street over at the school.
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   rshive said, 4 months ago

   Agnes will surely figure something out. Is that the same “thing” on her bureau two days in a row?
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   Dani Rice said, 4 months ago

   One year we got over two feet of snow while I was at work, and my husband nailed pieces of old paneling to 1×2s and made each of our three daughters a snowshovel. They were able to clear a spot large enough for me to get the car off the road. The snow was up to the door handles.
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   Cuddleman said, 4 months ago

   Interesting they have a computer, live in an area that snows and can’t afford and do not have a shovel. ???
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   Wolf Emperor said, 4 months ago

   Either the library has the exact same wall & floor colors as her house, or the “library” she went to is an online one.
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   Stipple said, 4 months ago

   The ceiling and walls of a trailer meet in a curve.

   Extreme weather patterns dump large amounts of snow where it did not used to be.
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    Stipple said, 4 months ago

    Some strips are colored by the syndicate, some by the artist.
    Tony?
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    Jeff0811 said, 4 months ago

    @SusanSunshine

    A cookie sheet and a broomstick, that’s all you need. Sure, they have money for a cookie sheet, and Grandma has to get around somehow, but let Agnes shovel snow for a bit, she can buy her grandma a whole new broom.
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    susanwobb said, 4 months ago

    @Wolf Emperor

    > Either the library has the exact same wall &
    > floor colors as her house…
    .
    The library has the same wall and floor colors as her trailer but does not have a curved wall-ceiling joint, nor rivets holding them all together.
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    MikeFromMichigan said, 4 months ago

    I can’t remember if she and Trout have been in snow before, but the possibility is since niether know what a snow shovel is, is that they live in what used to be a typically cool winter clime (as opposed to the northern states), and they just had one of those freakish snowfalls that are becoming more (ab)normal, thus the lack of knowledge of a ‘snow shovel’, and the more apparent lack of knowledge of the work required, and noticing the obvious opportunities that they feel they have since nobody else has a snow shovel.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago

    Kudos for showing them using the library computers. I did for years before my brothers aided me in getting a computer to use myself.
    -
    A snow shovel is a “deep” type. And a cooking sheet won’t do. Several card board boxes with one side cut out and layered then covered in broad tape might work for awhile. Depends on how wet or hard the snow is.
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    SusanSunshine said, 4 months ago

    Aye yi yi….

    
    So many assumptions….
    Agnes has tried to make a computer from bits of cardboard and tape….
    if she HAD one she wouldn’t need to…. and the girls have discussed their lack of them.
    
    
    So she’s at the library….
    The rooms probably match in all the panels only because that was the color scheme chosen for decorative effect by the colorist today.
    
    
    The syndicate only pays them about $20 to color a whole week of any comic strip — so most colorists spend 10 or 15 minutes per daily strip.
    
    
    Some don’t even read them first, and only the really dedicated ones go into much color detail.
    This colorist may not have even realised there was a change of venue.
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