Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for August 08, 2013

The “Dog Days” of August.

Uh, no it’s not.

“Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer … ♪♫♫♪♪♪♫♫”

All the adults are asleep.

All of the adults are worn out! Been there!

all those folks asleep in the sun, can they spell SUNBURN, ouch.

Yep!

It’s good that there are some awake teenagers so that the little bitties won’t drown . . .

She obviously doesn’t live in Phoenix!

Private beach. Lucky!

I think Max is wondering why the “horse-y” won’t go anywhere!

The beach of course.

Watch your kids around water! This is an example of bad parenting. sorry but someone needed to point it out.

Beach time! Watch out for sharks.

Summer Vacation Part 2…………..!

The little ones are being watched by teenagers that are old enough to babysit the young ones on their own, and they often do so. So the “OMG TERRIBLE PARENTS” is unwarranted.

BTW, I’m one of those who likes the weekly “August” strips…brings back a lot of memories (some good, some not so good). I hope everyone doused themselves with a good, potent sunscreen! ;)

Gee, this strip makes it appear as if adults have lost the energy level of children…and of course we have, haven’t we? lol.

At least one adult needs to be awake to watch the 2 youngest kids around water. You can’t depend on 3 older kids.

On a Windows computer (don’t know about Apple), just type “Charmap” into Search and it will bring up the entire Character Map for your computer, listing all the special characters (as well as the regular ones) such as ¢, é, ⅝, ®, etc.And the musical notes, of course.

use alt key ♫ ♫ 14

Here in KS not having lazy days of Summer. We went through 2-3 years of draught. July became rainy and now August. Very enjoyable. We have young trees that are growing fast. We have so much rain riverbeds and ditches are overflowing.

I surprised the family is not in the water playing instead of sleeping.

Really? Is she gonna do these kinda strips all week? Geez, Family Circus isn’t this bad!

When I worked 3rd shift in my 20s, people often asked me if I slept outside in the sun. I never knew why. Sleeping in the sun is the best way to get a nasty sunburn. I wanted no part of that. I slept inside, safely away from the sun.

For standard keyboard press alt+13 to obtain ♪ and alt+14 to obtain ♫ (they appear after letting go). Cheers!