Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for July 22, 2014

Look closer, Holly! It’s more than Just A New Ring! ;)

Oh you know those two will be on board, Now for the big girls……

Aww, that’s sweet! I like talking to my girls too!

That was so sweet! But it won’t be long before Gramma’s new ring has been tattled about to the whole neighborhood! xD

And nobody even drove to meet her at airport. :(

She didn’t tell them when she was arriving.

Biscuit fails as a guard dog and as the official family greeter.

Why yes it is Holly.

nobody to pick her up at the airport?? But it’s great she will tell the girls first!!!!

Love this strip! It’s best of its genre since For Better or For Worse jumped the shark.

The news will travel fast. The daughters the last to know.

Smart move, Evie! Always knew you were the one with the uncommon sense of things!

When they finished the story line with the grandpa passing away a few years ago. Then after that all they have done is this new story of when the kids are growing up.

I buy the comment that Biscuit didn’t bark because he recognized :Evie as family. But if he’s like most dogs I’ve seen (including a Jack Russell), he’d bark his head off and ask questions later. If he did recognize Evie, he’d be jumping all over her with tail wagging off. I guess we’re lucky that Jan showed him, so people wouldn’t be asking, “Where’s Biscuit?”

In yesterday’s strip they said that Evie is flying in tonight. Odd that no one even waited up for her unless she got in very late. I wouldn’t wake people up from a sound sleep to show them my ring.

It was others that accused Lynn Johnson of “jumping the shark.” I meant that if they felt that retiring and re-running the old strips was jumping the shark then Bill Waterton and Charles Schultz must be accused of the same thing.