Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 26, 2012

Speaking of planting – whats going on with the kids and the farmhouse rebuild and planting season and such?

it’s how you handle the white zinfandel — soon all ours are the grapevine flowers

Agent54, yeah this would be a perfect time to check in with the farm….I bet we do in a week or two. I bet they’ve got it lookin’ pretty good by now…

I have never lived where zinnias grow, but when I close my eyes and think “flowers”, those are what I see.

Mel, why do you think she’s testy? She’s helping him picture zinnias, and she’s smiling about it.

How’s Janis going to keep Ludwig from going wee-wee on her zinnias?

With apologies to Julius Marx….

Zinnia, oh Zinnia, say, have you met Zinnia?Zinnia the tattooed ladyShe has eyes that men adore soAnd a torso even more soZinnia, oh Zinnia, that encyclopediaZinnia, the queen of tattooOn her back is the Battle of WaterlooBeside it the Wreck of the Hesperus, tooAnd proudly above waves the red, white and blueYou can learn a lot from Zinnia

Don’t quit your day job Chaz.

“And over her left kidney was a bird’s eye view of Sydney, but what we liked best was upon her chest – my little home in Wi-Ki-Ki.”

I always thought it was “Lydia the tattooed lady”