For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 17, 2020

there’s no escaping Martha’s worries for Michael, is there?

Filthy mind!

Oh geez, Mike’s summer employer is the same hayseed who hosted the Pattersons a few Christmases back. :(

Hermione….. LOL

Why didn’t Martha ask Michael for this important information before he left? Elly and John could have definitely said no and she wouldn’t be so happy.

Martha has nothing to worry about. All those eligible females Michael is meeting are pigs.

LOL! Good call, John!

I’m not in the habit of naming animals that are going to end up on someone table. Giving them names makes it hard when their time on the farm can be measured in months.

Poor Michael, can’t help but feel sorry for him,being somewhere he never wanted to be inthe first place!!!

Well after all Hermione did attend Hogwarts.

I hope Uncle Dan’s phone is a party line.

If he’s working on a relatives farm, the only females he’s going to meet will be relatives. And, if he has lots of free time to go carousing, then they really didn’t need him to work there in the first place.

They look lovely.

I knew it…I KNEW IT!!

What is Elly sighing about? She must have some strange dislike for Martha.

My parents were worried I was getting too serious about a high school girlfriend and start having sex too young. Then after I came out in college, they wished I had been sexually active with her…as if that would have changed anything. So parents, be careful what you wish for…LOL

And that’s Charlotte over in the corner.

Nothing like spending some time on a farm to learn about the “birds and the bees” thing.

Man, I would have thought Michael would have given Martha that info already.

Martha, clingy little thing ain’t she? Hopefully Michael will get a clue and walk away.

Soon we will see this strip:

Michael is walking down the aisle with a pig. A bunch of pigs are seated in one row of pews. with John, Elly, Lawrence, Elizabeth, Lyin’ Brian Enjo, and April seated in the other row.

Aaa, swine flu! Run Mike. lol.

Michael should stick with the pigs much better than most people.

My husband’s family named a cow “Freddie” and only about half the family was willing to eat Freddie-steaks. I’m not sure it was the name as much as their adopting him young and he’d hang out and curl up with them like a dog. They had big, annoying herds of cows that would charge them or escape the electric fence in bad weather at other times and could happily have eaten them with vengeance!Lynn’s Comments: My brother-in-law (the farmer) said, “Never name anything you’re gonna eat.” His pigs and miniature horses were safe, but the cow…well, she was never named.

Pigbutt!

Why does Elly always look so perplexed?

Elly has a different facial expression in each of the first three panels, none of them “perplexed”.

Yep. Totally.

I feel his pain.

Next, they go to the smokehouse and Mike gets introduced to Lisa, Judy and Roxanne.

Young, tender. Hmm. Ever hungry. Yep. Be careful.

oh no snape turned hermione into a hog

I was 21 then they only mobile phones were huge and very expensive pagers had just become the thing to.have

Michael’s indentured servitude: Day 1

Why exactly did they not like her?