Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for October 11, 2020

Those skills aren’t genetic, but they might as well be: Daughters learn them at their mother’s knee.

I just wait for Sunday’s because I love the new strips!

OK, but the work needs to be done and the workers don’t really need the extra pressure.

Only 65?? THAT’S not so old! (Says this 63-year-old fan of newspaper comics).

Except for emergency repairs, we’ve always gotten at least a day’s notice of utility work. They can’t just shut power down, think of the folks with medical needs like power for supplemental oxygen or even powered lift chairs. They need time to charge backup batteries, etc.

Negotiate with the electric company? Fat chance.

Made me laugh!

In the ’80s, I worked for Group W Cable in SoCal. They were building new systems and everyone hated retirement homes, because there would be a dozen people watching them work and making certain every flower and blade of grass was put back in the right place. No smartphones, so no evidence and everyone had a different opinion.

Only in a comic strip.

As a healthy and active 65 year old I think I’m offended!

I know why mom Evie get upset age 65 she is retired and has her shows to watch. I wondered her age, meaning Val and Joan are more younger, I am almost age 65 in 3 more months. No power for hour seems long yet short time, Evie can also get out of the house.

What timing! Thanks to a nasty microburst, my area was without power Wed-Sat.

I wish it worked like this.

I think I’d rather have it off for several hours and be told in advance that it was going to happen than like in our area where it blinks off and back on several times a week, some times once or twice a day. Then everything has to be either turned back on or reprogrammed if it comes back on by itself. And if I happen to be using my bread machine, its all over.