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1. about 23 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

   I think it’s like someone at a restaurant preferring to sit at a clean table rather than a dirty one.

2. 10 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   I had to make two trips to the dermatologist to have a spot removed from my face. The first time, they didn’t get it all—the biopsy showed some left around the edge. Now I sport a dark pink circle on my really pale skin—but it’s worth it!

   Guess gardening did that, plus sunbathing with Bain de Soleil in the 1960s (couldn’t do that much, since I burned easily). Lucky I made it this far without major problems.

3. 11 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   54 for us (but only 51 of them legally married).

4. 22 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   No.

5. about 1 month ago on Arlo and Janis

   I suspect I’ve found the town (city?) being alluded to: S_cu_n_thorpe. (Hope this doesn’t get flagged.)

6. about 1 month ago on Arlo and Janis

   Before we downsized, I scraped and repainted two rooms and hired someone to fill and hide a crack in the front door. But I think it was well worth it in terms of the price we got.

   Apparently the new owners had studied Realtor ads for houses made anonymous looking so people could imagine their preferred colors. They just have thought that was stylish. So they covered the traditional colors in our 1830s farmhouse with flat gray paint.

7. about 1 month ago on Arlo and Janis

   And why man caves must be painted one or more of those colors!

8. about 2 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   When we downsized from a home where we’d spent 45 years, I told the owners-to-be that the extensive flower beds had gotten overcrowded and asked if it would be OK if I “thinned” them a bit before we left.

   Wound up with dozens of plants, from peonies to hostas and irises, to start our brand-new yard with a flourish. The old yard was still chock full of colorful plants in its nearly two dozen flower beds.

   But I’ll always regret not knowing how to take a cutting from the world’s best apple tree and graft it onto root stock for the new place. Those incredibly tasty apples were from a tree that sprang up on its own after we arrived, so there’s no way to buy one like it.

9. 2 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   Trump told you he intends to be a dictator. Believe him. The notion that he’d be a dictator only on Day One is naïve.

   Once he got “elected” (largely thanks to Russian interference), he set about stacking every court he could; placing his operatives in positions of power despite their entire lack of qualifications apart from licking his boots and funneling taxpayer money into their own pockets; and jiggling his arms, legs, and mouth whenever Putin pulled his strings.

10. 3 months ago on Arlo and Janis

    I’ve never bothered coloring my hair. I’ll soon turn 77 and though the brown’s faded a bit, the gray is only now really visible (mostly on the sides).

    This natural process has never ever bothered me. After all, my husband’s hair went gray about 20 years ago and now it’s a stunning silver (he’s 79). Also, I was fortunate enough to work in a health care profession in which gray hair seemed to equal wisdom to my patients.

    Now and then, I do brag that I spend a fortune having the hairdresser bleach the color out of every second hair on my head one by one by one…