The plumbing is done.
Betty
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On another subject,
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.
—Epictetus
B.C.
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That’s not quite what Epictetus had in mind.
And this guru didn’t like Pig’s response,
Pearls Before Swine
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This one has no connection to philosophy, but it makes me laugh.
April 25, 2026
Betty
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Delainey and Rasmussen (the creators) sure do know how to keep me coming back.
April 24, 2026
Betty
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Another “oh, dear!”:
It wouldn’t be hard to find a lot more — I spend a lot of time learning about what is going on in the world, and also countering it with some of the suggestions in the food-for-thought videos. And I’m blessed with a taste for unsophisticated, silly things.
For instance I love Henry the dragon.
Wizard of Id
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And Snoopy. I think of this one a lot when I manage to write something I like.
Snoopy
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And this one is crazy enough to be included.
Andertoons
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Hurray for silliness! Sometimes for me it’s the only way to cope with the craziness of the world.
April 23, 2026
Betty
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I love the way their different interests mesh.
Here is another food-for-thougth video:
April 22, 2026
Betty
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It had a long run!
April 21, 2026
Betty
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And here is another food-for-thought video.
April 20, 2026
When I wrote Wasted — A Golden Opportunity I assumed Betty and Bub’s boy was still a young child because he was so short. But then I realized if he were a teen Betty and Bub were doing the right thing. Teens need to start separating from their parents and vice versa.
I checked with AI and sure enough, the boy is a teen, and his name is Junior. Hurray for AI for making it easy to check our assumptions!
This was yesterday’s strip:
Betty
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It looks as if Junior will do just fine in life.
April 19, 2026
Betty
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That reminds me of
The secret of happiness is to ask yourself every day:
(1) What’s good about my life?
(2) What needs to be done?
(3) How can I get this done and enjoy the process?
And this,
This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
—Alan Watts
And this,
April 18, 2026
Betty
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I love Betty and Bub because they are so good-natured and unpretentious. And here they are enjoying the process of renovating their basement, not just focusing on the end result. Good for them and their creators, Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen. They make me happy, and I’m grateful.
April 17, 2026
Betty
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I didn’t expect this, but Andy and I can identify with plunging into a project and seeing what happens. We bought our land up in the mountains in 1976, fifty years ago this fall. And the number of projects we’ve started without knowing exactly what we were doing are too numerous to count. If we didn’t get the results we wanted, we would just try again — or something else — using the new knowledge we gained.
So I have no problem with what Betty and Bub are trying, the only thing that bothers me is they are shutting their child out of the process. For me one of the best things about the land is that Kaitlin was involved in it all for the first 8 (?) years, from when she was 7 to about when she was in high school. (She and Torben are involved again now, but mostly from a distance.)
Here are a couple of pictures of hooking up the pump for our first well. (The well wasn’t deep enough and we eventually had to dig a deeper one.)
I understand that the comic strip Betty is mostly about Betty and Bub, but it still bothers me that they are depriving their son of a golden opportunity for learning and sharing.
April 16, 2026
