Pickles by Brian Crane for August 09, 2015

Opal obviously doesn’t give up easily on you, Earl.

Don’t go complaining to Earl, Opal, once you find out your plant turns itself into compost.

Reminds me of Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree. Where’s Linus and his blanket when you need them?

Well, I had these three decorative pepper plants that looked about the same as Opal’s plant. I put them outside thinking I will throw them out later and forgot all about them. When I saw these again, they had dropped all their leaves, but one of three had still a green stick. I replanted it and brought indoors and now it is not only growing new leaves but also blossoming.

Opal cares.

She probably killed it with overwatering

Only if you are a vegetable, Earl.

If I ever look like that plant, I hope somebody will do me a favor and pull the plug.

sometimes it works. sometimes it’s really dead

It’s never too late to throw away a dead plant. Maybe the roots are still alive. Why not keep it around — and throw it away later?!

Why do I find this strip endearing?

xxx

It may be Opal or someone else. But whoever pulls the plug on you will be the last one ‘cause …it’s one pull and, y’know, RIP Earle.

Shhh!

Opal hater.

" but no viscous, insulting debates so far."’A nice thick mental image there

After my mother-in-law died, her son said to me, “Mom always said that when it came time to pull the plug, [my wife] would do it immediately, it’d take me a day to do it, and [the other sister] would never do it.” That’s pretty much how it played out after the hospital put their mom on life support after she stroked out overnight. And the hospital wouldn’t take her off until all three siblings agreed on the call.

<<DNR