Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for November 26, 2018

So does Jimbo have any help rooting around down in the basement now?

That’s a spy, Jimbo!

Don’t worry, it’ll be dead from lack of sunlight in no time at all.

My mother had a hanging houseplant, one of many, above my stepfather’s recliner, and at one point it started to get brown and brittle. She took the matter to her expert at the nursery who asked if she’d recently had a smoker visiting.

Mom said no, in fact, that her husband had just recently had to quit smoking under some pretty stern advice from his doctor. And the plant in question was the one above his chair.

That’s it, said the nurserer. The plant had become addicted to Ralph’s second-hand smoke, and since he quit, it was going through nicotine withdrawal.

Always keep an aloe near the shop.

not mistletoe

After we lost our mobile home (go to “For Better or For Worse” for that story), we ended up living in the basement of a privately-run homeless/halfway house. Our section of the basement had a long table with a fluorescent light over it. I had a small African Violet that I put on the table. It was pretty small when we first got there; when we left just under 2 years later, it was huge and slightly curved, as it kept turning towards the fluorescent!

Hope it’s not one of those plants that needs sunlight.

If Jimbo keeps the light off when he’s not using the room, he’s deprive the plant of one of the things it needs most…

She’s decorated his man cave?!!? He’s showing signs of tension.

Wonder if she installed a grow light as well.

You’re talking to the plant, Jimbo…

Loan is a noun, the word you want is lend.

Is this the beginning of “The Seven-Year Itch”? PLEASE say it ain’t so . . .

It probably isn’t going to last too long in the basement anyway. Not unless there is a window nearby.

No need to get angry, just ignore it. If it’s hanging too low (looks like you’ll hit your head on it) that’s a good excuse to move far, far away.

Feed me, Krelborn! Feed me now!!!

Beware. Octopii change color for purpose of camoflage.

I hope she also put a Grow Lamp bulb in his shop light fixture.

Especially one that kind of looks like a spider.