Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 02, 2015

That’s customer service for you.

Spoiler alert.Following on from last week’s 1981 sequence, here is GBT’s final tribute to Dick Davenport. A birdsong tribute, the sequence starts on the 3rd (4, 6 and 7 are perhaps the better days). http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1986/11/07The funeral sequence starts on the 10th (I especially like the last 3 of that arc, bird call tribute). Co-incidentally, the next sequence (particularly 20th Nov 1986, Havoc) is the sequence that first started my appreciation of Doonesbury (thanks to the Manchester Guardian). The Bachman triptych ends with the photographs of a Bachmans Warbler!Mike

@Mike31g, Even though Manchester (Victoria University of, aka Owens) is my alma mater, I have to point out that the newspaper stopped being the “Manchester” Guardian in 1959…

That would actually be quite pretty, with some other wildflowers (weeds to some) interspersed.

That’s when you skip the flowers for every table and go with sticking the maids’ boquets on the bridal party table.

I like florists and there are times when they are the perfect source, but my wife has done flowers (that included roses) for 10-12 tables plus flowers for the wedding party with the total expense for all flowers and materials being not much more than $65 (FOR ALL). She volunteered her time but had fun spending A day doing the arrangements.

For my sister’s wedding, the regular florist bailed at the last moment, so my mom had to visit the only other person in town that had fresh flowers. She was known as “the crazy lady” because of her hoarding, and the route to the back room with the flowers threaded through dangerously high stacks of newspapers and magazines. Mom could handle it, but the bridesmaid helping her out freaked.