Alien Romance, the daily comic strip

[gs_silva]

"That'd be useful! I'll grab you one." Maurice is talking about the Clapper again.

"I don't want it," Jon grumbles, moving away.

"But it's right here!"

"No."

Maurice looks closer at the display, seeing a whole bunch of As Seen On TV products.

"Just get your things so we can go," Jon snaps at him.

They leave and head to the gym. Maurice has both the arm brace and the back brace on and he's squirming uncomfortably.

"What's the verdict?" Jon asks.

"I feel like a mummy," Maurice complains. He's supposed to be carrying a duffel back with their gym clothes in it. Oh well.

"That reminds me..." says Jon. He gets on the weight lifting bench. I didn't draw how. Or all the prep they had to do. But I did draw Maurice spotting him.

Anyway, Jon continues. "What can we do to convince you not to ditch the Halloween party this year?"

"I didn't ditch on purpose," Maurice claims. He's taking his spotting job seriously, even though his right arm is all wrapped up. "I got sent on an impossible quest."

"So you won't run away?" Jon asks. "You survived your wedding, hmm?"

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These daily comics don't end in convenient places. I think tomorrow's will creep toward that a little better than the last two. Sometimes things stand alone, and sometimes they ought to get posted together. Which I did consider, but it's supposed to be a 'daily' comic.

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A lot of appointments lately, a lot of driving. A lot of fatigue. Hanging in there for the moment, though. I'm looking forward to March - I plan to hack back the buckthorn and bittersweet so I can make room for the native species that keep trying to angle for space in the borders of my back garden.

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Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>"Just get your things so we can go," Jon snaps at him.<<

Aww. It's hard not to make suggestions, but not everyone finds them helpful.

>> I plan to hack back the buckthorn <<

Buckthorn has uses, but can get in the way.

>>and bittersweet <<

This has a native and an invasive version.

>>so I can make room for the native species that keep trying to angle for space in the borders of my back garden.<<

Yay, natives! :D What have you got of those?

Re: Thoughts

[gs_silva]

Jon is still battling his dignity! Sometimes both lose at the same time. :')

Haha, this is definitely not American bittersweet. Fortunately, the community here seems aware of it and puts effort into eradicating it, which is a nice change from the last time I lived in the US - people were singing the praises of the stuff and noting how birds liked the berries, so it couldn't be TOO bad!

Yes. Yes it could.

We have a bunch of stuff - turtlehead and wild strawberry that I planted, summersweet, several kinds of native milkweed, um, what else... this kind of a spiral stem plant that I can't remember the name of now. Pokeweed of course! (My neighbors resent me for all the pokeweed.) And I threw down some native grass seed that will hopefully spread.