Alien Romance, the daily comic strip

[gs_silva]

Cathy is putting icing on cupcakes when Ella demands she go get dressed. Does Cathy understand her? Probably not immediately, but someone surely escorts her to Ella's bedroom and hands her the bat dress.

Ella, sans bat dress, holds her gigantic witch hat. "I can still wear the hat," she muses. "I just need another outfit to go with it."

She knocks on her bedroom door. "Cathy, almost done? I need to get dressed too!"

Cathy exits, flaunting the fancy, lacy black dress, her arms raised to show off the enormous sleeves. On her head is Maurice's rubber spider mask that Ella hates so much.

Ella facepalms. "Why do you do this to me?" she laments.

Jon, in his wheelchair and still not dressed because he's been doing party setup and he can only do 27 things at a time, remarks, "I dunno, Ella, I think it's pretty hot."

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I'm still doing it by pencil. The entire Halloween/birthday story arc is done, in pencil. I'll try to switch back to the more legible digital art at some point, but hopefully for now the transcriptions will clear up any visual confusion.

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Gardening notes: not much today. The backyard swamp turned into an ice skating rink overnight, but not a very safe one because the yellow grass makes it very bumpy. My lettuce seeds are sprouting in the tray on the windowsill. It's a small tray, but a big windowsill, so if I get a bigger tray, maybe I can have year-round lettuce all winter next year.

The potato eyes I planted in the other tray are a loss, but something is sprouting in there. Backyard weeds, most certainly, because some of the soil was dug out of my backyard.

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By the way, I know a lot of my readers here have works of fiction you're working on, and characters you think about. If an Alien Romance comic ever makes you conjecture what your characters would do in a similar situation, I'd absolutely love to hear about it. I live for that kind of connection.

Or if you know what you would do in a situation! But I already get a few comments along those lines. Those are some of my very favorite comments.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Ella facepalms. "Why do you do this to me?" she laments. <<

*laugh* Because it's funny.

>> I'm still doing it by pencil. <<

It's fine.

>>My lettuce seeds are sprouting in the tray on the windowsill. It's a small tray, but a big windowsill, so if I get a bigger tray, maybe I can have year-round lettuce all winter next year.<<

Go you!

I have lots of things sprouting -- tiny fruit trees, wildflower mixes, etc. The water jug greenhouses are off to a great start. If those seedlings transplant well, I will definitely do more of this. The indoor flats are working so far too.

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[gs_silva]

Tiny fruit trees!

That reminds me of the time my son, quite young at the time, saved some jackfruit pits and stuck them in my plant pots on our balcony, and they shot right up. Jackfruit trees, given favorable circumstances, grow uncannily fast, but we were moving soon after that. So I took photos (which I swear I just saw somewhere) (probably in FB memories but those are a pain to search through) and then foisted them off on a friend, who sadly moved on the next year so I lost track of those trees. Makes me want to try again. I guess I'll have to move back to the tropics just for that purpose.

I have a lot of fun teasing Ella! She's such a bulldozer personality much of the time, even if it's not intentional. She can take it as well as give it. I wish some of the real-life bulldozer personalities I've known were such graceful recipients. Wishful thinking on my part, I guess.