Alien Romance, the daily comic strip

[gs_silva]

Maurice and Cathy meet up with Debbie Farriss, the daughter of Bud Farriss and one of Maurice and Ren's childhood friends. Debbie was one of the 'horse girls' who accepted Maurice into their clique. Suddenly she has four extra horses to take care of! Horses still need exercise on holidays, so here they are.

I was going to do a daily comic about them running into Debbie and mounting the horses, but I never got around to it. Where did Maurice leave his dinner plate? I don't know! He'd better go back for it when he's done.

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So much for spring - we're already into summer! Heatwave heatwave, dun dun dun...

I never finished my after-the-last-frost garden tasks, and now it's already time for summer garden tasks. This happened last year too. My gardening style is apparently "Do a little, do it late." Plus balancing additional responsibilities. My work on the graphic novel has slowed down, unfortunately. I was hoping that my late winter slump would end, and in some ways it has - I, personally, am not as slumped over. But life keeps throwing lemons at my head. I am making lemonade sometimes, grumpily. That's me, grumbling out positive affirmations while rushing around, trying to get enough done around here to earn the right to sit down.

Comments

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>I never finished my after-the-last-frost garden tasks, and now it's already time for summer garden tasks. This happened last year too. My gardening style is apparently "Do a little, do it late."<<

It's not just you. My schedule used to go:

* Receive mail-order seeds to plant later.

* Receive and plant dormant mail-order seedlings of trees, bushes, etc.

* Buy and plant early spring things like bagged raspberry canes and pansies. Sow any early spring crops.

* Buy and plant most of the flowers and hardier vegetable starts.

* Buy and plant things like tomatoes that need fully warm weather.

* Start gathering mulberries, cherries, and other early fruits.

Last year some of the "dormant" stuff didn't arrive until June. This year it was late May. By that time, the grass and other things are already well established, which makes it really hard to dig holes -- it takes me two or three times as long. And I can no longer depend on nurseries to all have things they used to have.

Not to mention the whiplash weather which I think killed a bunch of established things this year. >_<

Re: Thoughts

[gs_silva]

My neighbors (the ones with the grandchildren) were out in the rain and the 4­°C temps all spring and they won the battle. They have a lot of money to spend, though, so I'm sure they just bought their flats later than usual.

I'm just doing it on my $0 budget, and I get what I pay for.

One bonus to this extreme-weather season is that I get to see who else in the neighborhood has money to throw at their gardens and who doesn't. And you're right; I'm definitely not alone. I'm not quite in the majority, though, either, at least, not in my immediate area. Farther afield I think there are more people struggling with it.

[moth2fic]

We've been forecast a heatwave for this weekend but meanwhile it's still really cold with intermittent heavy showers (some hail) and thunder.

[gs_silva]

Sorry, didn't mean to send our weather patterns over to you! Hail, wow. We had hail for a few minutes last week.