Fern
Randie kills plants… it’s just a fact. I don’t think she does it with any malice… she just forgets to pay attention to them. I love houseplants, myself… my office is full of ’em. I do tend to kill ficus’s and orchids… I’m not sure why. As I write, my Noble Island Fir might be unhappy.
Poor neglected plants screaming out for water and sunlight, only Randie can’t hear ’em.
Cacti? Any relation to cactusssseseses?
Love the name Fern, better than Gus, as in asparaGUS. What of the cacti names?
He also has a cat named Cat and a bunny rabbit named Hubert Cumberdale.
Stick: Ryan couldn’t have called the plant Gus – Randie’s easily confused, and she’d think he was talking about the octopus at the aquarium…
Brig: I’m rather enjoying the way this whole storyline is playing out đ Just so you know đ
Time was when I was so awful at gardening that I could kill a plastic plant.
I’ve gotten better with plants since then…
I do that. I had a succulent (cactus without spines) and I killed it because I forgot to take the plug out of the drain hole in the pot…
Welcome back, Pete… hope you are feeling better. Lay off the plastic plants there…
fingers… yah… that’ll do it. The Noble Island Pine isn’t supposed to be in standing water… I think that is why it’s unhappy.
Astragali… glad you are diggin’ the storyline. We ain’t seen him in awhile. Poor Guy.
Dave… Hubert is a great name! Someone should be named Bunny Hubert.
No plants for me unless they are boiled, steamed, deep fried, dripping with cheese, grilled, added to meatloaf, or served to someone else.
I sent ya pictures, Brig. Did ya get ’em?
Astra, brig,
What the fern’s a guy? In that case, Gus is a better name. I missed the octopus part you mentioned and see no aquarium tags, so I’ll just roll with it. Yet, if Randie’s easily confused, Rye could have milked the octupussses’ (octupi’s ?) name for a cheap laugh or two. Though I doubt she’d be interested in taking care of one, unless she might be sitting on a calamari recipe. Killed two cactussseses….er….cacti, eh? She does like the occasional sip or two. Maybe she had a good tequila recipe. Oops, I ment ‘te-kill-ya’ recipe. My bad.
Joe,
Plants in your meatloaf? Erk.
stick,
Meatloaf with out chopped celery is not meatloaf.
Joe,
Yes, it is.
Joe,
As I recall, he got killed off in Rocky Horror. So, he did end up as plant food. “Pushing up daises” if you will. I speak of Meatloaf, of course. Maybe he’ll do better as a contestant in the upcoming Celebrity Apprentice w/ Don “You’re Fired” Trump. I doubt it though.
(Whew! Sorry I’ve been gone for so long, busy month. I’m kinda back now.)
My Mum has killed a cacti before, as well as almost every other plant she’s ever come in contact with. Even bouquets in vases. The only two she didn’t kill were a hibiscus that was knocked over by a cat and and a few spider plants slowly eaten by cats.
This is why I don’t have pets or kids. I can’t even keep a plant alive for more than a few days.
Erm, Stick… the “aquarium” tag is the second in the tag list… *confused*
Astra,
Oh! THAT aquarium tag. Funny, I did not see that this morning. Thanks for that.
Yeah, seems to be a lot of killing plants around. My gardening and farming ancestors are ashamed of me because I kill cacti too. I tend to love them to death! And the plants I should water tend to get ignored or cat eaten, even the ones I thought were poisonous seem good to my cats. I don’t get that? We’ve always had to move so often I just can’t get them to survive.
Astra,
Thanks truly for the heads up. Come to think of it, I was trying to find “octopus” and “Gus,” neither are there, but then wrote aquarium since that was mentioned. Ha. Should have actually looked for that. Oops. smile.
Brig,
Yah, you ought to have Randie get consoled by the big octopod. Would be cute. He could squirt ink. Those old bits were pretty funny…once I found them.
Randie would get one heck of a consoling hug from an octopus đ
I have also killed a cactus. But I have managed to keep a fern and some spider plants alive and they are quite healthy. But I feel your pain Randie.