Reality Check by Dave Whamond for January 26, 2021

Shoulda planted milkweed.

Tree: “My final gift to you now: drought and famine. You deserve it.”

“What have you done for me lately,” is a Janet Jackson song.

Is that George? I don’t see any cherries.

And now you’re giving a nice set of furniture, shelter, and warmth through the next winter. With the acorns you gave me, my children and grandchildren will do the same with your children and grandchildren.

Aaaaaah, that happened in the book.

Yep! Gimme gimme gimme…..parents need to get back to basics….teaching their kids respect, love and compassion!

Not to be a nitpicker, but wasn’t this the plot of the Giving Tree, not it’s sequel?

The Tree Who Set Healthy Boundaries:

https://www.topherpayne.com/giving-tree

I’ve heard of Angry Orchard Cider.

And now I need you to warm my home.

Friggin’ trees.

Janet Jackson? You’ve gone Paul Bunyan!!!

He shouldn’t have axed that question.

I met mine in the mid-’50s. We all enjoyed her apples, but then we moved away. Decades later, I planted 3 trees, which the bugs found and I began a spraying routine and learned to use tricks and lowest LC50 insecticides. We were given many wheelbarrows full of fruit each fall, which my dear wife (RIP) canned. We were still enjoying apple sauce over a decade after the trees were gone, as I did in her memory.

“Yeah, I don’t give a damn”

The sequel of the giving tree was the book 2 of Lord of the Rings when the Ents go to war and Fangorn Forest was on the march.