The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for March 13, 2021

Be nice, Gepetto, and please don’t plant him.

Unfinished furniture!!

toe fungus?

Wooden you just know it.

He is well grounded now that he knows his roots!

easter pine? so, he’s got soft wood…

Man, he’s got a serious case of hang root.

Could be worse, boy! Your father could have been “Nuts”.

Your family tree really is!

I told you Jack. He a knotty knotty boy.

Join the Bark side, my son.

He’s gots a great family trees.

Knot what he was hoping to hear.

♬ These b̶o̶o̶t̶s̶ roots are made for walking

And that’s just what they’ll do… ♪♩

– Nancy Sinatra

Pine – soft heart. Elm hard wood.

In fact, that table he’s sitting on is an uncle (on his dad’s side).

So is he a son of a birch or a son of a beech?

I Pine for Yew and Balsam too.

Always nice to learn about the family his-tree.

♫♪ “Isn’t it good Norwegian wood?” ♪♫

“Muss I Denn”… I don’t have a wooden heart.

They lost Mom in the Dutch Elm epidemic of ’42 and Dad in the Pine Borer epidemic of ’47, very tragic….

Cedar elm? Those are two completely different species. One’s a conifer.

I am Groot!

And there’s a woodpecker up in the crotch.

Oooo, kinky!

This just doesn’t cut it.

Is there a dryad in his ancestry?

No wonder he goes against the grain.

Quick, put his shoes back on!

Geppetto: “You don’t know the power of the flesh side!”

Time to trim the toenails.

That explains where he got the knotty pine