Stories:The Jenny Plants

Author: C3PO. Vygis had a variety of plants over the years that he took care of, mostly at the Concord House apartment. I can't remember if he had many before then, although he probably didn't since his lifestyle was sort of migratory before he lived there. Once he began going on Summer Tours, he would recruit me and others to water his plants during the two week period that he was typically away. The Concord House plants were mostly spider plants, about 7 pots and hanging baskets of them. Spider plants are the most boring and basic house plant there is. They're fairly unkempt and uncontrollable. They're essentially grass but they have the one strength of being fairly difficult to kill. These particular spider plants were completely special to Vygis, due to some connection to Jenny that I couldn't be bothered to care about back in the day. He called them "The Jenny Plants," but I'm not sure if it was because she gave him one or due to some other more indirect association. Between Vygis, me and who knows who else we kept these plants struggling along for at least two decades. When Vygis moved from the Concord House apartment to the Hanover house, the plants of course went too, taking up vast amounts of floor space in the dining rom area of the new house. Then, on the day after Vygis' death that I got the call from Vygis' mom that she was cleaning out his house and wanted some help, I arrived to find the plants in rows of thick black garbage bags by the curb. This might have struck me as a little insensitive, except I had to admit,they were butt-ugly spider plants and there really wasn't anything else to do with them.
Category:Stories
Category:Things:Spider Plants
Category:Places:The Concord House apartment
Category:Places:The Hanover house
Category:People:Jennifer Babicke Wolert
Category:Author:Charles Dickson