Here is an old Heirloom Celeste fig tree that never gets watered,
yet it don't drop its figs even in the drought conditions we have been having~!


The Lady picking the Figs might drop one now and then, but the tree don't!

The Fig tree belongs to a neighbor of ours, the Lady belongs to me
(can I say that?)

Cecil,
i wish my wife loved figs as much!
That tree is very nice and growing well in your area, if i was you and you like those figs i would make a trip very late in season when its dormant and bring  some snippers and cut a few limbs with bud tips. You can just stick a couple in one of you smaller pots and i bet you will have a plant starting next spring, i have done this before the bud tip will start to open and its a sign you have a chance for a new plant.
Also you can use your other methods as well.
As for your last sentence in post im staying out of that one for sure.

Cecil,

We no longer own women in America. But I understand: I have a wife; she has a dog. ;-))

HAHA

Some people are great with only a few words!

Some people have names like Jon V.......yep he would be one of those!

Courtesy to Phil Chen (cartoonist) and NYT (7/19/09);

It (almost) says it all!

(winning caption):
"I’ve kept my son, Norton here on a leash since he was around that same age, and just look at him now…isn’t he so sweet?"

HAHA

I better say something about figs about now!

It looks like the old codger can eat some of them figs George

I like that one.

Refering to my post #5 above; here are all the 34 captions.
I am sure one of them hits home to some/every -one.
Sorry, no figs were mentioned...

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1. What in the world was Phil thinking?
“I always knew that “Dancing With The Stars” would come to this!”
— Phil
 
2.
 “I see you are training your son early for life in a retirement home”
Note that in our retirement village, replete with many unfortunate Alzheimer patients, the favorite comment might be, “Ain’t funny, McGee!” Or,simply, “Not politically correct.”
— Ralph L-
 
3.
 Little Jimmy learns at a young age that he will never truly wear the pants in the family.
— Shari
 
4.
 “Look at the brighter side: you are getting
a head’s up of the far future”.
— Rafaela Billini
 
5.
 What made you put your son on a leash?
He ran into the street without looking. What about your husband?
He ran into the street without looking.
— Arjan
 
6.
 Women have finally accepted that men, of all ages, are dogs and should be treated accordingly.
— Karissa L.
 
7.
 Males are always much harder to train.
— Bob Schwartz
 
8.
 Take heed my dear and save yourself. It’s too late for me, but I very often wish I had not been so overprotective when Johnny was young.
— Mara-Lynn
 
9.
 “I guess good looks aren’t the only things that run in our family.”
— Joel Schwartzberg
 
10.
 “I’ve kept my son, Norton here on a leash since he was around that same age, and just look at him now…isn’t he so sweet?”
— John Lambert
 
11.
 So there really is a second childhood!
As soon as she sits down, I’m going to say it.
— jerry clark
 
12.
 “It’s great for training them not to run off, and keeping them close when they’re YOUNG, but be careful deary…”
— John Lambert
 
13.
 “Well I told you on the phone, that I was going to start keeping your father on a short leash”
— John Lambert
 
14.
 this one came in via email from Jersey Josie:
“If I don’t keep him close by, he gets into all kinds of trouble.”
— Tina Kelley
 
15.
 this just in from Ari Braha
Caption: My kid doesn’t know where he’s going. My husband doesn’t know where he’s been.
— Tina Kelley
 
16.
 and from Martin Gura
“Set up a play-date?”
— Tina Kelley
 
17.
 Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea after all.
— Laura Chabrow
 
18.
 Can grandpa come over to play after you finish your walk?
— Eric Chabrow
 
19.
 When I grow up, I want to be just like grandpa.
— Eric Chabrow
 
20.
 First thought I had was what’s funny about dementia or alzheimers?
— Marie Tierney
 
21.
 i always felt males should be harnessed from 7 to 70!!11!
— reggi bleemer
 
22.
 With Phil’s appearance in the Sunday Metropolitan section of The New York Times, we’ve had a number of captions come in via e-mail. Here they are:
Sheldon Roth: ” Nowadays, everyone is on a short leash. ”
Betty Roth: ” Whoever said anything about a generation gap? ”
Susan Lancaster: “The Wanders and the cure”
Jerry1949: “Where’s your pooper scooper?”
and
“Curb your dependents”
— Tina Kelley
 
23.
 “Then and now…still a momma’s boy”
— John Lambert
 
24.
 Who said: “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world?”
— Donald F.Reilly
 
25.
 JerJerf suggests:
I would never let my “little one” smoke. Why do you?
and Marshall Gilbert writes:
“What comes around, goes around.”
— Tina Kelley
26.
 this just in from SBGHRG:
Wanna Switch?
— Tina Kelley
 
27.
 I’m so glad we didn’t miss 2 for 1 day at Leashes R Us.
— mo
 
28.
 “Don’t bother teaching him the importance of putting the seat back up.”
— Robin Miller
 
29.
 Mrs. Smith, we’ve found your grandson… Oh my, then who is this behind me?
— John Lambert
 
30.
 Jaime Delman: “Sunrise, sunset. Swiftly flow the years.”
— Tina Kelley
 
31.
 Comments from other link:
from Helen Kesner:
Is it time to unleash renewable energy?
— Tina Kelley
Did yours come with the leash?
— D Newman
— Phil
 
32.
 “Mom… I asked you to return that leash because it was too big, not make dad wear itI”
— John Lambert
 
33.
 Sorry I’m late, Ma…I had to buy Eddie a new leash because I couldn’t find his other one… so is that the new man you were telling me about, behind you???
— John Lambert
 
34.
 Why is your hand behind your back, and how on Earth did you get DAD to come shopping with us???
— John Lambert