Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for February 14, 2022

And after you eat the marsh melons, you can sing row, row, row your boat.

Dear lad, there is an well established disengagement process to kissing. After kissing it is smooches, followed by a few pecks and then long comfy snuggles… de-escalation does take a bit of time!

Fun fact: Pasquale is an only child.

So no toasted marshmallows tonight.

Pasquale…the needle scratch on the LP of Gumbo romance…

The kid should be in bed sleeping.

Hmm. Why is it that in the US we seem to think that somehow it’s skeevy to let kids know how they were conceived? Knowing that your parents love each other enough to have children is a blessing, not a curse.

I’m freezing to death just looking at them.

That is why they only have 1 child

I think that the Gumbos have a forest in their backyard.

Well, there went their plans to have a “Coolie”.

(That’s a Quickie in the Snow.)

Presumably Rose and Jimbo are thinking, “I thought he was asleep/doing homework!”