Red and Rover by Brian Basset for April 20, 2013

Damn you thermals!

Come back, Rover…you can’t go a few days without your Milky Bones!

If Rover manages to bring it on home, he deserves a lot of extra special treats. Then again, he deserves them just for trying. Hopefully he won’t be distracted by squirrels.

I hope Rover doesn’t disappear for days like he did a few years ago. Red was so sad!

You didn’t chase it???

: D I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if Rover brings that kite back to Red. (Snoopy would go get it… but then he had a Sopwith Camel.)

I had a gas powered model airplane that was supposed to return like a boomerang. Last time I saw it it was flying over the treetops and gone. Could have used Rover.

Go Rover!

heck if he was smart he would use two strings that what I did the first time I lost my kite.

hero

What a good friend!

Yep..Back in 1966 mom bought me a 5 cent balsa wood glider.I took it out back and a dust devil took it 500 feet into the air headed east never to be seen again..Mom just shook her head. Some kid in the next town of Wellton got himself a free glider..

Rover is such a good friend.

When I was a lad living temporarily in Marin County, we made box kits and had 2000’ reels of string. We’d fly from one hilltop to another. When the air cooled and the winds died in the late afternoon, the kites would lower and the strings would catch on the oak trees.

The next morning, we’d try to recover the string and, most importantly, the bamboo sticks. Then we’d do it all over again.