Red and Rover by Brian Basset for May 13, 2014

There goes this years delivery income!

And of course it’s the BIGGEST Window in the House!

(Hope it’s not one of those Double-Pane ones, they’re expensive!)

Oh, oh, Red! NOW you’ve Done It!

It might be time to rethink that career trajectory, Red!

All of you pessimists, see this as a bad thing, I on the other hand see a big league pitcher in the making.

Back in the day, all my customers requested I place the folded paper between the screen door and door. Limited the blow aways, rained on and run offs.

Now days the newspapers are so small they probably wouldn’t break a window.

What’s a paper? Used to love reading the thick Sunday paper, enjoying it all day but one day I handed my wife the paper and she said it was more like a Wednesday paper with ads. We quit taking the paper. Was also tired of finding “For more info read this blog”.

This just in, breaking news!

Oh shades of my older brother’s paper route. We had a bag of blue rubber bands around the house for years after he gave it up. As an adult with my own house, we had a wonderful paperboy. Now, some adult heaves it in the vague direction of the driveway as they drive by. Not that I’d want a kid riding through even our suburban neighborhood in the early hours these days. Just sayin’….Red, we miss you and your kind!

I’m a little disappointed in you Red, running off like that! Hope you have an attack of conscience and return to the scene of the crime to fess up, man up!

I finally gave up the print version of the local paper two weeks ago. Had kept the subscription up in memory of my Dad — last of a line of old-time printers!