Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for May 19, 2020

why would Charlie Brown take sand home anyway?

While, it’s her sand.

Well.

“and I know how many I had!”

Lots of possession rights jokes in this period of the strip. Whose trike, who gets to ride it, and now the sand.

Do kids still have sandboxes? They were still a thing when I was a kid. My dad finally got rid of ours because it had become an outdoor toilet for the neighbourhood cats.

I’m nearly 64 now & we had to get rid of ours for the same reason…

My outdoor sandbox became a flower box.

“As sands through an hourglass, so go the days of our lives” Charlie Brown!

Particular, or granular?

hehe You don’t have that problem when you go barefoot! My nephew and his cousin lived with us for a while and they’d sometimes get into squabbles with Josh shouting MINE MINE! and Scotty crying. I’d stop them and say, “We know it is yours, Josh. Can Scotty play with it?”

“Oh. Ok!”

We didn’t have a sandbox, we had a sandpile. My dad had a dump truck dump a load of sand up by our barn. I hate to think what all used the box. We never gave it a thought back then. Must be why my sibs and I don’t get sick, our immune systems have been in exposed to all kinds of crap when we were young.

Just dust it off and get on with life, CB.

I spent lots of time in sandboxes. Loved building castles and digging tunnels. When I was a pre-school teacher I sat in the sandbox with the kids and inspired projects. Yes, we had to dump shoes before leaving the sandbox because sand indoors would kill the vacuum cleaners. Thankfully there not many cats living nearby.

Afraid he’s gonna start his own sandbox?

Charlie Brown would never have made it out of Shawshank prison.