Red and Rover by Brian Basset for September 01, 2022

I hope for perpetual vacation, too!

I can empathize—I used to get depressed as summer vacation was drawing to a close.

I wonder if teachers felt that way, too.

Don’t get morose, you guys! You’ll have plenty of time together after school and on weekends!

I’m on vacation 7 days a week……….

Savor every minute of your vacation, boys! It goes by much too fast.

They were so happy together all the summer long!

“I’ll ache for your return…”

Oh Rover, I understand completely!

Brian stated that beautifully didn’t he? And it isn’t just the dogs that feel that way!

My heart ached and I pined every day for over 10 months after my foster dog was adopted. I knew that I had made a mistake not keeping him and my heart hurt every day.

When the adopter contacted me a year later to say it wasn’t working out, I jumped on a plane and went to collect him. He hopped in the car without even looking back and the second we got home, he jumped up on his spot on the couch like he had never left.

My heart was so full of joy and I vowed never to be separated from him again. Not for a moment.

The love Red and Rover feel for each other reminds me of the love my NotAFosterAnymore Dog and I have for each other.

Thank you, Brian! This touched my heart. xoxo

At the height of the isolating pandemic, my wife decided she wanted the warmth of a puppy/dog with which to cuddle. We weren’t thinking straight, we now realize. And to top it off, we got a Boston Terrier. We didn’t know how much we could love a pup. But too quickly it grew into a zooming maniac! Our vet tech came to the rescue. She has a 13 year old daughter whose childhood dog had recently passed away so we rehomed our beautiful, manic Whinny. Besides belonging to a loving girl, Whinny has a H U G E fenced in yard and a four legged playmate named Yooper. We couldn’t have been happier and sadder at the same time.

Since retirement, two years ago, I’m still kind of bored…the pandemic doesn’t help…

It’s best to be busy, Red, time goes faster than you think!

Red he’s at real friend, I remember those days so long ago

I don’t think so Rover. When I was a kid my mom spoiled our dog all day long. Then we would come home and play all kinds of games with our dog till dinner. Rover, you are just trying to make Red feel better like you always do. GOOD BOY!

That’s the way to sell it Rover. Red will never know, because he will be in SCHOOL!!!

Yesterday, I repeated a quotation that I had made before from a clock in Chester Cathedral. Someone replied. “I don’t know where Chester is but I hope to visit London again soon.” Chester is in northwest England near to the River Dee and about thirty miles from the River Mersey where Liverpool is on the opposite side. There is a road out of Chester called Liverpool Road which leads out of Chester to Birkenhead and through the Mersey Tunnel to Liverpool.

I have visited London just twice. I am much more familiar with Liverpool. The author Washington Irving lived in Liverpool from 1815 to 1818 and in Birmingham from 1818 to 1825 before he visited France and then Spain. He sometimes visited Chester which is between Liverpool and Birmingham and he mentions seeing a Maypole in Chester in one of his writings. Washington Irving may have been influenced by some of the headless ghost stories in Cheshire as well as by the famous Headless Horseman legend of Sleepy Hollow to the north of Tarrytown. He is known to have visited The Headless Woman Inn at Duddon near Chester. I also visited that inn and had a drink there in 2011 shortly before it closed down.

Rover is Red’s faithful dog forever….

Awwww, send Rover right over and I’ll get him company.

Ooh I like grey and gloomy.

I was forced to be on a “perpetual vacation” in December 2016, aka retirement and I love it,