Red and Rover by Brian Basset for July 14, 2012

No kidding Red – now if it could just be about 20 degrees cooler!

Horror awaits when the day all kids dread arrives; the first day of the new school year. Things go downhill from there.

There you go, boys, making me cry again…remembering my own summer reruns with my beloved pets.

I might like them too, if we weren’t getting liquid sunshine day in and day out.

I understand the constant rain pain…I’m In Indiana where a extreme drought has plagued us since May. Our cornfields are dying or dead, our reservoirs are dropping about a foot a week and we’ve just been placed under severe water use restriction. We’er on the other side of your rain spectrum.

<3

This is one strip that can give us poetry in a simple image. Mutts is another.

Day is done -

Gone the sun -

From the lakes -

From the hills -

From the sky -

All is well -

Safely rest -

God is near -

(Taps)

Beautiful Brian! That’s where I was as a kid, too – outside! Thank you!

Oh and I loved the weather last year. You wouldn’t have had a complaint from me then either. I like my summers hot and dry.

Lake Conroe is still 2 feet below the “normal” full level. They would have loved to have some of that excess rain from around town in the lake water shed instead of in the neighborhoods.