Nigel and Nala, the doodle who races and often grabs Nigel’s ball. Or Frisbee.
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For much of the summer, we’ve been taking Nigel to the dog park around three p.m. Not an ideal time, but the park is nearly empty, it’s often scorching hot, but Nigel doesn’t care. He knows he’s there to chase balls and Frisbees.
At that time of day, there are a few other dog owners who arrive – Paula and her pair of Golden Doodles, Joe and his German Sheppard, Arco, and sometimes, Arleen and her 2 dogs – Ginger, a Wheaton, and Izzy, a collie. Many afternoons, I’ve mentioned how great it would be to have a pizza truck pull up that also stocked cold beer. Everyone agreed. We could have a picnic at the picnic table under the trees.
And then someone needed to bring in hammocks for an afternoon siesta.
This afternoon, as we were leaving the park, I noticed what looked like a pizza truck on the far side of the parking lot. Rob drove around to it and asked the two guys what kind of pizza and how much and were they selling now? Five o’clock, the guys said, every Thursday. I didn’t see any cold beer, but hey, this was pretty close to my manifestation of the wish.
“You should write that one up,” Rob said as we drove back to the house.
And I wonder: Who is going to bring the cold beer and hammocks?
Next Thursday, we’ll be in line.
Love it. I believe Wellington has been assigning different food trucks to different parks around town instead of at the community center on Thursday nights to keep people separated because of Covid.
Someone else told me that, too.
Consumption of beer pretty much prohibited in public parks here. Perhaps you got the part of your wish that was possible. Without beer, do you still need a hammock? You should have gotten some pizza at 5. That number has its own kind of magic. Robert Anton Wilson used to talk about the sacred law of fives. I love it when synchros become physical.
Me, too. We were on our way home and suddenly, there was a food truck. Pizza!
Bring your own beer!
Probably no food truck this evening. It’s raining!