aug 8 17

I was told at mail call last night that the web for the pack burro--- weekend/. Day/race/episode/ whatever.   was ready online, but I can’t find it..there are details still in process.... the main event will apparently begin in Hamilton mass ( permission yet to be gotten) and I just happened to mention  my goal is to get ready for a proper marathon—next year--- in Boston down the memorial side of the Charles and up the storrow  side... which made someone say why don’t we just do a Sunday burro wandering along the Charles. This year  ... historically. Cambridge paid me $1000 a day to have the bed  with dogs and a few donkeys” on exhibit” during the time they shut off all traffic on the mem drive side .. well that turned into why not just go and walk around with donkeys.  Then  the  question  invited or uninvited?  Or was it best to  just go and see what happens... because if we ask – there are so many committees to go thru, that the easy  answer would be bound to be “no” . someone asked is it ok to ride a horse in Boston?  I don’t know that either... I have had plenty of donkeys in and around boston.. but I was never on the permitting end of any project.

 

I remember there was one time  I drove the 8 hitch up mem drive because we had “hitched”  there and were needed at some deal in Harvard square. There was some confusion making a right hand turn where I had to swing wide to clear the sidewalk and a taxi driver did not approve....  there was an even worse episode when the mayor was “speaking” at the downtown crossing and we were to appear exactly oin camera at a specific time—and there was a police cruiser parked giving me  only an extra inch or two between that and a fire hydrant—the donkeys had no trouble... it was the  wagon !  I think that was the performance where we learned that white pigeons( that are supposed to be white doves flying away) if they get too warm- they don’t fly away either but just drop to the ground and walk around like doves do.

Experience comes from bad experiences...

One more white dove/homing pigeon deal involved the opening of the louden car race track—my son in law’s truck with 30 white homers in the cap on the back... and me in a  small plane flown by my brother in law circling overhead; they  waved the flag... he opened the  cover on the truck and the white homers flew up and around perfectly..... except... they did not go home... louden has wondered ever since why so many of their pigeons in the  park that are ... or have so much white.

 

Happy to announce there are a few early morning   hay buyers ( or henny pennies). I check first thing and happily find some either earlybirds ***or Europeans*** who have  done either the hay  or  henny penny thing...