RIP Buzz Revisited
Thursday, January 18th, 2007Well, tonight was the Town Council Meeting and we went to support CDBG grants for housing rehabilitation for elderly and low income.
As any political meeting goes, it was rather like herding cats or wrangling jello. But we got through the CDBG part and tiptoed out.
We tiptoed right down the block to My Friends Tavern for a beer.
Beer is so expensive in the stores that we only buy Keystone, which is generic Coors. We love Miller Lite, but it is ten dollars more for a case than the Keystone, so the occasional bottle is a treat.
We were sipping our beer and chatting with Molly, our bartender, and one of the gentlemen at the bar got up and walked over and it was our neighbor, Rocky.
He reached to shake my hand as he said, “I saw that write up you did about my dog you posted on the board at the market.”
Now, my tears started to well up. It was a bad day for me, my dad went in the hospital for congestive heart failure, and possibilities of death were weighing heavily on me. And for those of you who don’t know, Rocky’s dog Buzzy was killed while we were away over Thanksgiving. I was barely able to keep the tears back.
Buzz was Ruby’s boyfriend, and when he ran loose, we let him the yard and enclosed him with Ruby to keep him out of the dogcatcher’s domain. They spent many hours playing, as you can see at the web page.
We chatted with Rocky, and he also thanked me for the pictures of Buzzy I had printed and left under his wipers when he was working on repairs for a neighbor. He said he found them, and has them framed on his TV next to the pictures of his sons.
He shook our hands again and thanked us for the pictures and the article, and went back to his barstool.
Rocky picked up his napkin from under his beer and wiped his eyes. I went to the ladies room and used toilet paper to wipe my eyes and blow my nose. My heart still breaks for Buzzy.