Carrie’s Painting of the Week – 9/7/10
Buttons
Little Buttons here was at one end of the leash, and Wanda, his owner, was at the other, when I met them, in Margaree Forks on Cape Breton Island this summer.
A painting friend and I toured the Atlantic provinces for three weeks, exploring, seeing, ooohing and aahing, and mostly, painting – and laughing, too. We met Buttons at a point of hilarity that was pretty much unrivaled through the trip.
We were trying to be frugal, and so, while we did stay in hotels, we tried to eat food from grocery stores instead of restaurants. But this night, in the urban mecca of Margaree Forks, we arrived moments after the grocery store closed.
There were no restaurants in town, and we were hungry.
The owner of the hotel, a not-so-ebullient German named Werner, grouchily informed us – after arguing with us that the grocery store was open (we’d seen the last one out lock the door) – that if we drove to Northeast Margaree, we would find a gas station where we could get a couple slices of pizza.
Werner made it sound like Northeast Margaree was just to the northeast of Margaree Forks. Well, it was, but about 30 miles to the northeast.
We got to the gas station… and the pizza was gone for the day. So we got ice cream instead. But by the time we got back to the hotel, we were hungry again.
In the cooler, we had bread, cheese and CheezWiz … and so we had cheese-and-CheezWiz sandwiches.
For some reason, this struck us as absolutely hilarious, and while we were eating our delicious meal and laughing about it, we looked up and saw the cutest little dog ever. It was Buttons, and he and Wanda had heard us laughing (well, all of Margaree Forks had probably heard us, as we’d left the door to the room open). Wanda took pity on us, left Buttons with us for a while (OK, I admit it, I begged her to leave him), went back to her room and returned with muffins for us.
We talked and laughed, and hugged Buttons, and had muffins for dessert, after our gourmet meal. It was a fun evening indeed.
If you’d like me to make a portrait of your pet, send me an email at carrieBjacobson@gmail.com
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