Election Day

They sit for hot dogs as well as cheese, Election Day on the summit of Wittenberg Mountain, then it was on to Cornell and Slide (highest in the Catskills), followed by a long stroll down an unfrequented side of the mountain along vague old trail buried in leaves, around and down and down and down, past “Posted” signs at last to arrive at the car after fourteen plus cliffy miles, with a stop on the way home at Brio’s in Phoenicia for hamburgers ordered off the “Doggy Menu”, which were lovingly hand fed to them by their tuckered-out vegetarian ward as he downed a beer.