The Goat, The Cabbage, And The Wolf

The stars aligned and it was time to launch the boat for a summer of swimming fun. Launching the boat at the community launch ramp (cost to residents for unlimited use is $10 per annum) is a bit like the game of carrying the cabbage the goat and the wolf across the river. http://www.mathcats.com/explore/river/crossing.html The problem is that, by myself I have to get the boat on the trailer to the launch ramp about one mile from my house. So, I drive the car to the ramp. Put the boat in the canal, come home with the boat down the canal. Which is filled with grasses such that I had to paddle through the roughage as the outboard couldn't manage it.Then I had to walk back to the launch ramp to pick up the car and trailer. I used to ride my bike and put that on the trailer to bring it home. These days I walk Cheyenne instead of cycling so the bicycle is buried in the shed with flat tires, a lot of work to pull out for one trip up the street.Anyway, thought I, this would make an excellent opportunity to kill two birds with one stone as its a fine dog walk to the launch ramp. Sometimes Cheyenne and I do it after dark when I get back from an overtime shift in the cool of the night. A street with no lights at three in the morning is quite the star studded spectacle. Which is as may be but my dog was not having any of it at one in the afternoon.Cheyenne stood under the house at the limit of the shade and looked at me standing in the bright hot sun. No way, no how she said, and went and sat on the cool dark cement. I took off by myself trudging up Indies Road by myself, my dog leash unused in my pocket, hoping against hope that she would suddenly trot out to join me. She never did and I retrieved the trailer (the wolf in the picture game) by myself. Just see if she gets to take a ride in the boat this summer.