Snoopy Drive-In

I hope my readers had a good weekend. Travalon and I had a pretty mellow one, since he had a cold. Saturday I cleaned, since I hadn’t on Friday, and then Richard Bonomo stopped by. We had three tech questions for him: why didn’t our DVD cleaner work, why didn’t our vacuum work, and could we get the Snoopy Drive-In to work? Rich took care of the first two questions in short order. The third one was more problematic; I had asked Travalon what his favorite toy had been, and he said the Snoopy Drive-In, which inspired him to order a used one from eBay. When it came, the battery contacts were so corroded that it didn’t work. Travalon got some Naval Jelly, and I tried to clean them but didn’t make much progress. Rich thought we could do a workaround, but he didn’t have time to look into it that day. He went to pick up Kathbert, and we all met at Mr. Why’s grave for the ninth anniversary of his unfortunate death. Then I talked Travalon into going to a mysterious restaurant for lunch; it is a little Quonset hut on Regent Street that just says “Food.” Once we entered it, we realized it was Noosh, the restaurant that used to be where McGee’s is now that we had never gotten to try. Despite its humble appearance, the food is really good. Then we took a walk at Olbrich Garden, another in Yahara Park, and another along the canal from Tenney Park. We stopped into the Parched Eagle for a game of Klask, then we made dinner at home and Travalon watched movies while I went to see a bluegrass band at the Chocolaterian.

Yesterday Travalon went to visit his family, while I went to some friends’ house for brunch after Mass. Rich, Travalon, and I went for a hike on the boardwalk in McFarland, and we ran into one of Rich’s former housemates. Then we went to the hardware store and got some cheap supplies to try to fix the Snoopy Drive-In. We went to Rich’s house, and he got the Snoopy Drive-In to work! We watched a little movie of the Peanuts characters skateboarding and jump roping, and Travalon demonstrated how you could make it go faster or slower or even backwards. It was jerry-rigged but Rich said he can probably come up with a permanent solution. Travalon and I were starving, but we couldn’t talk Rich into letting us take him to dinner to thank him. We went to Rockhound Brewery and had a delicious dinner to end our low-key weekend.

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