On Thurs day’s, we go to “Happy Hour,” early in the even ing, at 5:00 p.m.

I like this party! We get treats, attire, and, best of all, people pay attention to us.

We meet and greet.

Where’s ours?

There’s quite a crowd.

How about some for me?

- Tootals

The road goes ever on and on,
down from the road where it began.
Now far ahead the road has gone
and I must follow if I can.
Pursuing it with weary feet,
until it joins some larger way
where many paths and errands meet,
and wither then, I cannot say.

From J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. © 1955, J.R.R. Tolkien.