Jake

It is funny what we have found as entertainment since being on land.  Started to say since being home but then again, we are at home on land and on Why Knot.  As mentioned earlier, we started to empty an old freezer that has been in constant duty for over 28 years in our dungeon.  Said freezer had an ice berg about six inches deep in the bottom into which food has been entombed for close to the full time. Old bread, candy bars, ice cream and at least some of every soup or stew we have made since moving the thing there.  We built the house around it thus cannot get it out.  The decision was to empty it and use it as a trunk.  We have now done that but in the process we tossed the food "down the hill" so the critters could make use of it.  We have a very fine specimen of a gray fox that has dined for almost two months on the "booty".  Guess what folks, we are done with the project and have only a few more items from the fridge, to include left overs from Thanksgiving, for old Jake to enjoy.  I know, I know, it is not a good thing to thus train wild life but old Jake has enjoyed it as much as we have enjoyed spying on him after dark as he dines.  All good things come to an end and he is really going to miss the crew of Why Knot.  Starting about Saturday, next, the neighborhood punt dogs and cats better look out.  Then again, the danger might not be so bad as Jake prefers the flavor of soy sauce and a pinch of wasabe.   Methinks we might just leave a bowl of the stuff out there to enhance the taste of whatever rodentia or  domestic house pet he chooses in the near future.  After that old Jake is on his own.  We simply have to get back aboard to help Bligh lose the 33 pounds gained during this shore liberty.  Be well fellow scurvs and have one great Thanksgiving.  Don't forget that this and all previous such holidays are brought to you courtesy of some fine young lions who are willing to do harm on your behalf at possibly the loss of all their future holidays.  May God wrap his grace and care around them.  We'll be back on the flip side.