Guests, like fish, begin
to smell after three days. Benjamin Franklin
Leftovers in our house don’t get eaten very often and are
generally thrown in the garbage disposal or trash. We’ve considered starting a
compost pile, but we have so many animals like raccoons, skunks, deer and pack
rats, that they would probably run us out of our house if we created a food
source for them.
I watched an eagle soar past the house several times today looking
for food. It is not an unrealistic expectation that there could be food here.
Our neighbor lives in San Francisco, but travels to Klamath Falls about once
per month. I usually know when he is in town because I see a parade of hawks
and eagles flying overhead. On his visits here, he goes fishing in his boat on
the Klamath Lake. After he cleans his catch, he leaves the carcass on a stump
behind his house.
I decided to get creative with leftovers in our refrigerator. Today’s
gift was to take the leftover salmon and place it on a stump in my yard. I’m
not sure if the eagle will be the lucky recipient or some other animal, but that
felt better than putting it in the garbage. Even though we won’t eat three-day-old,
smelly fish, the eagle will see it is a delicacy.
In Giving,
Robin
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