Maggots and Dukors

June 28, 2006



I will say this, the days are never the same here.Today I spent the majority of my time inside cataloguing books. I know, sounds riveting. Anyhow. I was in working when Joy my neice ran in saying, come see what Solomon gave me. I got up and followed Joy out to the front, where in the flower planter stood a tiny, cat sized deer. It is a called a Dukor and the poor little thing weighs probably no more than 5 pounds. This man Solomon is a student of Kathleen's, and he goes to the interior and gets wood to sell. I guess he was in the woods and found this baby deer. I just hope there isn’t a mama deer missing it. When it is full grown, it will probably be about 2 or 3 feet high I imagine. The irony (well I think it is) is that Martha bought deer meat today at the market. Kathleen couldn’t figure out why there was a sudden ant infestation of the freezer. Martha bought maggoty meat. A ribcage and front hoof of deer, which is small enough to fit in a grocery bag. It was dried, but obviously she didn’t look to close when buying it, cause it was a bit rotten. Kathleen I think almost was sick. I cleaned the ants and maggots out of the freezer with some bleach and vim, but I wasn’t about to touch the bag of maggoty meat. Thankfully Kathleen has been here long enough to know that you burn them off. So she lit the coat pot (a bit like a habachi grill really) and then put the meat on it to fry the little maggots. They make a delightful popping sound as they burn up. Onesimus came to the rescue and helped get all the maggots, as some were inside the ribs etc. Is that enough to make anyone a vegetarian?