Aly made an extremely disturbing discovery Thursday: scorch marks on the cabin!
A couple months ago, I found a jug of partly full of white vinegar washed up on the beach. At the time, this seemed a valuable find; we use white vinegar often, so we welcomed this free windfall.
I transferred the liquid to a glass jug and set it on the shelf outside the front door. As it had been in the ocean for an unknown time, we kept it separate from our other vinegar, and limited its use to cleaning. We soon learned that it was contaminated with sea water, which reduced its usefulness, prolonging its stay on the shelf. It didn’t seem to do any harm there, and got seen often, to remind us to use it.
“Didn’t seem” is the operative phrase here. As Aly discovered, it could have destroyed us utterly.
Scorch marks, and the jug that caused them (Photo: Sarah A. Zeiger).
