The day before the Winter Solstice, we went to town to finish up Christmas errands. We browsed the private secondhand store, previously known to us casually as “Ralph’s,” currently named Talia’s Treasures (see Museum of Lost Desires). I found three indoor/outdoor, LED motion sensing lights at a bargain price!
One of the new motion sensor lights, mounted on the smoke house above the dooryard (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).
One evening just before Christmas, we all stepped out into the dooryard. Aly, first out the door, stumbled when a walking stick fell into the cabin as she opened the door. It sits in the corner of the arctic entryway, just outside the front door. It seemed odd that it would fall, but we were all in a bit of a hurry, so we didn’t linger over it.
When we turned back to the cabin, we immediately noticed a gaping hole, about the size of a softball, at the bottom of the screen door.
A perimeter breach!
“Make a hole!” (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger.)
