A new cat has decided to stay with my brother, who lost a good cat last year to a transformer at an electric substation. Pirate is the new cat’s name, and he’s decided that Dent will be his Big Foot- he’s been eating and sleeping at Dent’s for a few weeks now. Today he brought Dent a gift, the choicest cut from a recent meal: the nuts. Perfectly excised and cleaned and placed on the porch near his chair. This is Pirate:

And these are the nuts of some poor critter he ate:

Dent waited too long to acknowledge the gift by eating them, or at least pretending to, and so Pirate ended up eating them himself, for dessert.