3.11.2025

‘For twenty years there was this log back there.’ It’s a pond behind a house in the mountains, an Appalachian or Estonian setting, maybe. It’s the guy from LOTR and Lost, Dominic Monaghan. I’ve been watching Lost before bed with French subtitles so I’m gettin’ learnt. Anyway so he’s telling me all this and there are six or eight dogs running around, kinda like at Dad’s place. Then he says one night a couple of them wouldn’t come back. ‘I had to use the nail gun as a deterrent’. He went out to see what they were doing and this log was thrashing around and turns out it’s a 300 year old gator. Goes on a feeding frenzy every night at approximately 8:30. 'Courteous of him to keep a schedule.' So now we’re shooing all the dogs inside cuz the gator is coming after us. Unclear if we’re leaving it alone out of respect or supposed to kill it. ‘We have to make decisions out here about whether to fix something or ban it. Like it’s really close to impossible to repair a broken window so the rule is don’t break them.’