Attribution: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, gives the floor to the keeper as he recalls the Thanksgiving feast at Grandma Helgeland’s when “Hitler” came to dinner.
It was the concluding months of WW II and Hitler was the global monster that everyone hated.
Hitler was also the name of the aggressive rooster that had claimed summer-long dictatorship over anything that moved in Grandma’s farmyard. That had included once “treeing” the keeper’s terrified younger sister Norma on the windmill ladder from where she had to be rescued by Grandma.
The leadup to the Hitler feast–Grandpa at the chopping block with the axe, was satisfying to imagine; but the reality of the summer-long nemesis lying on his back, golden roasted, drumsticks up in a salute in the middle of grandma’s table, that was a Thanksgiving sight for the ages, even an age as extreme as the keeper’s.
(The keeper and Phyllis wish a happy Hitler-free holiday for everyone. Drive carefully!)
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