The Day The Sun Rose Twice

GOOSE
The well is done. Now the people in town have water and soon they'll have crops coming up to eat. Until then they'll be fine eating imperishable from the supermarket.

There were a lot of large birds flying over head today. I got the shotgun and raced to put it together. I got up and watched and within a few hours there were geese flying overhead. I took a few shots and bagged two birds for dinner.

If they were flying they were healthy enough to eat and as long as I don't eat any of the organs that concentrate fallout radiation, mostly the liver, brain and thyroid, or kidneys, they're fine to eat. I decided to save coal by cooking over a wood fire from trees around the shelter.

Marci made a run to the market on the other side of town for feed for the chickens; she came back with a few hundred dollars of pre-war cash. The novelty of its total lack of value after being so important so recently left us really more melancholy than amused.

I radioed to Abel and spent a while bartering for a rooster, I can go pick it up tomorrow for 2 gallons gas and 30 fluid oz. of 5w35 motor oil.

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