please do not feed fitger, rex, or zombie

I was walking from where I live to the south end of the island yesterday afternoon and it smelled like fall - dead leaves and fires in fireplaces. Whenever I smell the fall like that, I am reminded of the four-and-a-half block walk from 2631 Branch Street to Congdon Park Elementary School. Across Branch Street from my elementary school there was a fenced-off area where a guy kept some deer. Thinking back on the "deer pen" (as we called it) it was kind of strange....having wild deer inside a pen in the middle of a residential neighborhood, I mean. Some days we would go and watch the deer, and if we were lucky, they'd come right up to the fence and we could touch them and, despite the sign, feed them some leaves. Their names were Fitger, Rex, and Zombie, but we couldn't tell them apart.

I don't think there are any deer in the deer pen anymore - at least there weren't the last time I checked. Fitger, Rex, and Zombie are probably running free in deer heaven.