Drunken crab

We have a land crab that lives under the garden. He has an entrance to his system of tunnels and caves right at edge of Ola Lola's. Last month Darryl, instead of "freeing the limes" from his beer bottles by tossing them across the road, decided to "free the lime, feed the crab." He left a beer-soaked lime wedge by the entrance. Surprisingly (to us at least), the crab took it and ate it. He ate several lime wedges that night.

Now every afternoon he comes out of his hole looking for lime wedges. One afternoon some people wanted to see the crab eat a lime wedge but no one was drinking Corona or Presidente, the two beers that typically have limes in them. So I cut a wedge of lime and put it by the hole. The crab wouldn't touch it. That plain lime wedge sat there for four days. He ate a number of beer-soaked limes in the mean time, but wouldn't touch the plain one. So now we only give him the ones from the beers. (Truth be told, he really likes the limes from Grey Goose vodka and tonic, but we don't get too many of those.)

We've limited the number the number of wedges he he can have on a given night - we don't want to damage his liver. (Do crabs have livers?) This despite jokes about marinating him in lime juice to prep him for ceviche. It is fun to watch him, though. And he has gotten bigger on his lime diet.

Anyway, he's now just another one of the characters at Ola Lola's.