(1/39 Apricot cocktail (apricot jubilee according to jot) made from the juice of the dried fruit + 10% alcohol. We drank a toast, standing, to the health and happiness of our loved ones at home and expressive of our thankfulness that we are well and that things are as well with us as they are - Roast venison, with dressing and gravy Mashed potatoes and string beans Raised biscuit and butter (oleo) squash pie. Mince pie. Cupcake with chocolate icing. Fruit cake - Doughnuts. Cinnamon roll. Onion salad. Coffee with sugar and (trunick) cream "Liberty laugh" (a punch of apricot juice, strawberry jam juice, lemon juice + 10% alcohol) Going some for the fourth year of the Expedition's stay in the Arctic. jot has been saving the coffee for months and the flour, sugar, strawberry and eggs for weeks in anticipation of the occasion. Took 3 1/2 mile walk before dinner. Day thickly overcast and very dark. Snow lightly after noon. 1 December. Friday. H, N E2; O, S E2; O, S E1; S, # SW.3; O, SW4 -9°; -8°; -9°; -3°; +1 min -12.5°; max +1° Two mile walk. Dismal day, anniversary: Reading + thinking. We-We had too much Thanksgiving that attack of acute indigestion last night. Cracked my lamp yesterday!