In Which An Old Friend Dies

I was doing some cleaning this weekend and, in and amongst the tupperware, I found my old friend, Herkimer.  I had been wondering where he'd gone.  I figured the housekeeper threw him away one day when she came to clean. 

My rosy-cheeked friend looked as fine and dandy as ever from the front...

...but then I turned him over and discovered he got all broke up and rotted from the inside out:

"No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough...ask for me tomorrow and ye shall find me a grave man." Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

So, I kissed him goodbye and tossed him before the house could get too sulfuric.