Feeling a Little Crabby

Daddy celebrated his b-day this weekend with ESM in Ocean City, MD.  They took the RV down and enjoyed riding the boards.

At the Inlet, there is a jewlery store they always check out because it has lovely, unique crab jewlery.  Invariably, ESM comes home with a new crab.  This year she came home with two!

This was in a junk shop along the boards.
But it is LOVELY.
ESM loves sparkly stuff.

This is the newest piece of jewlery from the Inlet Store.
Its beautiful!

ESM felt bad that she was the one getting presents on Daddy's B-day but he said his best B-day present was seeing her happy with her crabbys. 

My b-day present to Daddy was to make lasanga and homemade bread.  He was so happy to come over and eat and see Jaxon.  And me and AZ too, I think.  It was a good meal with lots of great conversations. 

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Feeling a Little Crabby

We were invaded a couple weeks ago by little fiddler crabs.  They keep coming back when we have flooding high tides.

Jakes decided he wanted to see if we could catch a couple and put them in our fish tank.  We currently have 6 of them in there.  Three males, with the big claws and three females.  Plus we have three little baby blue claw crabs that we found on the beach this summer.



Male Fiddler Crab



They like to hide in the ship.

Jakes will be taking them to his fathers with him.  Which makes me happy because I don't have to worry about this:

Shadow is keeping a CLOSE eye on them

This is what I call DINNER.

My Step Brother and his family are visiting this week.  I haven't been home much to visit with them.  They live in Iowa.  He came home with a list of things he wanted to eat and places he wants to visit.  One of the things he wants to eat are crabs.  The first night he and I talked, he yelled (not really) at me because my crab pots weren't in the river collecting crabs.  I guess he thought since I knew he was coming, I'd rush right out and get the pots in the water.  hahahahahahaha.  Well, the next day I stopped home for lunch and they were in the water!  Awesomeness, Picklehead!

Everyone has been so busy with visiting and running around that no one has checked the pots for three days!  Yesterday, my therapist pushed back my appointment which gave me an hour to kill.  The tide was out, perfect for walking out to get the pots and see what's in them.

Here's what I found:



two pots, 10 crabs in each
3 females and 1 small male that I tossed back

This was dinner last night:



YUMMY!