Sorry to leave you hangin’ there.
I was out in the kitchen, fixin some breakfast; sausage, eggs-over-easy on cheese grits...skillet fried toast with strawberry jam.
I’m sure I can find something here to make a smart-remark about.
Only the ice on the shrimp boats.
Don't need it up here. Here's some imagery for you:
The fishermen haul the shrimp onto the boat and they freeze instantly. The guys sometimes have a barrel on the deck with a hose bringing hot water from the engine's cooling system.
They pull some shrimp, then alternately plunge their hands into the hot water to keep them from going numb.
That probably explains why the skin on their hands is an inch thick.