Posted on 10/08/2023 5:35:29 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Many thanks for posting. Cheers!
You’re most welcome-glad you enjoyed it!
I still remember the getting up at 4 AM, all of us four boys getting into the car with our Dad, who was not known for doing things to interact with us, he did’t fish, didn’t play catch, but...he liked the crabbing process.
My mom would get up and make us bacon and eggs before we left, fix us lunch in paper sacks, and we would pile bleary eyed into the car to drive out to the Chesapeake and rent a boat.
It was a guy thing...:) One of the few “guy things” my Dad did with us boys.
I remember how weird it was to dangle a chicken neck on a string, and when they grabbed on, you just pulled them up. I was puzzled (I began doing this with him about the age of seven) that the crab wouldn’t let go unless you pulled them out of the water, and that was what you needed the net for!
My bride of 38 years, Rosie, had never been east of New Mexico, but she sure developed a taste for crabcakes and soft-shell crabs when we went back there a few years back! We keep Old Bay on the shelf (along with several other "secret ingredients") for the steamed shrimp I make several times a year ... following my late Dad's "world famous" recipe ... or so he claimed!
Cheers! & be well.
Years ago you could take construction size coolers with beer to the upper deck of Memorial Stadium to watch the O’s. The language got very BLUE up there. Harbor Place at one time the toast of the town and now the town is toast. Line from the Wizard of Oz “I’d turn back if I were you”.
Oh, yeah. I was just a kid but I spent a lot of time in the upper deck at Memorial Stadium ... with the coolers all about!
(I even remember listening to the O’s on my portable radio when I was 6 or 7. Bailey Goss and, can you believe it?, Ernie Harwell were the play-by-play guys.)
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