[glennaro]

Your growing up in Baltimore tale brought back a lot of nice, family memories of living there ... then again, it was in the 1950s and 1960s (when things began to get crazy in DC just 35 miles down the B-W Parkway.)

Many thanks for posting. Cheers!

[rlmorel]

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!