This is us, unsuccessfully doing some crabbing in Florence, Oregon. Sara reverted to her childhood ways and chased me with an angry crab. She and Lesley had the only two permits so they spent their time doing all the work while Beth and I cheered them on.
This is a photo of my new gangsta boyfriend in the blue who was also crabbing with his friends. We were invited to his pajama party but respectfully declined as our focus was the crabs we wanted to catch from the dock and boil for dinner. He was relentless and even made me some art as seen in the second photo below. It's a red heart made of zip ties. I am still not completely sure why he was hitting on me since I never showed any more of myself than my green "stay puffed" outfit. He must be the kind of guy who buys mystery grab bags.
This is Sara working very hard at getting those traps out to sea. Nice form huh?
Our one keeper for the day, a blue bungie cord.
For those of you who haven't done crabbing yourself here is a quick tutorial. You bait your traps with the stinkiest and most disgusting thing you can find and then throw them out in the river. After pulling them up you have to measure each crab that may be big enough. You can only keep the boys so flipping them over to analyze the markings is the next step.
Then you stop and pose for some photos to show the world how much fun you're having.
Finally when you have figured out that you just spent 5 hours in the cold and haven't pulled up a single crab big enough to keep, you go to the local crap shop and pick up a couple REALLY big delicious ones for dinner.
The next photos are of our wine tasting excursion at King Estate Winery. We had a lovely lunch and did some yummy tasting.
The final 10 photos are of the Eugene Holiday Market. Can you spot a theme?
Now it's clear that you can tie dye anything!
