Lake

 Lake

     Our freezer cooler was full of crabs, so the boys didn't go crabbing on the third day.  We went to visit the lighthouse, near Lake Marie.

Oyster fields

     

Two

 Two

     Day two of crabbing:  The boys had gotten their limit of 24 crabs between the two of them.  These were better quality of crabs, meaty and larger.

Crab breakfast burrito.

Rock

 Rock

     I found a painted rock by the side of the road.  I re-hid it in Jan's bag.

Crabbing

 Crabbing

     The two Tom's went out at 4 am to go crabbing off the dock.  They wanted to get their before high tide.  They came back with 17 crabs.  The limit is 24 crabs, between the two of them.  

Yurt

 Yurt

     We stayed in yurts, instead of dragging the tent and all the camping gear.  We did that so we could all fit everything in one vehicle.  Plus, the yurt had a heater and a place to comfortably sit while it rained.  Jan and her husband went with us.

Oregon

 Oregon

      We decided to do a little crabbing on the Oregon coast.  We went to Winchester Bay to pick up 8 - dozen, medium, raw oysters and the boys crabbed off the dock.  The  medium oysters are more like large or extra large oysters.  We had to cut them up to eat them.  I liked them raw and cooked on the grill.

Jan

Jan's husband, Tom.

Yum, raw

Letters

 Letters

      On my last trip to Iowa, we stopped inside an outlet store.  I looked trough all the bins and came up with a couple of boxes of letter beads.  I'm always thinking what to tat around things and this would be fun to incorporate into tatting.  The pattern from this, kind of evolved from the duckie pendant.  This fob is called, "Flower Fob."  This fob is designed to use five or six characters.  The characters can be letters, numbers or characters.  Of course it all glows and can be clipped to your favorite tatting bag or picot hooks.