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Prices have gone through the roof and sellers are reporting not near as many people willing to pony up the price for a the usual half bushel.

Personally I have never wanted to work that hard for a little bit of meat. :confused: When we meet people at a crab house my wife orders a hotdog. ;lol
One of my favorite foods but you may be much better off buying a 16 oz can of claw crabmeat for $9.97. Save all the work. Too bad about this years harvest ,ill have to substitute with king crab,shrimp and lobster.
 
Wild scallops my fav.
Beware the "fake" ones. I went to that huge seafood buffet near virginia beach that includes "scallops". They were fake. Some kind of breaded fish portions all exactly the same size and color.
In my experience scallops are NOT all the same size and the same color. The huge crab legs were good though, but at $35 a person not so cheap.
 
Beware the "fake" ones. I went to that huge seafood buffet near virginia beach that includes "scallops". They were fake. Some kind of breaded fish portions all exactly the same size and color.
In my experience scallops are NOT all the same size and the same color. The huge crab legs were good though, but at $35 a person not so cheap.

$7/lb for crab right now (cooked). There are advantages of living near the ocean....
 
$7/lb for crab right now (cooked). There are advantages of living near the ocean....
Nice. Maximum low tide is coming. We will be going crabbing soon.
 
But you'll be eating rock crab..this is snow crab. Ugleast beast of the ocean (with a shell that is..).

On another note, I just lit my stove. In order to get wood out of my greenhouse, I sank in mud 7 inches deep. So much for grass....And it is snowing. Yup, snowing.

Andrew
 
Black flies appeared today. Buzzing but not settling down for a blood meal. Oak leaves are the "size of mouse's ear" and it's time to plant... will have to mow in a few days' time.
 
So here are the pictures as promised.... IMG-20140511-00346.jpg Gaspé-20140511-00347.jpg
 
Black flies appeared today. Buzzing but not settling down for a blood meal. Oak leaves are the "size of mouse's ear" and it's time to plant... will have to mow in a few days' time.
The black flies will be out any day up here too. The are such a pita! They get in your ears, your eyes, your hair...! At times I wear a hat and a net so I can walk the dogs. They usually are gone by late June but last year they were here until August.
 
We turned on the AC to sleep tonight. "It's not the heat, it's the humidity..."
 
We've got five days of low 60s/low 40s coming. I'm now glad I hadn't gotten around to putting the stove to bed. !!!
 
We are still having fires here. Usually small, hot ones in the morning to get the chill out. Just lit one up.
0::C when I wake up, getting up to 20::C mid day.
 
W T F. That is insane.
We are fully leaved out here and fortunately no black flies in these parts. They can make being outdoors miserable.
 
They can make being outdoors miserable.

Yep - the black flies and mosquitoes sure do put a damper on the outside time. We were killing mosquitoes last hear right through into mid-November. There was no break. I sense another year of the same, with all the ground water and pretty much consistent rain so far preventing things from drying up, they'll be breeding like crazy.
 
88 today and 71 with 89% humidity now at ten pm. Think I will pass on a fire tonight. Supposed to heat up tomorrow.

Trees are all leaved out and a high wind came through this afternoon. The leaf bud junk falling from the trees looked like a blizzard in progress. First time I have ever witnessed that and don't even want to see what is in the gutters now. <>
 
So true. Our English elm just dumped a truck load of seed pods. No thanks!
 
The past few days the weather was 30's and 40's with rain and no sun in sight, wife re-lit the stove today.
 
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