My wife and I were talking last night about how very weird it was that the Obama had decided to bring out that new “seal” to display in front of him during the campaign. It was so MUCH like the Presidential seal that we both felt that it was being a little bit “presumptuous” to be using it. We were both really surprised that the people in his campaign came up with that seal, and even more surprised that Obama agreed to use it! It seems like the newscasters could not let go of talking about the seal, either. I think it was quite a snafu in what seems to be an otherwise well managed campaign!
If you don’t put your life jacket on before you get on the boat, rationalizing that you’ll grab it when you need it, by the time you realize you need one, it could be too late to grab it! I think that everyone who applies to register their boat should be required to take and pass a Boating Education course.
When we lived in New England, we lived on a large lake and we enjoyed taking our boat out for a spin whenever we had a chance. Unfortunately, at least once a year we would read in the local newspaper that someone had drowned in the area due to excessive alcohol consumption which resulted in reckless boating. The law does not require everyone to wear a life jacket, simply that there are enough on the boat for each one. I think that is fairly useless; everyone should be wearing their life jacket – they should put it on before they get in the boat and take it off only after they have gotten off of the boat.
Every night after supper, I like to help myself to a bowl of ice cream. It is my favorite dessert in the entire world. My wife likes to eat it immediately after supper if she is going to eat it, saying that it gives her heartburn if she eats it too close to bedtime.
My wife doesn’t like to take me grocery shopping with her because I go straight to the ice cream freezers and load up on ice cream. My favorite flavor is Natural Vanilla Bean, but sometimes I like other flavors, like strawberry. My wife’s favorite flavor is strawberry cheesecake.
I want to buy an ice cream maker, so we can make our own soft ice cream here at home. I’m going to check the wize.com website and see what their recommendations are for the best ice cream maker. I think that it would be so wonderful to be able to make our own ice cream here, nice and smooth, creamy and fresh.
My wife showed me an article from a local newspaper today about how Red Virginia crabs have recently been introduced to the folks in Virginia as an additional choice in their seafood menus. I’ve never been highly informed about crabs in the past, having grown up in New England, I’ve always been a lobster man. In fact I can say with complete honesty that I’ve never eaten a steamed blue crab in my life. My wife says that anything with a shell is too much work for her to bother with; she’ll eat it if its already been cooked and shelled, but she won’t cook it OR shell it herself.
Anyway, apparently Red Virginia crabs are caught in the ocean off of the shores of Virginia and are a lot larger than the blue crabs are. The newspaper article said that the Red Crabs are at least a full pound larger than the blue crabs! The blue crabs have been over-harvested and are becoming scarce, so the local restaurants are starting to offer Red Crabs, and the folks seem to love them!
