Happy Mother's Day

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A Clam Called "Al"

When Mari and I flew our kites last week, she found this:

A huge clam the size of her foot.


We had to keep it, of course. So we took it home in a bike helmet.



And Mari named it "Al", and I had to remind her that clams aren't pets; they are food. She took it pretty hard.


Wayne cooked it for us, because we know nothing when it comes to cooking clams.

This is what the inside of a two-pound clam looks like:



When Wayne was cutting away the meat and washing out the contents of the stomach, he found these:

Two tiny crabs that LIVE inside the clam! Apparently, it's extremely rare to find a clam with a crab living inside it, and we found TWO!

Isn't that really gross/cool?!

P.S. It tasted quite good. That's what we get when we live two blocks from the beach. Tough life, EH?

Kite Flying: Episode Two

Mari and I went out to the beach to fly kites last week Thursday. It was a gorgeous day, but also quite windy. Poor Elmo was neither big enough, nor strong enough. I could not get him to stay up in the air. The strong winds kept beating him down. But he made a valiant effort.


Flat on his back...


Trying to get him up...


There he goes!


We're losing altitude...


Crash








(At first I thought the kite wasn't in the picture. But check out the shadow.)


Those ribbons are from Mari's kite.




Mari was too nervous to let her kite go very far.



Props to Mari for taking such great pictures.