Happy Mother’s Day and Happy Memorial Day! Each of these days have great meaning, please remember why we celebrate and remember both.
Welcome to the party on the Upper Chesapeake Bay! I hope your boat is in the water, polished up, fueled up and ready for the season.
Pretty much all of my honey do list is done… at least the part I got done. Ha ha, there is always something else on Kisha’s list. How about Mother’s Day Monday for a good time to knock a few things out?
I’m looking forward to lots of cruises, raft-ups, poker runs, live music everywhere, steamed crabs, dancing under the bay born stars and maybe even a bit of fishing… maybe! Even with gasoline and diesel being somewhat higher, you only get so much boat time! So go off and enjoy the long cruises sometimes and the local gatherings waterholes on other weekends. But hopefully, this is going to be a great summer away from the stresses we see every day near and far! As always… enjoy today while it is here. Tomorrow, today is just a memory. I cannot remember all the memories I’ve forgotten.
Where does the Eastern Shore become the Eastern Shore?
As a teen-ager I had a friend and his family that called something POP! The Rudd family had just recently moved from Anne Arbor Michigan and I was kind of the first teenager they met+? Greg R asked me one day if I wanted to go out for a POP? I never heard of POP so I asked and he laughed… soda pop! He laughed and I laughed and I explained we called it soda. Over many years I wondered what town or zip code soda became pop, and with the internet someone studied the same thought and here is the map!
I’ve been wondering for quite some time where exactly does the Eastern Shore become the Eastern Shore? I’ve always thought of it as when I go over the Susquehanna, from Havre De Grace to Perryville. Other people think it is between the two towns of Elkton and Chesapeake City or when you cross the C and D Canal. Cecil County is considered part of Delmarva but is all of Cecil County the Eastern shore and if it isn’t where does the Western Shore end? Inquiring Minds would like to know!!!
I asked Jake the Water person where the shore begins… He had the wisest answer! He explained the shore begins in your heart!
Damn Non-Boating Humans on Friday Night
What is it with non-boating humans? So, let’s say you rushed home from work, it’s Friday night, the car or pick-up is loaded and you’re heading to the boat! Hell yes!
But that is when the non-boating humans show up and it just so happens your route home from work is the route you take to get to the boat. But on your way home there wasn’t any road construction… but suddenly the non-boating humans have set up road cones, gathered flag wavers, snarled traffic and just cost you an hour! Or, you’re approaching the Chesapeake City Bridge but it is closed because… drum roll please… a non-boating human parked his car at the top, got out and is threatening to jump! You were so close and now what? Hop out of the car and start yelling jump, jump, jump! Sorry folks, I’m being insensitive… Start yelling Buy a Boat, Buy A Boat, Buy A Boat!!! He heard that, hopped in his car and bought a boat the very next morning.
It’s Friday night and you’re approaching Bowley’s Quarters but you didn’t realize Bengies Drive-In has the latest greatest Marvel Avengers movie triple feature and the Non-Boating Humans have Eastern backed up 3 extra miles… DAMN! Non boating Humans at it again
A fun lesson for Lucas…
So, Kisha, Kammy, Lucas and I are walking down to our local yacht club, to go swimming. I ask Lucas to carry the bag with the towels and he makes it, oh, 200 feet. He is miserable having to do the chore. So, I grab the bag and carry it, very happily! On the way back, I explain to Lucas that carrying the bag wasn’t a chore. It was an honor. An honor to carry the bag that had his Mommy and little sisters towels in it. And the light bulb went off for Lucas! Since then, he has walked to the marina to grab my cooler of natural lights. Started my truck when it was could and grabbed my credit card for me when I left it at Lennys! Yup… That Lucas really got it
