WOKING up with Jake the Water person!

I got to catch up with Jake again at the Bay Bridge Boat Show.

All geared up and ready for warmer weather, Jake and crew are rearing for longer days and sunny weather. Now you know Jake is working when the sun comes up every day.

He is off on Mondays but is still working when the sun comes up.

In my conversation with Jake, he had to scratch his head a couple of times. He explained he “WOKES” up every morning before dawn and gits to working! He hears on the news how people WOKE up every day sometimes at the crack of noon.

Jake wonders how you can be so woke but not be up at 3 a.m. and working for 12 to 15 hours to feed your family and never have anything to complain about!

I asked him about his Uncle Juke. Jake said his Uncle Juke is doing great out west. He just celebrated a birthday in February and loves
riding his motorcycle.

MAY DAY MARINATING The Three Turkey Points

There are three Turkey Points in our Upper Bay Boating readership area. One on the Northeast River, one on the South River (just south of Annapolis), and finally where I live… The Turkey Point on Middle River. I have always found it unusual that one is literally North on the bay in North East, one south on the bay by Thomas Point, and the third almost directly in the middle! (Give or take about a mile and a half)

It is a coincidence I am like so sure!

CORNED FISH AND CABBAGE

Corned Fish and Cabbage and eating various fish for Lent!

I eat fish throughout the year. Tuna, Striped Bass, Flounder, Hake, Cod, Pollack… Lots of fish.

I generally avoid farm-raised anything and I avoid Tilapia like the plaque. But it always makes me laugh when people talk about eating fish. They are like “Hey try this fish… it doesn’t even taste like fish” So, how many people say “It doesn’t even taste
like fish” Have you wondered?

THEN WHY ARE YOU EATING IT THEN? (THIS IS PART ONE, PART TWO ASKS A BIGGER QUESTION)

A THOUGHT ABOUT YACHT CLUBS!

There are a lot of great yacht clubs around our Chesapeake Bay and we’ll soon be celebrating spring club openings.

My father was involved in a few yacht clubs and bought stock in two. I had two sisters who were princesses of two clubs. Susan High for Sue Haven Yacht Club and Brenda High for Eastern Yacht Club.

Over many years, basically my whole life, I have been going to yacht club events up and down the bay. In the early 2000’s I was involved with Hydroplane Racing at Bush River Yacht Club, which was fun. And I have kicked back a few times at North East Yacht Club. The beauty of the yacht clubs up and down the bay is that our forefathers took their money, combined it, form a corporation, sold stock, bought properties on the water, built clubhouses, and invited their families and friends. These yacht clubs have provided an unbelievable amount of good times for our families for years and years and years.

This spring try to make it to one of the Opening Weekends. It really is a great way to enjoy a weekend.

Some Humor

“If there are any idiots in the room, will they please stand up”, said the sarcastic teacher.

After a long silence, one freshman rose to his feet.

“Now then, mister, why do you consider yourself and idiot?” inquired the teacher with a sneer.

“Well, actually, I don’t,” said the student, “but I hate to see you standing up there all by yourself.”

Putin is held hostage by a terrorist. A Russian truck driver stops at the back of a long queue on the motorway.

He sees a policeman walking down the line of stopped cars to briefly talk to the drivers.

As the policeman approaches the truck, the truck driver rolls down his window and asks, “What’s going on?”

Policeman: “A terrorist is holding Putin hostage in a car. He’s demanding 10 million rubles, or he’ll douse Putin in petrol and set him on fire. So, we’re asking drivers for donations.”

Driver: “Oh, ok. How much do people donate on average.”

Policeman: “About a gallon.”

A young boy enters a barber shop, and the barber whispers to his customer, “This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you.”

The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then calls the boy over and asks, “Which do you want, son?” The boy takes the quarters and leaves.

“What did I tell you?” said the barber. “That kid never learns!”

Later, when the customer leaves, he sees the same young boy coming out of the ice cream parlor.

“Hey, son! May I ask you a question? Why did you take the quarters instead of the dollar bill?”

The boy licked his cone and replied: “Because the day I take the dollar, the game is over!”