Got some clams today.  From the lagoon behind the house.  They are currently sitting and sifting sand in a bucket of water on the porch.  Should be clear of grit by tomorrow afternoon.  Their eventual fate: clam chowder.

Clams!

OHMYGAWD, Sal makes good clam chowder!

Picked up a dozen oysters while we were down there digging around in the  mud.  Result: muddy feet and paws (dogs like to help in the hunt) and oysters and Caesar salad tonight.  Picked up another pearl in one of them as a bonus, too.  Sometimes the oysters make pearls and we picked up a large misshapen one today.  Sal has a few little ones in a jar from previous oyster hunts.

Pearl!

If we keep this up, someday we’ll have a worthless little pile of misshapen pearls to show people.  Sorta like we have now……..but only more of them.

Storm last night brought in a beach full of seaweed.  We are likely to go get some for the garden tomorrow.  And, if I am up for it, we may cut a few logs up that also floated by and that we retrieved and tied up.  As you know from previous blogs, wood gathering is a constant chore out here.  But not an unpleasant one.  Kinda fun, most of the time.  I especially like it when the W’fers come to do the chopping.  I enjoy watching w’fers chop wood.

Sal does most of the log fetching and wrangling.  She just can’t help herself.  She’s like a cat on a mouse when it comes to drifting logs.  My role is mostly cutting them into manageable lengths, hauling them up the hill and then cutting them into rounds.  I ‘split’ sometimes but I have managed to pull the ol’ Tom Sawyer white-washing-the-fence trick on most of the w’fers and guests so far.  And the Chinese kids, too.

Couldn’t fool my own kids, tho.

So, there you have it.  Counting the couple of hours working on Sal’s boat, we only ventured about five hundred feet from home.  Got in some boat repairs, two dinners, garden fertilizer, potential jewelry and some winter wood.

And you thought living in the city was a life of convenience!