Saturday, September 17, 2016

Lobster Trap Run

During the Windjammer Festival there were events and games for all ages.  
One favourite is the Lobster Trap Run.  Contestants see how many lobster traps they can run across before falling in.  The one who wins gets a $75 gift card from the local bank.  
Children tend to fare better than adults due to their lower center of gravity. 
They run all the way across, then all the way back, and just keep on until they fall off.
One young boy made it across 139!  

6 comments:

  1. Ben & Jerry's are first today. Here's the link to a great quiz I fo8nd on them at FunTrivia:

    Peace, Love and Ice Cream - Click

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  2. I just noticed that the tides in that particular harbor seem to be substantial.

    Alan

    Hmmmm.....and the pilings seem less durable than the redwood ones that were standard where I grew up.

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    1. But we had no wharves of stone.
      --Alan

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  3. (sigh) you just can't trust anybody any more! Last night I was tired and on the way home I ran into the store and bought a Marie Callender frozen dinner. I usually only eat food I cooked, but it was late and I was really tired. Anyway.... the dinner was labeled Salisbury Steak and the photo showed a nicely browned piece of meat slathered in dark brown gravy and surrounded by a veritable HEAP of nice fat florets of broccoli and cauliflower in a light cheese sauce, the there were roasted potato wedges surrounding the side left bare of broccoli and cauliflower.

    Well, I nuked the dinner as instructed and when I peeled back the covering what did I find?

    A slightly grayish piece of "meat" that looked mighty like it had been cut out with a cookie cutter and from no animal I could identify. There was very little gravy and it was not dark brown. The cauliflower and broccoli? About a fourth of a cup of woody stems and a very few minuscule pieces of florets from both veggies and the little there was was deeply mired in a swamp of thick orange "cheese" sauce. The only thing that looked like the picture on the box were the roasted potatoes.

    I was deeply disappointed because I really was hungry, but also annoyed with myself that I fell for that picture when I know how "reliable" advertising is!

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    1. I'm sorry, Susan. Her frozen dinners are usually quite good. Try her pot pie, chicken, turkey or beef. I promise you'll find it quite satisfying.

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  4. In a similar vein,

    New Study Says 1 Out of Every 5 Corporate Bosses Is a Psychopath [Click] "CEO psychopaths are a lot more common than we thought." Next there will be a study showing that there are incompetents and bullshitters in position of corporate responsibility, I suppose...as well as gullible types to hire them...

    --Alan

    My experience with Marie Callender frozen dinners and chicken pot pies has been OK, but I don't have high standards. And Salisbury steak is supposed to be a ground beef patty, so it shouldn't be recognizable as a cut of meat. I should expect the gravy is made with corn starch.

    I have fond memories of Garibaldi brand tamales, but the only grocery store around here that still carries them is a non-union store at which I refuse to shop. The clerks' behavior compared to a nearby union store is notably deficient. (Boy, talk about diplomatic...)

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