Scalping or Scalloping?

When we suggested to the scouts that we go scalloping, some, being wild and crazy as they can sometimes be, thought we meant wild west scalping. They soon found out what we really meant. Here we are at Crystal River on the Gulf a Mexico getting ready for our adventure and heading out to sea.

My official job was to be the spotter and constantly count heads bobbing in the water to make sure that no one disappeared at the bottom of the sea even though the water was only 4 feet deep.

We had a great time and got better at finding scallops as the day wore on. Our limit was 2 five gallon buckets. We got only got about 1 gallon--not bad for beginners.

Afterwards we swam in Three Sisters Springs to get the salt water off then headed home to clean the scallops and share them with our families.

They were delicious cooked with butter and sprinkled with lemon, This is what scallop shells look like.

The Florida season for scalloping is July and August strictly off the coast near Crystal River. We went on a Thursday and there were lots of other scallopers all around us.

Don't Fence Me In!

That was grandma's reaction to my latest project--putting up that last two fences that I've wanted to put up for three years. She's an open range type of person. But now we can control where the cows and horses are in our fields. That keeps the grandkids and animals separated when it comes time to safely do some hiking, biking and perhaps camping in the fields, especially when we have bulls.