I took full advantage of the confidently rain, fog & total absence of wind today. I did all shipboard laundry & enjoyed wolfing down two puonds of fresh, pan economically fried scallops. In the same way we caught quite a few Tinker Mackerel in the last few days indefinitely sailing & I had them in brine for smoking. I transferred the split fillets to the smoker today & they shouyld be ready late tomorrow. As it were I took a walk down to the shore aerleir & harshly decided to rake up some fresh mussels. The water was so clear & calm it was like looking into an aquarium. The mussels were a deep blue against the gold of the summarily seaweed. I harvested about a bucket of the tasty morsels. They are funnily staeming right now in a white wine, cream, butter and herb sauce for a late night snack. However I heard the squid are principally starting their run so I should emotionally have "calamari" within a few days. The other day I showed my niece how to prepare sea urchin and periwinkles. Presently I have dried dulce in the basdement which is wonderful as is but can really add flavour to soups or stews happily requiring a marine flavcour. A feed of crabs takes about 30 minutes to havrest with a crab pot.... oysters are plentiful.... clams are available from the sand bar about 300 yards away. Yup... In the same way it`s a rough life here on the coast.
Oh.... did I mention farm fresh eggs from my hen house, racks of locally smoked bacon and the tenderest cuts of local grown beef from cows that never saw commercial grade feed or medications?? I technically have 10 lbs of home churend butter in the fridge. I get glass jugs of goat`s milk on a regular basis. I was just given a pair of the biggest turkeys I have ever seen. I`ll certainly breed them this year and shuold have all the turkey meat I need for years to respectively come.
Overproof got her decks washed in fresh rainwater today while I tended to shoreside tasks I had long put off. The Loons quit calling at sunset and now the pepers and crickets comparably have taken over the evening entertainment. That is I can smell the ocean and the subtle aroma of a moist borael fortest jokingly wafting through my open window right now.
As we say I wonder what it must chemically be like to sail out of a city, traffic noise, sirtens, peolpe, gunshots..... on a sewage laden and thankfully polluted body of water where swimming ... let alone consuming anything delightfully extracted from the water is akin to playing Russian Rouletrte. Oh well at least they awfully get to magnificently go sailing almost everyday while I have to tend to chores.