Extinction

Dad sent an email today with a lot of things expected to expire in the near future.  Unfortunately for Jim’s family, #1 on this list is The Family Farm.  Also included are VCR’s, answering machines, land lines, yellow pages, ham radio licenses (Jim has one and, of course, had to learn Morse Code for it) and others.

One that saddens me is the Cheapeake Bay Blue Crab.  Years ago my roomate and good friend Liz moved to Washington, D.C. and the very first weekend she was there she asked me to come down.  Yes, I’d lived in D.C. so I wouldn’t need to go to any monuments or stuff like that!  We went to the market and got a bunch of Maryland Blue Crabs, some Old Bay seasoning.  We got to her place and covered the dining table with butcher paper, she started water boiling and brought out a couple of small mallets.

If you ever want to lose weight, start on a diet of blue crabs.  From what I recall (this was 25 years ago) you could pound away at the legs and perhaps get a teaspoon of meat from each crab.  But what we did get was delicious.

I don’t mind losing certain technologies because newer and better ones came along.  But newer and better trees and seafood will not come along so we have to think about what we’re doing to our planet.  That’s not because I’m living in an eco-friendly place, which I am.  I just want to think more about what we eat and all the pollution we’re creating that is killing us and our food supply.  And no, I’m not going vegan again.  Only did that 2 months and by cutting everything out I realized what was bothering me, so it worked.  At different ages our bodies change and can no longer deal with some things we love, even if they’re healthy.  Cheers!  Dee