Lobsters
Tonight our waitress, whose husband is a lobsterman, told us her eighteen year old son is also a lobsterman.
"His father helped him buy a twenty-eight foot boat."
"How many traps can he put out.?
"450."
"He's lucky to get his own traps."
"His father put him on the list when he was young."
In Maine getting your own traps isn't as easy task. Often you need to come from a family of long-time lobstermen- or women."
" He's been fishing by himself for several years. When he was in high school he'd come home after playing on the baseball team and clean his buoys and traps."
"Until he bought this boat he used a skiff and only could stay near the shore. Now he goes further, but his father keeps an eye on him."
By that time our lobsters arrived. I know that her husband supplied the lobster.
Somehow I felt a connection.
"His father helped him buy a twenty-eight foot boat."
"How many traps can he put out.?
"450."
"He's lucky to get his own traps."
"His father put him on the list when he was young."
In Maine getting your own traps isn't as easy task. Often you need to come from a family of long-time lobstermen- or women."
" He's been fishing by himself for several years. When he was in high school he'd come home after playing on the baseball team and clean his buoys and traps."
"Until he bought this boat he used a skiff and only could stay near the shore. Now he goes further, but his father keeps an eye on him."
By that time our lobsters arrived. I know that her husband supplied the lobster.
Somehow I felt a connection.
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