Clam Digging

We had a long day of clamming. Is this cute, or what??? We were de-shelling the clams at this point. Tracker tripped and started wimpering, so Travis told him to get up. We turned back to our processing and about 5 min later, he was still there! Poor kid.

Yesturday, after Travis got done fishing the 10 ft high seas (something close to that), we went clamming down at the beach. The wind was incredibly crazy. Tracker was walking like he was drunk as we he cleaned off the clams.

Anyway Clamming is where you go to the beach when the tide is out and wander the sand looking for little "dimples". This means there is a clam underneath that dimple, and you proceed to dig it up. Sometimes you don't find one, so it makes it exciting. Tustin had an obsolute blast. However, Trayton & Tracker were not happy about the 100 mile wind. I didn't wear a hair up, either, so that wasn't fun for me.
Ha, I thought Tracker was asleep, too. When a woman walked by talking, he pushed himself up to look at me. Almost asleep counts, right?
You can see Travis in the background with Naomi in the wrap while he cleans the clams. She slept really good.

Here's Tustin & his catch. Yum. Trayton was determined to take home 4 clams to keep in a fish tank "with lots of water & sand and stuff to look at besides us all day!" He had a whole family picked out. Then Tustin handed us one, and we began cutting into it. Trayton was really hurt, and hid under the cutting table, almost crying. Sensitive boy. We tried to explain to him he was already a goner, and he would taste really good. He eventually got over it.

That night when we were eating our clam chowder, I about gagged remembering me cutting into the guts of the clams, and seeing them squish all over the place. Plus, I'm not too fond of the texture. But it tasted delicious, really!!

Today was the last day of swim lessons. The boys both jumped off the diving board twice!! Last year, neither of them jumped off. Here's for progress!! This is Tustin jumping in the pool to Miss Sara.

Trayton fooling you. He looks like he's about to jump in, but it really took him about 3 min to decide as he stood there.

You think he's about to turn around and walk back, but no. Tustin just jumped right in. Not a sign of fright.