First entry in Squiggeeland

I thought I would start this new blog , with some brand new Squiggee Designs. These little crabs

make me laugh. When I was a child , my family spent every Summer , in Maine at our cottage on the Island of South Harpswell. The Island is connected to the mainland by a clauseway.

I can't count the number of hours in any given Summer, that my two sisters and baby brother would take our string fishing lines with their very rusty hooks, a pale of salt water and go the big dock on the west side of the island , and proceed to catch crabs. This was done without a net...so it turned into a test of wills ...who would win,,,always the crabs..My mother would give us bacon for our bait , and off we would go.The crabs were very cleaver and seemed to enjoy the game, just as much as we did, because after all , if we managed to get the crab , up on the dock and into the pale, we would always toss them back, they were to small to eat ...Most of the time, the crab would toy with us, hanging on till he or she was almost to the top, them turn that beedy eye, wink and let go...we would roar with laughter, then start all over again...children today miss all the good stuff, by spending too much time indoors and at the computer.

This was the most fun that a kid can have on a Summer afternoon. We would have really laughed if one of these crabs had appeared...especially one with a plaid back......