Daily Archives: July 16, 2014

Comegy’s Bight is like coming home.  A few years ago we accidentally intercepted email for Roy Mears of Chestertown, MD.  Eric contacted him and last summer we spent a week here visiting with plans to come by again this summer. Roy’s mother in law, Mal, lives here on the Chester River.  In the evenings her children and their spouses come by for sun downers and a dip in the pool.  We enjoyed visiting, fishing, and swimming on the hot humid days.

Roy and Roy both love fishing.  Most of the days we were anchored in the river the Roys would go out and see what they could catch.  The deal was that while Big Roy was working in the mornings, little Roy had to catch the bait.  We got really good at spotting the bait balls, sneaking up on them, and then Roy would throw his net and collect a few dozen bait fish.

Even though they went out looking for white perch, catfish is really what was biting.  Here in the Chester River they are whoppers.

Last year’s catfish is in Roy’s fishing gallery, this year he got several slightly smaller ones. They were still big whiskery sea monsters.

After a few hot sticky weeks along the Atlantic coast, Mal’s swimming pool was a welcome sight. Just before the weather turned hot, we were in Sandy Hook, NJ. The weather was chilly and we were shopping for bathing suits and jackets at the same time.  Those poor bathing suits were put away for warmer days like today!

During the chilly weeks we also lost our sun tans.  Even with sun screen slathered on, we still turned a little pink after spending the day in the pool.

One evening we were invited down the street and around the corner to Roy and Molly’s house for Chinese take out.  Oh Yea!  They share their road/drive way with Molly’s sister.  It took us forever to get down the road because we kept spotting things like flamingos, parrots and polar bears in the woods.  It was great fun and kept the kids interested in “eye spy with my little eye.”

Who would have thought Roy’s trailer is a great place for a photo opportunity? Roy loaned us his company truck for trips to the grocery store and such. We waved back to people around the neighborhood who spotted his truck, and even saw other work vehicles and t-shirts around the neighborhood.

Critters are always fun.  One morning we found a frog on the back of Makai anchored out in the river.  There are frogs and toads hiding out around the bushes and in the grass.  The swimming pool has these interesting floats with a bridge to the pool deck for critters to climb out.

There are also critters that give us the chilly willys and make everyone squeal like a little girl.  The black rat snake had us watching were we stepped.

Flies came and got us again.  Tacky fly strip paper is pretty gross, but not as bad as being swarmed. I was worried with flies landing on us all the time we would get used to it and National Geographic would feature us on their cover or something.

Makai was decorated with a dozen fly strips and after about 3 days we were down to an acceptable level of flying pests. The fly strips are extremely sticky which prompted horror stories from our hosts about getting these things tangled in hair. 

At dusk the fire flies come out twinkling their bio-luminescence all over the yard. I remember chasing fire flies as a kid, it was just part of summer evenings.

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Coming to Comegy’s Bight also means presents. All winter long we think up projects, maintenance, and upgrades.  Depending on the size and urgency the presents get shipped to the next person that visits us or in this case the next person we visit. Everyone was anxious to receive their orders that were sent to Roy and Molly.

The dream for this trip was blissful days playing board games, crocheting doilies and reading books.  The reality of it is such a dream can’t be met in a week’s vacation, a month, or even a summer for us. During our first year, Roy did a good job of plowing through the paperbacks on board.  In the first half our second year Genny had several books started and did an acceptable amount of crocheting and drawing. But it wasn’t until the last six months that Marie and I could play games all afternoon and the kids went nuts with reading on the simple Kindle eInk they got for Christmas. We can easily download books from the library when ever we have internet, we share books with friends, and Amazon always has something to download. Roy and Genny had been doing such a good job of reading that they requested an upgrade with a back light and touch screen. A few weeks ago when my mom came to visit she brought several packages of replacement parts and Kindle Fire HDXs for the kids.  They immediately worried about screen protection and cases.  Since when did they get so responsible?  

Anyway, the point here is that Kindle cases were waiting at Roy’s house for the kids… Yippeee!  The kids also got a Beauty Rest GeoMat, 4″ foam mattress topper for their beds.  Our bed got one last year, its like sleeping on a cloud.  Our camera got new batteries and an external charger. Eric had several boat parts waiting as well as a new air conditioner unit.  Makai has three air conditioners to service the forward cabins, main salon, and the aft cabins. Two of the three units need to be replaced starting with the main salon.  Summer on the east coast can be very hot and even worse, humid.  We can only run the air conditioner if the generator is running or if we’re plugged into shore power.  Soon Makai will be at a marina while we take care of a long list of projects and the air conditioner will come in handy.

Molly’s nephew comes by regularly.  He has an interesting garage filled with fishing and hunting equipment, tools, welding equipment and mechanical stuff I only barely recognized.  He also brought Louie his young hunting dog. As you can imagine, missing Topaz, we all cooed over this beautiful Golden Retriever.  Louie also lives with a Boston Terrier named Tara.  This combination sparked our interest because our pals in California have a Boston Terrier named Louie that plays with our Golden Retriever, Ha!

Sunday was family picnic day.  Mal and her five children filled the yard with adult grandchildren, great grandbabies and a few friends. 

 

We ate all the normal picnic foods like the corn on the cob.  Maybe it was from one of the many corn fields here in town.

Men at the BBQ flipping burgers and hot dogs. Pot luck salads and side dishes to over flow our lunch plates with delicious foods. Don’t forget an icy cold beer to wash it down.

In Maryland a common summer picnic food is steamed Blue Crab covered in Old Bay seasoning.  Last year we were invited to a Memorial Day picnic and were introduced to this tasty delicacy.  There is a table set on the side dedicated to crab picking.  The table is covered with butcher paper and set with a roll of paper towels, a pile of mallets to crack the claws with and a couple of small knives.  All day long people wander over a few at a time to chat and pick crabs.

You start by cracking off the front arms with the claws and putting them aside.  Then lift up the piece on the underside that looks like the Washington Monument (these are males, females look like the Capitol building and they get thrown back to make baby crabs for next year) continuing to lift off the top of the crab shell.  Using the knife, scrape out the pile of guts and such from the meat.  From there pick the meat out from the shell sections and then pound the claws to expose meat inside there as well.  After three or four crabs take a swig of cold beer, scrape the pile of shells into the trash, wipe the goo off your fingers and make room for someone else.  I will surely miss this tasty way to socialize at a Maryland picnic.

Eric had a chance to discuss ancestors with Roy’s son who also has a hobby of researching genealogy. Unfortunately, they haven’t come up with a common ancestor yet.

The kids swam in the pool, swam in the river, played with the hose, played on the swing set, and went off for a ride.

What a fabulous day.  We had fun meeting everyone and a goal for our family to enjoy each other as our family grows and expands.