So November 27 was a big day here at Big Sandy Bottom, as Ivy turned 21 years old...How is this possible? There is NO way she can be 21. Just yesterday she was a Halloween baby bumblebee, drunkenly stumbling up the stairs of houses with antennas dangling in her eyes. No seriously, I think it WAS just yesterday. That crazy kid.
We had a fun meal with Ivy & Rico on her birthday, but this time without the added benefit of male genitalia hanging in our faces.
In other news, it's crab season here on the west coast! Eric and I went to the harbor and purchased 3 HUUUGE dungeness crabs. 3 HUUUGE LIVE dungeness crabs. We didn't think this through very carefully, because when it came time to actually cooking the damn things it was quite an adventure. After Eric suffered several injuries, we finally got the crabs shoved into a pot of boiling water that was, unfortunately, too small. So we had to hold a lid on top of the pot, which was great fun-listening to their little claws scraping on the lid was especially creepy. Also at one point I thought they had finally settled down (okay, DIED) and I lifted the lid and....
....A still very much alive crab reared up onto its back claws and attempted to hurl itself up and out of the pot....
After much screaming and jumping about, the crab was shoved back in and we didn't take off the lid for another day and a half or so, just to be sure...
The fact that the crabs were alive did give us the opportunity to play a little joke on Olivia, which is pretty much what we live for around here. Olivia is incredibly gullible and so for a brief but delightful time we had her convinced that one of the crabs had escaped, last seen heading into her bedroom. This completely freaked her out, because 1. any creature hiding in Olivia's bedroom could remain hidden for quite some time due to the crap all over her floor, and 2. She hasn't ever really recovered from the "bat in her bedroom" incident. When it came time for bed, we had to fess up, because she refused to sleep in her room, insisting that she had to sleep in our bed until we found the crab.
