Fresh Water Drum

Chicken man

Creig talked Shawn into judging chickens for a local 4-H competition.

Shawn's Birthday Present to Himself

Family

Birthday Partiers

The Birthday Boy!

Sadly, I did not get a picture of Shawn blowing out his candles. This will have to do!!

Uncle Daddy's Chesapeake Throwdown

Shelter from the storm

Rain is predicted, so we made an early morning run to buy the biggest tarp we could find for a make-shift shelter. The show must go on!

Shawn's Birthday

To celebrate a half-century of Shawn, we came to Tennessee for the weekend.


Shawn drove down on Thursday night, and I flew in on Friday. I'm going back Monday morning, he's staying another week to fish with Creig.

I baked a cake, filled, frosted, glazed, and froze it, and packed it in the cooler with blue crabs, oysters, and rockfish sticks - all for Shawn's Chesapeake birthday throwdown.

Ella helped me put the finishing touches on the cake. 50 is a LOT of candles, especially when you're using coconut macaroons as candle holders!!

Fishing with Mark

An interesting perspective on Shawn's catch tonight.

Finally!

Ethan LoParco- Faber makes his entrance into the world.

Georgetown Hospital, the day after he was born.

Congratulations Karen & Jim!

Maryland Fishing Challenge/Seafood Fesitval

Labor Day on the Potomac

Finding a place to hike and fish is becoming a Labor Day tradition for us.

As long as we have as perfect weather as we did today, we can do it every year!

We drove up to Harper's Ferry, not knowing what to expect. There were crowds at all the major access points, so we decided to park a little off the beaten path and hike it.

We saw a few other fishermen, a canoeist or two, but not much else, where we waded in.

While Shawn caught a few fish, Crockett found some dead ones to roll in. Once he got on the scent, there was no stopping him.


Needless to say, it was a SMELLY ride home.

Shawn writes about our day here.

Maryland State Fair