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0:01
- Good morning, y'all.
0:03
Usually I tell y'all to come on in the kitchen.
0:07
Well this morning, I'm gonna say,
0:09
y'all don't go in the kitchen,
0:11
don't come in the kitchen
0:13
because I wanna take y'all outside to the dock.
0:17
Because Micheal and Michelle loaded the crab baskets up
0:24
and we're fixing to pull those baskets up
0:27
and see how many crabs we got.
0:29
So, here we go.
0:32
I think Michael said last night he put like,
0:35
five baskets in, so we'll see.
0:38
So y'all come on down to the dock with me.
0:41
It, it looks like rain could happen
0:43
but I don't know, it's been drizzlin',
0:46
but I think we can get those crabs up
0:48
before it gets too, too wet.
0:51
And I'm so excited.
0:55
Anybody fortunate enough to live on salt water
1:01
and go crabbin', it's just the most fun thing.
1:05
And I especially love string crabbing,
1:08
which is how you teach your child
1:10
to crab the first time around.
1:12
You tie a chicken neck on a string
1:14
and you just tie the, tie the string
1:18
so they can put it on their arm and drop it,
1:21
and just start pullin' up crabs.
1:22
And they are so cute when they do that.
1:27
I think that's still my favorite way to crab.
1:32
So Michael and Michelle are down here.
1:34
They're waitin' on me to bring 'em the basket
1:36
because we have to have something to put the crabs in!
1:41
- Hey y'all!
1:42
- Hey!
1:44
Michelle, Michelle, Michelle, I'm so glad you're here.
1:48
Because she helps her daddy with
1:51
a lotta lotta lotta lotta stuff, y'all.
1:54
But I'm tellin' you,
1:56
this girl makes the best crab cake
1:59
I've ever put in my mouth.
2:02
And I will not make 'em, she has to make 'em.
2:06
(laughs) So I hope we got some crabs so she can do it!
2:09
- There's a dolphin there. - There's a dolphin.
2:10
- [Paula] Where, where's the dolphin?
2:11
- [Michelle] Just went in.
2:12
- [Paula] Yeah! - [Micheal] He's right there.
2:14
- [Paula] Right there, Eddie.
2:15
- [Eddie] Yeah and you know it's the same one,
2:16
he has a little piece missing off his fin.
2:18
- [Paula] Oh.
2:19
- [Michelle] We call him Jimmy.
2:20
- [Eddie] Jimmy? (Paula laughing)
2:22
- [Micheal] That, Henry says that's his pet.
2:24
- [Michelle] I don't know why.
2:25
- [Micheal] Henry says that's his pet.
2:27
- [Eddie] He lives, he lives here definitely.
2:28
- [Michael] Yeah.
2:31
- [Paula] Oh my goodness, Jimmy come on back up.
2:33
(Paula laughing)
2:34
- [Michelle] I just told dad, we saw the
2:35
logger head sea turtle three times this weekend.
2:37
- [Paula] No.
2:38
- [Michelle] Mhmm, I saw his whole shell yesterday.
2:39
- [Paula] No, y'all that is so...oh here comes.
2:42
- [Michelle] Here he comes again.
2:44
- [Paula] Yeah, I can hear them if things are quiet.
2:48
I can hear him blow when he comes by, and you
2:53
I don't know if you know that story about your grandmother.
2:56
- [Michelle] Oh yeah.
2:57
- [Paula] Where is he?
2:58
- [Michelle] He's down by the screening dock now,
3:00
on the inside.
3:01
- [Paula] Oh okay.
3:02
- [Michelle] Probably to far to see on the video.
3:03
- [Paula] Yeah.
3:04
- [Micheal] Okay we gonna pull this one out first.
3:05
- [Michelle] Okay.
3:06
- [Micheal] This one's been in the longest.
3:07
- [Paula] Oh.
3:10
- Gosh, I forgot what I was gonna say.
3:12
- [Michelle] Oh yeah, about grandma,
3:14
and I think there was somebody on the porch.
3:15
- [Paula] Oh yes, yes she slept, when your granddaddy
3:18
bought her here as a bride,
3:21
she slept with the windows open
3:24
- [Michael] Well, we didn't have air conditioning.
3:26
- [Paula] Yeah, we didn't have air conditioning,
3:28
and um her grandfather worked on the railroad so,
3:31
- [Michael] Okay, y'all ready?
3:33
- [Paula] he worked some crazy hours. And um,
3:38
- [Paula] Michael's, oh get in here so you can see Eddie.
3:42
(water splashing)
3:44
- [Paula] Oh, I forgot the basket.
3:46
- (Paula laughs)
3:52
- [Paula] Whoaaa.
3:53
- [Michael] That's a pretty good mess.
3:55
- [Paula] Wow, wow.
3:57
- [Michelle] Looks the rest of them.
3:59
- [Paula] How many crab cakes can we get Michelle?
4:00
(Paula laughs)
4:02
(crabs snapping)
4:06
- [Paula] Whoa.
4:09
- [Michelle] Set them right here now?
4:15
- [Micheal] Yes, set them down.
4:16
- [Paula] Whoa, they stink, don't they?
4:18
- [Micheal] It's the bait that stinks.
4:20
- [Paula] Yeah, and they like that don't they.
4:23
What can I help you do? Okay there's the hole.
4:26
- [Michael] You can cook the crab.
4:28
- [Paula] No, your daughter is gonna cook the crabs.
4:31
- [Michael] Set it down.
4:32
- [Paula] Okay.
4:36
Wooooww, this girl right here y'all she is a river girl.
4:44
- [Michelle] Um.
4:47
- [Paula] If I was gonna be stranded in a boat.
4:50
- [Michelle] No, we need Henry.
4:52
- [Paula] (laughs) Well, Henry's like you,
4:55
he can do anything too but,
4:57
- [Michael] Henry would make sure we ate.
5:00
- [Paula] Yes.
5:03
- [Michael] He gonna catch something.
5:08
- [Paula] You know what I can't believe there's
5:09
not a stone crab in there.
5:10
- [Michelle] There was one in this trap over here yesterday.
5:12
- [Paula] Oh, it was.
5:13
- [Michelle] Told dad, the only reason we got three in
5:16
there is cause Henry wouldn't leave it in the water
5:16
long enough.
5:18
- [Paula] Yeah. (laughs)
5:19
He gets anxious doesn't he?
5:28
- [Micheal] There we go. - [Paula] No one wants to put their
5:30
hands near a live crab.
5:33
- [Micheal] Years ago there was...
5:34
- [Paula] Beautiful!
5:36
- [Micheal] Years ago there was an old man we use to get
5:39
our bait from.
5:41
- [Paula] Uh-huh.
5:42
- [Micheal] Off a shrimp boat called Evan May.
5:44
And uh, he was a little short man, he was about this
5:50
big, but his hands were this big, and he would reach
5:54
down there and grab the crabs, and they would bite his
5:57
hands, and he would just shake his hand.
5:59
He'd have three or four bite him at one time,
6:02
and I've had them bite me, and they'll make you cry.
6:05
I mean.
6:06
- [Paula] (laughs) So...
6:07
- [Micheal] His hands were like leather.
6:10
- [Paula] His hands were so big, were they swollen
6:11
from all the crab bites?
6:12
- [Micheal] No, he just worked so hard that his hands were
6:15
like leather. From the shrimp, and the crab.
6:16
- [Paula] But you said they were big.
6:19
- [Micheal] I don't why they, well he just had big hands.
6:21
I don't know.
6:24
- [Paula] So good you gonna put that back.
6:31
- [Micheal] Had enough bait in it to go back.
6:35
- [Paula] Good, all right Michelle how long do think
6:38
it will take to pick that many crabs?
6:42
- [Michelle] Uh, not long, that's about a dozen.
6:45
- [Paula] She's a great picker too.
6:47
- [Michelle] About an hour.
6:50
- [Paula] An hour, it would take me three times that long.
6:58
Look the flies already getting on them.
7:03
Uh, if you, if you don't pull, what is that I'm looking at?
7:08
Michelle do you have the?
7:09
- [Michelle] The stick?
7:11
- [Paula] Yeah, I'm trynna see, if you leave them in there
7:14
too long, and the food gets eatin', the crabs will
7:17
start eatin' each other.
7:19
So what is that, right, right there?
7:21
- [Michelle] That's just part of the bait.
7:23
- [Paula] Oh okay, so it's not a crab eating a crab.
7:25
- [Michelle] No, no.
7:26
- [Paula] Oh okay.
7:28
- [Michelle] No, we'll pull them out
7:30
before they were going to.
7:31
- [Paula] Yes?
7:35
Henry Groover would be so upset if he knew we were doing
7:38
this, wouldn't he? -[Michelle] Yes.
7:44
- [Paula] Didn't I call him Henry Groover.
7:48
- [Michelle] I knew what you meant.
7:49
- [Paula] Henry Reed,
7:50
- [Michelle] That's who he was named after.
7:52
- [Paula] Well, there was a Henry Groover.
7:53
He was named after his grandfather, Henry Groover.
7:58
- [Michelle] Is that another one, or?
8:00
- [Micheal] A couple.
8:02
See this one's only been in a day, so.
8:04
- [Paula] Yeah
8:05
- [Micheal] Not as many.
8:06
- [Paula] Yeah.
8:07
- [Micheal] And they're pretty, look how big that one is.
8:09
- [Paula] The fish have fallen out, hadn't they?
8:12
- [Micheal] No, I actually put a couple in there,
8:13
so they could eat
8:15
- [Paula] Oh just loose?
8:21
What do you think the age of those crabs are?
8:23
How long does it take them to get to eatin' size?
8:27
- [Micheal] I don't know, I don't think, I don't think
8:29
crabs last long.
8:31
- [Paula] You sayin' they grow pretty quickly?
8:33
- [Micheal] Yeah.
8:38
- [Paula] So this is two baskets down y'all, and I think
8:42
Micheal said he had three more to go.
8:48
- [Michelle] Oh man, that is a big one.
8:50
- [Micheal] I'm not gonna shake it too much,
8:52
I don't want the bait to get in there.
8:54
- [Paula] (laughs)
8:59
Come on, we wanna take you to the dance Mr.Crab.
9:02
- [Michelle] That's a big one.
9:06
- [Paula] Well, can I, can I help. Is that both of them?
9:12
- [Micheal] Yeah.
9:13
- [Paula] And the rest is bait, look at that,
9:16
they have eatin' those fish to the, nothing but bones y'all.
9:21
- [Micheal] And those are nasty fish, they're called Poggies
9:23
but they, um, they're um
9:27
- [Paula] Did Henry catch that fish? - [Micheal] real oily.
9:31
- [Paula] Oh.
9:32
- [Micheal] That's what professional crabbers use.
9:35
Matter fact that' what we use to get off that
9:36
old shrimp boat that I was telling you about.
9:38
- [Paula] Mhmm, mhmm.
9:39
- (water splashing)
9:42
- [Paula] Okay.
9:43
- [Micheal] Okay, let's look through them, and see
9:45
if we got any throw backs.
9:46
- [Michelle] Have y'all seen the um, Blue Herin,
9:48
up in your tree with the nest?
9:49
- [Paula] No.
9:50
- [Michelle] We saw the baby yesterday,
9:52
the babies just hatched. - [Paula] No, no.
9:53
- [Michelle] Yeah, we pulled up in the boat, and um
9:54
that big one started squawkin, and we looked up
9:56
and saw the babies for the first time.
9:57
- [Paula] Uh-huh now which tree is the nest in?
10:00
In this first one? - [Michelle] You see him, right there?
10:02
- [Micheal] You see this little hole right here?
10:04
Where the hole is?
10:05
- [Paula] Uh-huh.
10:06
- [Micheal] That's where he sits, right there.
10:07
- [Paula] Ohhh.
10:08
- [Micheal] He lives on the dock.
10:09
- [Paula] Well, I knew you told me
10:10
there was a Blue Hering there the other day.
10:12
- [Micheal] And he poops on my boat.
10:13
- (All laughing)
10:14
- [Micheal] I put an owl there to keep, to keep them away
10:16
- [Paula] Uh-huh.
10:17
- [Micheal] And the head spins, so it looks like it's real,
10:20
- [Paula] Uh-huh.
10:21
- [Micheal] He was standing on the head the other day.
10:23
- [Paula] (laughs) He was real scared, wasn't he?
10:26
- [Micheal] Yeah, he is not scared at all.
10:28
- (laughter)
10:29
- [Paula] That's not him is it going? No.
10:31
- [Michelle] Dad, you pulling these too? - [Eddie] Those...
10:33
are seagulls.
10:34
- [Micheal] Yeah.
10:35
- [Paula] Well, I wanna see the babies. Uh-huh Lulu,
10:39
comeback.
10:41
- [Micheal] I can't wait 'til the babies start poopin on
10:43
my boat.
10:44
- (laughter)
10:46
- [Paula] Micheal, uh, loves his boat y'all.
10:50
All right, Eddie get up there see.
10:54
- [Michelle] I'm sorry.
10:55
- [Paula] Oh no, you're fine.
11:11
Anything?
11:12
- [Micheal] Not much, these might be little.
11:15
- [Michelle] Yeah, those are tiny too.
11:19
- [Paula] I don't see how y'all can see, and make a judgment
11:21
that quick.
11:22
- [Michelle] They're smaller than the palm of your hand,
11:24
see them?
11:25
- [Paula] Yeah.
11:26
- [Micheal] Yeah, these are too little.
11:29
All right Lulu watch out.
11:31
- [Paula] Come here Lulu.
11:31
- [Micheal] Move that basket.
11:32
- [Michelle] Excuse me Eddie.
11:34
- [Paula] Where you want it moved to, right there?
11:40
Is that a stone crab Michelle?
11:42
- [Micheal] Two stone crab.
11:45
- [Paula] Okay.
11:46
Well that's good, we can show y'all what a stone crab
11:49
looks like, I know you've been to a restaurant,
11:51
and um, ordered stone crabs at some point in time.
11:59
- [Micheal] Okay, grab these, don't let them go.
12:02
- [Paula] Where's the...
12:03
- [Micheal] They're movin'.
12:04
- [Paula] Uh-huh.
12:05
- [Eddie] Watch out Lulu.
12:06
- [Paula] No Lulu!
12:07
- [Micheal] Watch out Lulu.
12:08
- [Paula] They will bite you.
12:09
- (all laugh)
12:10
- [Paula] So Michelle, a while ago was telling me about
12:14
uh, she and her family seen a logger head turtle,
12:16
she said she saw the whole body, and that is so rare,
12:23
and unusual. And I was telling Michelle when I was
12:25
when it was in the 50's, in the 1950's, it was
12:32
nothing to see a turtle, my grandmother would trap
12:37
a turtle, and make turtle soup for her guest, um,
12:41
but now it's totally different, isn't it Michelle?
12:45
- [Michelle] Well yeah, um I grew up in the 80's,
12:47
when I was a child, we never saw them,
12:51
but the 80's is when they fixed the holes in the
12:54
shrimp net, the turtles were caught as back catch
12:56
in the shrimp nets, so I think that because they have
12:59
a thirty year maturation to adulthood, before they
13:02
can start laying their nest, now were really starting
13:05
to see the comeback...
13:05
- [Paula] So they have to be...
13:07
- [Michelle] since the 80's.
13:08
- [Paula] ...30 years old before they can mate...
13:10
- [Michelle] Yes.
13:10
- [Paula] ...and produce eggs.
13:12
- [Michelle] Yes, and they have a lifespan of 75-80 years.
13:15
- [Paula] Wow.
13:15
- [Michelle] So we saw a turtle 3 different times
13:18
off the dock this weekend. I tried to get a picture,
13:20
but I couldn't.
13:21
- [Paula] Not this dock?
13:22
- [Michelle] This dock, this weekend.
13:23
- [Paula] You, you saw a...
13:24
- [Michelle] Yeah.
13:25
- [Paula] A logger head on this dock.
13:27
- [Michelle] Three times, Henry, and I,
13:28
we tried to get a picture but we missed him.
13:30
- [Paula] where was he?
13:31
- [Michelle] Right out in front.
13:32
Well, one time we were on the boat, and it was a
13:34
little past Uncle Nick's dock. And then, twice I saw him
13:37
right in front of the dock, and one time,
13:39
I saw his whole shell. And the other two times I just
13:41
saw his head.
13:43
- [Paula] You just don't understand, how exciting that is.
13:47
You know if you don't live near salt water.
13:51
Oh listen, y'all I've told this story before, but
13:56
uh, when I first met Micheal,
14:01
he and Hank had been
14:03
out crabbing, and got a bucket full of crabs,
14:07
and I was living right there, and he calls me
14:10
and said Hank, and I are cooking, boiling some crabs.
14:13
Would you like some? And I said yes, I would. Um.
14:18
And so, I walked over, and that's the first time ever in
14:22
my life, I've been full on blue crab.
14:25
Micheal picked every piece of meat, and put it in my mouth.
14:33
And I was a goner, I was a goner.
14:35
- [Micheal] You think I was being romantic, but I...
14:37
- [Paula] It was kind of, romantical.
14:39
- [Micheal] You think that but, but, true story is
14:42
I had to pick for Michelle, and Anthony, and eat.
14:48
So I got like three of four times faster than anybody else
14:52
picking crabs.
14:53
- (all laugh)
14:55
- [Micheal] But I was a little romatic.
14:57
- [Paula] I was gonna say, now you just ruined it
15:00
- (all laugh)
15:02
- [Paula] I thought you were being romantical.
15:05
It's that pretty the way the water goes up in that,
15:08
whatever you call that thing.
15:10
What do you call that thing y'all?
15:12
- [Micheal] A ditch.
15:14
- [Eddie] It's called a cove.
15:16
- [Paula] Yeah, let's call it a cove,
15:17
ditch doesn't sound so good.
15:20
- [Paula] So y'all, I lived in that third condominium,
15:29
right in the middle. And the day that I came out to walk
15:36
Otis, and Sam, they ran this a way. And we had never
15:42
come this way before, they always went to the square.
15:46
We had a little park in the middle.
15:49
And they ran, you can see that tabby wall
15:52
right back there. They ran around that wall, cause they
15:57
heard somebody talkin' over in this yard.
16:02
And I, there's about that much space between the wall,
16:05
and the water, so I shimmied around it, and sure enough
16:10
they headed straight to Micheal, he was propped on his fence
16:15
talkin' on the telephone, and that was the first time
16:18
I had ever met him, and he scared me to death.
16:22
I apologized to him for for the dogs poopin' in his yard.
16:26
And I mean, I got outta there.
16:27
But will y'all notice now, that there is a little fence
16:33
that's been put up, it closes that gap.
16:37
Micheal said, "I didn't need to meet anymore neighbors."
16:44
- [Micheal] I think, I might move it.
16:46
- [Paula] You think you might move it?
16:48
- (all laugh)
16:50
You are so funny.
16:51
- (Micheal laughs)
16:53
- [Paula] You get me so tickled.
16:54
All right, do you have one more basket?
16:56
- [Micheal] Um, I think that's, huh Michelle?
16:59
- [Paula] Okay, so y'all this is the deal.
17:04
Um, we're gonna cook the crab.
17:06
- [Micheal] Did we pull them all up, we got five.
17:09
- [Michelle] Oh no, we only pulled four up.
17:10
- [Paula] I was gonna say, I don't remember the fifth
17:13
one coming up. So, we're gonna take these in,
17:16
and we're gonna steam these crabs, and then we'll
17:20
pick them, and then hopefully Michelle will
17:24
make those to die for crab cakes.
17:26
(Paula laughs)
17:28
You in girl?
17:29
- [Michelle] I'm in.
17:30
- [Paula] Yay! (laughs)
17:33
- [Micheal] Okay, let's if it's filled.
17:35
- [Paula] What?
17:36
- [Micheal] (talk in the distance)
17:40
- [Paula] Eddie, I need to tell everybody it won't be today,
17:44
because we have to cook them, and pick them,
17:45
which takes time, so we'll do that tomorrow's video.
17:50
Love and best dishes y'all, happy crabbing.
17:54
- [Paula] So, it's time to pick the crab y'all.
17:57
- [Micheal] Look it here, this my favorite part.
18:00
- [Paula] Got your pickin' pinchers on.
18:04
- [Micheal] My favorite part.
18:08
Look how pretty.
18:10
- [Eddie] Oh.
18:12
- [Micheal] Look at it.
18:14
- (all laugh)
18:17
- [Micheal] Did he get you?
18:19
- [Paula] Yes!
18:21
- [Micheal] (laughs) Smile more.
18:23
- [Paula] I can smile more.
18:26
Don't you ever get tired of jokin' in my life.
18:31
I guess he never gets tired of it.
18:33
Cause he don't quit!
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