Learn about The House

Today, i will be teaching you about The House, and mainly the things that The House has outside, because inside, the house is just a house. The first thing that is out side, is a huge amount of lobster traps that Uncle Art keeps outside. There is a huge wall of lobster traps that he keeps, and then he also has the place where he works on his traps, with a lot of buoys, and lobster traps stacked up right next to him.

Wall of traps

This is where Uncle Art works on his traps.

Another thing outside, by the wall of traps, there is a shed, just for storing things. There is also a chicken coop, that holds the chickens that we have. We get about 6-8 eggs every day, and Levi, loves to go and collect the eggs.

Shed

This is the chicken coup, there is a whole area of space behind it with a fence around it so the chickens can play.

Their is another bigger storage shed, by the cloth line, and the huge willow looking tree. That holds all of the big things, that we only need for special occasions, like tents and other stuff. Behind the house, is a big outside balcony, that has a table and chairs, and its really cool. There is also the screen room, which is kind of outside and kind of inside at the same time.

This is the shed by the cloth line,and the willow looking tree.

This is behind the house, the balcony,and the screen room.

This is the screen room, where we have a little table and couch, and there is a lot of cool things here, like found bottles, cool crab shells, cool shells found, pieces of driftwood, and anything cool that Uncle Art, or Aunt Pennie found, by the beach.

Behind the house, we have a huge back yard. There is an area of water that connects to the sea that me and Uncle Art fish at. There is also a cool wooden pine tree made out of driftwood. There is a small pond, with a row-boat, and also a playground, and a baseball diamond.

This is the backyard of my house in maine, with a pond, and the area of water connecting to the sea (left)

This is the area of the back yard that has the playground, the pond, and the baseball diamond, if you walk back really far!

This is the cool pine tree that is made out of driftwood.

This is the area of water that comes around the land, and is connected to the Sea.

I hope you enjoyed this learner post!

-August 17, Monday

Easy Day! (seal was following our boat)

Today, was a pretty easy day. I got up at 5 again, and had another bagel. We then drove down to the wharf, and it was really foggy. It was so foggy, that we could not see the water from the road by the wharf. Uncle Art, looked out on the water and said "This is as foggy as it gets" and it was really foggy. Uncle Art needed some more rock-fish to load onto the lobster-boat for today, so instead of just sitting in a chair while he went to go get the boat, i helped get the rock-fish into the trays, by getting each box of rock-fish, and getting the rock-fish out of the box, and then putting all of the boxes in the trash bin. I got some pictures of the wharf this morning.

Its really foggy at the wharf!

ITS REALLY FOGGY!

I cant even see the water off of the docks!

It started to get a little bit better.

During the day, it started to get better because the sun came out and it got really hot. On the boat, the first part of the day, we were not getting a lot of lobsters. Yesterday, I had filled a lot of bait bags so i would have them to use today, and this morning, i filled a lot of bait bags, while we were cursing out to our first trap, so during the majority of the day, i did not have to fill the bait bags, which was really nice. We didn't get a lot of lobsters the first part of the day, so i had little breaks in-between traps. The last part of the day, we started to get more and more lobsters.

One time, we saw a seal, following our boat, eating the rotten fish that we dump over the side of the boat every trap we get. Seals like that rotten fish. I got a picture of him, or at least, i tried to. We also got a lot of conch shells in our lobster traps sometimes. They have snails living inside of them, and they are about the sise of a golf ball. I have a picture from online, compared to the picture that i took.

This is a picture of conch shells from online!

These are the conch shells found in the lobster traps.

We got all of these conch shells in one trap! I just had to take a picture of them! Here is the picture of the seal following our boat.

This is the seal under water.

This is the seal popping its head up above the water following us!

Since the first part of the day, we were not getting a lot of lobsters, i was able to do my system where i do the trap, then the lobsters, then the bait bag, in that order. That system does a good job of getting everything it needs to get done on time every trap that we pull up. We were able to get through a lot of traps, in a smaller amount of time than usual. We got done around Noon again. We got home at about, one because we needed to re-fill the boat with more bait for tomarrow.

One other thing, when you haul a trap, sometimes there is a skeleton of a rockfish still there, because the lobsters did not eat it, and sometimes there is just a skull, or just a body, but i found a whole part, and it looks really cool!

Leftovers of the rockfish found in the trap.

 -August 17, Monday