Foggy Day (i got sea-sick again O_o)

Today, I got up at 5 A.M. again, and had a bagel for breakfast. It was really foggy. Literally, i looked out side, and i could not see the grass on the yard. Then, I got some chips, water, and gum, inside of a plastic bag, so that I could take it onto the boat. I took my ipod, and Bluetooth speaker onto the boat today, so that me and Uncle Art, could have some more music. The battery on the Bluetooth speaker, apparently, does not last that long, because the battery died after 2 hours.

My Bluetooth speaker!

We were starting to haul single traps today, but later we got into double traps. It was really foggy still. When we started to haul the double traps, i started to feel sea-sick again. It wasn't a good experience because i was loosing all of my energy to work, and it was hard for me to keep up with everything on the boat. I went back into the wharf, and Aunt Pennie, picked me up and took me home.

Later, i went to my moms house with Aunt Pennie, and oma. We hung-out at that house for a while, and then, Aunt Pennie, and Oma, went to see Uncle Arts father, while me and Levi, played at the playground next to where they were. We played on that spinney thing again! It was really fun!

When Aunt Pennie, and Oma were done, they said that they were going to go to the store, and my Oma, gave me and Levi 10 $ for us to go to Dairy Queen, just down the street!

When me and Levi decided to go down to Dairy Queen, we both got Jurassic Smash Blizzards. They were really good! It was like a blizzard with vanilla, and cookie dough, and recees peanut-butter cups! Later we got back to the house, and we had dinner. We had tacos! They were very good. I had cheese, salsa, and cilantro on mine. After dinner, i got back to Aunt Pennies house to spend the night!

I got a picture of my dog, Moxie, sleeping in the cats bed at Omas house in Lansing. 

I also, got some pictures of the cows in Maine, because they are different than the cows that we have back where i live! The cows here are called Belted Galloways. It looks like the cows have a belt around them and i think that is why they are called that.

-August 12, Wednesday

Easy Day (only 100 traps today)

 Today, was a pretty easy day. I got up at 5 A.M. just like any other day. I had a bagel and cream cheese for breakfast today! After i ate, me and Uncle Art, went down to the wharf, with some traps on the back of his truck to set out today. Today, i brought my Bluetooth speaker and my ipod so that me and Uncle Art, could have some music. Uncle Arts music player on his boat, does not work, so i just brought my speaker.

We were only hauling about 100 traps today. We got done before Noon, and we filled the lobster bin all the way to the top, which is pretty good, considering that we only hauled 100 traps. We used rockfish today, just like any other day. After we got home, i had a sandwich for lunch with smoked turkey, cheese, mustard, and mayonnaise. After i had a sandwich, i took a shower. Then, my mom and Levi came to take me to their house. Aunt Pennie, and my Oma, were going to get here today, and we wanted to be at the house to greet them.


We got to the house where Levi, and my mom were staying, and about 15 minutes after we got there, Aunt Pennie, and my oma got there. They had a lot of  luggage, so i helped them carry it in. Aunt pennie went back to her house soon after we saw her, because she needed to take a nap. Oma stayed with my mom, and they went out to find some coffee and just take a drive.

Me and my Oma! 

It was raining really hard when oma and my mom went out to take a drive! Before they left, me and Levi went to put some change on the railroad tracks so that the train would run over the coins, and it would flatten the change. We got like 11 pieces of coins, that were run over by the train. They looked really cool! 

Coins, run over by a train!

It was really rainy, and luckily, me and Uncle Art, got back, before it started to rain!

I brought my Xbox to mamas house so that me and Levi could play it when we were not doing anything else. I hooked it up to the TV, and to my laptop and i have the whole thing set up. When mama and Oma get back, we are going to eat dinner. I will do a "Learner" post soon!

-August 11, Tuesday

Great Hauling Day! (hard working day)

Today, i got done working on the lobster boat, at about 2:30 P.M. which is pretty late compared to other days. I was really tired after today. It was just like any other day, only single traps, with the herring bait bags, and the rockfish. We hauled a lot of traps today. At the end of the day, we got an astonishing 840 LBS. just like my first day! At he beginning of the day, we got 12 more boxes of rockfish for the traps. The rockfish come in brick packages of cardboard boxes, about 6 in by 16 in. The rockfish are frozen into those rectangular shapes, so we have to put them in water so that they can thaw.

The rockfish are frozen together

We put them in water so that they can thaw, and we can peel them apart.

I took a picture of the 8 smaller legs on a lobster so that you can know what the lobsters legs look like.

Lobsters legs

We had about 3 times for a snack break today. We usually eat cheese crackers. I got a picture of Uncle Art driving the boat! One time, when we pulled up a trap, we found a really small lobster. It was smaller than my hand, and i got a picture of it, next to my hand!

My snack of the day!

Uncle Art eating chips 

Tiny lobster!

After the long day on the boat, we got domino's pizza. We got a pizza, and these cheesy bread balls that i don't know what they are called. After that, we went home and i could finally relax! I got a picture of what lobsters are cooked in. It is this big giant pot made for cooking lobsters. 

My Aunt Pennie, has a chicken coup, and we get eggs from it every day. We usually get about 6 eggs a day, and they are really good to eat because they are so fresh. There is always this one chicken, who always fly's out of the coup, and we always see him walking around when we get back home. The chickens are good though, because they never run away. I also got a picture of where Uncle Art works on his traps that need to be repaired in any kind of way. 

Uncle Arts work space outside

The chicken coup!

The "learner" page, will be out in an hour! 

-August 10, MONDAY

Day Off (Sunday) BLOG #2

This is my 2nd post on my blog today. Today, at around noon, I had a sandwich for lunch. Then, my mom and brother, Levi, came to pick me up and go to their house. When we got there, me and Levi played with a ball in the yard, and then, me and Levi, took a walk down to a beach about 4 blocks away from our house. We didn't know where we were going when we first started to walk, but then we just found a cool beach. There was a TON of shells everywhere, and we found a lot of pieces of glass. The beach wasn't sandy, it was all rocks, instead of sand, and then like huge rock spikes over the ground. It was awesome! Levi, found a random, broken pair of glasses at the beach!

Shells everywhere at the beach!

Levi rockin the broken glasses.

This beach is really rocky

Thick rock layers on the beach!

We found a lot of beach glass at the beach!

We walked around the beach for a long time. We walked along the beach, on the rocks, and we found this other part of the beach, and it had like a rectangular fort kind of thing. It looked cool. It was like rectangular, with the top of the fort looking like a castle. It looked cool! I found a pipe on the ground, and Levi found an even BIGGER pipe, and tried to pick it up! We went into the fort, and it was really cool, and it had been overrun inside, by plants, dirt, but the back of the fort was cool and had some cool graffiti on it!

Found a pipe on the ground!

Levi found an even bigger pipe LOL

There's the cool lookin fort that looks like a castle wall!

Inside of the fort, looks AWESOME!

The place where the cement was removed from the floor of the fort, was probably used to transport rainwater down hill when it rained, and get all of the water out of the fort because it has no roof, and they didn't Want the fort to flood.

After we got back to the house, my mom drove me and Levi, to a park near our house. We have been to this park before, when we came to Maine, last year. Our favorite part about that park, was this awesome playground thing that we never see in Grand Rapids. It is like a spinning circle, tilted kind-of, and you can spin around on it! It is really fun to play on!

Kids spinning on the circle.

Me spinning on it

One handed selfie while spinning on this thing! 

I climbed on top of it!

I hope you enjoyed today's blogs. Tomorrow, i am back on the boat, and will be posting, another "Learner" Page!


- August 9, Sunday BLOG #2

Day Off - (Sunday)

Today, got up at like 8:30 A.M. and i'm just chillin until my mom and my brother come to get me at my Uncle Arts house. They arrived here yesterday, and i went shopping with them, and helped them to get food for their house. They are renting a house that is really awesome! Its about a fifteen minute drive from where i am now! I got some cool pictures of the new house!

This is the front view of the new house!

This is the kitchen.

Dining room and couch.

Living room

 

 Those are some cool pictures of the new house. We came to maine last year and rented a house, but my mom said that the loves this house way more than last years house. Before we got to this house yesterday, me, my mom, and my brother Levi, went shopping. We got a lot of food. My brother pushed me around in shopping carts, and i got him a new cup that he wanted because it made him feel happy. I also got some food coloring just to make different colored water because why not. I also, got to get my new mic. and my webcam from my mom that she brought from home so i could record more videos for my youtube channel! Here is some pics from the store.

Me and my bro, Levi, at the store!

 This is a video of Levi being really crazy at the store yesterday!

When we got to the house after the store, we had to put all of the groceries away. The house has 4 bedrooms i think, and really steep staircases.
I took a lot of grocery bags into the house at once, so i didn't have to take another trip! The house had a really big backyard, and me and Levi played with a ball in the back yard for a while.

It was getting kind of dark, and my mom, and Levi, were going to have dinner, and then they would drive me back to Uncle Arts house. I chased Levi around the house when all of the lights were off and i found a cool flashlight.

This is me, chasing Levi around the house with a flashlight!

 I will be posting a "Learner Post" later tomarrow! Check it out!

-August 9, Sunday

EASY DAY! (mom and brother get here today)

Today, was a pretty easy day! I got up again at 5 A.M. and we went down to the wharf. Today, we didn't bring any new traps to put out today. We were only hauling singles today, which made me happy because that ment that i didnt have to work crazy today, it would just be a normal day. We got some more Rockfish before we went. We needed them for the traps. We didnt get a crazy ammount of lobsters today, our number of lobster per trap sure went down today, so i had more time to fill bait bags and stuff. At the end of the day, we had about 480 LBS. which is still pretty good. I got a picture of the thing that Uncle Art puts the lobsters in so that i can band them!

If that gets full of lobster, he starts to put the lobster into a black bucket, until that wooden holder is empty again.There are 4 boxes in it, and the one on the far right, holds all of the rubber bands i band the lobsters with!

Uncle Art, set up a new thing today on the boat, called a hot tank. It is basically just a big plastic bin of water, but you tap into the engines pipline in which flows very hot water. You put a metal tube in the middle of the pipline and put that metal part into the plastic bin and while the hot water is flowing through the regular pipline, it goes through the metal part, and then, that heats up the bin full of water since metal is a very good conductor of heat.

The bin of water is so hot, that it starts to steam. Uncle Art said that if i wanted to make a can of soup or somthing like that, you could just put the can of soup in a bait bag, and leave it in the hot tank for about 20 minutes, and then you could have soup on the boat! I thought that was really cool! The real reason for the hot tank, is to get the green stuff  off of the buoys. There is green stuff on the buoys sometimes, that is not seaweed, but its smaller and really sticks to the buoys, so you just soak the buoy in the hot water for a minute, and it comes right off! We had to do that to a lot of buoys today!

That is a picture of it! At the end of the day, the hot tank was filled with really dark green steaming hot water, and he had to pour it out on the boat floor since he couldn't lift it over the edge. When he poured it out, it spread all over the boat of dark green, steaming water! It looked really cool, but it smelled HORRIBLE because it had all of that hot green stuff from the buoys in it.

Today, there is a wedding reception going on back behind our house in a big field. So... We needed to vacuum, clean the bathroom, and the kitchen, and i was going to tidy up the living room. Some of the chefs are going to use our kitchen for making/ preparing some of the food that the guests eat since they are in our huge field back yard. 

You can see the field and then the white tent is where the reception is going on. I took this picture standing right outside my house, so it is a walking distance away. 

I got some pictures of what Uncle Arts buoys look like. Everyone's buoys are different, so that everyone knows which buoys are there's and know which ones to haul because they are designed a special way. Uncle arts buoys are a special kind of green, and black with a yellow or black stem.

This picture, is his buoy attached to the top of his boat so people know that hes not stealing traps.

Theese, are all of his buoys, in our yard piled up with rope on each one, ready to be put on a new trap if Uncle Art wants to put out any more traps!

I got some cool pictures of the long skinny islands that are in maine, when we were out on the boat. Usually, we went really far away from land to haul, and we cant see the land usually, and its foggy. But... Today, it was really sunny and nice out, AND we were near islands and it was perfect outside. Perfect day for a weeding!

We got back to the house at 12 Noon, so it was a really quick and short day! My mom and brother get here today, and they are renting a cool house up in Rockland!

I hope you enjoyed my blog, i will be posting a new "Learner" page in an hour or so so check it out!

-August 8, Saturday

Day off! (FRIDAY) Movie Time!

Today, was cool, because i got to sleep in! Last night, i stayed up late playing call of duty because i knew that i could sleep in this morning. When i got up, i was really refreshed because i got to sleep in. I look at my ipod, and guess what time it says. 6:46 A.M. I thought that i had slept in until 10:30 A.M. I took this to my advantage because now i had 4 more hours in my day.

I watched youtube and played call of duty for a while. By the way, there is a wedding going on near our house in Maine, in our backyard. We have a huge backyard with trails and like a pond and an open field, and  its a perfect place for a weeding. I don't know if it is a weeding or a reception or whatever, but i helped Uncle Art, mow the lawn, and some of the paths through the field.

I got to ride a ride mower, and i got to drive it around and it was pretty fun! After i was done mowing, i just chilled for some more, and then Uncle Art was like, lets go see a movie and go out to eat, and i was like yeah! So.... We went to see Fantastic 4, which i really wanted to go and see! On the way, we were going to stop to eat at apple-bees again, but instead, we stopped at McDonalds because we were running short on time.

The movie was only 1 hour and 46 minutes long. I honestly, thought that it could have been better. The previous 2 X men movies were way better in my opinion. We got home, and i decided to go to bed because it was about 9 P.M. Except this blog that i am doing now! I will post another "Learner" Pages tomorrow, but i am not going to tell you what its about until tomorrow!

For no reason, please check out this awesome song that i like! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVMuwa-HRCQ

-August 7, FRIDAY