Today saw a new event even for the regulars. Bob and Martha Calhoun, friends of the Roths from Houston, are here for a couple of weeks. They decided that they would like to cook up a bunch of lobster, freeze the meat, and take it back to Houston. An assembly line of three boilers was established, and Bob and Dick Roth picked up a crate of lobsters from Walt Wagner. A crate is nominally a hundred pounds, but more typically it is 85 to 90. If there are a lot of softshells, it will be more like 80 pounds. The crate cost $300 and contained 76 pounds. Dick and Bernie and Bob cooked while Ann, Eleanor, Martha did the crackin' and pickin'. The end result was about a dozen pounds of prime (claws, tails and knuckles) lobster meat. There is still a lot of lobster parts that disappeared that I'm sure will show up at some future happy hours. The edge of a nasty thundershower brushed by the area and interrupted operations for a few minutes, but the effort was a success. I'm sure the crew will be more than ready for happy hour.
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