Oyster Blog — News from Here

For some reason, whenever Gemma and her family and friends come out to the farm for an Open Farm, the weather's spectacular: bright and sunny, with just enough of a breeze to keep you cool. And this crowd definitely knows how to take advantage of a nice day on an oyster farm. Here are some of their photos from last weekend taken by David Dimalanta.

There are at least three versions of the Hama Hama Song: Grandma Penny's classic, the Bollywood ridiculous, and, now, Guster's rock version: "... and we slept on an oyster farm, b**ches!"

Here are some photos from our barge ride last week with Urban Farmer.  The weather was perfect for a short little jaunt out on the Canal... we took some time to liberate a bucket of sea creatures that had been stranded on the shucking table, met Lefty, the injured seagull who always hitches a ride on the barge to eat similarly stranded sea creatures, and watched as Adam pulled in a few tubs. And then, later in the week, we saw a really pretty moonrise. N.B. safety mongers: while we did provide life jackets to everyone on the boat, nobody took us up...

Here are the two images we used in our Christmas cards this year, followed by a picture of the high tide this morning. We ARE feeling a little swamped right now, but at least the delivery truck is high and dry. Happy Holidays everyone!

... and let's hope it doesn't wash all the oysters off the beach. It's sunny here on the farm today, but we're in for it this weekend because a positively obscene looking storm is on the way. Check out this picture from Cliff Mass's weather blog: