the longest day

This last Saturday we went to a fly-in at Crisfield. The blue crab capital of the country. I'm not a huge crab fan. Every time I eat crabs, I wind up getting new lessons all over again on how to "pick" the crab meat. But I love crab cakes. So am I still a Marylander? My buddy "Click" has the use of the professor's airplane, a 152. So he and his wife drove over here and took that plane and wife and I took the CherOH kee. Off we went. A beautiful day. About 40 miles south. Nice airport. Laid back. Not a beehive of planes. Maybe a dozen. A pretty M 21. A light sport Rans 6. Three ercoupes!..... actually one was an Alon. My little M 10 would have fit in nice! Sigh. A basic Arrow which I liked a lot. A 140 Cherokee older than mine. Homebuilts that I don't know the names of. Crabs and Corn on the Cob and "Smith Island Cake" was the menu. My wife doesn't eat crabs and I don't eat corn, so we split an order nicely. I try hard not to eat sweets and I didn't, but the Smith Island Cake looked like the best dessert I have ever seen. Wife said it was very good. Some nice conversations and a new friend or two I invited to my two upcoming parties... and it was time to head north. I wanted fuel and a coffee stop in Cambridge, so both planes stopped in there. Now it was Coconut Cake! Now we were in air conditioning. My son called from home asking where we were because he wanted to go out on Saturday night and was tired of watching the kittens and dogs. We would be home soon. That last little 12 mile leg to our place was the nicest of all. It was getting just a bit cooler. 80 instead of 90. Perfect. We landed and tied down the 152. Click and his wife let me tour them around in the golf cart a bit and show them some of my projects, and wife's garden. It cooled off a little more. Then they headed off to Annapolis. My son said he was going to see his buddy's band play at a place in Cambridge called "Jimmie and sooks". So he took off. My wife took care of the barn, the kittens, the dogs. She said she was tired and I said I was too. After a pause I said, " hey I need to get some stuff at WalMart why don't we spy on son at this bar in Cambridge, if we can find it?" I was really surprised when she said, "OK". What a cap off to a really great day. It was a fun kind of grill, raw bar, seafood, tavern, kind of place. I had two nice drafts. And wings too. Poor son. You're twenty one, out with your buds, and your parents show up. My wife considered the cake, to make it three, but only for a moment. It was one of the nicest days ever. Tonight I'm off to the western shore to a solstice fire. Summer is here and it's off to a flying start. Happy first day of summer my friends. GAI ::::+::::