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No oyster or clam sales today. Clams especially are more of a luxury item, so the sales fall off fast in a slow economy. Oysters are cheaper, so although sales are down some, they are moving better than clams. I worked on bags and screens this morning. It was threatening to rain, so the roofers didn't show. It rained over night, and this morning some thunderstorms moved by at daylight, but they stayed offshore. It didn't rain until about four this afternoon, and it is supposed to set in tonight and rain all day Thursday. We got Bill out of daycare at noon, and went out in the boat to get a couple of Christmas trees. We walked all around one island, and he picked one out for his house. Lots of deer and raccoon tracks, and even one set of bobcat tracks. It was kind of tough going for the little fellow, in some places the marsh grass was as tall as he was. He was mud from the waist down, and dragging a couple of crab trap floats he found up in the marsh. He thought his daddy would want them. We got my tree from a dike around a dredge spoil area, and had to run the boat around the island to pick up the pile of floats etc we had left there. While we were there, we ran to another island, and I let Bill pick up some pieces of Indian pottery. It started to rain then so we came back in. I dropped him and his tree off at his house when my daughter got home, and ran up to G'town to get a few things and some gas. $1.49 a gallon. Some difference from the summer. Highway diesel was 2.54.

I have read most of Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour, and Luke Short. I tell people that I had to quit shrimping when Louis L'Amour died because I didn't have anything new to read. Even on a small boat like mine, it can get boring making two hour tows. I would read to help pass the time. Michener really wrote some epics.