Christmas 2016

We celebrated Chistmas Eve at Jen and Eric’s house. Friends and family gathered and we opened presents because Jen had to work Christmas Day. As to the activities order, well of course we went fishing, followed by an excellent Christmas feast, and then the openings of the gifts.

It was a pretty good bite but we released everything as red tide has moved in and many dead mullet floated by. The pelicans and great blue herons preferred our live fish and we almost had to beat them off.

Jen caught a nice mangrove snapper and several grouper, as well as the usual black tail and grunts. I had a nice lady fish on for a while, (it’s very similar to a small tarpon), but it threw the hook and released itself.

So, we had Eric’s huskova with meat balls, and my barbecued ribs. The change to my ribs recipe was  that I used some sugar free barbecue sauce. It was a type of a Carolina sauce with several types of vinegar. I prefer it to the heavily sugared sauces commonly found in the grocery stores.

Jen gave us the best gift of all, a jump drive filled with all the wedding images. Look out if you come over and visit us as I am sure Renita will want to share them all! They also gave us a nice portable cooler. It’s perfect for our fishing expeditions both here and when we go fly fishing.

Christmas day we celebrated Mass at the local church before we went to visit friends in Largo. Ed and Pat have bought a house in the same park where our friends Bill and Sharon and Ed had made a barbecued prime rib. Ed is an excellent chef and the meal was as good as it sounded!

We hope you and yours had a Merry Christmas and pray that you will have a Happy New Year!

Clear skies

One other thing, If you are ever in St Petersburg you have to have breakfast at Munch's! Its not often you see eggs grits and mullet on the menu! We were the first customers from Thayne, Wyoming and so we got to put a pin on the map!