Boilin' season's on

I will be spending most of my time the next two days looking at the Java Development Environment. Yikes. Nothing like jumping in to a new task with both feet. I just hope the water's not too deep.

My internet connection was out most of the day yesterday and all morning today, and now it's mysteriously all better for no apparent reason. I am not going to call off the repair people. I think the crawfish eat through the cable buried in my backyard. No kidding.

Speaking of crawfish, every year my church holds a crawfish boil for the congregation. Fun stuff for the kids to do, and more crawfish than you can possibly imagine, and it's free. Last year, I left without a doggy bag. Once you learn how to peel the fish, it's possible to get to the meat really efficiently, so I will try to grab enough extras to take home and freeze some tails. Later in the week, then, we will have crawfish fettucine for dinner (though I will use nowhere near two teaspoons of cayenne pepper in the sauce).

When I went for a swamp tour a few years ago, a woman was cleaning whole boiled crabs for gumbo. She was working on a monster of a crustacean, and I was very interested in figuring out the process. Perhaps I should look for step-by-step video instructions on the web, as all the local signs for "fat crabs" are starting to get my attention, too.

And to finish up my meanderings on creatures with exoskeletons, here's a website all about crayfish (crawfish).