Kenna Morton's Journal, 12 July 2022

Kenna, you have just killed Phoebe's romantic lobster mating for life story for me forever. sounds like they're just too complacent to move on. Friends is now dead to me. 

Katsolo, 😂😂😂 Good one! 

@Katsolo, I've seen lobsters get stranded on the rocks and scurry towards the receding ocean. They move backwards, it's hilarious!!! :-) 

Love this thank you 

Rock lobster! 🦞 they’re dancing backwards so they can go down, down, down.  

@Katsolo, and get caught in my traps for dinner, dinner, dinner :-) Party on! 

It is impossible for a person that has lived all its life at a normal weight to understand why another person lives its life morbidly obese. Way more easy it is to criticize. Unfortunately i have been there and fortunately I can understand them and how they feel and how impossible it seems to change. 

@Tassos67, I'm not a fan of judgmental holier than thou types either. I find them lacking in character and having many faults themselves. Pathetic and not worth my time. Have a laugh then give them nothing to 'feed' on. Your time is better spent elsewhere. Has anyone been unkind to you here on FS?  

I don’t know how true this is... having lived in New England I have done lobster hunter a few times and gone to the beaches a lot. Never seen any lobster left stranded on rocks... that would be nice lol... I have to go into shallow ocean water where it’s rocky and flip rocks over to catch them 

Superman, 13th generation born in New England right here! I've seen a lot that short term visitors don't get to see about the sea! Lobstah's don't come ashore by choice they're washed up during storms, and they are FAST racing towards the sea! They have microscopic brains but their instincts are survival. BTW, what beaches are your favorites? 

13th generation wow lol I grew up and lived there for 30yrs so that’s a short term visitor for you! I’m forced to say the Hamptons is my favorite beach cuz it was the closest. About 40mins drive, yea a lobsters instinct to survive is on par with most animals. I don’t know if anyone here has ever tried catching them by hand but you’d have to distract them with one hand and when they’re aiming at it to try and snipe a finger away you grab them right below their head cuz if you grab them by the tail they’ll curl and saw your hand up pretty good. And yea they like to run backwards cuz they could shoot themselves back pretty fast. Even when I put them in buckets they’d shoot themselves out of it. So the only way I see a lobster staying on a rock to die is if it’s an old one and is just ready to go.... 😂 

Anyone who comes to this site has already taken a step in the right direction. A little encouragement can go a long way instead of telling them that they're not doing enough. I agree with Tasso67's post!  

Don't like that author or quote. Insensitive, completely no empathy for people. 

WoW 13 generations — that’s about 350 years. Has your family followed the geology pretty closely? So very interesting.. 

@Superman, the Hamptons have some great beaches that's for sure. I've never gone fishing for Lobsta with my hands, those crusher claws do just that 'crush.' You're braver than me by far! 

@Kenna, Yes, our genealogy has been traced and researched for generations. We've also tried our best to find out the how's/why's and anything about their lives along the way. It's a wild trip through time. :-)  

Lol breezy I’ve done a lot of things people consider to be crazy growing up. Yea I’d never thought I’d say this but I do miss the Hampton’s. I guess I was taking it all for granted but they have a nice beach town there, ice cold oceans waters and my secret spot for lobster catching 😂 Now down south the ocean water feels like in the high 70s! It barely cools you off and no place for lobsters but the market 

LivenBreezy — can I assume you are connected with Ancestry.com or one of the others? When I did mine I connected to all sorts of people. One man was able to fill in a huge family mystery. My great grandfather grew up on a farm. He and his dad did not get along. At about age 16 the kid and the dad got into an altercation and the kid walked off the farm never to be seen or heard from again. This man I connected with was that kids great grandson who had the reverse side of the story. No one on his side of the family knew anything about their great grandfather prior to his meeting and marrying his wife. He never revealed one single thing. Between the two of us we were able to piece together what we knew and at least provided some kind of framework. 

Oops that should be great, great grandfather. Sorry 

Kenna, Awesome story! Yes, I researched for years along with my grandmother and other family members. It had already been started at least a few generations before my grandmother so there is a lot! And land searches add to the WOW factor. I passed the torch over to my cousins a while back so I'm a little fuzzy.. Time to dig back into the family history treasures again. Always a wild trip! Thanks for bringing it up :-) Glad you were able to put together and fill in branches in your history :-)