Hammerhead Shark

I got a request to make a hammerhead shark out of glass. Can't say that I've tried that before.

I don't like to do commission work. It puts too much stress on me. What if it doesn't turn out good enough? 

So most of the time I just say “no, sorry”. But sometimes it sounds fun and I'll agree to try it with the anecdotal, “I'll try it once and if you don't like it you don't have to buy it”.

A shark is pretty much a fish and so I attempted to make the shark. I kinda know what a shark looks like, but I didn't realize that it had eyes way out on the side of its hammerhead.

Anyways, as I was making the shark, it reminded me of a canoe trip that Jenelle and I took with the kids a couple years back.

We were in the Leonardtown area of Southern MD at Newtown Neck State Park. It was a shorter, three nights and four days type of trip. We had two canoes. I believe it was on day two that we were paddling and we started having some fun and bumping into each other. And then we started racing. I was shouting out the one, two, three, switch. One, two, three, switch. Getting everyone in unison. Kind of between us and towards the front of the two canoes, appeared a fin. A big shark fin and a tail fin! We immediately stopped paddling. Shark! Shark? Jenelle and Caleb saw the body. We were pretty sure it was a shark. Caleb yelled excitedly, “let's do it again”. Resisting the temptation to yell, “let's go”, I told him that I didn't think that would be wise. It wouldn't take much for something that size to dump us in the water.

When we got to the next point, we saw a fisherman and asked him if there were sharks in the bay. He had never seen one but knew someone that had caught one that weighed over three hundred pounds.

That reminded me of another trip with my cousin Mark back in ‘98. We were canoeing in the Everglades and had a Manatee swim right under our canoe. It was a fun trip, camping on these little platforms in the swamp.

We saw and heard lots of alligators on that trip which reminded me of another trip with Jenelle and the kids in the Okefenokee Swamp.

 It was a cold night night for Georgia. The next morning the sun came out and so did the gators. I remember the excitement and fear on Aiyana and Jenelle's faces as a big one plopped into the water close to their kayak and swam away from us human intruders.

Memories are fun to make, and sometimes it's even more fun just remembering them.

The little thoughts and happenings that bring them on might not be that phenomenal, but when those memories come, taking some time to remember, some time to look back at some pictures, can bring a bright spot to your day.

I hope you take some time to enjoy yours!