Crab Feed

Tonight was the annual Soroptimist/Kiwanis Crab Feed. In past years we fed as many as 675 people. Numbers have been down the last two years and this year's event was not a sell out. Nevertheless, we probably hosted between 550 and 600 people for crab, pasta, salad, and a cookie dessert.

My tables were neither big eaters nor drinkers this year. One small Asian woman did eat a good bit of crab, but nothing amazing. We Doigs also followed our personal tradition by not winning any of the raffle prizes. My friend Joanne, a long-time tea drinker, won the Starbucks gift basket. I had hoped to win the gas barbecue (we really don't have room for a 42" television, the big prize) but somebody else took it home. That's probably a good thing. My purist husband thinks that barbecue is best when charcoal is used. I'm the one who wants the gas machine and barbecue really isn't a woman's place anyway. I would probably forget myself and go on a grilling frenzy if it were easy to start the flames.