Crab Bob~No Pants!

This lovely ceramic piece has been in the family for years and evidentally is destined to stay with us-for now anyway. It was made by Vernie who was the second wife to Nicholas Bell who is Joseph L. Bell's dad.

I can't remember when mom and dad gave it to us but it sat in our garage storage room for years until it was time to move and then a bunch of things happened that caused Tim and Susie Wright to borrow it for a ward function where they were serving seafood of some kind and needed to use it for a decoration.

We didn't see it until the next Christmas when we almost won it back in our yearly white elephant gift game for our Empty Nesters Evening with the Wrights, Hansens, Golds and Wrzesinskis. Due to Lloyd's clever strategy in the white elephant game, the Wright's wound up taking it home with them again.

For the next couple of years, it laid in hidiing in the Wright's barn until we all forgot about it and then, due to some clever strategy and secret alliances on Susie Wright's part that were not really needed in the end, I received it again in our white elephant game!

I am sure that the look on my face was priceless

and crab Bob is back gracing our home.

When I opened it, Lloyd noticed that the lid to the crab was gone so Susie did some quick sleuthing and it was on our porch the very next day!

It is always amazing how good motivation can make geezers do things in a very expedient way!