The weather was good and the lightning bugs plenty. We had a good turnout for the contest, with 13 jars at the ready for the half hour tilt. I and jake had argued for the full hour, but Big Tiny insisted we use Quebec Rules since we started using them last winter.
Here are the results:
1. Boom Simmons, 437
2. Pete Turkowski Jr. 76
3. Jake 74
4. Dody 70
5. Lumb Decker, 61
6. Oola, Cpt. Slow’s email fiance from Estonia, 59
7. Travis, 47
8. Me (Frank Dodge), 46
I am going to pause in the results here to say that it just tears me up that Travis beat me. And by one lousy bug. If my shoe had not of come untied and made me trip and drop my jar, causing me to have to scramble to re-catch what i had already caught, i wld have beat him easy, and i might have even come in second. I must of lost 20 bugs easy when that happened. I am going to get new boots that dont come untied so easy is what i am going to do.
9. Pete Turkowski Sr 40
10. Big Tiny 32
11. Molly Hooks 23
12. Pierre Cohen 21
13. Cpt Slow 2
Joe Duffy was official timekeeper and scorekeeper
As you can tell, Boom was the big winner. In fact he caught so many lightning bugs in a half hour that we have called the guinnes book of world records but they have not yet returned our call. It is a real ponder how he caught so many. He was averaging something like 15 lightning bugs a minute! That is like one lightning bug every 5 seconds! When Joe blue the final whistle and Boom came trotting to the pole, it was like he was carrying a big jar of plutonium. I am only exagerating a little when i say he was lit up like the sun.
I will tell you something. When we released all those lightning bugs out of the jars it was like the 4th of July except a whole lot quieter.
