Toms Tech World

I was born November 2nd, 1964 and raised in Chester County which is a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I grew up with an older sister and two younger brothers in the rolling hills of Frazier. We were surrounded by farm land where we played pick up games of either football, basketball, soccer, hockey, baseball or we just ran in the woods. We were fortunate enough to grow up in a very large neighborhood with lots of kids so there was always something going on.

And if not, we found something to do or we went looking for trouble. We were quite good at finding it.

We spent our summers at the Indian River Inlet in Delaware where we learned to go clamming with our feet and how to net Blue Claw Crabs using a piece of chicken tied to the end of a string. It was not only very rewarding to catch them this way but the feast at the end of the day was to die for. My Dad also taught us how to fish from the jetty, the surf as well as in a boat. We caught anything from sand sharks, blow fish, flounder to oyster crackers or otherwise known as “mother-in-law” fish. The reason they were referred to as mother-in-law fish was because it was an extremely ugly fish that would crack open mollusks with its very powerful mouth. Does this sound like anyone you know?

There is that trouble I was talking about earlier.

Stay tuned for more as I get this blog up and running!

Tom Scott

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