Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner?

Hubby's been busy nuking the house and then resurrecting each room into a new vision. It's a man thing.

After almost moving clear across the country again when his company closed shop in the state we found ourselves half-packed but staying put. One of our favorite rooms since the move-that-wasn't has become the new living room where we hang out with the kids and watch a variety of nature shows and movies. Tonight, while watching the wall mounted Samsung with L we saw the creature above in a story that was actually pretty fascinating:

t's not made of gold, but a yellow lobster pulled from Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay is very rare.

Lobsterman Denny Ingram says he found the lobster in one of his pots the bay's East Passage last week. It is golden on the top and bright yellow on both sides.

Experts say the genetic feature is very rare, occurring in about 1 in 30 million lobsters.

It's also apparently good luck for this lobster, who will not be heading to anyone's dinner table.

Ingram says he plans to keep the yellow lobster on display at the fishermen's co-op at the State Pier in Newport.

1 in 30 million! I had a hard time explaining those odds to L. She's only 7 after all, and I can't exactly say things like "you're more likely to get hit by lightning" to a little girl without ensuring I'll be soothing away nightmares for years to come. So I left it at "we'll probably never see another one in our lifetimes." L loves all things nature/creature so it was yet another great learning segue for her when we turned to the PC and researched the king of shellfish.

Eddie Murphy gave us the Golden Child. Denny Ingram has shared with us The Golden Lobster. I love hearing that this one will be kept on display so more people can take a peek at the delightful creature and maybe go home and look it up themselves.