This week has been a blur it seems. I looked at the blog and it has been almost a week since I've written! Sorry about that...so much for the daily blog visits!
Saturday eve. we went to a potluck here at the park...the park furnished the fish and everyone brought the rest.....lots of good food....it was up on a "viewing deck" and was kind of chilly so people didn't tarry long after supper. The park is almost full and has been all month..... this is their busiest month I'm sure. Although downtown someone told us that the businesses are down about 40%!!!! But there sure seems to be alot of people around.
Sunday morning after church we kind of hung around the camp for the rest of the day.
Monday morning Bill decided to go to a fishery place and get some salmon to can and smoke. We bought 5 whole salmon that were fresh off the boat. In fact they bring them in and then take them immediately. The people then sell them to stores I guess...I'm not sure what they do with them other than that. There are lots of places like that here..... commercial fishermen who sell to companies. But these fish were fresh out of the ocean. So we canned 13 pints of salmon and smoked 6 pints of salmon. That took most of our day doing that.
I have been sewing more on our quilt and have begun putting it together in blocks.... it has gone together pretty fast. Been working on a couple of other things in the meantime too. It's nice to have my sewing machine set up but the rig looks kind of messy with my table set up and not the space we usually have.
Tuesday was another cloudy and sprinkled some. Charlotte and I ran into town for some groceries. It never ceases to amaze me about the prices of groceries here. They are high so I KNOW when we get home we will enjoy the cheap prices,right?
Wednesday morning I had a hair appt. and am good for another month now. It had been 2 months since I had my hair cut and colored..it really needed both. Now my secret is out! haha!!! Bill has been piddling around the "camp" we have set up and not doing much as his knee is feeling better but he doesn't want to do anything until he had gone to the dr. Wednesday evening we went to the mouth of the Kenai river and watched the dip netters fish. The commercial boats were coming in and it was just like a fleet of ships coming in..... it was so neat to see! I have uploaded some pictures for you to see! Just watching all the people using dip nets to get fish is something to see too! Men,women and kids all ages were down on the beach trying to catch the fish. In Alaska, the head of household can have 25 fish and each member can have 10. So they fish until they get their limit using the nets.... granted to them by right of Alaskan resident status.
Thursday was our "dr. appt" day..... Bill went to the dr. this am and had his stitches taken out. He also had 55cc of fluid drained from his knee and a cortisone shot. His shot has been bothering him the most today. The dr. told him he has no ACL and not much of anything else in his knee except the knee cap. He said he would need a knee replacement and wouldn't have any trouble with it if he gets his muscles built up. He has had Megan get a small bicycler and its on it way so he can excerise on the way home. So he is hoping to go fishing on Friday. Everyone who went today got their limit quickly so the reds are in!
I had a chiropractor appt. today too and was in good shape...Charlotte had one also so we made a morning of it! We stopped by a bakery that was out of this world! Our friends told us about it and we stopped today and had a roll and a break! We will definitely be going back there! :)
This afternoon we hadn't done much until Don and Andy got back from fishing and so now they are canning Andy's fish. We made some vegetable soup for supper in the crock pot so we will eat when the fish are done.
Well,that about catches us up again for this week. I hope Bill gets to fish tomorrow and I will clean and do laundry...exciting huh? There is a chainsaw competition in town for the next few days... we want to go see that...stay tuned!
Until next time!
BJ
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