Another week slipped by

Here is it the 4th of July and it has been raining off and on all day. It only reached about 56 today. We are in Alaska after all! :)

We have had a busy week this week with some not so fun!

Monday, Bill went clamming at Clam Gulch with Don and Andy. They came home with a bunch of clams..... Bill crawled out of the truck and couldn't walk. He had popped something in his knee....his "good" knee. It seemed like it was just dangling..... I called a couple of medical offices and found an Orthopedic dr. clinic in Soldotna. He didn't get in until Thursday am. So he has been limping all week and had to even go to the chiropractor on Wednesday. He had favored one leg and his hip went out.

Tuesday, we stayed around the RV most of the day. Andy, Don and Connie went clamming again and got a few clams. I decided to give it a try on Wednesday. Our other friends from McPherson, Ron and Nancy and her dad got here Tuesday afternoon. We were glad to see them. They were glad to be here as they had left last Sat. from McPherson and arrived late Tuesday afternoon. Long drive!

Wednesday, we(Don,Andy, Connie and I ) left early and drove down to Ninilchik.... we had a ball but it was work! Some of our muscles hadn't been used in a long time! Andy, Connie and I finally got together and worked and between the 4 of us we had over 160 clams! We were filthy dirty and thank God we had gotten hip waders to get down on our hands and knees. There were tons of people out there... we worked from about 8 to about 11 before the tide came back in. I didn't think I was going to be able to get back up the beach! I had gone to the chiropractor on Tuesday afternoon to put my hips back in place! My right leg was 1/2" shorter than the other one! Boy, was I sore Wednesday night! I figured I wouldn't even been able to walk Thursday but got up and felt pretty good! It took us all afternoon to get the clams cleaned and then we canned 13 1/2 pints of clams! YUMMY!!!!! Can't wait to fix some delicious clam chowder!


Bill had planned on going with Andy, Don and Connie on Thursday for halibut. But instead he went to the dr. He has some "junk" in his knee and will have surgery on it on Monday. They will do it orthoscopically so he will not be down long. Then he can get back to fishing..... hopefully..the fish will come in. They haven't started yet. They each got their limit of halibut- 2 each-- so they canned or froze their halibut. Ron took Bill's place.

Today has been a quiet 4th of July for us and it really hasn't seemed like the 4th at all. No fireworks going off and haven't even heard of any displays at all for the evening..of course it would have to be around 1:30 in the am as that is when it gets dark!
We fixed some halibut, steaks, salmon, smoked salmon, striper and a huge amount of other food for supper tonite! We ate outside under the canopy ...... the food was great! So we did have a picnic!

So that about catches us up for this week! We are going to Homer tomorrow with Ron and Nancy and do some sightseeing and try to find the Newmar group who are there for the weekend.

Have a good weekend!
Until next time!
BJ