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Cold, Wet, and Rainy…

These last couple days have felt more like late August/September with all the rain we’ve gotten. I’m not complaining though…when the weather is like this I lite my cinnamon spice candle and bake some chocolate chip cookies(makes it feel like cozy fall time)  Plus, it’s nice not having to water all my plants and lawn everyday and Aspen has fun playing in the puddles too!

These are some more pictures from when we hopped on with Greg to go drop off more fish that he caught.   

Houses being built along the shoreline(only accessible by boat)

  

The cannery with a big commercial boat

Getting ice for the next day

     

Keeping warm

If Greg stays out for a couple days he sleeps on this dock in Excursion Inlet

Orcas feeding on salmon

The Orca fin on the right is only out of the water halfway(it was about 6 feet long in total). I wish I could have gotten a picture of when it came out of the water…amazing to see something like that.

What we’ve been up to…

It feels like it’s been a very busy summer!  Greg’s been working a ton doing not only his Charter fishing but he also has been Commercial fishing on his days off this year.  He bought a hand troll permit for Salmon and a Bottomfish permit for Lingcod and Rockfish.  And Aspen and I have been keeping ourselves busy taking care of the garden/yard(which has been a challenge this year keeping up with the weeding & watering but I’m really enjoying the outcome), berry picking/canning(soon to be canning fish, veggies, & other meats with the pressure canner I got this year), and of course going on adventures with Aspen.  Here are some of our pictures(most of them are taken with my cell phone because my camera is broken…so they aren’t the best quality) 

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This was a really beautiful day that we went out hand trolling with Greg.  It was the first time I’ve ever been out with him to help. I had so much fun and I love being able to see what he does.  Aspen was quite the trooper also.  This isn’t like us casually fishing where I can just hang with her most of the time(you have to be pulling up lines, then gill the fish, and put the lines/gear back out and repeat over and over…it gets pretty crazy with fish everywhere) so it would definitely be easier to have a babysitter.  But for now I don’t have one so she gets to go with us and learn how to be on a boat for long periods of time.

  

Entertaining herself for a few…

That’s the back of a whale…it was breaching out of the water but I could never get a good shot.

These next few a from a different day when he took us to the cannery in Excursion Inlet to show us what happens when he offloads his fish.

Watching as Greg goes up the ladder to where they count his fish.

And here we are entertaining ourselves while we wait for Greg to get back…

She was a happy little thing…that’s her ballerina move(she can’t do it as well with boots on :)

Putting in the bait getting ready to drop the King Crab pot…yummy!

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These are just my random pictures…

She got a little bit wet while watering the lawn

Playing at the park…

Hanging down by the river dipping our feet in the water.  I was telling her about the fish that swim up this river and how to look to see if she could see any(the tide was to high with murky water so we couldn’t see them…but I didn’t tell her that).  So, when she wasn’t looking I would throw a rock in and tell her that a fish just jumped right there…she totally loved it!  Greg drove by us on our way home and she had to tell him all about the fish jumping in the river

Just Aspen and I having lunch out at the lodge.

We were on a mission to find some Salmonberries.  I only was able to find a few…but I think I found a good spot if I can get down to it.

 

Salmonberries and Blueberries

Aspen is obsessed with picking flowers.  Some of her favorites to pick happen to be daisy’s.  Cute little girl

Visiting Greg on the dock

These last ones are from when we went to one of Greg’s softball games.  I really wish I would have had a video camera to get this.  They were laughing so hard…it was the cutest thing!

They were actually playing Ring Around The Rosy and this is where Aspen thought it was more fun to try and pull Taiya down.  But Taiya doesn’t come down very easy so its like she was dragging Aspen(totally laughing her head off).  Eventually Taiya would go down and Aspen would tell her “more Rosy”.

They picked flowers together and shared hotdogs.