Pinchy

Today was a good day. It started out with cat being dumb scratching at the closet door in the morning. She is kinda upset at not being allowed to sleep in her usual place. I got up and showered, had breakfast and got ready for work. Work this morning was pretty slow. I came home for coffee and told uncle Duane to come and get his saltwater license sometime before noon, as that is the time when it is usually not busy. So he came by and got him his license printed off and all ready to fish. I came home for lunch shortly after. I spent the lunch hour eating a sandwich, and getting all my new fishing gear ready to test and catch fish. I went back to work and didn't do any real work. I had an xray to do when I got a message from Sonja telling me that there were some orcas swimming our way. Fortunately it was almost coffee time so I came home in hopes of seeing them. Unfortunately I walked through the door and Sonja informed me that they were gone. I stood out on the deck for a little while watching for spouts but there was nothing. I was ready to go back to work without seeing any orcas. Then uncle Duane climbed up the deck and told me that they were back. Sure enough there were six or seven orcas swimming across the channel heading north. I went back to work to finish off my day. Nothing was going on until 4:20 when blood work from Klemtu came in and needed to be analyzed. I got off work around 5:30 and came home to find supper had been ready for a half hour. We had classy chicken for supper. It was delicious again.

After supper uncle Duane and I went fishing off of the spit. I guaranteed uncle Duane that he would catch a fish with the hook I gave him. The guarantee pulled through and on his second cast he had a fish on the hook. We were out there for two and a half hours and between the two of us we had around 40 fish reeled in. We put them all back tonight but tomorrow they may not be so lucky. With we were out there we found a little tiny crab on the rocks. We put a hook down in front of it and to our surprise he tried to bring it to his mouth. We pulled him out and brought him home. My crab-i-tat finally has an occupant his name is Pinchy. We came back in and I cleaned up the pickle jar and feed Pinchy some rock fish we had in the freezer.

Uncle Duane had a good day today. He went out to Morgan lake for a hike to see some bears and some scenery. He got there and saw some salmon on the shore that were half eaten, mostly their heads were eaten and the rest was left. He was thinking that it was bears. I was told though that the wolves here only eat the heads and leave the rest for animals that can't catch the fish. Based on that I'm guessing that it was wolves eating the salmon at the lake. He also saw a mink, seal, rat, humpback whale and some orcas today. Plus the close to 30 fish he caught.

Hopefully the weather cooperates tomorrow and hold off a bit on the rain. Soon though it is bedtime.

Tyler