Rainy Day

Well today I didn't get to sleep in at all. It was my own fault I woke up around 7 to go to the bathroom. I wasn't able to go back to sleep and I decided to get up as I had to go into work this morning. So I went and surfed the internet a bit this morning before heading to work. I came home half hour later and found that uncle Duane got up. He took off to do some more fishing. I started the grocery list and picked out the meals for the week. Since Sonja worked most of last weekend over the supper hour, I just replaced the meals we didn't eat then, for this week. That made my job a lot easier. Sonja woke up shortly after and ate some breakfast. After she was done we headed off to the store. Uncle Duane came with us to get some food for his drive back tomorrow. He leaves for his 21 hour ferry ride tomorrow at 9:30, making stops in Shearwater, Klemtu, Oceanfalls and finally arriving in Bella Coola Monday morning.

While we were at the store I got a call from the doctor on call asking me to come in. He also asked if I wanted to go out on the boat with him and fish. I said yes, as long as both uncle Duane and I could go. I went into work and did the xrays and blood work. I came home an hour later and uncle Duane had gone to see the creek at the ferry terminal. After uncle Duane came back we were on our way out fishing when Willard, a man who works at the hospital, came by and took us to see his smoke house. He actually had some fish smoking today which was really cool. He had them on stakes and circled around the fire. He gave some to Uncle Duane in trade of some deer meat after Christmas when Sonja and I came home.

After we came back we went out fishing again for some rock fish on the spit. We fished there for a bit but didn't catch as many as there has been in the last couple days. So we decided to head back to the ferry to catch uncle Duane a salmon. We got there and walked down the trail to the outlet of the creek, only to find that the tide was way up. There were some posts from an old dock that were ten feet out of the water yesterday, almost completely covered by the ocean. So that dashed our hopes of catching anything. All the shore was underwater, up to the tree line, so we couldn't even climb around to a dry spot. So we came back and checked out the dump for bears, again coming up empty handed. We came back and I started to get supper ready.

We had pizza for supper. It turned out pretty good. Very filling. After supper uncle Duane wanted a few more starfish pictures, and with the tide retreating we went on the prowl. We found a few but, it was getting a little to dark for pictures.

We are now eating popcorn and likely going to watch a movie. Tomorrow I have to go into work in the morning for a little bit and uncle Duane takes off. Of course its going to clear up and finally stop raining.

Tyler