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

I got home last night at midnight. It was a long night because the prisoner turned into a whiny baby when I turned his music off, and then even more so when I wouldn't answer the doorbell. I tried to explain to him that it wasn't my job to answer the door. He thought it was someone coming to spring him from jail. It wasn't and I secretly laughed at him for being a doofus.

I got home and crawled into bed. Tyler had just gone to bed an hour earlier so he wasn't asleep yet. We talked for a bit and soon drifted off to sleep. A few hours earlier, I woke up. The light was on and I was searching for something in my night stand. Tyler was asking me what I was doing and I had no idea. Tyler said that I told him his boss wanted me to find something. And I wasn't quiet about it. It's super confusing waking up doing something while having no idea what that is. It was funny though, to hear Tyler talk about it today.

Kitty woke me up several times last night, so, instead of her also waking up the working man, I leave the room and Kitty follows me. She pretty much adores me and will come with me any where. I went and laid on the spare bed. Then she started scratching in a box (because she is stupid and likes to eat cardboard) which kept me awake, so I moved to the couch. Outside was a beautiful color yellow. I love that time of day. It's so beautiful, so peaceful. But, unfortunately, at that time of day, I am so tired. Its hard to fully enjoy that when you can't keep your eyes open long enough to see it.

Tyler got out of bed, showered and we ate breakfast. He went off to work and I did my morning routine. I worked out, which is always fun because I start by playing DDR and then move into my dvds. I did the dishes while the laundry was on, so that's my super housewife persona coming through. For some reason, when our dryer is on a certain setting, the clothes and towels come out smelling like body odor. It's not great at all. Tyler's scrubs smelt really bad today, so I washed them. It was productive.

Then Tyler came home for lunch. We ate and relaxed before Tyler went back to work. Since I was taming Kitty all morning, I was really tired. I read from my ebook reader and tried to put some new free books on it. Then my favorite show was on at 3, which is Friends. I laugh all the time for that show. I was so tired, so it felt good to just sit there. And please don't make any comments on how that's what I do all day because it's not, so there.

And then I saw the ferry. Uncle Duane came today and I was supposed to watch out for his ferry. I texted Tyler and told him he had arrived. Tyler and Duane came into the house and I had dinner pretty much ready. We stood and talked while the potatoes finished cooking. It's always fun to hear about other peoples trips.

We sat down and ate one of my favorite meals. Chicken with mashed potatoes and homemade gravy. Then Tyler had to go back to work because he is on call this week. When he came back, we took a walk around the town. On our walk, we heard the sweet sound of wolves. They were far away but it was still cool. I'm not sure I have ever heard a wolf howl before, but they do sound like coyotes so maybe I have.

It was a good walk, but as mentioned perviously, I am so tired. We came home and Duane went out to take a few pictures while the sun was still up.

And here we are. Just relaxing and typing this blog. Tyler found a section of our blog that tells us different stats about our blog. The coolest part is that our blog has been read across the world. People in China, Israel, South Africa, and some other cool places have made pit stops on our pages. Not that I think they care or really even read it, but the fact that they were on our site, makes me feel pretty cool.

Going to bed pretty soon and I hope Kitty sleeps all night long.

Good night!!

Son

Sorry

Well I will start off by apologizing for not putting a post up last night. Sonja has been working every night at the RCMP since Saturday, and in doing that she has been taking our computer to help the time go by for her. Since I was left with just my phone for Internet combined with not doing anything, I forgot to blog last night. Last night I watched some of the first season of Heroes.

Today we woke up and I got ready for work. Work today was alright. It went by pretty quick as it was kinda steady. Before I knew it it was lunchtime. I came home to find a sandwich awaiting me for lunch. It was really good. I went back to work and finished off the day. I got a text from Sonja around 2 o'clock telling me that she would be guarding again tonight. Again I have to blog from my phone but I won't forget to post it this time. I came home and had a grilled buffalo chicken burger for supper. It was really good. The weather cleared up a lot from yesterday. It was actually warm by the time I came home. Tomorrow uncle Duane shows up on the ferry and will be here till Sunday morning. Not much up for me tonight. Just watch TV and eventually go to bed.

Tyler

Long weekend Adventure - Day 3

So, Tyler said he blogged last night, but it doesn't really look like he did. I have to apologize for him.

I will let him write one for yesterday because it was another great day.

But, onward to today. It was great day 3 to the long weekend we are having. I had to work last night at the RCMP until midnight, so when I got home, Tyler and I just went straight to bed. I had to wake up early to workout. I know that if I skip one day, it will ruin my motivation to workout every day. So, after complaining a whole lot about how I didn't want to get up, and why did Tyler have to make plans for 10am, I finally got around to doing my workout. Today was legs and back, and my legs are now like jelly worms. It's really pathetic.

We ate breakfast and got ready for our day plans. We went out kayaking to Shearwater with Kendra and Graham. Kendra works in the pharmacy and Graham is her boyfriend. Tyler signed out the key and we got all the equipment ready to go. We did tandem kayaking this time, which I loved and Tyler hated. I sat in the front. I loved it because Tyler and I were together the whole time. He wasn't speeding ahead of me, leaving me behind to fend for myself and I liked that we could both enjoy the trip together. Tyler hated it because he loves going fast and said I was slowing him down and lot of other encouraging things. It took us about an hour to get to Shearwater. There was complaining all around about how the arms were hurting and all that. It was a tough trip. Across the channel and then around a bend. I did this all super terrified. I have become scared again of the ocean because of how close the whales were getting to the shore. If they were that close, then they were every where. Even last night, I was having nightmares about us tipping out of the kayak and a whale brushing up against my leg. It creeped me out, but it turned out to be a really fun time.

Once we finally got to Shearwater, we had no idea where to park the kayaks. We just left them on the dock and hoped no one would take them. We were sure no one would because why would someone take a boat you have to power yourself, when there are motor boats all over the place. We went to the restaurant. I like the food in that restaurant better then the one here on Bella Bella. The food is less greasy over there. I ordered a tuscan chicken burger and Tyler had just a regular burger with bacon. They were both really good. When we done, we walked around the sleepy little town. Nothing was going on. We walked to a place that looked like a tug boat grave yard. There were a whole bunch of tug boats up on blocks, most needing a good painting. We decided to head back to Bella Bella because I have to go back into the RCMP again at 4pm till midnight, and I wanted to get a little nap in there.

The trip back home seemed a lot shorter, and we were back home in no time. We put the kayak stuff away and headed for the shower. And then we napped. It was wonderful. Only for an hour, so by the time you wind down and actually fall asleep, you don't get that long of a nap.

I know this blog comes early today but thats because Tyler isn't going to do anything tonight (his words) so I might as well just blog now.

It's been a really fun long weekend that wasn't planned. We had no idea what we were going to be doing, but we have managed to have a really great time. It's the first long weekend in a long time, we have been together so it's nice to be doing things together.

I will tell Tyler to write about his night last night for your reading pleasure.

I wonder what tomorrow has in store for us?!?!?

Son

So I forgot to post my blog last night. I did write one, but Sonja had the computer and had to resort to writing it on my phone. I was invited out to a campfire on the beach around 9 o'clock so in the rush I forgot to actually post the blog. I sent it through my email but didn't get it online until this afternoon. The campfire was good. It didn't rain and wasn't cold. We were out there for two hours or so when the campfire exploded. Literally exploded. It shot coals at my and I had the fire sitting in my lap. I rolled off of the log I was sitting on and got all the coals off of me. I survived with no burns and a sore elbow from hitting the ground. We decided to call it a night then. We looked around as to why it exploded and we decided that it was because the fire was build beside an excess concrete dump pile. There was some moisture in there and the heat made it explode. There were chunks of concrete beside the log i was on and you can see where it blew off of the dump pile. I was lucky none of that hit me. It was pretty crazy.

Tyler

Bush man

Well today started out like any other Saturday morning. We got up and started the grocery list. We went to the store after to get what was on the list. When we were in the checkout we ran into the new pharmacy tech. In the conversation Sonja told her about our adventure yesterday. So we ended up going to the creek again today win her and her boyfriend. So they came by around 1 and we left. We took the road his time so it was much easier and quicker. We got there and the salmon were swimming hard again trying to get up the waterfall. While they were swimming I decided it would be a good idea to try my hand at fishing. Bushman style. I crouched down at the end of the platform and reached down to catch a fish. They were swimming really close to the surface. I started out just grabbing their fins and seeing if I could just hold them back. That was fun but I wanted more. I kept at it and decided that it would be possible to grab one out of the water. So I did. It was awesome! I snatched it by the tail and pulled it up out of the water. Sonja took some pictures of my catch. It was such a rush. The most exciting thing since the whale i saw while I was fishing. We continued watching the fish for a while and I decided that I needed to do it again. So again I crouched down and waited for my moment to strike. It came and I got another one. Again I snatched him out of the water and Sonja took some more pictures. I tried to pose with it and he struggled and I lost him back to the water. We came back and shortly after coming home Sonja got called to the RCMP. I have spent the rest of the night watching TV. No plans for the rest of the night. We might be going kayaking tomorrow.

Tyler

Photoblog 6 - Salmon Run

Old gravestones.

More gravestones.

Salmon trying to get up the waterfall.

Big salmon changing form. The fresh water is changing their look.

The waterfall they are going up. We saw one actually get up it.

Salmon waiting for their chance at the bottom of the waterfall.

COOLEST THING EVER!!!

So, I think we can just bypass a whole explanation of how my day went because everyone knows exactly how it went. Instead, I will summarize so I can get to the good part of the day.

My day: Woke up early because of Kitty. Worked out my very sore body (but it some how felt good any way), sent some emails, cross-stitched, ate some food, and then Tyler came home.

I know, it might not be the greatest blog but Tyler and I saw the single coolest thing ever today. Tyler came home from work at 4 and he started on dinner. It was a recipe that he wanted to make, so he is responsible for putting it together, just kind of the rules. We were going to have salmon and rice. It turns out, the salmon needed to be marinated for an hour and a half We decided to go for a walk.

Tyler has wanted to go to the ferry forever and the weather finally cooperated. We walked down the shore because it was low tide. It was really rocky and it was a very long walk. We saw some pretty cool things. We walked all the way until the rocks wouldn't allow us to go further. Tyler then found a path, which we followed for a very long time. It was beautiful in there, surrounded by moss, huge trees, ferns. It was also really wet. It poured all day today and we live in a rain forest.

Any way, we came upon a really old grave site. It was pretty cool. There were people in there since 1883. It was crazy old and really cool. It was in the middle of the forest and most of the headstones were tipped over and really faded away.

We continued on our way, to actually get to the ferry, which was actually really close to where we were. And then, here is the cool part, we went down to a creek. There was a look out place right by this water fall type thing...and there were hundreds of salmon, trying to get up the river. It was so cool, seeing them trying to get up that waterfall. And these fish we GIANT!!! They were the biggest fish I have ever seen. We will put pictures up so you can all see how cool it was.

And then we walked home. We were both so tired and we hadn't eaten dinner at that point. We came home and had some food and are now relaxing. And its wonderful. It was a good walk.

Pictures to come soon.

Enjoy your long weekend!!!

Son