week 2

I know I need to finish last week. Sunday, we went to church it started. She came out what do think of this outfit my usual response OK. It just gets me off the hook for awhile then here comes the jewelry by this time I tell her I don’t know. Then the huff well I don’t know what to wear I don’t know what kind of people there are do they dress up dress casual I don’t know she said. Like I have been there and know all of these things. I don’t care what you wear just don’t go naked. You wear what you want and next Sunday you will know. It was very casual tees and blue jeans. It was laid back nice service I will go back again.

       Monday, I went and got fishing license didn’t really get a chance to go but the next day I went and I actually caught a salmon about 20 inches long. It fought just like a big redfish from the south. I brought it home and cleaned it. I cooked in my instant pot yes you read that right I have a instant pot. I don’t know if I really told you but I have 4 jobs here hunt, fish, cook and keep her butt here. I do all the cooking except breakfast sometimes I don’t get up before her. As Budroux would say she beats me up in tha morning.  It came out good I put a little marinade on it and steamed them I liked it. I just did 1 fillet we both suck that right down. It was a lot better than smoked salmon I think the jury is still out on smoked. That is all they do here smoke it and can it for the winter. Well if that is what it takes to survive winter this ole boy is in trouble. I might have to go back to my Louisiana ways that is why they made spot lights. To many deer on the road and not enough traffic. I will try to do it right but I ain’t going to starve. I did meet a guy from Shreveport Louisiana he said he moved here in 1992 his wife got a job here in the forestry. He told me that when he got off the ferry he told his wife if she didn’t like it here that she could pack her diddy bag up and go back home. He told her just to send him some money every once in a while I ain’t leaving. I told him I had the same thoughts when I got off the same ferry.

     Wednesday I went again fishing but it was a bust on salmon I caught some ugly looking fish looked what I call a oysterfish but they call them ling cod. All I know that you keep your fingers away from the 2 little spikes they will hurt you. I caught few other little fish looked like a goggleye but it was dark red and black stripes down the side. I was afraid to keep them I didn’t know if they had a size limit or if you can even keep them. I just want to give you a little more background on me. I have a lot of people that won’t eat fish at my house. If I catch it I will cook it. You could have ask my dad. I would call him and ask him if he wanted to eat fried fish at the house he would ask what kind I ain’t eatin no trash fish.  I think if it swims in decent water you should be able to eat it. I might let you know how they taste I might have to go real late one evening.

       Thursday didn’t catch much again it was raining and 52 degrees with wind about a 10 mph. It was just a little nippy. Before I went back to the little house I bought me some rubber boots. I can’t stand wet feet.  I came home and fixed my computers to catch the saints football that was what I waited for all day. They started playing and finally I said screw it I will listen to the online on the radio. With 7 min. left in the 2and quarter I got to listen to them. Cell phone hotspot is for the birds. It might be ok if you have good phone signal 2 bars just don’t cut it. I will have to wait until we move into the other house it has DSL line and tv.

 Friday I didn’t do much we had to clean the little apartment. You know we left the vacuum cleaner in the utility room. Hope Ashley enjoys, it was probably the best one we had in 40 years. We went out and bought one. Remember we are on a island that 40 dollar vacuum cost 84 dollars but it worked. I forgot Dixie was scared of them. When I turned it on she went crazy but there was no room to run from it. The house she would hide in the back bedroom here the bedroom is the next room. It took her all day to calm down. You would have thought I beat her she stayed under the bed most of the day. We took a trip across the island to a little town called Thorne Bay we had went to it when we came in June and checked the little store out. I wanted to go again. I forgot how pretty the drive was. We got there and found that groceries were quite bit cheaper. They also have 2 isles like sam’s buy in bulk. That’s the isle that we are going to shop it had all what we liked and bulk prices that I like. I guess no matter where you live in a rural town you got to 30 miles to buy groceries. I will give you example the same bacon brand  was half price.

        Saturday I decided to get up early and go fishing. I promised her that we would go to the cave tour when I got back fishing. You know 50/50 on the time. I did catch another salmon but I missed 4. I think I am getting this fishing stuff down. I got back in 2 hours cleaned it, cleaned me and we took off. We went to the sign that said pavement ends 500 ft. it turned into a one lane dirt road with big holes in the middle. She didn’t care much for that because when I dodge the holes it took her a little close to the edge and some places it was straight down. Needless to say the ooh shit handles were getting well used. I couldn’t figure out she would almost move on the console when we got close it didn’t matter we were both going over at the same time.  She said these are not Verda dirt roads you go in a ditch this one goes in a ravine. The drive it was pretty but when I said that I noticed that I hadn’t seen a electric pole in about 20 miles that got her attention. She started to look at her phone no signal I didn’t care how much she would shake it no dice nothing I got a little tickled she didn’t think that is was funny. We made it to the cave and met the guides. They told us that we needed to call for reservations before making the tour. It was ok we didn’t have the right shoes or clothes to do the tour. She said we needed to have rubber boots and jackets the cave was damp and 40 degrees. So back the way we came I decided to take a detour down another dirt road that went to the town of Whale Pass. It had a fishing dock, School, Library and a  Post Office. It was all in about a 300 yard square and that was it. But on the way there she did see the electric poles come back. It took us a while to get back on pavement but I will make that drive again I found a little store looked like somebody’s house that had oysters I bought 2 dozen that is the way they sell them here and that was all she had. They were good I shuck them and we added a little hot sauce and ketchup. That is the only way to eat them right out of the shell. Well we made it back to the house in 8 hrs  see the time 50/50 2 hrs for me 8 hrs for her in her mind that was fair.

 Sunday I decided to get up early and fish before church. Just like when I was a kid me and Mike Paige would hit all the ponds in Verda before church and if we were late daddy or brother Jerald would come looking for us and bring us to church. She was going to go with me but 5:00 am was too early. I caught another salmon and decided to go back and get her too see all the starfish on the rock beach. I cleaned the fish while she got ready. I didn’t know you had to dress up for the beach that might be why I haven’t caught a lot of fish. I told her dress for getting dirty you have to crawl down a 15 ft rock bank to get to the water you might be a little over dressed. Another huff and 20 more min of changing clothes we made it to the beach. She did see what I was talking about. I fished she went and explored the beach the see all the things that were left when the tide dropped. She was like a kid in a candy store starfish all colors clams that would open and closed. There were funny looking crabs and all kind of different varments on the beach. I wouldn’t tell her but I did the same thing she did Saturday  when I got up early I did more looking than fishing. I did catch 2 more. It’s getting better. We got back and cleaned up and went to church this time no problem on dressing for church 20 min and she’s done that might be a record and that’s including at the house in Verda. On the way back from church I saw 2 people picking some type of berrys on the side of the road. I stopped and got out to see what they were picking. They said thimble berrys I had seen them when we went to Thorne Bay the road was full of them. I wasn’t going to stop and eat one I didn’t know if they were poisonous or not. I eat a lot of critters but when it comes to plants I back off that stuff can kill you. I tasted one they gave me it tasted like a strawberry just a little tart. When you pick them they are a little cup the man picked one and put it on his finger. They were neat looking berrys. We were laughing on the way back to the house that we went fishing, starfish hunting and to church and it is only 12:30. When you get up at 5 in Alaska in the summers and the sun don’t go down until 10:30 at night it is a looong day.

 After thoughts she still not quite there yet hasn’t slowed her mind down to fit this place. I told Kelly my sister that it is laided back here. They say if you don’t get it done today you can do it tomorrow and if it don’t get done then you might not needed it done. I almost had this thinking back home so I am all right here. So far I haven’t seen anything that would change my mind on the move. I do miss the kids and the family and friends but she keeps me up to date every 5 min on what happening back home. I think that is the way she copes with the move. I thought that by now I would be a little home sick but not really I might have found my home. I say that now but I haven’t been through winter yet. They say it can be the blues here we will see.