FISHYNESS

Well we delivered Austin to the Mill Bay Ferry Wednesday.  We had a lovely trip down, listening to Prince.  There is simply no one like Prince.  The night before Austin had us watch the movie Purple Rain.  It was awesome!!!!  We hooked the tv up to the big speakers and gloried in his amazing music.  What an evening!  Then Austin and I sat up til three in the morning talking.  My fave thing in the world!  We so enjoyed his visit.  Covered lots and lots and lots of ground verbally!

Monte has been going nuts with both the bbq and the deep fat fryer.  We have done chicken wings a couple of times, Cavendish fries a couple of times, falafels...not!  And he has bbq'ed all kinds of stuff, from hamburgers, sausages to veggies.  And we use the fire bowl almost every night.  We love sitting around it and roasting a midnight snack of some sort!

Millie, the housekeeper, came on Thursday!!!  Holy Hannah!!! It took the poor woman three hours to get this place back in shape!  Normally she would take one and half hours every two weeks before, but the place was DIRTY!!!!!

But you know who didn't come!!!???  The stupid lawn people.  Its been three weeks now and the lawn looks simply awful!  They do a great job when they do come but jeez!  Its supposed to be once a week on Friday and they haven't come the last three Fridays!  I have emailed them yet again. They answered the last one saying they were sorry, that there had been some injuries and they would be here yesterday.  No.  They didn't come again.  So this time I wrote a pretty direct less friendly email.  I would fire them but there just isn't anyone around that I can hire to take their place.  Kids don't do it anymore.  I really don't want to buy a lawn mower and whipper snapper.  I really really don't. 

Monte has a friend here, James, whose birthday it was yesterday.  A bunch of their friends gathered out at the lake and went swimming.  On his way out Monte saw the First Nations Ladies selling sockeye at the side of the road.  They were 25 bucks a piece.  Good sized ones too.  So he bought four good ones and brought them home, all excited.  He dumped them out of the garbage bag into the sink and.......THEY WEREN'T CLEANED!!!!!  We have bought fish out there this way several times and the fish were always cleaned.  Jeez!  But Monte set up a cleaning station on the deck and had them all cleaned super fast.  Hadn't forgotten how!

But....they needed scaling.  Ah fer geez!   I absolutely hate scaling.  Those scales end up everywhere...all over my glasses, clothes, counter, window, up to my elbows.  (biggest shovel list possible).  I like salmon....but I don't really love it.  Maybe if I deep fry it...or make my potato chip burgers out of it.....

Well gotta bounce.  I shall put some pics here that I am sure most of you have already seen one way or the other.  I now have to phone the spca about the neighbour dog...again.  He barks every evening til midnight, in the middle of the night and starts at six in the morning.  And the lying bastard owners always tell the spca that 'oh we didn't realize he was barking'.  Yeah right.  Its a Rottweiler for christ sake...you know its barking!  They never take him in.  Stupid frigging dog owners...they are a breed unto themselves.  Stay healthy folks....don't trust anybody to not give you a virus!  TTYL

MR. FISH CLEANER

FIRST TIME WE HAVE USED SPOD'S BIG GIANT KNIFE HE ALWAYS CUT THE SALMON UP WITH

A TERRIBLE PIC OF ME DOING A TERRIBLE JOB.  LOL!!

AUSTIN AND MONTE AT THE MILL BAY FERRY

MONTE'S FIRST PRODUCE FROM THE GARDEN