Weekend

Mike and James went fishing for silvers after
a hard day of cutting wood.

I would say we are watching the sun go down on our three day weekend, but considering the sun hasn't shown its face this weekend, I'm not sure it would be an appropriate metaphor.  We had a half a day of clouds with two and a half days of rain, rain, and more rain!  We had hopes of going to Dogfish, hiking to Port Graham, and possibly going halibut fishing this weekend and took the weather to indicate two things.  First, we should be big lazy bums with our three day weekend, and second, we didn't need to tempt ourselves to shoot a bear too early by going to Dogfish.  While anxious to get some meat in the freezer and a rug on the wall, we know we should wait until the salmon have finished running and the bears have had time to cleanse their systems of fish.  Apparently "You are what you eat" is quite true with bears eating fish as it makes their meat considerably less than tasty.

Mike and James have been checking their game cameras regularly to check out the bears in the area.  There has been a lot of bear sign in the woods, but positioning the cameras to catch the bears on film has proven difficult.  The other day the "bears" they caught on camera were furless, pinkish in color, and walked on two legs.  Some of the kids from school were determined to find where the cameras were and spent the better part of an afternoon searching for them, making up the larger part of the pictures taken in the process.