Village Updates

So I know we've left the village, but it's still a very special place that will always have a piece of my heart, as will James and Carol.  They just thought they got rid of us.  We may not be there anymore, but we'll definately be chatting.  I got to visit with her on the phone and hear how everything is going in the village.  They've had some warm weather, so much so that it was comfortable outside without a jacket (and my brain fried by temperatures above 100 is thinking "What was I thinking?").  Summer solstice was last week so the longest day of the year has come and gone and she said you can tell the days are getting shorter.  Since it never gets dark right now, I'm not sure how exactly one goes about figuring that, but she says you can.  The red salmon usually start running in late May and we were told they had seen some in First Hole shortly after we left the village.  This year, however, they aren't coming upstream in large enough numbers so Fish & Game has shut down all fishing in the village.  Everyone is hoping that the salmon are being slow because the water is considerably colder than it usually is at this time of year and that they'll start coming in later.  If not, those who decided to be the early birds and have already cleaned out their freezers of last year's fish, might wish they had procrastinated a little more.  This year the early bird may go hungry - or at least not eat much fish.