Crabbing

Since Tim got home a mere two days ago, we have been busy! It feels like what happened yesterday must have been a week ago. I am getting tired! But life is so happy and good here, and all the busy is the fulfilling and fun and interesting kind of busy and not stressful or wearing.

This morning (was it only this morning?) we drove to Ace with Tilly, picked up the buoy to comply with local crabbing laws, then set out 200 feet of line from the high water mark to low tide and threw the pot in. Hopefully tomorrow we will be having crab for lunch! Also this morning at Ace, I picked up some curved cinder blocks to outline my brick work for the goat doorway. The concrete bricks should also help wear their hooves down a little.

A little later, our family headed up to Oak Harbor for some shopping: plastic roofing to continue improving on our pig habitat, a plastic folding table for chicken killing, and a second battery for the screw gun. We stopped in at the fro-yo parlor to meet up with the friend I met on my way up to Bristol Bay nearly a month ago, then made the rounds at all the thrift stores looking for particular picture frames, speakers for the 1970's radio transceiver Tim has been working on, and drawers for my crafting room.

Heading home, we dropped off Tilly, checked on the other critters, than headed out again to meet up with our friend Fritz from Juneau, his son, Joe, Fritz's girl friend, Joe's band, and our new neighbor and long time friend Nancy. Joe and his band have been touring across the country playing bluegrass music all spring and summer.

As dinner wrapped up, I got a call from Tadd from the Unity church who has goats in need of milking. Tim and I headed over for a tutorial on the goat care to be their temporary milkers over the weekend. I figure the more practice we can get before taking on our own goats, the better.