Gone Fishin' and Homely Pursuits

Our son took Dayle and our grandson fishing with his best friend Ernie on Saturday.  They went to a very pretty place on the Columbia River.. Dayle sent me this photo of some pretty white Egrets in the river - from the boat.

Dayle dropped his line in the water and not more than 3 or 4 minutes the pole bent down and the fight was on.. it took almost 10 minutes to reel the big Chinook Salmon, this variety is called an "upriver bright" as they swim a long ways from the Pacific Ocean.  Here is Ernie netting Travis' catch which was only 5 more minutes from Dayle's catch.  They had two more on the line but they got loose right at the net.

Here is Dayle's catch.

Here is Travis holding both of the fish, Hayden helped him filet the fish.  Travis is looking down, worried that the something was dripping on the kitchen floor.. lol.

All set to filet and put safely into Ziploc bags.  Kristi prepared the salmon for dinner for all of us on Sunday night, it was DEEEE-liscious!  She served it with rice and peas and it was top drawer.  I took a photo of my dinner and proceeded to consume it all.. then went to look at the photo and I obviously did not get a photo!  Wah!

So.. what did I do on Saturday?  I crocheted on my shell blanket, played Words With Friends on my iPad, some Scrabble, too.. and crocheted some more.. (notice both dogs at my feet)...

Uh-ohhh.. Aileen is beating me!  :-)

I made myself a nice lunch, smoked turkey and Havarti cheese on a croissant.. and read my book while I dined.  

This is not an easy book to read, but since I paid for it, by golly I am going to read it.  LOL!  The jury is still out.. it has yet to grab me fully.  And on page 179 and I'm not sure yet why this book is called "The Sea"!

My sister has a pair of earrings and a pendant with this really pretty stone I've never seen, called Larimar.  I saw Danielle on "American Pickers" wearing a beautiful necklace of Larimar rondelles.. so I found a strand of them and ordered them so I can make a bracelet.  Now to wait for them to make their way from India to my house.

We have our grandsons staying with us for the week.  Dayle took them to school at 7:30 am and they took the bus home and got here at 4 pm.  We're making dinner for them soon.

I went to my DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) meeting today.  It was difficult for me as it's the first meeting in 20 years that my sister Roberta was not sitting next to me.  Then I led the National Anthem - without my sister singing the alto harmony.  Yikes.. it was hard.  Many of my DAR friends came over to me and hugged me and told me how strong I was to be there.  Some tears were shed.  

Anyway... I hope you have a good week.  Thank you all who left me such wonderful comments on my last blog post.  It means so much to me.  

((hugs)), Teresa :-)