Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Sun running dog


Of course have another Gromit photo - this was taken a week or so ago when we had an actual sunny evening. Lately it's been quite a bit more gray - still nice walking on the beach, but not as good in photos.
Cooler weather, though, is good for the fish, so I don't complain (much...). We've released the coho and steelhead smolts for the year and are currently doing "otter decoy" for the chinook - which means we are moving coho fry (of which we have plenty) into outside raceways next to chinook fry (of which we don't have enough) so that hopefully when the hairball otters come to dine they'll eat the relatively expendable coho and leave our precious few chinook alone. A bit brutal if you're a coho, but such is life in the wilderness....

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Wild Socks


The other day Bernadette went to work wearing some of her hand knitted socks, deliberately not matching and brightly colored.

It is Asparagus time in Yakima. As has become our tradition we turned about 60 pounds of Asparagus into pickles today, Mother Day.
It looked like a good crop this year.

Firebug Mom


Mom spent her Saturday before Mother's Day helping Tim burn his over-winter brush pile.