Salmon!

Finally, something to report! Boy, what a long dry spell of anything interesting and blog worthy happening in our world... Life has been all about maintenance for the last month or so, maintenance and house project completion. We've put the house on the market and are hoping to move into town, consequently we've had to finish all the unfinished projects haunting this place. It's amazing what you get used to living with, bits of trim left off, doors that don't close properly, a half demolished roof, etc etc. The sort of stuff that doesn't look so good to prospective buyers...

So today we made it out to see the Adam's River sockeye run. It was pretty awesome, even after driving for two hours we were all pretty stoked to see the fish. What a sight, it's amazing! Bank to bank big red fish, living, procreating then dying right in front of your eyes. Tobin's favorite part was "the dead fish", what did you like about the dead fish? "the smell, no no no, I just liked seeing the dead fish." We talked about how they had to avoid all sorts of things on their way to the ocean, then come back again to spawn in the place they were born. He pointed out that they had to avoid "fishermen and bears and cougars and wolves and snakes, bad snakes". Astute boy.

"what, dad?"

Sockeye life cycle edited to include the Adam's River Three Ring Circus

On another note, Harry and I had a successful trip to the East Kootenays to slaughter deer. We shot three deer in 24 hours. It was like a John Wayne movie, standing back to back going "blam!, blam!, blam!, blam!, blam!, blam!". Deer everywhere.

The buck from the first day. Contrary to Uncle Graeme's opinion, we couldn't carry a deer in each hand. This dude was so heavy it was crazy! We staggered out 3km like this, taking 500m shifts.