Food

I'm on a diet. Yes, again. It's what I do. At least once a year, for as long as I can remember. This year is the toughest though, as I have the most weight to lose. Oh well, it's my own doing, but I am motivated, and where there is a will there is always a way. So far I have lost 10lbs. I am not going to tell you how much I need to lose, other than saying it is significantly more, but I am in the right head space for dieting. Tonight I made a cool stir fry with what I could find in the fridge: zucchini, mushrooms and brussel sprouts (shredded with no core), and then lots of chopped garlic and onions. I sauteed just enough to have the brussel leafs limpen. Very tasty indeed, even Chris had some for his dinner too. Dieting can be a lot of fun, especially if you experiment with new cooking styles and dishes.

Wood, Wood, and More Wood

This was another "wood" weekend, with a "two-fold" agenda. You may recall my mentioning the neighbor's "bad fence", well one of the bad patches of the fence is now hidden by a new wood storage shed running parallel to the fence, and adjacent to the vegetable garden. Since we were lucky to come by a fresh fallen cedar that some nice neighbors down the road had cut from their frontage, Chris figured it was the perfect excuse to build another wood storage shed; after all, we had to put the wood someplace because the other woodshed was full, and this one could be strategically placed to cover part of the bad fence. The 14 year old boys next door split the wood for us, and Chris built the wood shed very cleverly I would say, given the slope of the land. I moved and stacked all the wood into the shed on Saturday. Since it is the beginning of fall, and the weather held, I also started the never ending task of chopping kindling. It's one of my favorite things to do! I managed one cedar chest full, plus another smaller box. I just love wood, and how it smells and feels.

At our local island festival in a park right near the cove, we had a surprise visit by the Coast Guard hovercraft. What a noise it made coming into shore. The water was so shallow, I was surprised to think it would even come in. Once in though, it just deflated to sit on the shoreline for all to view or ask questions of the crew. I thought it was a pretty cool sight considering I had never seen a hovercraft that close up.

Fish For Tea, Baked or Fried??

Today Chris thought we should go out and catch our own dinner. Going for salmon meant traveling quite a ways to get to where the salmon were, so we thought we would just go and try for cod. The first drop we made landed us a small Sole. Enough for one. Chris said it was a baby halibut, but I know better! We promptly landed a second one the same size, so we now had dinner for 2! Chris wanted to get some cod, but we first had to battle those nasty dog fish. But then, just off the side of this little rock called Onion Island, we started to nail some small cod. Enough to get 3 or 4 meals out of (in the freezer). All in all it was a fun day. As we started home, I snapped this shot of our island (westside) with a good view of our only mountain, Mt. Gardner.