Well, our excitement about the nice weather was short lived. Yesterday we brought in two wagon loads of baled hay before it became too cold to bale any longer. Later in the evening, it began to rain, and it has drizzled all day today. Everything is gray, wet, and socked in. On a brighter note, Merlin did arrive home with salmon – 545 lbs of it. We ate the King salmon for lunch; it was 22 lbs and was enough for all the tables to get just enough meat to eat. Andy and Tommy will be home soon with another 100 fish. We will have put up over 1000 pounds of salmon this summer by the end of tonight. We are grateful! And we wish we could share with everyone, but it is impossible.
Yesterday, Mike and Ann Bear came out for a quick visit to bring Ann’s brother and wife out for a look around. Garth and Kim hosted them.
Becky Riche has a spot on her lungs that has been a concern to the doctors for nearly a year now. She will be having surgery on August 1 to either remove a wedge or lobe of her right lung. If you’d like to write Becky directly, you may do so at: becky_riche@hotmail.com
Joey has already left us again to go to Anchorage to sign up or something like that with his new place of work. He will be back. He will be working on an offshore ship as a medic...sounds adventurous!
Pat had a good time at the convention and called to say that he had arrived in Fairbanks, HOWEVER...when he arrived in Fbks, the airplane had misplaced all his tools and luggage. Talk about a headache. We played phone tag for the rest of the day and finally a call confirmed that his luggage had been found. In the meantime he had had to go to SAMS to get his meds and ask for a new prescription, after the pharmacy heard his drama story they gave him a new one..thank goodness. IN THE MEANTIME...Pat found out that his ACS phone was not working due to having his account mixed up with PatLou's, talk about ditzy people...the ACS folks somehow punched in the wrong middle initial, not that hard to do really, instead of an F they punched in an L...but he got that straightened out and is now home, safe and sound.
Pat said that one of the highlights of the whole convention was that the daughter of Clair Davis the piano tuner who wrote the books on TRIGGER POINT THERAPY, was there to follow in her father's footsteps and have a "hands on" workshop, showing tuners how to fix their various joint and muscle ailments and how to work on themselves. There was a variety of small balls and Theracanes and a variety of equipment that is used with this type of therapy. Pat and I have been working on our own shoulders, hips, etc. using the trigger point therapy approach...it works if one is consistent. I practically have gotten rid of my frozen shoulder which I have had for about 3 years - it only flares up when I am overworking it or not paying attention to how much I am using my arm.
Here's Pat with all the Alaska Chapter of the Piano Techs Guild. They had a good time. Later on they were invited to an Irish Pub with live Celtic performances...now THAT SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING I WOULD LIKE!
Here's Pat with all the Alaska Chapter of the Piano Techs Guild. They had a good time. Later on they were invited to an Irish Pub with live Celtic performances...now THAT SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING I WOULD LIKE!
I forgot to mention that on my birthday Flo, Ani, May, Rob and self all trooped into Delta and had a nice steak dinner at the Alaska Stake House. Pretty nice! Here's some photos of what the girls gave me. Ani made the necklaces.
I better get to supper and then on to cleaning the next batch of fish.
Have a good week y'all.
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