Misc.

Fish Eggs and Salmon

Every year the salmon return to the Oroville hatchery. They enter and climb the ladder to the hatchery gathering tank. Eggs are taken from the fish and fertilized, incubated and hatched.

This year the fishing regulations were changed hopefully to allow the salmon to build back their populations. Salmon my friend is a luxury. At over $16.00 per pound it is real treat!

One of my friends is Native American, and every year he is allowed to go to the hatchery and retrieve the dead salmon after the eggs and sperm are removed.  Yep, us poor folks get salmon! Woo hoo. Every once in awhile a few make into the back of the pickup with eggs intact.

Last year I was giving a few loose eggs and complained that they were hard to use and cure not being attached to the skeins. Well that will teach me! This year I received two zip loc baggies full of eggs. So now what? Where to lay them out to dry out a bit and get sprinkled with salt and borax a messy process. Genius that I can be sometimes LOL, I decided   I could lay them out on racks in the oven – hence not have to worry about Annie and her lab appetite. Raw salmon is not good for dogs so I figure the eggs can’t be good either.

Now the best part of course is that we have enough salmon to last another year! This load we received about 30 big ones, the next load is coming soon. We all have made an event of this as our friend can no longer do it himself. So, we get truck loads from the hatchery, clean and fillet them and distribute them amongst friends.

This year lots of shiners and darker red meat than last year – yum great with the dill seasonings last night. I think I ate thirty dollars worth 😉

So, we now have pounds of fillet salmon in the freezer and some salmon egg bait

Change of Theme etc

Well my poor little hacked all over the place theme has fallen apart. tired of fixing it. So – in the process of redoing theme and stuff with the blog.

Who knows what I will end up with?

Cross fingers and toes and arms, and legs – if you can

Lazy Dog Day

I gotta get out and do something , anything LOL. My eye is back to “normal” whatever that might be ha ha ..

Maybe I will get out and take some pics? emmmm … Catfish and Annie are not excited about impromptu canine posing today. They are in a couch potato mood today.

So, the first pics I have shot in awhile:

I so need to get out!

The Swallowing Wars

Sitting at the dining table the other half says: ” you sure make a lot of noise swallowing.” I take another drink of my juice and wonder eh? how can you make noise swallowing? I start defending myself, my mouth is closed how the heck can I make noise swallowing for sakes? Come on be real. No, you really are making noise, more noise than you used to. Ok, er. … my mouth is shut …

Other half then states that I seem to be more deliberate in my eating and drinking affairs. That I appear to be thinking each bite or swallow through. That my eating and drinking patterns have become more attentive, deliberate, that I seem to be concentrating harder when doing so. Like I do with other things now. Of course I had to ask, seems I spend a lot of time concentrating . …

This starts a round of everone at the table trying to make extra noise while swallowing with mouths closed.  Discovery is upon us – yeah. Now really I tried there is only a few ways to swallow. One just slowly let the fluid drain down your throat and hope it does not go the wrong way, and just swallow, you know? Now this might sound odd but really try it. You either swallow or you don’t – right?

It is then decided by others at the table that they can purposely make extra sloshing noises prior to swallowing and using greater force cause the liquid to make louder noises going down the hatch. So, I must be doing this. Well, no I am just swallowing hello! This whole scene was rather humorous watching everyone try and outdo on another – to make noise swallowing.  I gave up cause there is only one dang way to swallow! You either swallow or you choke.

As silly as this sounds I spent quite a bit of time last night swallowing. I came to the conclusion that it really is differet than I remember. I have two modes, swallow or don’t swallow.  I never had really thought about it but it is really not as unconcious of a deal as it used to be.  I actually think about swallowing.  Now ain’t that a kick.