Natasha must be in a growing phase. She has been eating like crazy for
over a week.
Just ordinary days filled with laughter.
One of the nice photos daycare sends us every now and then.
A sleepover with grand-maman, in her bed for the movie.
Wednesday, July 17, 2024.
Jeremy and Mike went fishing at Kitty Coleman this morning.
I went just before they came back to take some photos.
A fish cleaning station is available at Kitty Coleman. It is a very
nice one.
The seagulls are fat here.
The boys are at work.
Natasha goes to the pool with grand-maman after daycare.
Can you tell what we are having for supper?
Another night with us!
After Natasha went to bed, I went inside to help Jeremy tie some knots
on lures.
Jeremy and I laugh a lot because I am not good at tying knots.
Thursday, July 18, 2024.
Jeremy's friend from work came with his two daughters to play with
Natasha. They had fun in the pool and on the trampoline.
Tomorrow morning, Jeremy and I are going to buy a smoker.
Jeremy is preparing the three salmon fillets for smoking.
We have two bowls like this to smoke tomorrow.
Natasha is helping dad make some brine
for the salmon.
This is all the salmon soaking in the brine. It will soak for 12 to 18
hours before we smoke it.
Kristin arrived from Borden around 10 p.m.
Friday, July 19, 2024.
We were at Canadian Tire shortly after 8 a.m. to buy the smoker.
Jeremy is doing the assembly in just a few minutes. This is a Bradley
Smoker.
We transferred the salmon from the brine to drying racks for the next 4
to 5 hours. A light coat (lacker) will form on the whole salmon. This
will help in the smoking process.
First, we are smoking only half of
the salmon we prepared. It will be smoked with apple wood smoke. The
second half will be smoked with hickory wood smoke.
Jeremy is programming the smoker for the next four hours.
After three hours, we checked the internal temperature of the salmon.
It will need another hour before it is done.
Natasha's pool developed a hole. Jeremy is very good at fixing stuff
like that.
We smoked salmon until about 10:30 before we were done.
It is very good.
Saturday, July 20, 2024.
Yesterday, Jeremy made a castle out of cardboard boxes for Natasha.
Natasha is very happy to have her own castle.
Jeremy and I were back on the water by 7 a.m. this morning.
We got two more Chinook salmon today.
Jeremy has not decided what he will do with the salmon, freeze them or
smoke them.
Sunday, July 21, 2024.
Jeremy and I took a drive to Campbell River to check out the river. We
heard pink salmon were running the river.
Nope! No salmon. We saw this rig ready to go camping in the wilderness.
Her hair is getting long enough to make ponytails.
