Fish Day!

So I’ve gotten behind on my blogs, in case you couldn’t tell. It’s been a busy week. Wednesday was “Fish Day” at the hatchery here. What is “fish day” you might be wondering. . .

We’ve heard stories of the hatchery giving away free fish. Everyone sounds pretty excited for this, like when Starbucks gives out free coffee or pastries. So we have been keeping our ears open for such an event. Tuesday we missed it. It was “Fish Day” while we were at school working. Our friend, Beth, managed to get a couple of fish and made a deal with Jason that if he cut them up and packaged them with the food saver that we could have some of it. That seemed like a good deal. I was disgusted by the amount of blood in our kitchen and made Jason do all the cutting. I did the food saver-ing and packaged everything very nicely though.

But Wednesday was what Jason would describe as “epic.” Wednesday I heard from the High School Secretary that it was “Fish Day” again. Since we were both working, again, I asked my friend Rachel – who’s husband works at the high school (and so she just happens to be hanging around a lot), if she would go get us some fish to share. She was ever so willing. Thank you Rachel!

Rachel took a couple of garbage bags with her and went to the “ball field” where the hatchery truck was waiting to give away fish. She waited in line and was given 13 salmon! Yep, 13! Some people, who had the means to do so – were given up to 40 fish. 13 was definitely a good number for us.

So Rachel met us at our house after school and we began the process of cutting up 13 salmon. Her husband Joe is the middle school girls basketball coach and unfortunately couldn’t join in on our fun. I thought cutting up 2 salmon was disgusting. . . I was wrong. 13 salmon is definitely more disgusting. But I had to help this time. There was no getting out of it. We were head to toe in fish guts and I’ve had to sanitize the kitchen over and over again. But the freezer is flush with salmon. We won’t go hungry this winter, that is for sure!

Besides cutting up fish and working we’ve also managed to hit up the gym for the first time. It’s really nice. They have an almost-Olympic sized pool which Jason loves to swim in. He’s also gotten re-certified in scuba. I’ve been on the treadmills with my friend Jen. They have about 10 of them that look right into the pool area. So while I’m running I can watch Jason practicing with the scuba team or swimming laps. He went on his first dive in the real water today. . . pictures to come soon!

Miss & Love you all!