Where Have I Been?

It has been brought to my attention that I have been neglecting this blog and that it is high time to get my butt in gear and write something. Anything. Just write. Well….

First of all, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Now that that’s out of the way, I can tell you that I was off work the week before and the week after Christmas, plant shutdown. It seems that this quarter is suppose to be “flat” for the company but they are predicting that we will make it up and then some in the remaining three quarters. This time it will be Wait and Hurry UP! instead of the usual Hurry Up and Wait. So, I’m back at work getting back into the swing of things, trying to remember all the things that were going on just before the break. I should have left myself more notes….

The weather has been particularly wet as of late. We set a record for the wettest November on record with close to two feet of rain. There was some let up in December but it was still pretty wet. We are well on the way to an above average January rainfall already. Better wet than cold I say, but the freezing level is supposed to get down to 1000’ tomorrow. Our house is somewhere between 500’ and 1000’ and, as we all know, predicting the weather is NOT an exact science!)

P’s brother, R and I were suppose to go fishing in southern Oregon the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving. We drove down to Port Orford but thanks to the record rain didn’t get a chance to wet a line. The rivers were very high and muddy. They looked like milk chocolate pudding. No fishing for us! We managed to make a trip of it though. We actually saw some of Port Orford. Usually it’s dark when we arrive, dark when we get up to go fishing, spend the day on the river and getting dark when we get back to town. This time we actually went down to the “Port” and found out the main industry there is crabbing! While we were looking around a lady came down to the end of the dock and dropped in a crab pot with a nice chicken breast as bait. She said she’s had good success there in the past. You just lower it down into the water and come back several hours later to see if you’ve caught anything.


Crabpots, lots of crabpots

Crabbing off the end of the dock

A trawler towing someone with engine trouble into the dock at Port Orford

Ok, time for bed, more later….

Something has got to be done with this getting up and going to work thing, especially after two weeks off, staying up late and sleeping in. Time to win the lottery or something…