Christina and I hung out at home. Frank came over Friday night and Christina, Ben and I helped him cook a dinner that he is going to present next Thursday to some Disney Execs to be put on the menu in place of another dinner.
Apple Bourbon Pork Loin, Apple Port Pork Loin wrapped in prosciutto.
A risotto with roasted red pepper and basil. A tropical salad with pineapples, coconut and pressed blackberry and raspberry vinaigrette. Zucchini and yellow squash in mint butter. All of the herbs we used came from my herb garden. It was so neat stepping out and snipping a branch of basil, mint, chives, thyme and oregano.
Christina was in charge of the apple sauces. She even got to Flambe them. It cracked us up when she finally tasted them near the end, and said, "Oh, Wow! This tastes REALLY good! I had no idea it would!".
Christina and I ate mostly veggies and fruit with the boys gone.
She always makes fun of my salads. I pile them high with every kind of veggie and fruits I have in the house, along with things like nuts, dried fruit, sunflower seeds, olives, etc.
Mmm! Shrimp Head.
Baby Octopus time.
Look mom, its so cute.
Let me kiss it goodbye.
Ack! I think it moved!
Gone in one bite!
We enjoyed our quiet week.
Mike and the boys didn't have a quiet week!
They caught a lot of crab. Zachary wouldn't eat it, but Caleb loves it.
This is a diary that Mikes dad wrote about what all they had been doing up there.
Saturday - June 19th - The heavily defugaltyized annual fishing trip.
Everything was in place - Mike had his tickets, which last year were $99 each way for three people but this year they were like $260 each way. Wowsers! Finally found some that were around $150. He was coming in at 12:40 AM! Wednesday morning and I was set to pick them up.
First defugalty, I was trying to get my second pressure washer to work, my original one died and the replacement pawn shop washer didn't work, and its replacement wasn't working when Mavis informed me she had just heard from Mike and their flight was canceled due to bad weather in Atlanta. Delayed a whole day. They came in about the same time early Thursday morning but Kevin was free to pick them up which was an anti-defugalty for me.
All week we have been watching the weather and they all kept predicting good weather starting Friday and through the weekend. Oh, forgot to mention we aborted driving over to Jameson Lake and decided to spent the time around Taylor Bay, boating, fishing, crabbing, etc. Mike & the boys had stayed at K&K's but drove out here mid-morning and took Mave and Me to breakfast at O'Callahans. Nice visit. Kev arrived with his trailer early afternoon and we spent the day getting both RV's set up on the kids side lot and getting the boat cleaned up and ready. Got down to the beach in the late afternoon and found I had read the tide book wrong and the tide was low so we couldn't launch. Well, in my defence, even if I HAD read it right, we couldn't have launched. Had a huge campfire and great visit Thursday night.
Friday - Perfect launch tide was at 9:30 AM and with considerable coaxing, I got them down to the beach an hour later. Mike & Kev had announced they wanted to have the three of us run over to Olympia for an early Father's Day lunch, while Gramma kept the three rug rats. Perfect day on the water, partly sunny, no wind, smooth water and temp in the 60's. Mike had left 97-99 degree weather in Florida.
Mike loves to drive the U.S.S. Newman, the boat I sold Kevin last year, and at full throttle of course. Took less than an hour to get to Olympia Bay and suddenly Mike's cap blew off, one of his favorites, so he slowed down, did a U-turn and as we were starting to pick up the hat we heard a loud-speaker, "Will the operator of that boat please come to our patrol boat!" Hoo Boy, flashing blue lights and everything. VERY exciting.
They nailed us for speeding because as we came in fairly close to shore, we missed the big sign and buoys that said NO WAKE ZONE. Got a lecture about that, they the obligatory boat safety check.
"Got a fire extinguisher No
Got a signal flare No
Got a distress signal flag No
Got signal flares No"
Other than that, we were fine with current registration and plenty of life jackets. Well, the officers must have liked us so we got off with just a warning, and Kevin has 14 days to buy and document the required items and will avoid a $250 fine. Whew! They were quite nice and told us where to have lunch.
The weather continued to improve so after a delightful lunch at one of Olympia's Port restaurants, we VERY slowly idled out to the end of the No WAKE zone with is a least half a mile from any civilization. We were running with an outgoing tide so made it back to Taylor Bay in about 50 minutes. They dropped me off on the beach to go get Gramma and bring the boys down to the beach while the Big Boys went out to start salmon fishing.
They had just dropped their lines in the water when up came a Washington State Fish and Game boat for ANOTHER check of they boat. The officers immediately discovered they were fishing with barbed hooks, a big no-no in Puget Sound (saves injury to juvenile salmon). Kev put on his best performance but couldn't talked them out of a NINETY-ONE DOLLAR ticket!. When they came back to the beach they were both quite bummed out. However, they had harvested eight big rock crabs and I had brought down all the makings to cook them on the beach and we spent the rest of the afternoon and early evening enjoying some delicious crab meat, snacks and libations. About an hour before sunset our beautiful day deteriorated so after eating, we broke camp and came back to the house to watch the US play in the World Cup.
Other than that, and waking up to rain this morning, just another ho-hum F/S/GS/GDotters fishing trip. Barney showed up later in the evening and Suzy will bring the girls early afternoon after ballet pictures are taken, picking up Peanut on the way.
It's now 8:24, no one stirring except MISI and me and two boys watching cartoons. Not sure what will transpire to day as the boys like to "play it by ear" rather than plan in too much detail.
More later, if anything is worth sharing. Grumpa Ken
