Things are going well! I’ve learned to accept the fact that everything I try to do will take about six times longer than I expect it to, and I’m okay with it. Last week and this week are a bit slower, more time for researching parts to a new filter we’re ordering, taking the time to get the boat from North Carolina back up here (I guess the tuna are biting up here nowadays!), and making sure the system is as-perfect-as-we-can-make-it before we get fish again. I’m still putting in way more hours than I actually get paid for, but the work is fun and I like the project and the people I’m with.
I dove on Saturday with my friend Mike at Fort Wetherill again-Jamestown is so beautiful. I saw a keeper sized fluke (which is fuelling my desire to learn how to spearfish), a couple keeper sized blue crabs, and four clams! Shhh the clams are currently in the freezer. I’m trying to decide if it’s worth it to get a resident clamming license. I also got to teach Mike’s friend Rich, as this was his first time diving in the ocean. Mike is an instructor, and I’m working towards getting my divemaster, so I led the dive and worked on skills with Rich. Rich told me I make a great instructor! I was looking at my logbook- I’ve dove over 65 times in just about two years! (look for a few dive pictures below)
Saturday night I babysat for five of the greatest kids ever-relatives on my dad’s side (my dad’s cousins’s kids). We painted toenails and played with some sort of a pet lizard, colored, and watched a movie, among other things. What a great way to get away from work stress, make a little extra cash, and get to watch them all grow up. I absolutely LOVE babysitting.
Sunday I went with mom to Stop and Shop in Colchester- apparently they were reopening the store so I walked out with a couple reusable bags, free chips, a balloon and a $10 gift card. Probably the best shopping experience ever, glad to spend it with my mom. Oh and we got lobsters for my dad for father’s day. (Last night and tonight I had leftover lobster alfredo for dinner- SO yummy!)
I decided I want to become a fisherman and a gardener. I want to be a fisherman because living in “the ocean state,” there’s awesome seafood just off the beach. If I can catch my own fish, gather my own clams, etc. I can enjoy a lot of nice dinners and feel good about harvesting it myself. So on father’s day afternoon, Dad sorted out some old surf casting gear for me and talked me through a couple of knots. Pretty cool to learn about fishing from the best fisherman I know.
Last week I went fishing with my friend Donald, he caught a keeper porgie but my fish was only about two inches long- pretty impressive that I caught him on a normal sized hook (see picture below).
Along the same lines of fishing, I’ve decided to grow some of my own veggies. I got a cherry tomato plant from a local nursery, which has already given me 6 tomatoes in the week that I’ve had it. I also planted a bunch of cucumber seeds in a planter with mom- it’ll be awhile before they come up.
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