Aug 07, 2013
From the back end of a truck
But what was in the truck?
Tuesday was a long day full of errands which meant Colin had to take about 4 hours off to drive me around. The most important was my 5 1/2 week check up with my surgeon. Rather than a simple office visit, this involves a trip to the hospital. First you have to take a number to check in at admitting and then up to another floor where you wait in line to hand in your paperwork. Then a long 40 minute wait even though I had an appointment. Finally my name is called and five minutes later I am leaving. What was the point? He looked at the x-ray and at the scar and said I was good. No he did not check my range of motion, nor have me walk, actually nothing. I asked if my legs were even in length. The reply was that if they felt level they were, if not then they were not. Comforting indeed. At the last minute he said he should see me again end of October before we head south. I have a physio appointment at the hospital next week on the 19th where I will hopefully get checked out.
The good news is that I checked in at Weight Watchers for the first time in 2 months and I have remained exactly where I was weight wise. I think that is pretty good considering I have been doing more sitting and laying down than walking. Of course that is changing day by day. We also picked up a Papa Murphy pizza to take home and bake. That is 2 pizzas in two weeks and no gluten reaction thus far. I am totally off coffee, even decaf for now. Keeping my fingers crossed.
We got home shortly after 4PM to find that the fish truck was arriving within the hour.
There is a fellow here in the park that has a native Indian friend from the coast that is a fisherman and once very August he drives his catch here to sell off the back of his truck.
These sockeye salmon were still swimming in the Fraser River just 14 hours before I took this shot. They are all about 8 – 10 LBS and sold for $15.00 each. Very very fresh.
Jerry also had 2 huge spring salmon, a red and white. We bought the white for only $40.00.
Turns out that this was a rare marble spring salmon. For a few extra dollars we asked Jerry to fillet the sockeye and to make streaks out of the spring. He did not have the proper tools but did a much better job than we ever could have.
Fortunately we found a friend who was willing to lend us some freezer space. It only took us an hour to double bag and label everything. I even packaged a few odd pieces for fish chowder. What was going to Mexico in October went to our friends’ freezer and the rest into our house freezer. After our pizza dinner Colin went out and purchased another 2 sockeye. Good thing we love salmon. For $120.00 we now have 18 dinners of which about six are packaged for four people. If you want to get detailed that is 48 individual fresh wild salmon meals @ $2.50 each. Guess what we are having for dinner tonight?
Thanks for all the suggestions of what to put on a wasp sting. It still is sore and itchy. I love what Rod said “there are more wasps than tourists around here” ! Too true.
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My knee surgeon was never really interested in what my leg was doing, either. He looked at the x-rays and pronounced me healed. I forced him to see how much flexibility I got from going to acupuncture. After that he asked for the acupuncturist’s name and phone number. I dug in my purse and got out an old appointment card. He’s still sending patients to my acupuncturist!
Marty…..hmmm can just the 2 of us change the system.
George….it was awesome.
Sound like you are getting better by the minute.
Those salmon dinner will be awesome. Good deal.
That is a great price considering where you are. We are paying $10 per fish here in Campbell River.
Good to know Croft, thanks.