Holy Smokes

20 Filets

Look at all that fish. My neighbor, and main Homegirl, Chirssy invited me to help her smoke and can fish that her brother and boyfriend caught over the weekend in exchange for me getting some fish. I gladly excepted. In addition to the fact that I love smoked salmon, it's a nice break from working on lesson plans which is pretty much the rest of my life right now.

Chrissy is rad. She is the kindergarten teacher and ultimate Alaskan chick. She hunts, fishes, forages and knows hows to process all of it. I have a lot to learn from her for sure. She's the girl who fed me deer burger for dinner. She also likes yoga and baking, so we are going to be friends.

Chrissy adding a little more brown sugar.

In other news, my heater/furnace makes a really loud noise and as I suspected is actually producing exhaust (in my house) so my landlord is fixing it today, hopefully. As of last night, my roof started leaking in the bathroom so I have a couple of pans around my house collecting water. Whatever, I'm glad that I don't own the house. It kind of reminds me of my childhood because it seemed like our roof was always leaking.

Oh this is big! We are officially on the grid. The city of Coffman Cove until Friday produced all of it's electricity with a generator....can you say expensive? No worries, Friday we got a phone call at school telling us that in five minutes all of the electricity for the town would be shut off because the power lines had finally reached our community. HOORAH, electricity is now literally half as expensive (or twice as cheap) as last week. Awesome.

Internet/phone Update: I still don't have the internet, phone or radio at my place which is really annoying but I'm not sure what to do because the Internet is really expensive and slow and I don't really want to get a land line....because I'm trying to maintain my residency in the 21st century, but man I would really love to be able to stream radio....I will keep you posted.