ESDAY
Last night our bright blue skies once again became a brownish gray with smoke from a distant fire. We scavenged wood and contributed to the smoke with our own campfire. Diane is the proud owner of a cross-cut saw and took on the job of sawing the trees that Luanne and I drug back. She laughed the whole time she did it, quite a change from the woman behind a desk of four weeks ago!!
This morning dawned bright and clear, the fire thankfully extinguished. On our morning walk we watched an Osprey fishing on the river and a beautiful doe leading her two babies through the forest across the river.
Luanne is out on the river again. One fish is all it took to get her fever raging. She can’t get over being able to walk out of her camper and catch fish without getting in a car and driving to a spot.
And me, I am wondering what it says about me that I can lose things in 175 square feet of space!! I have four postcards I wanted to write and send from Stanley this afternoon and darned if I can find them. And it isn’t the first time I “lost” something this trip!!!
It is now dark and late, we were sitting around a dying campfire marveling at all the stars when Luanne heard footsteps of some sort behind her at the river bank. That sent us all scurrying to the safety of our houses, time for bed anyway. I probably was just a deer, but....
Diane caught her first wild rainbow trout today!! She waded in the river and caught a nice fish on a 4# rod. Congratulations Diane!!!
We all caught fish today, and we also went off exploring the tiny town of Stanley and the beautiful lakes which surround it. Stanley has the distinction of being, on average, the coldest town in the United States. It has officially 100 residents, but during the winter boasts only 40 hardy souls! The salmon return to Stanley every year to spawn. They make a journey of almost 1,000 miles to come back to where they were born, it’s a pretty amazing feat. They are beautiful fish, a rosy red that glow in the water.
We took the dogs to the dog beach at Red Fish Lake and they had a blast playing in the water. Teddy rolled and played in the sand, he was loving it and I love the picture I took of him there!
Luanne will be sixty on September 1st! We’ll by traveling that day and fixing a nice dinner to celebrate would have been more difficult so tonight was her official birthday dinner. We had cedar smoked salmon, caprese salad and fresh squash with vidalia onions, it was a feast. Happy Birthday Luanne!!
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