Our first outing of 2009 took us to Mid Channel Bank, which is near Port Townsend, WA. It was a cold January morning and Brett, Dave, Connor and I were bundled up for the adventure. The water and weather conditions were nice. No wind and no waves, so despite the cool temperatures, we were not complaining. The sun was shining on us all day.
We lucked out because we had some overnight snow and we understand the weather conditions are going to get a little worse before they get better. Dave caught a nice one, which you'll notice in the pictures above, but Brett's wasn't too bad either. Them and chardonnay will make a yummy dinner!
2009 salmon tally
We're going to do something a little new. On the right of the blog under our photo, you'll see a salmon tally. We'll keep adding to it throughout the season and see what the outcome is. The tally is a total of all the salmon caught (specifically, the keepers) for each outing we go on.
Family health update
Thankfully, Leah's right eye continues to get better and better! She's reading from an eye chart now and has a little blurriness, but all in all it's remarkable she made this type of recovery given the injury she began with. Her doctors are astonished and we are so thankful of her recovery.
Patty keeps getting better as well. She and Dave have been enjoying retirement and lately he has gone fishing in his boat, and together they've made outings to the local movie theaters to catch the latest flicks that are out. They are looking forward to visiting Arizona in February to meet up with the O'Brien, Severson and McNichol families.
