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Maiden Sea Voyage

Today we got boat (I think she needs a name) out for her first foray in salt water.  We dropped some crab pots and jigged for squid.  Which quickly turned into Matt jigging for squid and me drinking hot coco and driving him around due to a snag and lost gear on my end.  The unfortunate part of my cease fish is that we did have more gear, I just left it in the car.   That slip-up coupled with a few other less than stellar choices (in Matt's opinion) has left Matt questioning my cognitive ability.  I assure you, I had a perfectly logical reason for all the things I did.  My cognitive ability is just fine thank you very much.

Matt did manage to catch a squid, it was pretty exciting!  We also got nine crabs, however, they were not the correct species so no keepers for us.  Maybe next time.

Check out all the ink

It was pretty cool to watch her change colors

Rock crab

Bitch, get in the kitchen

I cannot believe that today is Christmas, where has the year gone?  Matt and I stuck around WA and have had a very nice day opening presents, eating and relaxing.  Which brings me to the topic of this post, presents.  First I would like to say that we had a very nice Christmas and were spoiled by family and friends.  However, I made a bit of an observation with this years presents - they fit a gender specific role.  This has nothing to do with what people think of us and everything to do with what we asked for, but it does make me laugh.

So, what is it that is so gender specific?  Well, Matt got outdoor gear: GPS, fly fishing pack, shotgun and I got kitchen gear: pyrex, blender, baking implements.  It is exactly what we wanted, but as you can see it is a bit sexist.  I guess this means you will find me in the kitchen cooking up whatever Matt manages to kill this upcoming year.

Payback's a....

This fall we have been fortunate to have had a number of people come to visit us.  Last in the line-up is my mom.  She was here for a long weekend and we were able to get out one day to go fishing.  After all the bragging I've done in the past about catching the larger fish, well, lets just say this trip didn't go well for me...

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Bigger

The little guy is mine...