Summer Days

This summer was a little slow to warm up but things have been in high gear for a while now with lots of sunshine and warm weather.  Our fruit trees and berries have been terrific this year.  Lots of friends, family, and wildlife have gotten in on the abundance.

Here Lane is showing off the size of some of our blueberries.  They were big this year.  I quit picking after 80 lbs of berries.  Others have been still enjoying them though.  We all may turn into smurfs if were not careful.

I never get tired of the beauty of this lake. A very calming view.

Then I look to the back of the boat and we have general chaos and who knows what they are up to.  I never get tired of this view either.  I love these kids very much!

And of course summer means fishing when you are near our boat.  Here Logan gets a nice bass while perched up on the back of the engine.  He had to really work to not fall off and still get his fish in.  Great job buddy!

We have had good success with the kokanee salmon fishing this year.  They are only 10"-12" fish but very tasty!  Here Brad, Lane, and I got our limit of 45 one morning.

With 45 fish it can take a while to clean them.  Brad is taking his turn at it and Logan is running the water hose to spray things off.  I build a fillet table for the back of the boat and it has come in very handy.