| Tuesday, June 3, 2003 Hello to you and yours and mine and theirs Rain, rain and rain. It's been so wet here lately. The rain was pouring for about a week, which made for a full, fast moving river. It looked like it would get high enough to flood, but it didn't - this time. When the river gets so high and so fast, it must do quite a bit of damage up river, deeper in the valley. Trees come flowing down the river like twigs in a stream. Not little trees, BIG trees - like 4 or 5 stories high. Arrows of destruction pointed downriver. The rain can be nice, for when it's very heavy, the waterfalls on the mountains become bigger and bolder. The rain also reveals little veins of waterfalls on the mountains that are not usually flowing. Instead of one waterfall, there are, by my count, 15 when it rains heavy. Kristin had a bad cold when we came back from vacation, so a local guy suggested she drink some oolichan grease - the cure-all. He gave her some and she drank 2 tablespoons within the privacy of our own home. Good thing, too. "How does it taste, Kristin?" "Blech, it's like drinking an outhouse." Watch for some in your stocking this year. Nicole's class is leaving for their field trip this Sunday. They are taking a water taxi from Kingcome to Vancouver Island, then driving halfway down, then taking a train down to Victoria and sightseeing around the capital. Kristin gets to go with while I stay back and animal-sit. When we came back from our vacation, we noticed that the glass door on our porch had muddy bear prints on them - up high. Meaning, a big bear had been standing and leaning against the window. Probably looking in at a scrumptious morsel we call our cat. Droppings in our yard confirmed that something large had been in our yard. Today's excitement was seeing a skinny grizzly right next to the school! All the kids came out on the risen walkway and stared at it, while it stared at us. About 15 feet away! It also walked on the path that goes between our house and the school - but then some 20-year old kid thought that it was attacking people, which it obviously was not. So he took his own form of justice out on the innocent bear and shot it dead as it was swimming across the river to the other side. Thoroughly disgusting. 3.5 weeks left. Love, JohnKristinNicole |