SALMON!

Hello World!

I am about to post about one of the most classic "life at the cannery" moments. Before I do that, though, let me introduce myself. I am the resident business student: you know, one of those people who prances around in suits and exploits single mothers. Also, I'm from Toronto, so this whole living on the water thing, a bit of a change for me. However, the life here has its perks, and salmon is definitely one of them!

So the other day, Lu and I go down to the dock to kick Steve - our workaholic, happy-go-lucky manager - off the site so that he actually goes home and eats a meal (quite the accomplishment for him, I tell you). Anyway, as we were doing that, we encountered these fishermen Steve was having a conversation with. They seemed pretty nice, so of course we stood around in the rain and chatted a bit.

Later on in the evening, after we finished watching movie 2 of 3 of the Bourne series - excellent movies, btw - we here an ominous knock on the door. Who could it be? The five of us live on a cannery in the middle of nowhere, and it's not like we have neighbours. As it turns out, one of the fishermen was standing there, holding this giant spring salmon, and offers to give it to us! So here we are, five tour guides, one large salmon.

They were nice enough to gut it for us, but we underwent the adventure of cutting it into pieces and sticking it into various containers to freeze - freezer bags, yogurt containers, peanut butter jars, jam jars, you name it, we used it. The result? Salmon for dinner every night!! Quite the deliciousness, and for a business student from Toronto, quite the interesting evening.

There, I've posted. Signing out from Safeway,

Susan :)