Sunday, September 18, 2011

Honolulu bound

Leaving behind Kodiak autumn to......

present at the Western Museum Association / Association of Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums / Pacific Island Museum Association joint conference!

Almost looks like Kodiak, except...

there's lots of SUN and

clear water you can actually get in (with just a swim suit)!!!

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Dress Up

Abby is all about dress up these days.


Princess Ruby! (Abby's nickname)

Monday, September 12, 2011

Kodiak No. 3 in Fish Landing Value, No. 5 in Tonnage


Dog Bay, where the big boats dock. Dog as in dog salmon, which the Alutiiq word is Alimaq. Dog Salmon Bay Road was renamed Alimaq Drive.

Please don't take anything I say as fact! I'm blond. I get things wrong all the time!



Which reminds me - How many blond registrar's does it take to screw in a light bulb? Zero. Blond registrars cannot screw in a light bulb, but they can document the process.


Jason worked on the Walter N. for seven years. The Walter N. was built c. 1949 as a steel fishing boat in Kodiak. It sank in the tidal wave in 1964 and remained sunk for three years, when Fred Brechan fished it out of the water. They supposedly fired the original engine. The boat has been sponsoned and lengthened numerous times, but is still small for a Bering Sea boat.







A/B for Abz.



Jason knows everything about everything in regards to fishing - who is captain of what boat, what boat is doing what, who did what when and how much fish were caught and what the hell is an arrowtooth fish - just ridiculous amount of information in that noggin.

Is this a good time to mention how draggers are not very eco-friendly. A lot has to do rationalization and the mass spoilage of bycatch, but even methodologically speaking, bottom trawling is not the most delicate way to retrieve fish. Bottom trawling involves towing fishing gear over the seabed, destroying most everything in its path.


It's pretty much an all kill process. They are fishing for cod, but catch a few thousand pounds or so of halibut, which are dead, and those go overboard, wasted. WTF? I am not saying I am anti-trawler, I don't know enough about it. I talk to a dragger, and they complain about longliners. Talk to a longliner, and they complain about draggers. I wish though I could get thirty pounds of the halibut being thrown away! (legally).



Jason came to Kodiak on the Provider, a scallop boat, from the East Coast. He brought the boat through the Panama Canal, if memory serves me! He's only told me like 500 stories.
Above is actually the crab boat Provider, not the scallop boat.


The fleet comin' in!

Friday, September 9, 2011

What's my Name?!

So far her name could be:
Tonya, me
Pink, after the rock star because she looks like a rock star, Anne
Valine, from Hannah
Anya, from April
Chrysanthemum, from Dani
Kandy, after Nora's dolls, Patrick
Svetlana, because she seems to have a Russian flare, Mayra
Xanadu, after the film, Jill
something in Alutiiq I cannot spell, Sven
Woman Warrior in Alutiiq (would need to get translation), mom

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

What's my name?


I acquired this doll from Alutiiq artist Coral Chernoff. She has a traditional-style carved wooden head (Karluk One like), a fuschia fabric body with a leather corset and thong, Kodiak rabbit hair that was caught, processed and tanned by Coral, a spruce root bracelet, and a necklace. Abby likes my dolly but wants to know her name.

My vote: Tonya from my fav Eminem song Same Song and Dance.

What's your vote for her name?

Abby will decide.

Monday, September 5, 2011

Darke County Fair - one person's entry into one exhibition class.


Abby with her large airplane.
Ack, made in China. Well, this one slipped by me in the heat of the moment.

Having a great holiday weekend. Took Abby to the fair on Saturday. Good weather! The exhibits were a little on the sad side, nothing like the Darke County Fair. Abby had fun though playing games, getting her face painted, petting animals, dancing (running around in circles) to music, good food, and a little rodeo.

I did not get to go hunting this weekend as my bff was sick, but I am now more prepared for next weekend. If me going hunting is something you have not heard of, well, I will be posting about it. In brief, what do I want to eat - cows that are standing knee deep in manure, corn fed and have issues because of it, injected with antibiotics but still diseased, and processed with ammonia, or a happy Kodiak deer? My way of eating is dramatically changing, slowly but surely. I want to be a responsible comsumer, and who wants to eat chickens that can't even stand because of our genetic engineering? What was once food is now a really gross product that a couple large companies control. No thank you.