24 hours in the life of a bucket

After a trip to Portland, in the back of the car, on Wednesday afternoon the white bucket went blueberry picking in Siletz, joined by the green bucket.  Together, they hauled 29 pounds of blueberries.

 Then, after getting up early the next morning, to catch the low tide, the white bucket went gathering mussels.

Fishing and gathering

'Tis the season for extensive fishing and gathering on the Oregon coast.

First, the fishing results: A few days ago, Bori landed his first king salmon (aka Chinook) of the season.  This one was caught in the ocean, south of here.  A very tasty wild fish!

Then yesterday, we spent an hour and a half crabbing in our local bay.  We came home with 12 Dungeness crabs.  They yielded over 4 pounds of crab meat.  Also very tasty!

After the crab meat was all picked, I headed out into the woods in search of chanterelle mushrooms.  It's early in the mushroom season, but I came home with 2 pounds 12 ounces of chanterelles.  Also very tasty!

Although that was the end of our wild harvest, we continue to eat greens from the garden box.

There's almost always something fresh to eat around here.

Little cabin in the woods

We have just returned from our annual trip to Odell Lake, in the Cascades.  Our home away from home is an old log cabin in the woods, at the edge of the lake.

Cabin A

In addition to fishing for Kokanee salmon and Mackinaw at Odell Lake, we paddled our canoe around many of the smaller Cascade Lakes.


The farthest we traveled was to Sparks Lake, which is just below South Sister, Broken Top, and Mount Bachelor.  Quite a spectacular setting.  And the wildflowers were blooming in abundance.

Bori at Sparks Lake

South Sister with columbines in foreground

Broken Top framed by rock outcroppings

Panorama of Sparks Lake

Mount Bachelor, and our canoe, from Hosmer Lake

Panorama of South Sister, Broken Top and Bachelor from Lava Lake