May 19

It's Tuesday night, Byron arrives in Sitka tomorrow. We are gonna have so much fun. Just spending time together will be special. We are going to have to rearrange my bunk room, my stuff is spread out on all 3 bunks. Better do some consolidating. Did I mention that I have a stool in there so I can reach the light? How sad is that? The light switch is mounted on the ceiling directly on the light and wouldn't ya know it, just out of my reach. But truth be told, I need the stool to climb into my bunk too. Oh well, such is life. There is one cupboard in the kitchen that is hard for me to reach. I stand on my way tippy toes, tilt the bowls forward on the edge and let them fall out towards me. Have to be fast though, cuz if all four fall at the same time, it's hard to catch them all. There is also a chest freezer on the top deck with food stuff. Minnie told me she has actually gone head first into that thing to get food out....not me! I'm just that much shorter that my whole body would fall in, so Luke has graciously been getting stuff out for me. There is food all over this boat, it's crazy. I have a pretty good handle on where things are now but once in awhile I have to ask Luke but only after I've racked my brain to see if Minnie told me where the item should be. I'm running out of breakfast ideas, I hope to download some more recipes while I'm back in Sitka. Brad took the remaining hunter out in the skiff hoping to find his bear. It would be great if he could take home a bear too. Luke and Mark are on the top deck "glassing" (looking through binoculars) for bear. Last night was spent fleshing the bear hide, took some pictures of the process. Then rubbed salt into the hide to help it dry out. I learn something new everyday. And I thought my brain was done learning new stuff. It's not, I just needed to wake it up again. :-)