Well, to give you an overview of the what's happening.

Rick and Etta got a house since last year. Last year, they had a cabin with no running water. This year they have a full house. Kind of smallish, but big enough for 3 people. Overall it's a very nice house. It's nice to see Rick moving up, even though he says that he misses his cabin.

There is another deck hand here, Dave. He is in his mid-late 30's. He's a Christian, but he has some interesting beliefs, it should be good to work with him. He fished for a couple years as a teenager, and then he started fishing again last year and liked it so he wanted to do it again.

Dave and I are sleeping on the Harpazo (one of Rick's boats) which is parked at Rick and Etta's house.

The temperature is about 30 at night and 60 during the day. So I go from wearing two sweat shirts and two pairs of socks at night (There is no heating on the boat, so when it's 30 degrees OUTside, it's 30 degrees INside. :P ) to wearing just a tee shirt and only a singe pair of socks during the day.

For the next week or so Rick and I are going to be working on the big boat, The Guidance, ready. It needs a lot of work. :) Today, (Monday, 18th of May.) I did a lot of grinding, cutting and little odds and ends.

Tuesday I spend all day (6:30 a.m. through 9:23 p.m.) tying a net. With a total of 2 hours of breaks for meals. It was a very long day.

Wednesday, I did pretty much the same, but we finished sooner so that we could go to the service at the church.

As far as birthdays goes it wasn't very special until church time, because after the service we had cake and sat around and talk. It was very nice, it wasn't a big thing, but it made the day special. :) and that made me very happy.

Thursday, I finished up the net and Rick and I are going to work on the boat in Homer. We are probably going to stay there until Sunday.

I'm not sure when we are going to start fishing, right now we are working on the boats and nets and getting stuff ready. I think that Rick wants to start fishing about mid June, but we'll see.

Thank you so much for your prayers.

Tim