Heading out fishing soon

Hello to all of you kind blog readers.

Let me tell you about my week.

Monday was a good day, I stayed in Ninilchik and worked on a net which can get tiring, but there wasn't much to do so I finished it in about 4 hours. And I was able to listen to my music while I worked so that made it go by quickly as well.

After working on the net, I came inside and worked on burring a CD with the pictures from the 90th birthday party. (mentioned in the previous post) And then I updated my blog. Yey. Rick came to the house to get some things and then we all went to bed.

Tuesday was a long day, Rick wanted to be out the door and gone by 5:30 a.m. So I got up at 5 and got my stuff ready and we left at 5:23. We got to the boat and worked until 10:22 p.m. Long and tiring day.

Wednesday was pretty good, I worked on the boat until about noon and I went over to Rick's old boat, the Deacon, and helped a man named Jason, a fellow fisherman and friend of Rick's. Rick had hired Jason to rewire the Deacon, and so I helped him with that. Jason is a good guy, but he uses language that I don't use, nor do I ever intend on using. And he likes to talk a lot, which is not that bad because he's pretty funny. He won 2nd place in Alaska for Archery, and 3rd in the Country. He is coming very close to having his own hunting TV show. Anyway, he's big into hunting, fishing is just his way to make a living so that he can hunt.

Anyway, Jason Iand I worked on the Deacon's wiring, which I enjoyed because I enjoy those kinds of technical things. Making sure all the hot wires go to the "+" , and all the ground wires go to the "-", and making sure that they don't touch in the process because you get fireworks if they do. :P

We packed up and went to Ninilchik for the evening service. I thought that I was going to go back to the big boat first to get my stiff, but Rick decided just to pick me up. And Rick didn't think about grabbing my bag, so my sleeping bag, and my clothes, and my computer were left at the boat. Thankfully I had a change of clothing in Ninilchik, and Rick had an extra sleeping bag, but my computer couldn't be replaced so easily. Oh well, it was sad not being able to get on Facebook on Wednesday, but That's how it goes.

Thursday started off early, Rick wanted to leave Ninilchik again at 5:30. I worked with Jason until about 2 in the afternoon, then I went back to the big boat, The Guidance. The rest of the day, I would think a certain word that Jason used all the time whenever I wanted to say "Stink", or "crud" like I normally do. But thankfully it only lasted that one day. :)

Friday was a harder day, I'm not really sure why. Maybe it was the 10 and a half hours spent down in the engine room pumping , cleaning and draining engine oil. (not my favorite job for sure) Or maybe I was just feeling homesick and lonely, but either way, I wasn't feeling so great and wasn't too happy with my circumstances. That night I got online and instant messaged with a couple of my friends and that helped quite a bit. :D



Saturday was great, I decided the night before that no matter what happened I was determined that I would have a good day and find God's blessing in everything that I had to do. Whether I enjoyed it or not I would praise God for it because He give us only what will be good for us. (Romans 8:28)

It warmed up to 53°F and I took off my sweatshirts because it was warm enough with just a T-shirt. :O And I wasn't even doing anything physically demanding, it just felt warm. I thought it was 65°F or something. I was very surprised when I saw that it was only 53°F. I guess it's that Alaskan blood in me. ;)

I was feeling very good all day Saturday, even though it was a long day as well I had a much better attitude about it. Thank you so much everyone for your prayers.

The refrigeration guys are being quite slow, we still aren't done on the Guidance, but we are planning on heading out fishing on Tuesday or Wednesday. Hopefully we can get the refrigeration done tomorrow and head out on Tuesday.

Right now I'm back in Ninilchik for the day, I'm heading back to Homer either this evening or tomorrow morning, I'm not sure. Rick is taking the Harpazo, (smallest boat) to Whitter so that we can get started fishing on it this week.

I've been very fortunate to have internet for so long, I was surprised when I heard that Rick and Etta had internet, and then even more surprised that there was wireless internet at the dock in Homer. But once we start fishing, there for sure won't be any internet out on the water. (There won't even be any power because the Harpazo doesn't have 110 electricity.)

So, this might be the last that you hear from me in a while.
Please continue to pray for me, the endurance contest is taking its toll on me. And the fishing hasn't even started. :) God will supply all me needs, so I will survive.

Good bye all (I'll make sure to take pictures)
Tim