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10/11/2006: "Salmon Fishing With Ed!"

Ed and Denise live in the large farmhouse next to us. They are great neighbors to have, helping us settle into life at the Living Green Farm, teaching us to use a chainsaw, heckling us good naturedly when we do silly things, and being a little silly themselves.

This week Ed invited Nate to go salmon fishing with him. I'm not sure Ed knew what he was getting in to! Nate is an obsessive fisherman. Sometime we wonder if he missed his true calling as a fishing guide. But Ed and his friend Landon took it good naturedly when Nate caught his limit and no one else had caught one. However, Ed claimed "big fish" bragging rights for the day with a beautiful fish he picked up as they were trolling back to the boat ramp. Nate came home with these two beauties:

Nate also came home with a bag of guts, which Ed will probably cheerfully tease him about for a long time. Nate also proudly presented me with a big bag of fish livers, thinking I might want to eat them. We're planning on using all of the entrails for fertilizer though. Maybe Ed will be the recipient of a pumpkin grown with the guts of his salmon!