Working on my boat today---commercial fishing boat.
Getting it ready for the salmon season which starts around February 15.
A lot of work to do.
Been thinking, and writing, a lot about the idea of living in an area where we
harvest the land------and are judged by pop tart eating metro livin' hippies in urban areas for doing so.
They can just go to whole foods and get that.
No thought of where it came from?
My ancestors in Norway were loggers, fisherman, and wood carvers.
All of us have ancestors who harvested the land.
First for food.
Then for trade.
But I watched a lady on the television last night ---ranting about how the 'rapers of the land will meet their demise'.
I tend to strongly disagree.
Sustain---and balance.
But don't just stop using natural resources and live in plastic houses.
I guess she forgot that much of our nation was built on the harvesting and collecting of resources in which we sold and manufactured with?
She must not eat fish.
And I suppose she hates wood.
Personally------my fireplace is one of my prize possessions.
I am proud to heat my modern home with traditional fire.
I am a naturalist-----but I can't claim to be an environmentalist if the claim involves a stop of all harvesting and the consumption of microwave manufactured food in plastic houses.
I am looking forward to fishing season.
I will post my entire rant on all that later.
A junk collector/relative/friend of mine came over to the shop yesterday
and brought an old surfboard he picked up from an estate sale on the north
coast of Oregon.
I thought----by some random chance----someone may recognize the old board.
The waveset fin box and fin date it to late 60's to early 70's.
It looks like a backyard boat builder board.
Someone had some innovative new ideas.
Check out the photo of the heavy 'V' in the tail.
Glassed heavy.
Recognize it?
Drop me a note.
coldwaverider@gmail.com
