Icewind's Ramblings

Tonight’s post is just a mixture of thing’s happening around our state this week. It reminds me of the Clint Eastwood movie . . . “The Good . . . The Bad . . . and The Ugly” . The Good . . . Something Fishy From Alaska . . . The first glimpse of the coming summer as the Copper River King Salmon fishery opened yesterday . . . Seafood lovers in the Northwest and around the world have been waiting with, yes, baited breath for this year’s Copper River Salmon season to begin. No more waiting: today an Alaska Airlines plane left Cordova , Alaska for Seattle , Washington with the season’s first shipment of this tasty and often wildly-priced wild salmon. The first fish off the plane got celebrity treatment: First Officer Mark Aown walks down the red carpet with first Copper River Salmon. (Photo courtesy Alaska Airlines) Alaska Airlines expects to transport about 20,000 pounds of the coveted fish by day's end. The arrival of Copper River salmon is anticipated ever...

Sometime Life’s Just Hard . . . for no reason at all. These last few months have put a strain on me and family. My youngest daughter has been having health problems and has been in and out of the hospital several times now while doctors run test after test and try to figure out what is wrong. We thought things were making a turn for the better as she was released from the hospital, was eating again and starting to put weight back on seemingly working her way back to recovery from some mysterious ailment. Her ‘better’ period lasted only about a week and she was back in the hospital again not able to keep any food down. Doctors had came back with a partial diagnosis saying her kidneys were in partial failure but were stumped as to why as many tests showed she was normal for so many other things. It has been so frustrating seeing her suffer and not able to take her pain away. Since she has been back in again these last three weeks she has missed out on her graduatio...