Saturday, sad day

The day started out very good, cleaned out our nets, waited for the sis to get here and she finally did after a while. We had a really good day, enjoying the company of grandma, grandpa, sisters, niece and nephew (son in my case) and nieces boyfriend and his cutie pie little girl and bro-inlaw.

Until we got the bad, sad news that our cousin passed away. The next few days will be very sad for our family. It's been almost exactly one year that his dad passed away, our uncle.

Our little auntie lost her first born today, and our thoughts and prayers to the Creator to get her through this are with her and her immediate family.

Here's one more quick post for tonight. This is my son and his grandpa heading out to set their net. The point you can see in the distance, is a favorite netting spot.

It's so nice that my son has this opportunity to experience this and learn from his grandpa.

My dad never had any son's, but he's sure enjoying his grandson.

netting season underway

Well, here's only 3 of the fish we had in our nets this morning, can't really tell from the picture....but the 2 on each end are pretty big. They are now sitting in the freezer, completely de-boned and ready for eating. I know if a sportsmen (or woman) happens to read this, yes we usually throw back the big ones - but in this case we decided to keep 'em.

Have more nets out tonight, and will most likely be cleaning fish most of the day tomorrow.

I bet if some chimookamon caught that one big one on the end there, that would be the catch of a life time. But, oh well......we got it in our nets.

I have more pictures to post and hope to do this tomorrow depending on how busy it is and how tired I am.

And oh, by the way, we have eagles and seagulls at the end of the point that hang around waiting for what we don't use. My son has been putting his tobacco out faithfully, hoping one of the eagles will generously leave him a feather -----we've all been keeping our fingers crossed for him. He makes sure all the birds are well fed at the end of the point.

I'm baaaaaack....:)

It's been a while......but I'm still here! Took an unplanned blogging break, just happened.

Well, it's Thursday evening, 4/20/06 about 8:05 p.m. Just got off the lake with my son, we set 3 nets - hopefully we'll get a few fish. We're at the lake for the weekend to fish (set net), relax if possible and just enjoy ourselves. If the nets do not produce tomorrow, I might take a drive to the next town and check out the Anytime Fitness! I've been getting into THAT again and feel good. I'll credit my daughter with helping to motivate me to get off my lazy a$$! She's a work out fanatic, so are a few other family members.

Saw my dancing niece from a distance the other day striding and I mean striding at a pretty good pace, into a building on campus (where I work). I had to do a double take, saw the long hair flying, and she was looking good. Your hard work's paying off J@me. If I knew how to do links, I'd link one of her pic's.

I'll take some cool pictures over the weekend and post them to my blog, or try to anyway. I'm still not that technically advanced at this, but I will learn.

Until tomorrow.........Gonna try to do this regularly over the weekend since I have the time now.

April 1....................

Boozhoo niijii -

Ishwaasogonagisigud noongom, iskigamizige-giizis bezhig

noongom ishquaa anooki giizhigud iskigamizige giizis bezhig

Not sure which version is correct, but this is saying "Today is Saturday, April 1".

This is cool...........

"An Ojbwe Farewell Address:

Oh, this destiny of mine is very difficult here on this pitiful point of land.

Where seldom is heard anything different than the wind blowing on this barren land.

When you have buried me, you are all going to embark to go where I grew up but for me it is my destiny never to see it again.

My relatives you will be leaving me here in this place where no one has lived before.

There is only the sound of the wind blowing over the place where I have been lain.

Well now, I too am going to where our grandfather's have gone to that far off place.

Before I leave my fellow friends, I will shake hands wih you."
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I don't know who wrote this, but it's pretty powerful. In our Ojibwe language, the word "goodbye" doesn't exist. In our families, relationships, and friendships we never say good bye. We say Gii-ga-waa-ba-min - see you later.