The student said to fish with a stick with a string and hook wrapped around it and to use fish like flounder as bait. But that if I go now, it is very muddy. But I am still unwilling to fish without a license since I am not a resident, so am going to wait until I am one and then fish in the spring. But the idea of fishing with a stick is nuts!
Yesterday we watched a YouTube video on how to butcher a goose since neither of us know how to. We were going to pluck it, but the video was saying it can be a waste of time since the majority of the meat is in the breast and legs. So we just skinned the birds and took the breast and leg meat. It was... interesting. And we did it outside our front door because it was warm there, so we had kids coming by asking if we were going to eat the head and things like that. But none of them wanted to take the carcass. We probably wasted meat, but it was a good first attempt and we got a meal per bird. I am all about filling the freezer with meat. We are hoping for 6 more salmon. We are making duck soup on Monday. The kid who brought us the birds hung out here for a bit while we talked fishing and hunting. He came at lunch so we fed him some of the food and gave him a cookie. Later on some boys came by looking for snacks because they heard about it. Plus they all want to try the duck soup. Another student came by when we were skinning birds and hung out. Very nice kid. I know who he is based on his homework. He is a 6th grader but still at maybe a 2nd grade education level. So my boyfriend is reading a book with him and trying to help him improve his reading. And right now he gets credit for just trying to do the school work because getting all zeros is not going to help encourage him.
We had a teacher over for dinner and we invited the student from Friday back over, but he stood us up. So we had tons of steak left over. After dinner we played a weird version of Risk involving Gods. It was fun. We are trying to start a game night on Saturdays. Then movie time! Sunday I am walking to church with a couple of the teachers