Chicken of the Sea

This weekend is catch up from last weekend. Seems like we're catching up on more sleep than work though.

Last weekend started on Friday for us. Rocky left after work for the coast to go tuna fishing. I had a visitor that evening:

This little (about 1.5") bugger kept trying to come in through our glass door. I first heard it keep hitting the glass then I watched as s/he found the little hole at the threshold and made its way into our house. S/he stayed until I couldn't relax any more. S/he was put out on the patio never to be seen from again.

Saturday I got to stay home and work around the house in between calls from work.

Jill spent a good part of the day sun bathing:

Rocky made it home on Sunday with a huge cooler full of tuna and crabs. What we didn't eat of the crabs that day and the next ended up in the freezer. The tuna was a little more involved.

First, Rocky smoked it all for about an hour; this took two loads in the smoker. Then we started canning it. On Sunday we had two canners going at once and ran two full loads through them each. It takes about three and a half hours to process from the time you seal the lid on the canner until you can take the jars out. Don't forget that all those jars had to be washed, packed, and sealed first.

We had to take the day off work on Monday to run both canners two more times and this is what we ended up with:
17 half pints and 74 pints, plus four pints that didn't seal. Now, where to store it all.