Rain, Crab, and Bread

March 28th and 29th (Saturday and Sunday)

On both Friday and Saturday it absolutely poured, and it poured nonstop and steady.  The snow line was not far up the mountains, and the tops of the mountains were getting a lot of snow.  As the system passed by us it got windy on and off a few times, and when it did pick up it howled by and blew our boat against her dock lines and then back against her fenders.  The wind never lasted long, and when it did wake us up at night it was always just passing by and we went right back to sleep.  
We had emptied Kiki of water on Friday, but we did not go out to empty her on Saturday, and when we went to do so on Sunday she was the fullest that we had ever seen.  The water was only about 6” down from the top of the transom, and she was sitting very low and stable on her pontoons.  
We went out to check our crab trap and we had five, 7” Dungeness.  
We cooked them up and had California rolls and miso soup for dinner.  We cleaned the rest of the crabs, and we now have a nice container of crabmeat in the fridge ready for some crab sandwiches.  
I made bread on Saturday, and because we had only been able to get white flour I decided to make a white bread recipe that I had from my Mormor, my mom’s mom.  It was a recipe that I had enjoyed ever since I was a kid, and the three loaves turned out well.  We had sandwiches on fresh bread when the loaves came out of the oven, and it will be great for crab sandwiches another day.  

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