Something Is Extremely Wrong Here

Aidin and I have vivid dreams. We usually spend our weekends exchanging funny stories about the dreams that we had lately. So since this one is so fresh in my mind, I thought I would share it with you:


I was a greenhorn set to work aboard the Cornelia Marie, and Steve Ward picked me up at the airport. He didn’t talk much, and hardly looked at me except to snort and say, “Those ain’t gonna work.”

He was referring to my blue jeans and boots. Now when I say boots, I don’t mean cowboy boots, or rain boots. I mean girly boots with a thick wedge heel. A few of you saw the picture of the high heels I bought, I’m actually wearing my boots in that picture, just look down.

Boots...no not those! Attached to the jeans. Yes, those boots.

Anyway, my boots are not the point of this story, no matter how much I love them. He dropped me off at the small store in Dutch and told me he would send someone along to pick me up in an hour. I’m not a shopper, I hate shopping, so I was done in 10 minutes, my arms full of rain gear and sweatshirts.

I wasted time talking to the local people, trying to get comfortable, when Josh and Jake Harris walked through the door and herded me outside to the truck. Again, they didn’t say much. I assume they didn’t enjoy the fact a female would be onboard.

Once we got down to the dock, we had to walk down to the end to get to the boat itself. But it wasn’t the Cornelia Marie we all know and love. It was so bizarre. I watched Jake and Josh hop down to the deck and walk across it like nothing was wrong. But trust me, it was wrong.

Wheelhouse? Gone. Pot lauchner? Gone. Sodium Lights? Gone. Shelter deck? Gone.

There was no wheelhouse. None at all. As far as I could tell, there was no galley or anything. The deck was smooth from bow to stern, no shelter deck either in the bow. The other bizarre sighting? No pot launcher. Only the crane was visible as I finally shook my self out of my daze and got onboard.

I stood in the middle of the deck trying to wrap my brain around what I was seeing when Ryan walked up and took my duffel bag for me. “Where are we sleeping?” I asked.

“Over here.”

He led me over to where the wheelhouse would have been, and a small canopy had been rigged to keep a small amount of the rain and waves off of us. In all honesty, it was useless. I remember looking up and thinking, “How do you steer this thing?!”

“How do we launch the pots?” I questioned.

Jake appeared at my side and motioned with his hand to where the pot launcher should have been. A 10 foot hole appeared to have been cut out of the side of the boat. “We push them off. Haven’t you ever done this before?”

“Greenhorn,” I muttered as a reminder. “I don’t see any bins. How do we get the crab into the holds?”

Jake gave me an odd look. “We carry them.”

“We carry snapping, pissed off crab?”

He nodded.

“Great, the Cornelia Marie, catching crabs the hard way.”

And then I promptly got woken up by my son asking for something to drink at 3:30am. Thank god too, because I didn't see any sodium lights and I couldn't figure out how we were going to push pots off the side of the boat and not get caught in the line.

Strange huh? This happens to me often. If you ever have a Deadliest Catch dream, please share it with us!
 
Happy Friday everyone, its finally here! I don't know about the rest of you, but it felt like this one week was 2 weeks.
 
*Shannon*

Fun with Pictures

Hehehe..Hello everyone. This is Aidin and I wanted to share a special picture of our Josh and Jake. If you've noticed I've been playing around on LunaPic and making lots of pictures of everyone. I could have showed this picture on facebook but then I thought "What the heck, why not play with it on the blog?" I mean come on...9 pictures (true they are colored and stuff) but it's still fun to look them 9 times. So here we go:






Jake: Hey Josh, you feel funny?
Josh: What do you mean?
Jake: I dont know. I feel like I have a split personality.
Josh: You need to stick to personality. I can't handle more then that.
Jake: Nah, I mean, I feel like I'm being watched and split up. I think i need help.
Josh whispers: You got that right.
Jake: What?
Josh: Nothing man.

This One Makes Me Sing

But thankfully, you won't have to hear it. Aidin and I disagreed on my first choice for today's Hump Day pic, but that's ok. It gave me an excuse to feature my favorite crabfisherman and Harris brother: Jake Harris.

I LOVE this pic. Its like he has a secret and he's trying hard not to tell. Tell me, tell me!

I am going to go turn into a puddle of goo now.

*Shannon*

Happy Birthday!!

A very special birthday to our very own Jake Harris, whom happens to be fishing right now but that wont stop us.

So...Happy Birthday Jake from all of us on Ode to Deadliest Catch blog and Facebook page.

Come home safely so we may celebrate more birthdays to come.

PS......OH crap Happy Birthday Travis...I know it's a few days away but still.

$Aidin$

My devotion!

I'm so very proud of myself with these videos. I couldnt do the still frame of Josh behind the wheel but that scene works so well for him.



Edgar messing with Jake.

Josh will be the future of the Cornelia Marie. Well him and Jake but he did look good in the captain's chair.

Jake Harris vs Eminem?

This ain't no bullshit! This really happened!

Conversation with a good friend of mine that has never seen Deadliest Catch:

Sam(after I pointed out Jake to her) He looks like a young Eminem.....

VS.

.......I don't see it.

Mug shots? Joking I hope.

I was bored and thought about looking through many different search engines for pictures I may not have yet or haven't seen. I came across these pictures and I can tell it's a joke thing because in real arrests they make you take your hat off. Now remember 2 things. I'm 5'5" and Shannon is 5'3".

Josh here is 6' even....thats 7inches more then me....I come to his nose. Which is ok because it means when I wear heals he's still taller then me. With Shannon he's got 9 inches over her.
Jake is 5'7" which means he's got about 4 inches on Shannon and only 2inches on me. I actually laugh when I see the height difference in Jake and Josh when they fight because Jake is so much shorter then him but then again he could also be a bada** fighter so it may not make a difference at all.

I love sharing pictures with you. I also like to throw in things other then articles we seem to write about things.
I also wanna point out this is a mix blog. We will state things that we believe is needy of being exposed as well as joke around and just mess with the blog.

Emmys anyone?

Not going to say too much other then DAMN! Jake and Josh Harris look great in tuxedos. This was for the Emmys on Saturday Aug 21st. Shannon found this picture, I had to share it.

Tonight is the Night

So it all goes down tonight: Captain Phil of the Cornelia Marie suffers a stroke during an offload.



Even knowing that this episode was coming, and honestly I do appreciate the fact that Discovery Channel clued us in, my heart is breaking.



To see Phil in so much pain has been extremely difficult these last few weeks. He reminds me so much of my uncles, even my own father, that I immediately related to his story. To see such a strong man with pain in his eyes is humbling, to know he would do anything to make sure all of his quotas were met, his deckhands were paid and safe, and his boys grew into men, you knew the Phil was the kind of man, father, uncle, that we all needed in our lives, no matter how crass or brazen he was, he was upfront and honest.



And that is it in a nutshell. Captain Phil Harris was an honest, hardworking man in a time where people do whatever the can do to get things for free, who are lazy, and think that they are owed everything. He loved his boys, tried to teach them right from wrong, and led by example. He practiced what he preached.

http://serve.discovery.com/pages/discovery-channel/deadliest-catch/27/#mkcpgn=emdsc3

So with a heavy heart, and wet eyes, I will watch Deadliest Catch tonight. It was the first thing I thought of when I woke up this morning. And in reality, for me, the thought that keeps running through my head is "I do not want to see Jake and Josh crumble." "I do not want to see Phil weak."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0qkFWiujyw

It's been great watching the captains and the deckhands from the other boats rally around and behind the boys. Discovery Channel has respected the boys, and Phil himself, by putting time and effort into editing the next few episode of Deadliest Catch with finesse and tact. The loss of a parent is never easy, and unfortunately, Jake and Josh are "famous" now, therefore the mourning process for them will be long and drawn out because of publicity and memorials and questions.

A long goodbye is never easy, but Phil was brave to the end. A true fisherman.

*Shannon*