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My Mom's Summer Vacation

What did Carol Manumik do all summer? Well, she did a lot of stuff like fish with my dad, and cut fish to hang and dry. She also went to work at the Yukon Delta Fish Marketing co-op where she slimed. She watched my little sister and she cleaned up her house. She went to Sheldon's Point and picked some salmon berries with my dad. She also went up to St. Mary's for her nephew's wedding.

Carol likes to eat a lot of fish in the winter so that's why she fishes with her husband. After they catch enough fish they cut off their heads and gut them in the boat. Then they go up to the smoke house and hang them outside of the smoke house until the fish dry up.

While working at the cannery down in Emmonak she noticed that she was the fastest person cutting heads and gutting.

She cleaned up our house the whole summer with the help of my younger brother. But my younger sister always brought her friends over and messed it up again. Since my mom likes kids, she didn't mind Fortune bringing one friend over a day.

When my mom goes berry picking she only brings her husband. She leaves us kids home so she and Henry can relax and pick as many berries as they can.

She also attended a wedding in St. Mary's where she saw all her sisters and brothers again. She danced all night and had a lot of fun there.

Carol wants summer to end so she won't have to worry about her kids!


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