Fish Fry at the Orick Volunteer Fire Department

We attended the fish fry tonight at the little community just north of us.  The volunteer Fire Department had the Fish Fry, Auction and Silent Auction as a fundraiser.  It was fun hanging out at the community center.  One lady's yeast rolls sold for $25/dozen.  There was a couple of cords of firewood that sold for $400.  The one we liked best was the $100 gas certificate that sold for $150. I also was tempted by the laundry basket filled with 12 jars of home canned pickles but the price went too high for me.  One of the jars had one huge cucumber in it.  Very Different!  The auctioneer was sooooo funny.  He assured the crowd that the cord of wood was cut from the last old growth redwood tree (wink, wink).  There were 4 huge fresh salmon fillets, probably about 30 pounds of fish, that went for $100. The auctioneer said it was also the last salmon in the river:-) That would have been a heck of a BBQ.  We were really sad that we dropped out of the bidding for a hand carved eagle after it went to $100.  It was beautiful.  We did not know we should have taken more cash with us!