http:\/\/thecelebritycafe.com\/feature\/deadliest-catch-captain-phil-harris-fought-til-end-02-17-2010<\/a><\/p>\nDeadliestCatch has become more than\u00a0a TV show for me.\u00a0They have become this weird\u00a0extended family that\u00a0visits once a week (more if you count re-runs).\u00a0\u00a0Don’t get me wrong – I haven’t lost touch with reality.\u00a0 I know it is a TV show\u00a0and the folks on there have NO idea who I am.\u00a0 Although, I\u00a0did get\u00a0to meet the the Hillstrand’s & Captain Sig at a book signing, though. They look bigger on TV.\u00a0 But for a brief moment the Captains and crews of the F\/V’s Cornelia Marie, Northwestern, Time Bandit, and Wizard allow us into their lives to share the good, the bad and the ugly.<\/p>\n
We cried with Jake Anderson when his beloved sister passed. And we have a new found respect for Captain Sig and his heart of gold.\u00a0 We waited nervously with Captain Keith as he waited for his biopsy results. We gasped in horror as the 40′ wall of water nearly washed the Wizards crew away.\u00a0 And then cried with Keith and jumped with as he was regaining his nerve.\u00a0 We rejoiced with Johnathan when Scotty came, got mad when he left, and were happy again when he returned.\u00a0 We dance with Johnathan & Andy when they are on the crab.\u00a0 We miss the crew members who have retired.<\/p>\n
On Feb 9, the Deadlist Catch was dealt a blow: Captain Phil Harris went crab fishing in the next life.<\/p>\n
The Cornelia Marie is one of my favorites.\u00a0 Maybe because she’s painted the same blue as you see in the Carribean.\u00a0Or maybe she was painted to match her Captain’s eyes?<\/p>\n
I roared with laughter when, after getting fed up with Josh & Jake fighting,\u00a0Phil looked at the camera and said, “and now you know why Lions eat their young.”\u00a0\u00a0I worried with the rest of the crew when Phil had his broken ribs (which turn out to be a more serious pulmonary embolism) – albeit long after the fact.\u00a0 I was sad when Murray decided to retire – how would the Cornelia Marie go on?\u00a0 I loved Phil’s unique fishing technique – look for the fart bubbles. If it smell like sh*t, then the crab must be there.\u00a0 And the crazy part was it worked.<\/p>\n
Life is weirdly unfair.\u00a0 After Josh found out his about his Dad’s blood clots, he said that Phil had a guardian angel.\u00a0 And I think he did.\u00a0 He was given a 2nd chance after his embolism. He got to fish 1 more season with his boys.\u00a0 And when Phil had his stroke – he was docked, close to a medical facility and not 90 miles out to sea. Phil’s Guardian Angel put him in the right places at the right times.<\/p>\n
Fair Winds and Following Sea.\u00a0 And may the Fart Bubbles always be easy to find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How can I grieve for a man I’ve never met? Was he the Dali Lama or the Pope? Was he a September 11 hero? No, all he did was run a crab fishing boat on the Bering Sea. http:\/\/thecelebritycafe.com\/feature\/deadliest-catch-captain-phil-harris-fought-til-end-02-17-2010 DeadliestCatch has become more than\u00a0a TV show for me.\u00a0They have become this weird\u00a0extended family that\u00a0visits once …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[229,242],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-random-thoughts","7":"category-tv-general","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}