I have heard that the fishing is great this year. Record numbers of pink salmon are cruising through the sound, looking for their spawning rivers and creeks.

My dad used to say, look where there are a lot of boat trailers parked and you will be in a good fishing area. Well, on weekends down at the Port of Kingston, our trailer parking has been maxed out for the past month.

Even though the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has closed Area 10 (south of a line between Apple Tree Point and the Edmonds ferry dock) for any chinook fishing this year, there has been an abundance of coho and pink salmon being caught. I hope your barbecue and freezer are getting good workouts with this year’s catches. Have you tried canning your salmon? I try to do about a dozen half-pints each year. Great for winter dips and sandwiches.

We sure had a great summer series of Concerts on the Cove, and I was able to enjoy five or six of them. But the music on the stage at the port isn’t closing down just yet. Each Saturday Farmers Market will continue to bring you wonderful toe-tapping entertainment.

We are getting to my favorite time for the market now. All of the great harvest items are beginning to show up. I like to roast those three-color heirloom carrots with fresh, big green onions in the oven. It goes great with a fillet of that coho salmon you caught.

That little change in the weather we had around mid-August was interesting; it has been a while since I’ve seen that much lightning in our sky. I bet the North Kitsap firefighters were pleased to see it come around. With all of the flooding, heat waves, drought and fires going on around the country once again, we can feel pretty good about the place we have all chosen to live in.

September is budget time for local municipalities. The Port of Kingston is no exception. If you are interested in such things, keep an eye on the port website (www.portof                                    kingston.org) for announcements about when you can get a copy of the draft of the proposed budget. A public hearing should happen early in the month. It will be an evening event.

Here is your nautical term for September: Over the past year, our national politicians have used filibusters to call attention to certain issues. Did you know that the origin of that word is indeed nautical? The buccaneers (Go Bucs!) were sometimes known in England as “filibusters,” from the Dutch word “vrybuiter” (freebooter), translated into French as “filibustier.” The term was used to describe the obstructing of the passage of another sailing ship in a channel.

That’s about it for this month. I hope to see you down at the Farmers Market or around town. Enjoy the cooler air, eat fresh salmon — and don’t forget those carrots.

Thanks for taking a few minutes to read this stuff. I hope you found something interesting.

— Pete DeBoer is a Kingston port commissioner. Contact him at pete@petede boer.com.