new lawn - a few months on

Maybe the sign isn't clear enough

A Busy day smoking

Well today we've smoked 50 sausages (only precooked cheapey, but they come up really yummy!), 1 southern boarfish, and a homemade pastrami.  Just sampled the pastrami...the crust blows your head off!  Maybe next time I might cut back on the pepper a bit :-)

Last week we smoked a veni roast for us, and some chickens and sausages for a friend.  What will it be next week.

Remote Control Ronan

Steph's Awesome Effort

Back in August, Steph and I went to the Gold Coast with Jenny & Ken.  Whilst there, we had the master bedroom (the porta-cot fitted better), and right outside the on-suite door was a full length mirror!  After this trip, Steph and I decided something needed to be done...so here are the results..

Steph's effort, starting from Ronan's birth, the steep drop at the end is basically the result of a better diet, and Wii Biggest Loser (and doing their exercise plan religiously (not the diet however), we still have our milo's (however Steph doesn't eat milo anymore :-) ) )

And this is mine, on a slightly larger scale ('cause it showed me gaining weight, I zoomed into to the losing it bit only!) (oh, the little up bits, are not me being naughty, it's a collection of #2's!)

Now, I thought I was reasonably fit before this, and we've just done a 40 minute challenging work out, and whilst it wasn't comfortable, we survived, where as before that would have probably killed us...what I'm trying to say is, if we were already reasonably fit, and are finding it not easy to  achieve this, I cannot imagine what Carisa went through....I have NOTHING but admiration and pride in what she has achieved..You go girl!.

Trains aren't supposed to do this!