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!

Portal - Still Alive Ending Credits Full 1080p HD

This is what Ronan was dancing to, a very cool ending to a very cool game!

Ronan meets Glados

The music is from a game I had just finished
Portal closing sequence

Well I never

There's bloody snow on the hill behind us, only 50 to 100m higher than us!

Effin Rats

Got back yesterday to a defrosted fridge freezer, and 2 chest freezers (with 2 pigs, venison etc!) Managed to salvage some, and whilst trying to identify what the problem was we smelt a burning smell so we called a sparky in this morning, here's what he found.

Holiday snaps

Ronan on Day 1

Whale watching from Danger Point, we ended up seeing whales every day from the hotel room whilst having breakfast

The view from the hotel room

Connor at the wildlife sanctury

Steph being a bird magnet

Connor and a Koala

Barn owl

A "Really Bloody Big Bird"

And again

And again

Lizards, I think they are cool head studies subjects

Ronan meeting the locals

Artificially colored, but cool all the same

Fishing

A heron, whilst fishing here we saw wild dolphins and sea turtles

Shark at sea world

The typical dolphin pose

Another dolphin photo from SeaWorld

Me, Connor and Ronan playing in the kiddy fair ground

Steph enjoying the holiday

Connor playing "King of the Castle"

Some random bit of coastline down around Kingscliffe, and Pottsville

Us

View from Coolangata back to Surfers

A wild lizard

All of us

Another shot of the boys and Steph playing at SeaWorld

Connor and I fishing

Ken and Connor teasing the fish

After many attempts Ken and Connor pulled this out of the water

Can't go down - repost

For all those who have already read the "Can't do down" post, reread it, turns out it helps if you post the correct link...and spell it right, Hooka, as apposed to hookah, big difference!

Whoops..

Hopefully I'll put some photos up tonight. But in short, holiday was good, and lots of photos to come.

nor looking forward

to the 01:45 wake up call tomorrow to get to Auckland airport in time for the flight.

Can't go down

Just tried going down on a hooka, just couldn't do it, had problems breathing.

rural internet cafes

time limit implemented by taking the mouse away and it's 5$/30 minutes. the funny thing is the wifi network is open!

Oil change

What do you get when you get a software developer to change the engine oil on a Mazda Demio.
Hover for answer

Wild Thing and Ronan Crawling

MC Connor Time

The WIld Child

Here's some photos of Connor's tractor, and him being the wild child

Trip to Mt Bruce