I wish more world leaders would find their spines like this.

We’re pretty much at the point where you can’t even expect to get a job without some form of social media presence. I hate it. I used to be able to google myself and find literally nothing.

That used to be the job of the eldest, before both kids retired from camping (to zero complaints from us! 😜 ). The boss was a chef and a pastry chef for 2 decades and feels that she’s made more than enough bread for one lifetime. In the states she worked at a resort and found a really old grapevine on the property and made her own sourdough starter from it, that was good sourdough! Until one of her dishwashers “washed” the stockpot it lived in…

We love a fire. We’re in Coffs Harbour so it doesn’t get as cold as you’re used to, but it can still get pretty chilly this time of year. Our first 10 years of marriage we lived in Wisconsin, USA (the boss is American, though these days she tells people she’s Southern Canadian), so I’ve definitely seen some cold weather! Our favourite thing ever is camping, so we try to recreate that as much as possible at home. The real bed at the end of the night is nice, but the chores are not!

Love it! Friday nights are sacred. We always try to keep the Saturday morning suffering to a minimum so we can be productive, but it rarely works out… 😆

Just like Jesus would want!

Capitalism - truly there is no better system.

Hope it works out for you. Due to certain financial outcomes, I’m pretty much stuck where I am, for better or worse. Will have to be satisfied that my teenaged daughters never had to live in trump’s America.

I liked Duke Nukem 64. Me and my mates would play that non-stop. Goldeneye was never worth playing because the guy who owned the N64 was unbeatable.

In the US or Australia? Curious because roo has always been pretty expensive here.

Mostly it was moving from the Midwest to a sub-tropical beach paradise. Which I thought (but definitely didn’t say) was kinda funny, because her reason for saying she’d never move was family. But pretty much all the reasons she’s been glad we did move are related to trump and what the US has become.

I’d be shocked if you could get cheap roo. I’m Australian and roo costs more than beef here.

N64

OK Grandpa, let’s get you inside for a nap! 🤣

When I married my wife in 2005 she told me she’d NEVER leave her home and family. Took her to Australia for the first time in 2015 and within an hour of landing she was ready to move, which we did in November 2015, right before trump 1.0. Now since last November she’s looking into Australian citizenship and says she’s never going back. Don’t give up hope!

They don’t care how many kids he fucked or how many laws he’s broken, all they care about is that he gives them permission to continue being ignorant bigots and a clear path to keep kicking down on the people they deem inferior.

The eldest daughter is staying at her boyfriend’s parents house this weekend, which just left 1, who got invited to a sleepover last night. So we got naughty with 2 generous slabs of Tassie salmon in a honey mustard glaze, cooked to crispy on the outside, with potatoes and green beans and a simple spinach/rocket, tomato, onion, avocado salad. Chased it down with a couple of chocolate lava cakes out of the Woolies freezer. Having the house to ourselves is incredibly rare, so when it happens we play up like second hand whipper snippers!

Not solely, but it’s certainly helping.

I used to do a ton of cast iron over the fire cooking, but it’s honestly such a pain to try to control the fire and cook at the same time that I got lazy and now I just use the gas burner. Unless I’m doing something slow, like a stew. Dangit, why didn’t I do a stew??? Going to have to go back!

Just back from 3 nights in the bush with the main squeeze at our all time favourite spot, and this is our traditional “last night of camping” dinner. Blistered cherry tomatoes, butter seared mushrooms and asparagus, steak and blue cheese (this time she found a nice beef tenderloin and cut it into steaks), served on a bed of rosti (though powdered mashed potatoes does ok too!). Since we always have more steak than we need, the leftovers get sliced up and turned into steak and egg sandwiches the next morning before packing up, but I failed to snap any of that.

If you know where we are, consider yourself blessed and keep it to yourself! 😉

Only got one action shot:

I believe ted cruz has the most punchable face in politics. I don’t even think you’d hurt your hand. It just looks soft and squishy.