pulled a couple more pumpkins from the garden with my first watermelon

cooked a tomahawk for tea, the wife and I shared a third tonight, we will share the other two thirds with our foster kid tomorrow night

2nd day driving a Nissin Patrol escorting a D4 cutting a fire break in even steeper country. Finally found a slope I was too scared to take the Nissin down. Might have got down OK, but would have needed the dozer to snig us back up. The dozer ended up trampling the fire out in that gully with his tracks, crazy dangerous. Seemed odd to be so isolated, but so high that up on the ridges we had phone and internet connection. Even funnier  we could look across a valley to where people used to pay to drive the same sort of tracks at Landcruiser Mtn Park.

I like to eat tasty bread with some texture and nutrition and that can be hard to find.

Been a customer since 1982, the milk tanker used to drop off two 1 kg German style multigrain loaves each week in my mailbox and I'd ride the Norton into town once a month to write them a cheque and thank them.

With fermentation, whether baking bread, brewing beer or making stuff like sourkraut, with some practice and care you can make something better than most of the commercial product.

Oz has some of the best wheat produced in the world, but some of the worst bread.

And people flogging "artisan" bread will charge about ten bucks a loaf, maybe more in Melbourne. My flour mixes price out at $2.50 a loaf, bake during the day when the panels are exporting to the grid and the power costs nothing. I generally make either a sour dough rye or a German style multigrain.

setting up a wings and ribs cooker, just need the grate for a fire to sit on and it will be game on

Ok ok will give my self an upercut  

The Rhodes grass around it was so green it hadn't scorched and burnt 4 hours after we lit up. The logs will burn for a couple of days I think.

such a waste...could have made use of it coupla nights ago...