NEW BLOG!

It's been over a month since Joshua went to Guyana, so ...

TIME FOR A BLOG!

2 days after Joshua left, we went to the London Assembly Hall and met Melanie and 20 or so of her family.  Not sure where the other 15 were.  Perhaps the most amazing thing is the following picture:


Amazing but true.  That is actually where Steven sat thru THE ENTIRE ASSEMBLY.  Not sure if you can even see the stage from back there or not.

This is a really cool circuit.  It is the other half of Troy & Stacy's circuit AND instead of a slightly grumpy lady in a bathrobe for a demo, you get Phil Jackson with tattooed arms and a huge wrench  to be the scary imposing householder.



After the assembly, we went to Los Mariachis in London with a portion of the Wilson family.


And no, I did not take this photo.  But thank you Google image search.

** 1 WEEK LATER **

First and next to last visit of C.O. Ronald Keniston.
Super nice guy with friendly outgoing wife.  Forgot to get a photo of him, so here is one of Jeff Houtz instead.

Right after that was deer season.  Incredibly, the entire 1 hour I was sitting outside the back door I did not see a single deer.  But fortunately Jim Leonard and his sons Jim, Jim, Jim and Jim did get some deer.  They got so many, he gave us one.  So one day while Steven was playing Dad to The Dean boys, Carol and I cut up the deer and added about 40 pounds of meat to the freezer.

Also at that time, December 1st to be exact, I started a diet. 180 pounds of fat and bones.  It's based on an Adkins diet of Low Carb, Low Sugar and all the meat, fat and anything not starch and sugar you want. 

That means, I was forced to survive on stuff like this:

And this:

Grueling!

The really cool thing is I lost 5 pounds in one week and currently at 173 and dropping.

No donuts, but all the bacon you want.  Definitely a Jim Gaffigan diet if there ever was one.

In other news, the greenhouse is repaired and already has a few plants in it that can withstand cold weather.  


The old truck topper is finally gone.  No more hauling that thing around.


And the most recent news - Starting on our Tardis Smokehouse.  Will NOT be accurate, but it will be blue and at first glance be recognizable. With smoke coming out the top, of course.  So step one is remove the old paint off the doors so the meat we smoke does not become contaminated with lead. Generally something that should be avoided.



More pics as they come.

And here is a carrot.