Black Snake

Found this pretty Black Snake in the backyard last Friday while out walking the dog. Nana wanted me to WHACK it but I said “No it’s not whacking day”. They help to keep down the rodents, It didn’t seem to mind me getting close to take a pic. He was about 4 or 5 foot long.

A panormaic of the Island

I had an awesome time this Memorial Weekend just gone. It was a beautiful island we went camping on just off the coast of Florida near Mims. There was heaps of fishing to be done and lots of drinking and fun times had by all. Kimmi’s father (Bobby) took me there and Bobby’s brother Pat came too they go every year Memorial weekend. Sunday, Pat’s Son-In-Law Eric came out for the day along with Eric’s son Bradley. We drove to Mims and boated out to the island. We left very early Friday Morning and got back home Monday morning around 10-11am.

The first night there was a loo loo of a storm but we managed to stay dry mostly. The wind howled and pissed down rain nearly all the first day but we had fun all the same, heaps fun. Setting up a tarp in the wind was an effort but it kept us dry while we drank and laughed. The storm cam from all four directions of the compass in a very short period of time.

Bobby did the cooking with my help and supervision of cause, we both love to cook a real lot.

Our Menu

Breakfast:
Fresh percolated coffee
Bloody Marys
Beer

Lunch:
Bologna sandwiches
Leftovers
Beer

Dinner:
BBQ pork ribs
BBQ split chicken
Corn on the cob
Beans
Steamed onion
Fresh made hamburgers
Fish Soup (red fish, ocean trout, skate, vegetables, mushrooms and secret herbs and spices)
Fish Fry (red fish and ocean trout) served with special mayo.
Beer
Captain Morgan & Coke
Phantom Morgans (Secret New Invention)

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Video of a lap around the island.

The same video in iPod format.

Pam's New Do

Pam went to the beauty shop today to have her hair permed, it looks great!

The fruits of our labor of the last few days.

Jill (Mum)

Verry Pretty Clouds

Went for a walk to the store today to buy some Easter Egg Grass and more Easter Egg chocolate and saw the most amazing clouds in the sky with pretty green, orange and red streaks though the sky. Looked great, the vapour trails are just from planes, we live close to Orlando Internation Airport.

Setting in the mould. (Stage 1)

We have been on a real run-around this week trying to get the right stuff to make hollow chocolate Easter eggs. What an ordeal! We have found it really hard to find the right chocolate (courveture) and almost impossible to find the egg mould itself but we did. We went to a great shop D & G Occasions that had literaly thousands of chocolate and candy moulds but they only had ONE Easter egg mould, Yaaaaaaaaaaa for us.

The fist 2 attemps were a dissaster, as i think i over heated the chocolate, or the cocolate was old and bad. We did find some chocolate in the local store that had been out of date by two years. So we went to go buy a digital thermometer to take out the guesswork. It’s been such a long time since i’ve made chocolate eggs for my family. Found some nice Ghirradelli 65% cocoa butter bittersweet for my 3rd attempt, it’s setting as I type so i’ll let you know how it turns out….

I am feeling confident that this time it will turn out just great, some extra love went into it and special care and attention. Wow its already starting to set and peel away from the mould. Fingers crossed. Stay tuned!

Egg set and out of the mould. (Stage 2)

Prepared for packaging. (Stage 3)