Jodie's Pancakes

We had a some wonderful feedback about our pancakes yesterday morning. A family that stayed with us for three days told me that they knew what our next venture would be - a pancake house. While we've had many positive comments about our pancakes, this one has outdone them all.

However... as you may have guessed from the title, it was Jodie's turn in the kitchen that morning. After giving me almost endless grief about me taking over the pancakes, Jodie's first time out for guests resulted in our finest feedback yet.

So, now I can publicly inform you all, that our pancakes are awesome.

I guess I still have my shortbread.

Bwa ha ha ha ha.

70

DING!

So many opportunies for World of Warcraft posts have come and gone. Especially posts about my nephews, Andrew and Cameron joining our guild, Andrew [Zand] getting guild member of the week, and us both getting promoted to officers.

Jodie and I cracked the champagne tonight! Borgthor is level 70!!!! For the uninitiated, that's the highest level obtainable until the new expansion comes out.

Thanks to Jondayla [main of my wife], I was also able to get my flying mount, pictured above... which reminds me, I should give her some change out of the 700 gold she loaned me.

Jondy and Barrath [our best man] are both level 65, and quickly climbing the ranks. Jondy has been pre-occupied with getting a very special epic mount from the wintersaber trainer, which has slowed her progress a little [as well as engaging in the 'social' aspects of the game [she has quite the fan club]].

Now that we each have accounts, we have been playing together a bit, and Jondy has welcomed [somewhat reluctantly, but has humored me] my various money making schemes, and we are having a ball! Transmuting has never been so much fun, profitable, and alchemy skill increasing.

For family and friends that want to join in the fun, we are on the Dath'Remar server. LFM, Tank and Healer for hire!

Now for the rest of my pre-Kara gear...

Haighs

Jodie and I have just finished our wood fired pizza from the Bark Mill Tavern. Mushroom and Volcano as usual. Delicious.

We have just started in on our Haighs truffles from Anthony and Anita! Jodie said as we bit into the first one, "now, you don't pig out on Haighs truffles, they are the real deal!"

Thanks guys, it's a fantastic dessert!

Elections and stats

Another advantage of living in a small town, is there isn't a wait to vote in the Federal election. I'm getting more and more cynical about Australian politics. The outcome was as just as predicted.

Tasmania is a funny state. We turned over a few seats to labour, and Lyons seems like a safe labour seat. I sent our representative an email before the election about the water issues here, and wasn't really impressed with the result.

The senate seats in Tasmania are the funniest thing. The Democrates don't even bother to run in the senate here, since the greens end up with 17% of the vote [second only to the ACT with 21%, but they are [only] a territory, so it didn't win them a seat]. I'm really not sure why any independent / crackpot party bothers to run in Tassie... but they do.

The best part [why I'm writing this post] of the election for me was looking at the ABC website coverage. It's got a google map and plenty of stats. You should definitely check it out here.

Sushi

Jodie and I made sushi tonight for the first time. It was awesome. We had some delicious fresh salmon. Wasabi is green, hot and tasty.

More friends come to stay

On Sunday night we had Anthony and Anita from SA [we used to work with Anthony at the Department of Health] and Sally and Craig from VIC [Jodie used to work with Sally] come to stay.

I made Jodie's three favourite curries: Cauliflower and Potato, Parsee Red Chicken and Lamb Cardamom. I had so much going on the stove, I had to break out the 11L stock pot. The boys both tried Moo Brew for the first time and we had wines from the Barossa and from just up the road [Springvale] which is just how we like it. We also had our first wedding photo slideshow victims! I'm sure there'll be plenty more.

They all left on a perfectly sunny Monday morning. Anthony and Anita were happy to pose in front of the house and imagine it was theirs. You can see the smiles on their faces as they imagine the mortgage... We couldn't get Sally and Craig to stand that still.

Closest Lightning ... ever

Today at about 11am, both Jodie and I saw a huge flash, followed way too quickly by the loudest thunder we had ever heard. The light and sound was so close together, our first thought was bomb rather than lightning.

We quickly checked that each other was OK [if a little freaked out], and the boys too. Then I checked that the power hadn't gone off [it hadn't [and we don't think the house was hit]] and that they computers were fine.

The other strange thing was that it was the only lightning strike. We weren't in the middle of a thunder storm, and we've only had a drizzle of rain since.

Then it was back to work as usual... rooms to clean. We have been busy with projects for the house too, so more about that later.