Smoker

Week one of the holiday got off to a good start.
Stuart was invited out to Merv's boat to learn how to change oil and the filter.
A few days later he was invited out to fish on the boat and came home with a couple of feeds of snapper. We had fillets grilled for tea. It seemed wasteful to throw away the frames and heads so the next day I built a smoker in the back garden. Up until now we had been making do with a biscuit tin and a piece of chicken wire. Effective but slow as you can only do a couple of fillets at a time.

The newly built smoker will take a dozen fish at a time. At the moment it is powered by a gas ring with a hot plate covered with sawdust on it. It took about 2 hours to smoke the heads but they were worth waiting for.

The other picture shows our field after the mulcher had removed the chest high carrotweed. Our local tractor man, Bob, told me it would be easier if I did not leave it for 2 years between mulches. Now we can see where are going and can plan the next lot of tree planting.