Seoul 5,135 Mi.

Or 8,265 km for the rest of the world.

It is faily safe to say that M*A*S*H is Paul’s favorite tv show. The shipping containers were given the name “The Swamp” based on the tent that “Hawkeye” stayed in. Paul once made a reference to how he would like a post similar to the one outside “the Swamp” in the show outside our “the Swamp” in the back yard.



Being the creative person that I am, I considered how to get it done.

I happened upon this website:
http://www.daftlogic.com/projects-google-maps-distance-calculator.htm

Using it, I figured out the distance and direction to various places. For example, from the front door of my Aussie home to the front door of Home is 7,694 miles (12,383 km).

My research having been completed… yesterday (ANZAC Day) we began construction and painting of our own distance pole.

I somehow managed to mess up “London” 3 times. It turned out in the end. Today, the signs all being dry, we proceeded to attach the cities to the pole and conclude our project:







Also completed today was quite a bit of clearing of the area near “the Swamp”

Paul and I were not the only ones to accomplish something awesome today though.

The Mitchell family has a new addition to their collection of sheep:


Cute lil guy isn’t he.

And of course, where there is a new born there is placenta!



Of course I poked it.

On a much less gross note, I thought I would take this time to also display the size of ants here.



That is a “small” ant hill. This is a “small” ant:



I know I have nothing else in that shot to compare it to, but my camera was a good distance away, and I was not zoomed in at all. On the topic of my camera… I thought I would take an opportunity to use the panoramic setting and show you the rest of the herd.



And of course… my favorite of the bunch… Macca:



With all the talk of sheep, when Jan asked if I would cook dinner tonight, when I had to pull an Iron Chef like maneuver of taking stock of what was available, the immediate thing that came to mind was… Shepard Pie.

I’ve only had it once before, and have never made it, so it was a fun experience, also in the kitchen with me was my sous chef Adam taking up one of the last chances to cook together that we will have in a long time



A good day.

It is starting to dawn on all of us however that at this same time next week… I will be 448 km to the east.