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Good move Dan, a Min-Pin would be a snack for the big bird. On the up side I bet you have no rodents!

We had them on our driveway in Northern California, and yes, they all have silent flight feathers. More quiet than a bat to my ears. I used to see him right before getting to my gate and I saw them there for years! Very cool.

Very cool experience! We got to take our car out on a Track with our Car Club a few years ago and I can honestly say that if I was younger I would pursue this fun activity The Ridge Motorsports Park is where were went to go around their track and we were the first club to be invited to do so, very cool. http://www.ridgemotorsportspark.com/ Enjoy your new ride. Stephen

Does it take video as well? Nice photos

Droooool!!!!

Yeah, that headless chicken thing is always a show stopped for a young kid. Another funny, and somewhat terrifying thing for this kid, was when my parents were living in San Francisco where my father was stationed in the navy right after WW2. As a 2yr old toddler I remember a big wharf with fishing boats (I know now it was Fishermans Wharf) and my parents were talking with someone who was standing behind a big barrel (probably 55 gallon drum) I was curious. So, when that guy grabbed something off the top of the drum that I could not see until he put it on the ground in front of me; scared the poop out of me when a big dungeness crab started crawling toward me!!! I took off running as fast as my short little legs could carry me with several people in hot pursuit. Needless to say I have been afraid of spiders ever since. Similar the the chicken incident

My guess is that it could kick the poop out of anyone!

A big HAPPY BIRTHDAY mate! Hope you have many more healthy and fun years

A very small world indeed! Hope the move is a positive thing for your mother.

Some folks drink tea, some stick to fruit juices, some alcoholic beverages, all of which are good but I use coffee as a medicine to jumpstart this old beat up body

Thanks for the encouragement and the thoughts tomahawk66

Thanks Aussie Ora, but I was a part time farm kid that spent every summer on his grandparents farm working and learning the ethics of that environment. It was a great wake up call for a kid that was pretty spoiled. We raised 200 hogs for slaughter, 300 chickens and we milked 7 dairy cows, by hand. 160 acres of small family farm that supported my grandparents family and provided some really good food! Man, I never liked eggs before that, you know the nasty ones that came from a supermarket, but these eggs were fresh and the flavor was so much better I liked eating them. Same for the chickens and the bacon and the fresh churned butter. I was in charge of feeding the chickens and feeding the breeding sows that produced They worked me from pre-dawn to dusk and if I ever started to act up and be a PITA they had 2 methods that got my attention. 1, carrying the horse saddle toward the breed boar's pen, which initially elicited the question from me, "where are you going with that?" which got the reply, "Since you have been so ornery we thought you needed to ride King" (the boar). Needless to say that scared the poop out of me. I used to marvel that the big boar would scratch his back on a powerful electric fence and do so for fun!! The #2 method was give me a hoe and put me in the middle of a 40 acre field of soy bean plants and give me the command to rid the field of weeds. That too was not pleasant. A good experience all in all and also gave me a love of good pork

I swear, this Forum is truly a good, friendly and helpful one. I know purchasing a KK and paying attention to the good Posts by you all will be very beneficial for this old couple BTW, TonyB, I love you signature!

I measured the slope and it is 32 degrees. The stairs have a 5-1/2 inch rise and a 9-3/4 inch run, I built them anticipating I would be old someday and the short rise might be helpful..As if by magic I got old!! And the short rise now has 2 benefits, one for me and my wife (we are in our 70's) and the other is that when I put the plywood cover on the stairs(with screws) it will make a fairly shallow ramp I am going to screw the plywood to the tread noses and I have a ComeAlong and a ChainFall to lower it down that slope, so those combined with wide, relatively soft, nylon cargo lifting straps for wrapping around the KK at the base PLUS figure out some way to capture the bellyband of the KK so the top heavy beast will stay on its wheels. It only will be rolling on the ramp for 8 ft 10 inches of slope. I have a 300 pound pro foootball guy and another large healthy neighbor who are willing to lend muscle. The only thing that could be better would be to have a small cargo net for heavy lifting but all the ones I have seen are big enough to lift a car and those would just get in the way. I will take plenty of photos and maybe even a video. Aussie Ora, what do you mean by "Step it out" in reference to the plywood?

Wherever you are and whatever just enjoy what you are doing this day and remember that so many have died to allow us to have a nice day to give thanks to one and all

It has been a tough sell for my wife, but she absolutely loves the flavors that can come from a top class smoker and with the added benefit and a grill AND a break baking oven all rolled into one it makes the sale more palatable, pun intended Letting her pick the color, or at least have input into the decision is also a good idea. Now selling things to defray the costs is also a good selling point. I have several things to sell that I no longer need or can use or want to collect so that sweetens the pot. Good luck with the brainwashing

WOW! that is thin. I have managed to come up with a plan of mixed methods that allows me to move the entire pallet into my garage and then take everything out of it to roll it down a short flight of shallow 32 degree) stairs that I am cladding with 1-1/8" plywood. Overkill for sure but I can use the plywood later for bench material. To get it to the stairway I am using this, or a reasonable copy. I have operated them before and they take the pain out of everything except your wallet.

And a Happy Thanksgiving to you and everybody on the KK team as well! The suggestion of heavy equipment wins, partially at least and then it is up to muscle and ingenuity to get it down the stairway.

As I recall you might be able to power it off a Toyota 4X4

It is nice to see a coffee discussion in this Forum since coffee goes so well with many things, the affogato for example! Kudos to Dan for Posting it.

And a Happy Thanksgiving to you as well. Maybe you and I will be smoking a turkey, pig or salmon for Christmas, or maybe all of them

Not a problem at all so no apologies necessary I found a place in the county about 30 miles away that has these to rent and it would get it from the street, down the steep slop and inside my garage!! Yahoo, it is just $$ and you can't take that with you. I have operated these things before and they are real slick. We pulled my 725 pound planer and my 610 pound table saw out of the back of a 24ft U-Haul truch and extended them through the door of my shop; talk about a painless maneuver! All I will have to do is roll KK down the 32 degree slope of the stairway 8ft onto the cement patio. Yeah,, mission almost accomplished. I cut all the pieces today to clad those stairs with 1-1/8" plywood so it should be smooth rolling.

The KK will sit on the opposite side of the wall from the Lever espresso machine.

It is a modified Quest M3 120V model. The Little Gene Cafe is more of a plug and play roaster where the Quest is really manual hands on, unless you automate it with a lot of goodies added. I did not mod it in that way.

One of my hobbies is coffee roasting and trying to make good espresso with it.