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I would think it would add salt to whatever was cooking, but maybe someday I will try a salt block. Odd, that 2 days ago my wife went to Bed Bath & Beyond and when she came out she said she almost purchased one and could not decide on a large on or a small one.

"Truecaller", is it an app?

Have you gotten more robo calls and junk solicitations since turning your Contacts List loose on the world? I am constantly fighting to block unwanted calls and no longer answer the phone. If someone wants me they better leave a message.

The Bella Taiwan can be purchased from the factory and imported by yourself at a considerable savings. With the price of the machine plus air freight to my door is is $250 more than the Mill City 500g. As far as I know there are no dealers in the USA, or perhaps none in North America, only in Asia. I have been contacting the mini500 owners on H-B and getting info and recommendations. It is more money that the Huky but it is way more roaster. The new ones, the mini500 Plus, have a usb port to plug into your computer to run Artisan directly should you want to graph the roasts. I think this is closer to the newest model, but I think the new one does not have a burner door, only a window. This photo is off of H-B and I am sure there are changes for the newest version. I believe there might be 3 upgrades since they first started producing them

If you are close enough you will find out they have bad breath.... At least the humpback that surfaced behind me for a breath had serious halitosis

Great exercise! I though my bad back would kill me but it was the opposite. If you are paddling correctly you use the rotation of you torso to move the paddles for the power stroke and the arms to just position the paddle. It really strengthens the core muscles and thus the lower back. I had my pelvis fractured by an explosion when I was 20 so my back has never been the same, yet the kayak made life much more bearable

I was paddling in a marina early in the morning about breakfast time and as I glided/paddled gently toward a docking float near a large yacht there was a small dog and a cat watching the small fish (babies that looked like minnows but in saltwater) at the end of the float. Their owners were having breakfast and watching TV and none of them saw or heard me until I was about 10 ft from them. The cat was the first to notice and it took off like a rocketship, the small dog put its tail between its legs and skulked off the float. I hailed the yacht owners and apologized to them for scaring their pets which was met with laughter because it had never happened before and they thought their dog was a feirce watchdog. Ha! Not a peep from either animal, just escape maneuvers. The longhaul boats are the most silent because of the material. Fiberglass is the most noisy, sort of like paddling a drum.

I have had two types of kayaks with soft skins. The first one was a Long Haul tandem kayak that is the same model that the Army Special Forces uses to drop out of choppers, assemble, and paddle silently into weird places with their hypalon hulls. And then the other type of soft shell boats are the skin on frame one I build (10 oz/yd denier cloth coated in a 2 part polyurethane) http://www.longhaulfoldingkayaks.com/ http://www.capefalconkayaks.com/ Learning to roll these babies is fun! The traditional lay back roll is the easiest, and could save your life.

Back when I was doing it the frame took 4 days and the skin took 2 days and the kayaks I have built range from 15ft to 17ft. They are not as fast as a sleek long (19ft) fiberglass boat but they are very easy to transport/launch AND SUPER QUIET IN THE WATER. I was sneaking up on otter families.

I remember a lot of bugs when I was camping on Babine Lake at Smithers many moons ago. The bug assault reminded me of Vietnam without the snakes and scorpions and tarantulas, it was just a lot of mosquito's and gnats.

You know that if you are in water that is NOT deep then you run the risk of hitting your head on a boulder underwater I once ran about 20 miles of white water down the Salmon River in Northern California (before they dynamited the Class 5 falls) and I can honestly say that it was not mellow compared to Sea Kayaking. We went over that fall and it took some really strong paddling to get out from under it down force and if you were not prepared for it could have killed you easily, hence the Department of Forestry dynamiting it. After that run down the river I went to sleep that night in a nice comfortable hammock and while dreaming about dodging a boulder iin the river I dumped myself out of that hammock!! Funny at the time since I have only fallen out of a hammock on one other occasion that I cannot describe here . I will stick with deep water since the shoreline is the most dangerous. Here are a few kayaks that I have made that are extremely light and tough.

Orcas are indeed smart. They cruise floats and docks to try to scare the seal and sea lions off so they can catch them.

Phred, you must have the 1K model because I called Mill City Roasters with other questions and once I had those answered I asked about that tube; it is on the inside under the sheetmetal hood. The cooling tray exits straight down and does not redirect the smoke/chaff flow from it to the outside. So I have decided to get a Bella Taiwan mini500 roaster. It has all the features I would like and the wires for the probes are not located in the moving dump door thus flexing the wires. It has a separate blower motor with ducting to pump cooling smoke and chaff outside as does the separate roaster/cyclone blower motor. It has a cast iron drum... It also has cooling arms which are a nicety but not a necessity.

I used to kayak out there and it was always a thrill to see the bigger whales, like Humpbacks and Greys but these guys made me nervous since they hunt things the size of my kayak (16') and they are very fast. On many occasions when I was paddling in very deep water, like 700' + , I have felt an uplift of the kayak as something swam under me. Sometimes a sea lion or large seal BUT you never knew since they can hold their breath a long time.

Packing light for a quick day trip? Sounds like you need staff for that sort of thing, like Porters/Redcaps

Yummy!!

It is, and there are laws about getting to close to them but how does one enforce the laws with a subject that is moving rapidly through the water and possibly toward you? I said "they were putting on a show for the boaters" on my Facebook page and someone just had to take exceptionand correct me and say that they were not. Ha, tell the boaters that I know what they were doing, they were hunting seals, salmon and sea lions, all of which are in Sinclair Inlet and their antics are to get the targets moving so they can be spotted more easily and I said that at the end of my FB Posting. There was a humpback whale cruising the inlet last week and it too was putting on a show for anyone who was paying attention. One morning I was taking the small passenger ferry to work across the inlet and a juvenile grey whale breached, leaping about 20 feet of it out of the water. All the people facing that direction on the ferry gasped and all the people facing the other direction said "WHAT???"; we indeed got a show The lack of ability to use and understand the English language is lost on so many folks that were raised in the USA it is a blatant failure of our educational system and the media for perpetuating it. Spyhopping is what the whale is doing, looking for seals and sea lions on the navy floats.

Well, about once a year we get these animals hunting in the Inlet in front of our home. It is always a joy to watch and deep down inside I am wishing for the possibility of one of them landing on a small watercraft.

Get well soon so you can be up and moving and enjoying life again BTW, what were you doing to get the hernia?

Nicely done! Didn't end up in the water and now you have a great place to chill out and use your new BB32

WRONG at soooo many levels...

WOW! NOW THATS A BUG!! I would love to know what else was do to it to make it hold the HP/Torque in the flat 4. And the vintage bug being modded that way is spectacular. He must have done something to keep the front end on the ground so corners would be possible. They were/are notoriously light in the front and they wash out in the corners, much like the Porsche's do. Briggs Cunningham's son drove a modded bug with a Porsche engine and some other things done to the suspension but the biggest single thing to keep it on the ground was a 65 pound steel rod, about 3 ft long, suspended and welded under the front bumper. I put weight forward and was almost not noticable until you drove it. I put one on one of my bugs and it handles so well that on hard packed gravel roads I would get rocks stuck between the bead and the rim on the rear wheels before the car lost steering in the corners. Really a spectacular and simple fix for a long standing problem with a Bug without 200 pounds in the trunk/boot.

Bad idea,,,, I am a physical mess that seems to still be moving. Most think it is divine intervention but I think they just haven't found the portrait of Dorian Grey yet I have a few hobbies that occupy my time but my health is always getting in the way, so now taking the BBQ to a whole new level is fun. I have had Kamado style cookers for 50 years but this Komodo it the best by far. Now to figure out how to roast coffee on it

That is good to know! Maybe MillCity should update the photos of that 500g roaster. What impressed me was the speed with which my questions were answered and the no nonsense manner in the way they answered. And Pequod, yes, I still have the motorized HG-1 and love it. So smooth and consistent that I wonder why the Lyn/Weber team did not do it originally. I just wish I had the new style grind adjustment pegs and not the screw/knob to tighten. The Monolith's have a capture style tightening collar very much like, the Titus grinder, and that style works very well too and Titus was the first I know of to do it that way. Titus is a great grinder but the cost is astronomical, I had a modified Versalab but the Titus is light years better. For brew/drip I use a Baratza Forte' BG. Here is my traveling grinder, a Lido 2, and my traveling French Press and the Moka Pot I use for travel.

North must have added the drum speed feature, which I think is nice because besides making roasts more uniform for any given weight of charge you can crank up the speed a couple of seconds before you dump the beans as well as increasing chaff blower to get the beans more clean. The Quest only has the fan control and no drum speed, unless you mod it to do so. Do the new 500g North's have the heat/chaff tube on the outside of the shell making less to dismantle to service the roaster? And you are correct in that the grinder is the key to it all