This is supposed to be a smoker roaster grill. It has a chamber to stick wood chips in for the smoking, or you can leave the chips out and roast stuff, or you can slap the grill on top and grill with or without the chips. Supposed to hold up to a 22lb Turkey. And if you roast the turkey, because it is infrared heat it is supposed to come out like it was deep fried, crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside without the mess and fuss of all that oil.

We used to have one of those grills with the lava rocks, and later added favor briquets as the lava rocks disintegrated away that we really liked. It was a little indirect but still had quite a bit of air flow. If place the flavor briquets in my current grill and it helps a little, but not all that much.

This thing has a liner with only a small hole in the bottom for juice to run into a catch can so all the heat is completely indirect or infrared. There is no air flow thru the smoker/roast/grilling area. With all the charcoal or wood smokers I've seen there is a fire box, then you adjust the temp by routing and amount of hot smoky air from the fire box thru the cooker area. This thing the gas flame heats up the metal cooker liner and there is no air exchange. The smoker box is a box inside the cooking area that hold the smoking wood chips. It's very different.

From what I can see she has two pretty good sized flotation devices? Kinda on the wrong end to make your head float up out of the water though.

One of my nephews did xstacy in college. After that he started having momentary blackouts. He would be talking a long and just slump over mid-sentence. Then in 15 seconds or so his head would snap back up and he would finish the sentence like nothing happened. Then he started having migraines instead of the black outs. They have gotten worse and worse. He is functioning on some major doses of some major pain killers when he has a migraine attack. When I found out I was amazed he was awake let alone functioning. He got very bitter when he found his brother was doing pain killers recreationally.

Yikes, that sucks. We've been thru a layoff And a workforce reduction.

Good morning all.

My wife made it through the first day of school and she didn't cry and played well with the others. She said the instructor had sat down in a low chair near my wife's table and said "hang on I don't get back up fast I had two knee replacements" and one of the other students said "I had two knee replacements" and another said I had one knee and a hip, and another said just one knee, so my wife said two shoulder surgeries!

Apparently it is not a real young group. ;)

Sounds like a bunch of gardeners that do a lot of pointing at where they want stuff done.

That's the way my Dad did our vegetable garden and fruit trees.

Must have been a lot of poppin' and crackin' in that classroom!:D

Happy Humpday!

It is supposed to be very hands on once the class is further along. Hopefully she will enjoy it.

I keep telling her going to class will help her because I have lots of class and she could use more. So far she just ignores my classy comments. Burp.

Those classy comments sound like they should be followed with ducking and running.

Today is my Friday this week.

For sure it is wise to NOT be standing or sitting right next to her at those moments. Her elbow is sharp and hard and she knows how to use it.

morning all. whelp Connor is all set up for college and ready to go.

Congrats! Does that make you an empty-nester yet, David?

not even. He will live at home the first two years, that and his little brother is only a soph in high school.

Oh well, at least there's light at the end of the tunnel.

tunnel? light? with my luck its coming this way!!!!

OK, so off to college for the rock star. Dang, what a miserable time of his life.... ;):p

yep he wants to be an English teacher so he can make others miserable and still have time to make music.

Then he should teach Algebra as well. Most students hate algebra and figure they will never need it in real life. We use it all the time. More so than writing skills. We talks good.

I let CAD do all my math for me. That and I don't talk much at work so I'm good.

We let the computer do the hard stuff but sometimes we have to figure out what scale it wants to see to get a print layout to fit the print size the customer wants. If the area of the flight was a square mile and the customer ordered a 30x30 print. We don't want the section line right at the edge of the print so the mile is scaled to be 26.4 inches and the print will have an extra 1.8 inches on each side of the adjoining mile. That is a nice convenient scale of 1"=400'. The digital file is essentially scaled to fit the earth so 1 foot is one foot. So 5,280 feet down to 26.4 inch of print is a scale of 1"=200 but we enter 2,400 in the print layout for the scale.
The customer can measure any straight line between points and know how many feet apart the points are.