flannj

I don't remember exactly but I think it was around $800 with free shipping. I bought it online and it arrived on a pallet about 5 days later. Took a couple of hours to assemble. Let me do some looking around I might be able to find the old e-mail receipt. - Jim I saw one on ebay today for $800 plus $75 shipping. located in northern Illinois. Now I just gotta get the WAF to go in my favor. It was $849 no tax - free shipping I got it from here: http://www.racent.biz/ apparently the prices have gone up - Jim Hmmm... chicken

So far not a mention of Noel Redding. Jimi and Noel...

I don't remember exactly but I think it was around $800 with free shipping. I bought it online and it arrived on a pallet about 5 days later. Took a couple of hours to assemble. Let me do some looking around I might be able to find the old e-mail receipt. - Jim

No, but I don't use baskets anyway. I almost always cook two sided indirect or a one sided indirect. I just dump the coals out of the chimneys on either one or both sides of the kettle depending on what I am cooking. I use a very long pair of tongs in one hand and a very long spatula in the other to chase down and re-arange any uncooperative coals. They stay in piles on the sides just fine. You will have to be careful the first few times you use it because this thing can get way too hot. But with practice you can cook huge roasts to a perfect 130 degree rare with a nice crunchy ouside layer. Sometimes I will cook direct with the coals spread out over the entire bottom but that is a really hot fire for only specific foods.

I have a Weber Ranch Grill as well as the 22" inch Weber charcoal and a Weber Summit Gold gas grill (6 burners). The Ranch is the most fun to use by far, I have done two 22+ lbs. turkeys and a very large standing rib roast all at the same time. Dozens of skirt steaks all at once, I don't even know how many chicken pieces all at once . Four whole NY strip shell steaks (the whole strip) again all at the same time. Four enormous standing rib roasts (6 or 7 ribs) at once. It is great for entertaining a large group, with lots of room for adjusting temperature and cooking time as well as control of ventilation. Complete overkill if you just want to feed the family though, also a lot more work to clean. I use lump charcoal for the most part and chimney starters (I have 4 of them). You'll find me grilling outside in ten below zero F. in the dark and snow in January with a 20 mph wind. I know it sounds crazy but I build a windbreak on the deck and I can slow cook a couple of turkeys or 5 whole chickens in any weather all afternoon. I wish I was grilling right now.

Brian Ritchie Saw the Violent Femmes about a month ago in a small local bar / venue. Great show. He uses Ernie Ball acoustic bass guitars as well as many other instruments. Amazing talent.

to borrow a phrase from jacksonbart... Top Notch!

I don't think the quality of TV has improved as a whole. Rather I think most is crap. Reality shows and some of the other popular series (American Idol, Dancing with the Stars etc.) do nothing for me. But there are some shows, usually on cable, that have outstanding writing, dialog, acting, characters and concepts. HBO and Showtime have produced several of them. Deadwood, The Sopranos, Rescue Me, The Wire, Band of Brothers, Six Feet Under, and Entourage are considered by many to be among some of the best TV ever done. For me the writing and dialog on Deadwood is just riveting. The series is about an illegal mining camp set in Deadwood, Dakota Territory in the 1870's. The historical figures are wonderfully interesting and the plotlines are deeply developed. The language is EXTREME but period correct. If you can handle that aspect I recommend it highly. I don't watch much television, I can only find the time to watch Sopranos and Deadwood on DVD so I am always behind. Other than the local news, my beloved Cubs games and the occasional cooking show I just can't make time for much else on the tube. But music is almost always playing. - Jim

Resurrecting an old thread here. I have only been able to watch this show on DVD so I haven't yet seen how the series ends. I received season 3 for fathers day and have just recently been catching up. I just watched the fight scene in the thoroughfare between Dan Doherty and Hearst's enforcer "The Captain". All I can say is WOW... just wow. Makes the Sopranos look like a Disney movie. - Jim

I envy you having such a harvest this early in the summer. It will be a month before I can fill up a kitchen counter like that. Our basil is tasting pretty good though (just ask the Japanese Beatles). Can't wait for tomato and fresh buffalo mozzarella salads with basil, salt, and olive oil every night with dinner. In August and September we will be making gallons of sauce to last over the winter. One of the benefits of a marrying an Italian. - Jim

For some reason I think Don Mossi would agree with you.

flannj, What is wrong with that statement ? Not looking to argue, just wondering what is wrong with it? Colterphoto buys, and has many, many speakers, and no one says a word about him, or other forum regulars that have many speakers......Yet, people get excited about Steve's speaker count, I don't understand why he's singled out............Me, I buy only what I use...... Good morning OB, I think the statement makes it sound like he is just buying speakers to finish off his home system. But in actuality it seems more like he is collecting them or flipping them. Nothing wrong with doing either of those things. He can aquire as many as he wants just as Michael can. It just comes across as a misrepresentation as far as why he is looking to buy. I sure do like his car collection though. - Jim

I have a problem with this: "I would like to purchase another pair of Klipsch floor standing stereo loudspeakers for my home sound system."

Chorus by far. I own Chorus 1's and Heresy III's, the sound of the Chorus is so much more substantial. I do like my Heresy III's quite a bit, but if Klipsch still made Chorus I would buy them in a heartbeat. I don't think the Chorus was discontinued because it was an inferior speaker but more due to its size in a market that was going away from big boxes. - Jim

Tommy - I am sorry for your loss, I hope you and all of our young men and women that protect us remain safe. Sigh. - Jim

Joe likes filling in forms -- LOL

My right brain is an idiot

Yeah, but we've got these! And they LIVE in your lawn! And there's MILLIONS of them! And they won't go away no matter what you do! Oh it's horrible let me tell you....

There was a lot of squealing going on in Orange County in 1994. Anybody that had anything to do with the County Investment Pool wished Bob Citron would suffer an eminent death. - Jim

German safety training film. It starts to really get rolling a couple of minutes in. http://youtube.com/watch?v=F8AXxviwOUw Colter do they let you drive a forklift? - Jim

Hey look, it snowed last night! 2000 Jeep TJ

Agreed.My guess is the kid had dibs though, the whole thing appears like a set up "hunt".This part bothers me, "The big boar was hunted inside a large, low-fence enclosure..." But more so the fact that it took three hours before the animal was down. I don't call that hunting. - Jim

Good choices Phil, especially the long gun. Nothing else like a lever action, just a classic feel to them. I gave up hunting many years ago, but I still shoot. I have several Rugers and that is what I am comfortable with. My choice for the revolver would be a Super Redhawk .454 Casull. Robert Ruark wrote "Use Enough Gun" and he was right about that, but nowadays I would rather shoot target with a more reasonable weapon and improve my skills. But I do respect the respectful hunters. - Jim EDIT - thanks for the link sput - this whole thing just seemed suspect. Part of the reason I don't hunt anymore is because of ignorant hunters. I get the impression there are many guys that don't fish that much anymore for the same reason.

You dated Rosie O'Donnell? I doubt the hog was as nasty.... But anyways flannj you said bigger game??? I don't quite think deer weigh 1000 pounds? or even bear?, moose maybe Jay - I wrote "large" and "big game", they are generalized catagories in hunting. - Jim

You dated Rosie O'Donnell?