dec 23

A Ghillie kettle ! –  I am now told--- scottish !.. it was extremely cheap when I bought one years ago—like $20--- now made in stainless steel it is more like $100—however the concept of a kettle with a fire chimney  INSIDE THE KETTLE  Is interesting and works.

 

ANOTHER BRand: https://www.campingkettle.com/

 

As for the topic of heat... I woke up to my  normal electric heat producer  on the wall pounding away and I was chilly..... with my new pellet stove....leaving me running for the three page set of directions that came with it--I opened the back and there was only about 1 cup of pellets left so I thought maybe it shut itself off--I knew it had two buttons in the back so I pushed them both.. my directions clearly said the red light meant that the thermostat was calling for heat.. and I sat down with my second cup of coffee ------in front of my antique Glenwood cast iron solution to heating problems......  with that one you need a piece of paper couple sticks and some wood and you have heat.. but this is a new pellet stove..  it has its own rules and regulations and one of them is even if you push all its buttons and the red light does say it's calling for heat it has to think about it for a while... so as I sat there in front of my instantaneous Glenwood it took about 1/2 an hour to get a fire started and another 10 minutes before the blower came on once it did I'm laughing...  but it was a long ½ hour –

 

couple thAT  with.... I dropped my cell in the dogs water bucket--- and it refused to work... and it refused to be charged either....eliz said she had the same problem once.  but it was better when it dried out...  ... so we sat with that during mail call... we could still not plug it in.... we had all kinds of reasons why we thought the dog water would prevent us from charging--- to no avail....  then nick came home and took my phone to his house where he had a magnifying glass--- and  he said there was a small rock in the charging port..... ???? from the dog water???? At any rate he picked that out and it worked..

 lesson of the day....when confused do not eliminate all ridiculous  possibilities....