on 9/11/06 9:36 AM, Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott at camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM wrote: > On Sunday morning, while Mrs Squirrel and I were breaking camp, I was > outside, puttering and packing gear, and she was inside, cleaning the > kitchen. After noting that I had not left the kitchen as clean as she > likes after my last solo camping trip, she announced that the sink was > not draining. So I emptied the gray water container and the water began > to drain. A few moments later, though, she said it wasn't draining > again. I inspected the 18'' drain hose and found no problem, and the > garden hose type ball valve I had screwed into the drain fitting on the > bottom of Mellow Yellow was in the "on" position. So I went inside and > tried probing down the sink drain with a nylon wire tie, which didn't > get very far -- that drain is built funny, I guess. > > Puzzled, I went back outside and unscrewed the ball valve from the > underside and water began to rush out. I took the valve into Mellow > Yellow and showed Mrs Squirrel the coffee bean that was plugging the > hole in the ball. "Well, there's your problem," I told her. It's so hard to get good help in the kitchen? We grind our beans at home before a trip-woulda thunk we were avoiding a problem? Grin, Tom B.-life is to short for bad coffee |
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