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