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I think this annoucement affects only what they called the "independent home improvement channel" and not Walmart, Target, Lowes, Home Depot, and Amazon.

There's an Ace Hardware at 1605 N Alpine Rd, Rockford, IL. That's like 7 miles/16 minutes from the center of Cherry Valley. I used to drive 4x that just to go grocery shopping!

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Saw this beast on the floor at Garrett Ace Hardware in Healdsburg CA. A mere $5299. The lid is super tall and super heavy, and contains an upper shelf that sits right under an infrared burner on which you could sear the chaps off a steak. It wasn’t powered up, I would have liked to play with the...

The Virtual Weber Bullet website turned 27 years old on June 12, 2025. To mark this milestone, I'm holding a prize drawing for a Weber Traveler Portable Gas Grill in your choice of Black, Blue, Red, or Stealth Edition--a $449 to $499 value depending on the color. One entry per person...

https://www.chicagotribune.com/route-66-turns-100/ Hi folks, Member @Brad Olson brought this article to my attention: "The Chicago Tribune sent 2 writers on Route 66 to create a series of human interest stories. I was thinking about posting it in the Off Topic subforum, but one of the stops...

Johnny Cash.

Looks like it.

Had a chance to eat at The Butcherman BBQ at Sonoma Cheese Factory on June 17, 2025 and didn't have quite as good an experience as Richard S had. We arrived at about 12:30pm, so I was hopeful that fresh barbecue would still be available. You place your order up front in the grocery part of the...

Update: Alice's Smokehouse closed in 2021.

I learned yesterday that 43-year old Armadillo Willy's BBQ abruptly closed their Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, and San Jose locations yesterday, after having closed another San Jose location in 2022 and their Los Altos and Dublin locations earlier this year. This leaves only the San Mateo location...

OK, youse guys are hijacking this kettle thread with your booze posts. Please start a new thread. Thanks.

Another reminder...deleted several recent posts. https://tvwbb.com/threads/the-humor-thread.77072/post-1196938

I just finished watching Family Beef, a 90-minute documentary from KXAN-TV in Austin TX. I really enjoyed it, and I think you will, too, if you like Texas barbecue and its history. I knew much of these stories, but not all of them, and found it interesting from several different perspectives. It...

A reader (not a member) of TVWBB reached out telling me that he's developed a free, open source tool for tracking and analyzing your cooking sessions. It's available on GitHub at this link: https://github.com/SmokeNotes/SmokeNotes I have not used this tool and cannot vouch for it in any way...

Looks very good. :)

I enjoyed reading your trip report! Glad you enjoyed Jack Stack and especially Joe's, it was our favorite during our 2022 visit.

Our previous-previous home built in 1996 was on a post-tensioned slab foundation and as you say water, gas, electric, and HVAC came down through the attic space and walls. Water was not a problem given the moderate San Jose climate. Only sewer exited through the foundation.

Yes, we had to replace a few perfectly good pots and pans when moving into a house with induction. But I’ve got gas and charcoal grills as backup! Same for us.

We had a great hood but rarely used it, even though you’re supposed to use it every time. We only used it when cooking stuff with strong odors. I bet most don’t use their hood when boiling water, making oatmeal, rice, heating soup, etc.