ProVarinati Diner & Saloon and Beyond

[Bea-FL]

Where there is a will, there is a way, but it comes highly warned against. I know of at least one ProVari owner who followed advice given and he used the " button" on the negative side of the battery and fried his beloved ProVari. They will sizzle and fry and be dead forever if you insert a battery with reverse polarity.

RTD used to sell a plastic disc with a brass nub in the center to act as a button, they no longer exist, but one could easily be made up with a circle cutter and a small section of brass rod, the small metal " button" can be secured to a hole in the center of the disc with super glue or epoxy. The discs could me made from any number of materials like plastic, tag board, or even balsa wood, using a circle cutter. Personally, I see no harm if a button was made for each cell and secured to the proper side with some small piece of battery wrapper shrunk onto it to secure it, tape could also do the job.

I have thought this through in the case of what to do if button top 350's ever become difficult or impossible to source.

Please don't put a button on the wrong side of a battery and fry an irreplaceable ProVari! You were warned, it has happened.

I would never dream of messing that way with a battery. I think it's a stupid thing to do.

I too worry that some day 350s might be hard to find although Dan from RTD assures me it won't happen as far as he knows. Still if you think turning a flat top into a button top the way you described is safe I will save the post for the future.

I vape almost exclusively my provari minis and so would find myself in deep doodoo if those bats were to vanish.

Thanks for the help.

We did AKR in 06 and loved the diving. We did the dolphin dive and a great shark dive there. The only thing we didn't like was our first room. We tried to save a few dollars and booked a non ac , cheaper room and woke up the first night with palmetto bugs literally all over us [emoji51] . I can dive with and love sharks, but one single palmetto bug turns me into a scardy cat. When I tell you there must have been 50 in that room, including on the bed, I'm not lying...anyways the little skiff that takes you off the key was not operating that late, so we couldn't get in contact with the office to change rooms, so we slept on lounge chairs in the middle of the room....anyways we got a great room after that and the rest of the trip was awesome!!!! The shark dive there was the highlight of our trip, we have pics and I shot video....your right, so many great places, so little time....I think my fav in the Caribbean is the Cayman islands, also wall diving and cayman brac was just incredible

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Don't feel bad about how you feel about Palmettos. I used to keep a tarantula in an aquarium on my desk when I worked at the Cinti Zoo. I have kept snakes as pets and once when a black rat snake found its way in my chicken house I picked it up and took it outside. When I was a licensed wild bird rehabilitator I had to raise mice for the birds of prey in my care and had to dispatch them to their heaven before I fed them to the birds. But if a palmetto finds its way in my house I turn into a screaming meemee. Just ask my DH…he says I have a special voice tone when I call him to take care of it.

 

[coldgin96]

Judas Priest: Single Cuts

 

[Bronze]

I knew you divers would hit it off.

 

[vapdivrr]

I knew you divers would hit it off.

Just talking about diving gets my blood pumping. I love it so much, as if it's in my blood.....as if I remember when our species was in the sea....

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[vapdivrr]

I would never dream of messing that way with a battery. I think it's a stupid thing to do.

I too worry that some day 350s might be hard to find although Dan from RTD assures me it won't happen as far as he knows. Still if you think turning a flat top into a button top the way you described is safe I will save the post for the future.

I vape almost exclusively my provari minis and so would find myself in deep doodoo if those bats were to vanish.

Thanks for the help.


Don't feel bad about how you feel about Palmettos.

They are the worst for sure, they just creep me out bigtime...and they fly at you. [emoji16] [emoji16] [emoji16] [emoji16] [emoji16] [emoji16] [emoji16] [emoji16]


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[ENAUD]

Just talking about diving gets my blood pumping. I love it so much, as if it's in my blood.....as if I remember when our species was in the sea....

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As a kid I was mesmerized by Jacques Cousteau and his underwater adventures. I got a blue rubber dive mask one year as a birthday present and taught myself how to free dive. I could go for a minute easy underwater breath hold diving.

I never thought I would be able to really scuba dive, coming from a rather limited means family living in New Hampshire, but as an adult, the opportunity presented itself, and my first dives were at Sunnapee Lake with borrowed gear with a next door neighbor to my ex MIL's place. Later I took a resort course and dove in Aruba, not certified, but went deep and even went into a DC3 at 90 feet down there. I was still a free diver, and visited the sugar boat wreck on a snorkeling tour in Aruba, I started free diving down to about fourty or fifty feet, and the snorkel boat crew was freaking out and screaming at me to stop. Lol

One time we were in Cozumel and visited a cenote, I had my mask and fins and a light, and I went down free diving about 60 or so feet into a tunnel, I managed three free dives before my wife totally lost it and said ...no more please lol, I haven't done any free diving in a while now, because as a diver, on the trips, I am always loaded with nitrogen. Free diving while loaded could be very bad for me. I knew how to swim before I knew how to ride a bike, always loved the water...

 

[vapdivrr]

As a kid I was mesmerized by Jacques Cousteau and his underwater adventures. I got a blue rubber dive mask one year as a birthday present and taught myself how to free dive. I could go for a minute easy underwater breath hold diving.

I never thought I would be able to really scuba dive, coming from a rather limited means family living in New Hampshire, but as an adult, the opportunity presented itself, and my first dives were at Sunnapee Lake with borrowed gear with a next door neighbor to my ex MIL's place. Later I took a resort course and dove in Aruba, not certified, but went deep and even went into a DC3 at 90 feet down there. I was still a free diver, and visited the sugar boat wreck on a snorkeling tour in Aruba, I started free diving down to about fourty or fifty feet, and the snorkel boat crew was freaking out and screaming at me to stop. Lol

One time we were in Cozumel and visited a cenote, I had my mask and fins and a light, and I went down free diving about 60 or so feet into a tunnel, I managed three free dives before my wife totally lost it and said ...no more please lol, I haven't done any free diving in a while now, because as a diver, on the trips, I am always loaded with nitrogen. Free diving while loaded could be very bad for me. I knew how to swim before I knew how to ride a bike, always loved the water...

That's awesome!! I wish I had gotten into free diving a bit more, but never did. I'm so envious of that ability , to be free of gear and to be closer to that environment is wonderful. I just never practiced it because there was always scuba gear around me as a child and at that time didn't interest me, But now I feel free diving to be the ultimate interaction. After diving in just about every major dive destination in the Caribbean , a few in the Mediterranean, and a lifetime of diving the keys, ft. Lauderdale, and WPB, there is one more I need to do, which is something like Indonesia, micro Indonesia, fiji, truk, or something like that, which is probably the best diving in the world. You ever ?

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[ENAUD]

That's awesome!! I wish I had gotten into free diving a bit more, but never did. I'm so envious of that ability , to be free of gear and to be closer to that environment is wonderful. I just never practiced it because there was always scuba gear around me as a child and at that time didn't interest me, But now I feel free diving to be the ultimate interaction. After diving in just about every major dive destination in the Caribbean , a few in the Mediterranean, and a lifetime of diving the keys, ft. Lauderdale, and WPB, there is one more I need to do, which is something like Indonesia, micro Indonesia, fiji, truk, or something like that, which is probably the best diving in the world. You ever ?

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Funny you should mention Fiji, the group we dive with has been planning a trip there for a year and a half, they fly out in five weeks. We decided it's just too far, too expensive, to go there. I think total air travel time is twenty hours one way.
I've never had the opportunity to see the Florida keys reefs, I think if anything, we may be looking closer to home in the future. I need to do some research on where and when to go in the keys for the best chance of hitting it right, if you know what I mean.

 

[vapdivrr]

I agree, it would be a long and expensive trip, but hopefully I will get a chance one day. The keys have some great dives, but nothing like the wall diving in the Cayman's, bahamas, or the sort of wall diving in roatan, coz . The reefs are nice but nothing like bonaire or corussae but if you like wreck diving, they have the best!!! I just always dove there because I grew up in ft. Lauderdale and it was easy. Same with the whole east coast of South Florida, reef diving is good, but not great like those other places you have been, but like I said, excellent wreck diving...best time is summer for sure, probably may, june, july, august, for the keys right now, not sure because of that latest storm.

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[coldgin96]

Megadeth: Hidden Treasures

 

[kas122461]

Hey @ENAUD I finally took your advise last week and bought a 50 LB bag of beans, I bought Pinto beans. I ended up making some today, after soaking them over night. They were very easy to make, and good after adding some spices. I wish I would have done this earlier, a very good thing to have on hand. I was getting very tired of rice and Ramen noodles.

KAS

 

[DPLongo22]

Megadeth: Hidden Treasures

That was GOOD!

 

[ENAUD]

Hey @ENAUD I finally took your advise last week and bought a 50 LB bag of beans, I bought Pinto beans. I ended up making some today, after soaking them over night. They were very easy to make, and good after adding some spices. I wish I would have done this earlier, a very good thing to have on hand. I was getting very tired of rice and Ramen noodles.

KAS

The beauty of dried beans is they will keep for many years, so easy to store, all you need is water and heat and a little spice, a ham bone or ham hocks, or even neck bones, or bacon really add a lot of flavor. The bigger the bag you buy th cheaper they are sometimes I will put a can of chopped up stewed tomatoes in the pot, with some chilies or chilli seasonings. A chopped up onion, carrots, celery can also go a long way in adding some body to the flavor.

 

[kas122461]

The beauty of dried beans is they will keep for many years, so easy to store, all you need is water and heat and a little spice, a ham bone or ham hocks, or even neck bones, or bacon really add a lot of flavor. The bigger the bag you buy the cheaper they are

Yeah I read a bunch of recipes that use ham or bacon. I just made it with what spices I had on hand, crushed red pepper, black pepper, Chili powder. Cajun spices & salt. I read a lot of other recipes I would like to try when I get the ingredients.

KAS

 

[Katdarling]

That was GOOD!

Hey @ENAUD I finally took your advise last week and bought a 50 LB bag of beans, I bought Pinto beans. I ended up making some today, after soaking them over night. They were very easy to make, and good after adding some spices. I wish I would have done this earlier, a very good thing to have on hand. I was getting very tired of rice and Ramen noodles.

KAS

So was THIS!

 

[CMD-Ky]

The beauty of dried beans is they will keep for many years, so easy to store, all you need is water and heat and a little spice, a ham bone or ham hocks, or even neck bones, or bacon really add a lot of flavor. The bigger the bag you buy th cheaper they are sometimes I will put a can of chopped up stewed tomatoes in the pot, with some chilies or chilli seasonings. A chopped up onion, carrots, celery can also go a long way in adding some body to the flavor.

Oh, my lovely wife took a ham bone from a Christmas ham, made some soup beans and ham...my goodness. Some of the best meals that I have eaten are home made using simple Kentucky recipes pass down from generations. Good stuff.

 

[CMD-Ky]

Now this not a bean story but when I first moved to Kentucky, I was working in a small rural hospital in the out back. At Christmas some of the women brought in country ham and beaten biscuits, now this ole Kansan thought he had died and found heaven despite many transgressions. I fell on that stuff like a crazy person. I will never miss a gathering that promises a home cured country ham and home made beaten biscuits. (Much to Mrs CMD's humiliation.)

 

[Bea-FL]

Oh, my lovely wife took a ham bone from a Christmas ham, made some soup beans and ham...my goodness. Some of the best meals that I have eaten are home made using simple Kentucky recipes pass down from generations. Good stuff.

Please share some of these heirloom recipes.

 

[Bea-FL]

Has any of you ever tried Panera's black bean soup? It's a vegetarian recipe and as a vegetarian myself I've made a copy cat recipe many times. It tastes spot on to the original. I suppose you could add some sort of meat in it.

Copy-cat Panera black bean soup

1 onion, chopped
2 small veg bouillon cubes
1/2-1 teaspoon cumin
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 1/2 cup boiling water
1/4 large red bell peppers
2 cans black beans, undrained

In a pot, combine the first six ingredients; simmer for 10 minutes. Add half a can of beans, salt and cumin; cook for 5 minutes. Puree soup. Add the rest of the beans to the soup. Combine the cornstarch with 1 1/2 tablespoons of water. Add enough water to make soup 5 cups.

Enjoy!

 

[coldgin96]

That was GOOD!