Ambergris

Bad handle design is a common complaint for the Back to Basics mill, if it's the one I'm picturing. White hard plastic, very vertical, with a flat handle instead of one that flares out to the side and lets you put some weight into your cranking? The one I'm thinking of is not designed to break up large, hard grains like corn. In an emergency, you could put the corn in a pillow case and hammer it good, then put the hammered grains through your little mill.

Another: Q: How many autopsies have you performed on dead people? A: All the autopsies I've performed have been on dead people. Attorney: Now, all your answers have to be oral, okay? Kid witness: Oral. Attorney: Okay now, what's your full legal name? Kid witness: Oral.

Begin where you can. There isn't any other place to begin.

We use an old Corona to crack whole corn for the chickens, or to break up cracked corn for chicks. It is very fast and easy. It will not grind flour, though. My guess is that if you have a mill that says it grinds hard seeds like corn, but that it won't grind large seeds like corn, you need to run your corn through a cheap, fast mill like the Corona before you put it in the flour mill.

Tea tree oil is from a myrtle-like tree in the melaleuca family. This is closely related to the melaleuca that is taking over the everglades, but as far as I know the weed-melaleuca is not the same one they get the oil from.

The owner of the bent can store sees you come in and says, "There's some rice [vinegar, oil, beans, sea salt, pasta] in the back that hasn't been unpacked yet."