If you like Patrick McManus or Roy Blount, odds are you’ll split a side reading Law Dog, who is a Texas Deputy Sheriff and an expert storyteller. One of his posts (linked from Cajun) started a big discussion in our house which MrsDoF actually carried over to her blog. That got me reading some of LawDog’s other posts.
Anyway, this is a story from LawDog’s youth, when he and his brother were making rockets from bamboo and homemade blackpowder. One of their 5-gallon batches of blackpowder set into a giant solid lump, which they needed to grind into a fine powder for it to work:
… Not to be defeated, my brother and I fetched our (steel) rock hammers, and with a mighty effort from our scrawny, sub-teenage muscles managed to reduce our war materiel to a large pile of walnut-sized chunks. Totally unsuitable for our purposes, and at a considerable expenditure in sweat (and sparks, I should add – steel hammers and a concrete driveway).
Anyhoo, somewhere along in our ruminations, we remembered The Coffee Grinder…
The LawDog Files: The rise and fall of the Nigerian space program
Home made blackpowder and an electric coffee grinder? OK, I gave you the link; I’m not responsible for what happens if you click on it 
He is a funny guy. I cracked up a bit ago at his story about the t-shirt
Jay when he could see sat here and laughed his butt off at Law Dog. He is waiting on his sight recovery to get caught up on the blog.