I carry no phone An aspiring Luddite In a wired world.	Jeff Berry is an early adopter of the Internet and the Web, a late adopter of Twitter, and declines to adopt Facebook. With the death of Google+, he's experimenting with federated platforms . He admins a medievalist Mastodon instance, and can found on the PlusPora diaspora pod. He hates cell-phones.

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Not Medieval But Sort of Related Well, as you can see, we have a backyard now. We haven't had one of those in a while. In NYC we had a common courtyard, which isn't the same, and even before that, my wife lived in an upper story apartment in Boulder and I had a couple of square meters of concrete out the back door which, hardly counts. Effectively, I haven't had a backyard since I moved out of my parent's house in 1980-mumble. This has limited my ability to cook over fire. This, in turn, contributed to what some may have regarded as my strange compulsion to go early to a large medieval re-enactment every year and spend about a week cooking things over a fire. All sorts of things. Goose. Chicken. Pizzas, one year. Cassoulet, pretty much every year. And now - and now! - I've got a backyard, with a porch even! Accompanying this realization, came a revelation. I will most likely have a backyard going forward, for the foreseeable future. Furthermore, if we move back to the States, we will have space in a shipping container going spare. The conclusion was obvious- buy something that I could use for cooking over fire! Ideally, this would be something that might at some point serve for medieval re-enactment as well as backyard ... cooking. (And if we have to ship it back Stateside, well, OK.) And - lo! - there it is, pictured above. (For those of you that read the other website, this is just a bit before the chicken went on for the open-fire chicken.) It's a steel box, with detachable legs, a pot-hanger, two spitjacks, a spit, and a grill. And, so far, so good. (And yes, part of this post was simply an excuse to use the panoramic image generating software I found.) Luddite'sLog, 15 July 2014 © 2014 Jeff Berry

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