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Sorry for your loss Chris. Pet's are family too!

I've only worked for four different people. The first was on the families farm until I was 16. In 1976 my Dad arranged an interview for me, with two guys at a garage; who needed an apprentice mechanic. Stayed with them all through my apprenticeship and writing for my license. I new there wasn't enough room ($ wise) for three mechanics; so I left them on good terms. The next day I got a job at a small two bay garage; the owner was stuck; his last mechanic quit without notice. I'm pretty sure that was the only reason he gave me a chance. I was a snot nosed 20 year old, waving a mechanic's certificate. LOL I stayed with him for about 4 years. Until he came to me and said that by the end of the mouth, I'll have 2 choices to make. Look for a new job or buy him out; he was retiring. So I bought him out and have been "self employed" ever since. Why the quotations on self employed; I have approx 4 thousand people in my customer file. That's how many employers I actually have. I'll never will get rich at this; but I was able to help put both my kids through university. My daughter is a lawyer working here in town. My son is an automotive engineer working in Warren Michigan and in this thread, he works for the dark side; GM. LOL He's the release engineer for North American rear wheel drive vehicles; anything that deals with engine mounts, transmission and body. He puts his OK on these types of parts, before they go to the assembly plants. There's been so many times; that he has told me that GM could and has come up on the quality of their vehicles; but it is the bean counters that are in charge. Kind of like the patients running the asylum. Dan.

Sad new Chris, really sorry to hear it. I do indeed remember Brook, she was a great dog.

Been in the trade now for close to 40 years Lew. My rep is all I have and yes I'm proud of it. The nicest part of this is. I never have to duck around the corner; if I see one of my customers coming towards me. LOL Dan.

I remember going into drug store for oil of Anise. Long strait hair mid back about 20 not sure why I got strange look from pharmacist .

That's sad, my bro just had to put his little pincher down for an inoperable fast spreading disease, 2 days before Christmas, life can really suck at the most inopportune times.

I just ordered a 25 pack unpainted 5mm of amazon.ca. They were $26.23 plus shipping. search tungsten shelt as that is the brand name of the jig Figured it would be a decent painting experiment and keep me busy over the holidays waiting for some ice. Last year I bought a few packs of tungsten fly beads from Sail, Cost me a bout $10 a pack for 25 beads. These can slip over the hook and are easy to epoxy to the back of the jig body so I just upgraded a bunch of the old lead heads I had already. Bought the 1/8 and 1/32 size to play with. Both seemed to work fine

There was a good solid 3 inches . 15 ft from the shore til the open water . 0/1, but what a beauty of a morning. Watched a couple of deer and a very healthy fox walking through the bush. Think I even got a sunburn on me face ..

He was one of the nicest guys on this board and it's always sad when we lose the good ones too soon.

I should of worn my waders, as I could of walked out to " My Island " and floated the river. LOL

I’m thinking it looks like John Powers too. He used to be outdoors writer for the Toronto Star and I’m pretty sure he used to live in Beaverton.

exactly, I know you're not happy with your Dodge, but I think you easily could have had bad luck with a Silverado or F150, Tundra or Titan too, it's a crap shoot, but these guys buying stuff from GM dealerships in and around Oshawa should actually be throwing Molotov cocktails through the front windows of the dealership instead of buying vehicles, our gov't sucks and is useless, all we've got left is our buying power, the GM dealerships around Oshawa should be dusting off cobwebs, but they're not, it's busy and business as usual, it's mind boggling

Many of you here surely remember my little girl Brook from our Lakair adventures. Sadly a week ago today in the early evening hours (Dec 16) I had to rush her to a 24 hour emergency center to have her laid to rest. She had developed what was likely a sinus cancer that spread to her lungs. R.I.P my Angel Baby. June 30 2007 - December 16 - 2019. Shown here with me at Lakair in front of Joey and Paul's tent.