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At the end of the day, it's just going to be what it's going to be. I live across the road from a police officer and his family (three kids between 10 and 14). Their house has been the local hub of activity for neighbourhood kids (not mine!) since mid April. Past three weeks have been business-as-usual, kids coming and going all day long, adult friends in and out. The sad thing is, that psychologically opened the door for everyone else in the neighbourhood to go and do the same thing. Next door neighbour? People over every day. Other side neighbour? He has a couple visitors that come and go. Backyard neighbours? Yeah, they're partying with people too. Meanwhile, I'm here with my three younger kids just keeping our heads down and letting it play out how it will. My Dad (70) had to drive to Barrie a couple weeks back, so he stopped by to say hello. We kept social distance, didn't even shake hands. You're either going to take it seriously or you're not, and let's hope that if you're not, that you're not going to **** us all over. Regarding working from home, been doing that for the better part of a decade now. The chance to watch my kids grow up, be around for all events, and not deal with the stress and expense of commuting is the best.

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Ah sorry, I intended to also say...testing that boat on a nice day will tell you very little. An underpowered boat that is loaded with gear/people can be stopped DEAD by big waves. The impact of the wave and the boat suddenly going “uphill” can be too much for the outboard. That is when bad stuff happens. Nobody ever plans on getting caught but it happens to everyone.

The whole things nothing but a farse OI, you don't even need to know how to start or operate a boat !

Anybody from my address closer than 6 ft. My case wife are chairs are within touch. Anybody not from my address 6ft and more. My boat is 8ft wide and 20 ft long. So I meet my buddy at ramp . I fish the front he fishes back neither of us need any help landing fish or with equipment. So about the same as always.

Sometimes it takes another to point out how the other half live. So true that small apartment living during a lockdown would be exceptionally difficult. I am fortunate to have outdoor space and different indoor zones to move about in. My “covidiot” comment was not directed at people in general, but rather the large group of people willfully breaking the safety guidelines given to us.

Welcome to my club. but maybe the bugs are getting less each day and they will return to eating lures and jigs

The name callers are a big problem with society today. If you dont agree with them they call you names. Why, because that is all they are capable of. I suggest that people try some critical thinking if they even know what that means now a days. This is what happens when you dumb down society so much that we are left with genetically mature children can't cope. We need more adults.

Dang Fish, 10 hours on Erie and not a hit?

Well there's your answer "guys at Canadian Tire". Next time ask them if they have any outer tubes.

I know what you mean, I have a younger couple next door that works at a kitchen cabinet place, of course every weekend there are different people over that stay the night, sometimes the whole weekend, sitting around the fire and not even 2 feet apart. Complete nitwits when it comes to keeping the distance.

Even worse, a particular “high end” bass lure company based out of Japan that likes to charge north of $30 a lure has some of the worst hooks in the entire industry on their baits...nothing mega about the quality of their hooks at all. my favourite experience was the time a fish bent a hook out and the lure came flying out of its face right into my hand past the barb.

How did we ever manage without writing a test and getting a Pleasure craft licence??

Well, it took me three tries to find a place that would fix a tire with an inner tube. When I picked it up, he told me it there was not inner tube, he justed needed to replace the valve... I have no idea why the guys at Canadian Tire thought it had an inner tube.

I actually specifically clued into the “work from home movement” about 5 years ago when I saw a couple of Toronto’s biggest auditing firms move entirely to a hotelling based structure. Deloitte built an entire 40+ story office tower down near Bay Street within the last 6 years which literally does not have a single permanent office space in it. Every space is “bookable” for people to come in and have meetings or work if needed. The major group insurance firms in toronto have also closed their offices or removed entire floors within the last 2 years. They have forced their employees into working from home at least 3 days a week. all things considered the concept of commuting to a desk job is perhaps the biggest waste of time, money/resources and carbon emissions probably in existence in North America. Generally speaking, anything that is wasteful specifically monetarily is cut off once a solution is available. I thought it would take another 10-20 years for the boomer generation to totally retire before this movement really took off. Quite literally looking at the office I work at, the teams with older management want their employees in the office every day. Looking at their work habbits they are also the same people that use a pen and paper to take notes, keep a lot of files hanging around and will have meetings about things that could simply just be emailed. You can’t blame the guys this is just how things were done their entire careers. You wouldn’t want to be in the office printer industry either, paper is inherently very hard to “secure”, expensive and just outright wasteful/polluting. I’ve already been looking into “satalite” city based real-estate and looking at places like collingwood I think you can see the movement has already started. heck even living in parry sound, you are only 2.5 hours from the city, that’s not a bad commute to do once a week for a meeting if the real estate prices are pennies on the dollar compared to toronto. my company sent out an email on Friday with a survey outright asking “we are working very well from home, would you continue to do so even after the pandemic” just as mentioned above, I think management is taking notes and realizing the immediate cost savings of reducing toronto based office leases. this is a great thing for the environment and people’s mental health. Going to be a it on the oil and automotive industries! Cheap gas for everyone though!

Double standards rules the day. On a tour of a Ford plant today in Michigan guess who was the only person that refused to wear a mask?

I'm just hoping someone owes me a beer for showing a real ticket!!

Wrong Gauthier then.,.. This one was a dude.. From southern Georgian bay detachment. Got me coming out of hillsdale doing 140 in a 50. Didn't ticket me for speeding. but gave me a ticket for an expired plate!!! Then told me to go home, they found the guy.