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And some ‘river’ shots!

For 24 years I worked on tourism advertising to bring our American Friends and many other nations here. I’m sure that this situation has not helped the businesses that depended on that income. Probably has closed some of them. Hopefully things get under control south of the border and we can welcome them back in the next year. We do need to protect out own at this time.

Sorry to hear JD. Can they figure out if it can be fixed?

Walking back to Regal Road Public school after a trip to the library up Dufferin street.

Your mudder will be chasing you!

Beautiful work!

Too bad us ordinary Canadians who have built this nation will be left out and a few who know who will do well on our expense. Canada should be united, yes provinces, have a certain identity as I have with my family, when it comes in times like this we should unite as a Nation.

I understand that we have to import and export. Some things that concern our Immediate needs like we have experienced should be built in CANADA. especially our health needs. BC produces the pulp to make masks, we ship it to the states, WHY not keep some and have a manufacturing plant. Just like our oil goes south. YES. I do support, import and export; some things we should manufacture and store for ourselves. All nations should in case the supply line is broken. Which it has. Yes they are expensive to produce, so allocate a few of our TAX dollars to the cause. I have extra supplies stored for my own use in case of an emergency. The essentials. For example power goes out and you out of groceries you have to pay CASH, so keep a small amount of cash on hand. My son in law ran a CT franchise out of his phone when the power went out. I learned a lot in 2013! My wife loves to bake and at the beginning of this years I found 22kg of flour at 8.97 I bought three bags for Easter baking. WHY did you do that For she asks, hei cheap and it lasts. We are down to out last bag and will NEVER see 8.97 again. keep well and remember your grandparents made tomatoes and peppers and all sorts of stuff for the winter. WE rely on our supply line too much. I was home this year and my small garden produced tomatoes, hot peppers, lettuce, zucchini basil, parsley and even some potatoes that had gone to seed and planted. Keep well JD. I will be doing more next year if we are still on this earth.

Lew, when this thing started and we had shortage of PPE supplies my first thought was why do we depend on others for this stuff. We have a giant empty GM plant in Oshawa Fully powered, why not divide it and make all of the equipment we need, here in Ontario. People work and no chain supply. BC supplies the raw material for masks which we send to the US and other places so we can buy it back and at one time they were trying blocking us getting it from 3M. Does this make sense? I read a while back that some of the plant is being used, lets use it all and we can export. Hopefully it will get better soon but we must be prepared. In 2013 we had the ice storm, I made it a point to Make sure if it happens again I will have power. Always had food stock on hand. I will check my purchase from COSTCO to see where they were made. THEY ARE CHINA MADE, 50 of them!

Thanks for the link. better than the Oshawa company I found. They had none.

Any chance of getting a link, are they the place in Oshawa?

The last ones I bought were called MAINSTAY, they have another brand also. two rolls, 32 feet close to $12. I also use the 8 inch. I’m going to test the ziplock one of these days. as for figuring out the size to make them, if I’m doing chicken from COSTCO, I separate what I need to pack, I measure it with the scale on the bag and cut, leaving 2 inches to go in the vacuum holder. Usually works out ok.

Shag, I have two of them had them for years. The reason for the second one was, when you do a lot they get hot and stop. Probably a safety thing. I saw the second one at a great price and bought it, just in case it failed for good. YES FoodSaver rolls are expensive. I have fo found another brand at Walmart and it work just as good. My butcher uses regular bags a to pack our meat. I asked him for a few to test. They say regular bags Don’t work. I used a small piece of plastic straw in one corner. it did seal it but have to cut the straw that sticks out. I use it a lot.

Princess auto had one on sale last week. May still be on. I have had one for over 10 years and the best thing I ever got. CT put them on sale next month for fall preserving. Great for roasted peppers.

Love the bird shot. We don’t have any like that here. not that I have seen. Good shot, where it ever it was.

A few more in my garden. Great shots you have 3Nancy3. Welcome to the board.

I have a New Nikon B500 and a B300 and also collect cameras. i have a few the oldest is a 1904 Kodak with a bellows. I have few Brownies from the 50s i thnk I do like close up nature shots . . .

What is going on? i reply and get quoted and it’s posted?

Fred did not eat it! You may have other varmints! This is out of my realm to think that a tomato goes missing in the middle of the night. Terry! Just joking . . I have tomatoes, zucchini, peppers (very hot) Swiss chard, Basil, parsley . . The only thing I have lost is my beans (rabbit) some lettuce (same rabbit) I like him so he is safe. I have lost a rabbit to a fox, head was across the street, leg in my driveway. They were driven out hopefully by a guy cutting his bushes and found their den.

Nice catch, I took two of my grandkids at the Isabella St pier last Friday and they caught dinky perch.

A River runs rhough it, just like the one we know down the hill.

Like this?

Should have brought the speedos and went swimming. we are having rain steady flow. Beach fishing?