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Thanks - it was good to get rid of those old steaks. I don't how I forgot them in the trunk of the car for a week, but the marinade hid the smell. I'm sorry I missed PS's dinner. I was looking forward to it. I had to resolve a plumbing emergency. PS - who was that masked man? I mean, men. Well, maybe they were men. What's with all those masks?

It looks like one of those slippery U's has escaped. I'll bet it is [email protected]

I should have stuck around on Sunday long enough to hear this story in person. Disappointing, funny and sad all at the same time. For the property-owners, it's time to put up game cameras. Send the video of the guy pinchin' one off to the police, and upload it to Youtube and here. Somebody will recognize him.

US Coastal Pilot guide is the best source for this data. It only covers US waters, but that's fine for the Detroit R. The Detroit River is controlled, so its speed doesn't vary by much. Each speed given is an average of water flow from bank to bank and from the top to bottom. Current in the middle is about 1.5x the numbers given here: - Livingstone Channel Upper Entrance Light: 0.8 mph - Fighting Island North Light: 1.5 mph - 1.7 miles below the Ambassador Bridge: 1.6 mph - Lower end of Belle Isle: 1.4 mph - Peche Island Light: 1.5 mph Where abouts, specifically do you want to go in/out? .

I haven't known you for long Cliff, but I'm a pretty good judge of character; Carma is lucky to have you. Remember the old adage... if you need something done, give it to a busy person. Here's to many more years of you being busy.

I doubt they are really wired in series; it's just the way VTbass is looking at the lamps. Fluorescent fixtures fail because the tube, the starter (not many of these left) or the ballast fails. Start by testing tubes. This is probably where your trouble lies. Test each fluorescent tube by swapping it into a known working fixture. On a 4-tube fixture, take out one of the still-working pair of fluorescent tubes and replace it with each of the questionable tubes, one at a time. Bad tubes are your most likely problem. Tubes that have gone dark at the ends are either dead or soon will be. Change them before thay fail and you will prolong the life of the ballasts. A flickering fluorescent tube is usually caused by it or its neighbour being dead or close to dead. Change them in pairs. If either tube is bad, they might both flicker or one might flicker and the other stay off completely.. next check the starters. These are becoming rare. Almost all newer fixtures have no starters. The starter is a silver/gray cylindrical device. Looks like a capacitor. Two electrical lugs on the end. You need to do a swap, as you did with tubes, to check the starters. Most likely, you have none and can skip this step. Finally, ballasts. If you've eliminated tubes and starters, it's likely the ballasts. The trouble here is that new ballasts cost more than whole fixtures.

Mountain Equipment Coop (MEC) is another place to look, if you want really high-performance stuff, much like the Arc'teryx gear mentioned previously. But like Arc'teryx, MEC gear is pricey. You can easily be >$500 for jacket and pant. I think one of the best bang-for-your-buck suits is the Bass Pro Shops Pro Qualifier suit. And it's on sale right now.

Clever, and very funny.

Great news. I've been following it hopefully on the CGN forum. I wonder if rifle and shotgun sales will spike now.

Good point. That's quite possible. When I was a volunteer firefighter and we had a big barn or dwelling fire with numerous responders, it took a couple of weeks to get all the equipment back to its rightful firehall. And not every piece of equipment was labelled. I know that the article says "Along with having BFES written on the vests, they list the year the vest was purchased and an identifying number." Maybe I'm naive but I'll give the anglers the benefit of the doubt and hope more vests will be returned now that it's more public and visible.

Now wouldn't that be great!?! I'd trade Canada geese for just about anything. I'd take gobies and zebra mussels over Canada geese.

Can mine get lessons?

There's a bevy of trumpeter swans on Sturgeon Lake. I saw them just as ice was going out of the main lake near Snug, and again 2 weeks ago out in Goose Bay. This morning our little bay had 4 wood ducks and more ring necked ducks than I could count.

On a similar size Yamaha 4-stroke, I make a funnel each time by cutting the bottom out of a disposable water bottle. The plastic is thin and flexible and tucks right under the drain hole.

Unfortunately, whatever you buy, it will be obsolete 5 minutes after you get it home. Garmin still supports the 76 series and the maps are on micro SD cards so once you buy one, it's frozen. Topo maps and marine charts don't change much over the years.

You can buy the 3M Scotchgard film on a roll and apply it yourself. Here's one source Bulk 3M Film $8.75/ft on a roll that's 18" wide. There's also a 24" roll.

I've read that building adequate refining capacity in Canada might cost $100-billion and take up to 20 years to build. If the 8,000 members here will just kick in $12.5M each, we can get started right away.

Agreed. If you can find a GPSMAP76CS or CSx left on somebody's shelf, snatch it up. I don't understand why Garmin discontinued the GPSMAP76CS and 76CSx. I have both - the 76CS is about 8 years old. Colour, full waterproof and it floats. I only bought the CSx because it offered the micro-SD card feature instead of onboard storage so I could change back and forth between topos, road maps and marine charts without downloading from a laptop each time.

Ahh - the fuel pump. Thanks

Compressor? What is its function and where is it located?

I guess it sounds that way. I really do enjoy winter, even a "real" winter. But now I'm ready to get the boat in the water and the snow falling today was a bit depressing.

I'd be interested to hear more on how LEOs on Lake Simcoe could charge you for riding 2-up. Yes, 2-up is prohibited on the province's roads, and in Provincial parks, but how can that be enforced on lakes?

The snow that's falling is nice warm snow. It will bring the temps up somewhere in the Kawarthas. I like winter, but right now, I've just about had it with snow.

It's pretty hard to go wrong with any Honda. The quality and reliability are usually way above average. But you can't expect it to do everything well, so be sure the Pilot fits your needs fully. It is NOT a great offroad star, and its towing capacity is not as high as some competitors. I opted for the 4Runner, but the Pilot was definitely in the running. Nice vehicle.

Royal Distributing also has a store in Whitby, if that is more convenient.