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So while not directly about the spread I may try it on this anyway and I didn't want to start a new thread. My daughter phones me late this morning and says dad I picked up a treat for you at the farmers market in Carleton Place but she wouldn't tell me what it was. 15 minutes later she comes in carrying this flat bag and pulls out the most amazing looking rectangular loaf of fresh baked this morning Focaccia bread. This lady who bakes it creates a picture on top of the loaf with mostly veggies from their farm. The loaf was so soft yet dense with good weight. Turns out that the texture and flavour of this bread beat the looks and was safe to say the best I've ever had. No way I was going to take it all after her paying $15 and delivering it to me so I cut it in half for her to take it home. We both tried a piece right there and it was awesome. Well go figure when she got home she had to get into it and ate it all in one shot with not even butter on it. It was so good she couldn't stop. Well I still had a 1/4lb of pulled pork left over from the Smokebox so I knew what I was having for lunch. I sliced of two long slabs from the loaf, spread some of their home made BarB sauce on one slice and opened up a jar of hot mustard sauce I had recently bought at a local street fest. It had a good bite so I just put a light smear on the other slice of bread. I added some bacon fat to the pork and nuked it for 40 seconds, it came out sizzling hot and made for a nice thick pile on the bread. Well I make some damn good sandwiches but this bread along with that meat and those condiments put this one over the top, best I've ever had. Too bad they're not open tomorrow or I'd be getting more pulled pork. I do have some smoked boneless thighs in the freezer that I'm thinking will make an appearance though. So if anyone here is in the CP area Saturday mornings or at the Parkdale market in Ottawa Wednesday evenings I couldn't recommend this bread any stronger, it's that good. Cheers https://www.flyingmoonfarm.ca/

Another experiment for me that will certainly be on the list for each year from now on. This should appeal to all the garlic growers in particular. I am now down to growing 100 hardneck garlic a year. Each year I'm always looking for something to do with my garlic scapes that I harvest in mid June. I store them in plastic grocery bags with some wet paper towels in the basement fridge and they last a real long time. So with around 75-80 left I decided to experiment and make a spread/dip with them and it turned out great. So far I've had it as a veggie dip, on crackers with smoked oysters and smoked sardines, mixed in pasta after draining it and before adding my Puttanesca sauce and garlic shrimp and today as a spread on a sandwich with some fresh from smoker pulled pork I got from a local food truck called the Smoke Box that I swapped for a bag of smoked bread crumbs. So out of all my scapes I ended up with 4 cups of trimmed and chopped. I took 2 cups of that in the food processor down to a finer grind, removed it and then added 1 large vidalia onion and a over a cup of chopped wild leeks and ground them down before adding them to the mix. Then I took a half pound of feta cheese, a block of cream cheese, whipped that up and then added a good grind of black pepper and a good 1/4C of EVOO to the mix, enough to soften it up so it will just flow off a spoon at room temp. Then I added all the garlic/onionmix and whipped that for a couple of minutes. Out of the fridge it's definitely thicker. Did up the other batch today as I needed more cream cheese. Very happy how it turned out with a very unique flavour profile, my daughter found it quite strong but still liked it, my only hope now is that it will freeze well as I'll be vacuum sealing at least 10 of the containers and putting them away. In the meantime I'm sure I'll find some other uses for it, I've got some smoked chorizo burgers in the freezer that come to mind. Might make for a good salad dressing base too. Cheers

So I just talked to them and they are a Mercury dealer for sure but they were not aware that it wasn't listed anywhere on their website so he will inform the boss and get that rectified.

If you click on visit website for Bay Marine on that link they don't show it as a a merc dealer like Crowman posted. Someone screwed up.

Yea, just about anything you would use butter on with notable exceptions like pancakes, peanut butter and jam sandwiches etc. Fantastic on and/or mixed in mashed potatoes or most veggies and great to add in the pan when frying up onions, mushrooms and peppers for steaks, burgers and wraps. Adds a nice little twist to bruschetta too. Another thing I really like about it is that it keeps that same raw flavour unlike when pickled which I do like as well. Great for toasted tomato or blt, I always add some to tomato and cream soups too, the list is long lol.

Well better late than never they say. I finally got around to making up my Ramp compound butter this year, it's so amazingly good on so many things from soup to steaks. 4 lbs of butter done up in two batches in the food processor. Included was 1.5lbs of finely chopped wild garlic, 3 envelopes of fresh thyme dehydrated along with four trays of chives and green onions dehydrated and ground up. Seeing as it's somewhat whipped up even cold it spreads pretty good. When frozen and vacuum sealed it lasts for years in the freezer as I found earlier when I came across a surprise bonus pack I didn't know was left over. Added a few tablespoons of EVOO to one batch this time as an experiment which thinned it out some so I had to chill it more before making the logs. Bit of a messy job but well worth it.

That's a nice chunk of land you have there, must be nice. We know another guy Chris who has a cottage at the top end of the lake. Yea Derek liked it there as it wasn't crowded like a lot of trailer parks and there are only about 40 trailer lots, each with a large front and back yard. Plus the access to Bobs was a bonus. It's just the last few years with price increases and the ever increasing restrictions they add to the yearly agreements that have him ticked off. Not sure about the Americans, he's never mentioned that. He's now looking at maybe also selling his house and buying a nice insulated one owner 3 season cottage on the Miss and adding heat for the winter.

Yea I fished Kipawa for close to 20 years. One year at Corbeau my bud got a 10.5lb Laker mid afternoon and I got a 11.5 lb Walleye 10:30 at night. We took both biggest fish that week all out of my little 14 ft tinner beating out all the rich yanks in their big fancy boats. That felt good.

@CrowMan You're on Crow lake connected to Bobs lake right? My ex SIL has a trailer at Browns up for sale as increasingly strict regulations there have him fed up.

Just happen to be watching this atm. We really did have some of the best music in the 70's

What happens is the ethanol gradually breaks down the fuel line and the minute particles eventually gum up the works in the carb and filters. When changing lines in your case some good preventative maintenance would be to give your carb a good cleaning at the same time and replace the fuel filter.

Here's a how-to on creating a youtube channel. Once done you just upload your videos on to your channel and then you can copy the link and paste it here in your post. Cheers

Great pics. As for the videos you could easily load them onto youtube and then post the links here like I did with that elk soccer. Cheers

I used to have several outdoor subscriptions, even though some articles are more US based InFisherman is the only one I still have. They have the best videos by far as well. Dumped Outdoor Canada after noticing that the main editor was a flaming climate change alarmist, don't know how he kept his job there. Then I decided to go down to one and didn't renew my OOD sub. There's a good article there as well on how largemouth bass are getting harder to catch and studies done to prove how catchability rates are a heritable trait that gets passed on to future generations. A great article on ned rigs too and I'm not even half way through the mag yet. It's worth buying off the shelf IMO. Cheers

So I'm reading the June edition of In-Fisherman and there's an article titled Walleye Baitfish Patterns You Can't Pass Up by Gord Pyzer. One of the patterns involves using Cisco presentations and not always around the thermocline. "In Wabigoon Lake, Ontario for example, he's found Ciscoes feeding on schools of shiners in shallow waters along shorelines". They also talk about using large swimbaits for lunkers in areas where the thermocline intersects with main lake structure that attracts schools of Ciscoes. Another section talks about huge schools of shiners congregating in shallow sandy beach areas after long periods of calm weather and nailing Walleye all summer long early morning and late afternoon when no one else was fishing those beaches. Soon as the winds picked up however the shiners were gone.

I'd never heard of that 10 speed tranny before and after looking it up and seeing all the issues including class action lawsuits I'd never buy a truck with it regardless of how good that 5.0 l is. Hopefully the Op won't have those problems. https://www.vehiclehistory.com/articles/ford-10-speed-transmission-problems-to-be-aware-of

Forked tail indicates Fallfish https://foodjustify.com/creek-chub-vs-fallfish/

Agreed, if in doubt change it out.

I worked in the aviation industry as an avionics technician for over 35 years. Many of the instruments we did had a requirement to be tested for insulation resistance on a "Megger" tester which tests the insulation properties of wiring will under higher DC or AC voltages to see if the insulation breaks down. Some Instruments often had breakout boxes that would plug into the connector and every single circuit would be tested against every other one. This was also done to test the integrity of the wiring in rotors, stators, commutators and windings in transformers, motors and generators. There were also some tests that could be done using older analog ohm meters like a Simpson on the higher RX1000 scale that had higher voltage outputs that could detect insulation breakdown. I've even had motor stators test within tolerance but on the low end that barely passed speed tests, so I always replaced them. We also had a tester called a growler that you would place a rotor on and slowly rotate it to find shorted coils in the windings. So what I'm getting at here is that even though the windings on that rheostat could test out ok with a digital multimeter once power is applied there could be insulation breakdown that is causing your issues. Insulation can also break down at elevated temps as coils heat up. Here's a couple of articles on insulation resistance. Also keep in mind that any continuity test testing grounds should have less than 1 ohm readings, anything higher indicates poor ground. https://www.instrumart.com/assets/Megger-Guide-to-Insulation-Testing.pdf https://handtoolsforfun.com/how-to-check-insulation-resistance-with-a-multimeter/

I follow the Fish Ecology and Conservation Ecology Lab from Carleton University on FB and they just posted a link to this research article that they agree with. Some nutbar countries including Britain have passed legislation recognizing fish and even invertebrates as sentient beings that require protection under animal welfare regulations if you can believe that nonsense. Here's a link to the complete article. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23308249.2023.2257802 Here's a link to the Cooke Lab. http://www.fecpl.ca/

Specially where you work up north. Polar bears can scent humans from amazingly long distances and they are definitely on the menu.

The worse the black flies the better the trout bite they say. Enjoy your trip, should be a blast.

Right now any of the local locks like Edmunds or Kilmarnock will be busy with folks looking for Crappies.

Totally agree, on some sites that photo would get you booted. If you want a pic with a musky fish for them in season, simple as that. Or else get a pic taken as you land the fish.