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Dillon laid out Duclair real good in the sens game tonight, clean hit but he was vulnerable for sure. Right away Tkachuk goes over and has a little chat. Later Brady made sure he finished good and hard on a Karlsson hit. Message sent. As a Sens fan and an old time hockey guy I'm loving the fact that our top line winger is tough as nails just like the rest of his family and has no problem backing it up. He's getting real good on face offs too, they're not shy to use him on his strong side. In fact he set the family record tonight for fewest games to 25 goals, beating out his old man by 5 games. That is huge bragging rights in that household... Cheers

Tks Dougie. I have some white here too but wanted the coloured so it tints the meat. Cheers

So I was in the grocery store yesterday and saw pork picnic shoulders on sale at $.99/lb so I picked up a couple of 8-9 lb ones. Always wanted to try smoked picnics but have never tried it. Joined up smoking meat forums. Anyone here have any experience with them? I see some articles say to remove the fat and others say no leave it on like the ones you buy in the store. Some call for a long brining while others say to use injection to cut brining times but then they won't get the flavour from the added spices. First thing I need to do is to find some #1 pink curing salt. Cheers

Works fine on my windows pc.

Good to see you back, I've missed your posts, and not just on this thread. I hope things are well with you and your family. Cheers

Rick is that you?

For small engines I would recommend seafoam over stabil for sure. I actually use it all year as a maintenance and then add extra for winter storage. Stabil is a glycol based product that basically just sits on top of your fuel whereas Seafoam is petroleum based product which works better to prevent phase separation and actually cleans your engine when used, which stabil does not. Cheers

Gotcha.

Pretty good, never would have figured they'd get that hot. I do have one question though. It's very important that old smoke be allowed to escape and not get stale, hence the vents in the top. With your cover I don't see anywhere for the smoke to escape. Cheers

I did a double take when he said it, and then he said it again when Ron questioned him on the comment. This was right after he said the Leafs wouldn't get past the second round because they weren't tough enough.

According to Don Cherry last Saturday he's the best goalie in the league.

So long as ice is relatively dry there is nothing better for traction than wood ashes. I carry a pail full in both my vehicles all winter long and my driveway gets a healthy dose whenever we have icy conditions. Might not be the best for a real wet ramp but if you can get the ashes to stick to the ice it works great.

Quite normal for the Big Chief, cool temps and wind do not help. Here's how I look at it. My main purpose with the smoker is for flavouring, not necessarily worrying about cooking it, although fish will work in them fine. Whether it's ribs, back bacon, pork chops or poultry it's no problem to finish the meat on the grill or fry pan or in the oven to bring it up to temp. So even in the winter there is no problem with smoke production, which is all I mostly care about. Cheers

That Greta is the biggest joke of all the paid activists, she's not even a good actor. Soon as anything goes of script and she doesn't have her answer sheet in front of her she's clueless. Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment,. The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days." The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." The older lady said that she was right our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day. The older lady went on to explain: Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then. We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day. Back then we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the "green thing" back then. Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint. But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart ass young person. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off... Especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.

I do get what you guys are saying, but you are also assuming the money is going to get properly invested and make a pile of coin, but that doesn't always happen with investments. Plus its not like it's a whole year ahead, to my knowledge the NHL players contract still consists of 26 weekly payments starting October. Most signing bonuses are July 1, so there's 3 months of investment income Marner will love. Regardless, what I was pointing out is that players in states with no income tax take home a much larger percentage of their NHL paycheck. It's straight math, and it has a bearing on why NHL players are willing to sign smaller overall cap contracts which of course is essentially an advantage for those teams. It's not a Leafs thing. I said nothing about contract structure like signing bonuses or investing, you guys brought that up. Point has 8M in bonuses in his 3 year deal, nothing like Marner has though, 30M in the first two years is just crazy. Can you imagine the tax on that pay stub in Ontario! Anyways Chris, I watched 10 minutes of that and most of the next one too. He can say all he wants, there is a good reason those players are willing to sign in Florida. As for the Leafs in their present structure, I don't care what franchise it is, any team that consumes 44% of it's cap space in three players and with one pretty good goalie and one real good D a good push in to the conference finals is going to depend on those players staying healthy all year, better hope so. Btw weren't the Leafs the least penalized team last year? I think you're right, for sure they need more skilled grit mixed in to the mix. Cheers

Chris it makes no difference. Income for the year is income, regardless if it's up front or spread out. The bottom line is that there is no income tax, so after tax take home pay is way higher. That's why guys will take less salary to play in states like Florida, Texas, Nevada and Washington. It's pretty basic math, if you can't figure it out I would suggest talking to a player agent or accountant. As for signing bonuses some teams use them others don't. Ottawa just signed Chabot for 8 years with no performance or signing bonuses. Cheers

I would definitely be talking to the Office of Insurance Ombudsman https://www.fsco.gov.on.ca/en/insurance/insurancebulletins/Pages/g-05_96.aspx

You do realize it is a criminal charge. Sure he's more than likely to cut some sort of deal but it's not for sure, in the States they take some things far more seriously than up here.

Hmm, let's see here. 2:00 AM in the morning and a bunch of drunk guys start trying to get in her locked car. Plus she's ex military and suffers from ptsd. Then when she confronts them he drops his pants and moons her. But it looks like you seem to think that's OK, pretty sad.

Real classy guy that Mathews kid. His recent comment on the matter was sad, "or whatever". Even leafs fans have to admit there's no way he can now be named captain, even more so with Dubas as GM. He better hope this doesn't end up in a criminal conviction.

So we are now slowing down on the preserving. Crabapple juice is getting frozen, 3 more batches to do. I have a line on some real nice Concord grapes at an old Portuguese gent's place that I found a few years back. Real nice fresh eating and they make a fantastic grape jelly. A month ago they were still green so they should be getting close by now. Plus I have a pile of pole beans in the garden that I might do up a batch of dilly beans as I found some late dill. So far we've made Million Dollar pickles, Million Dollar relish, Mustard relish, Dilled carrots, and Crabapple jelly. Grape jelly for sure is coming yet. My storage in the basement needs to be straightened out yet. Still some jars from 2011 in there so I'll go over it before bringing all these down.

No state tax in Florida. Even though Points contract is 4M less than Marner he is only making 1M less cash in pocket the first year and at 9M in year three he will be making more. Cheers

The juice is for making jelly. Already have over 20 jars including some pints. I'm probably going to try and sell some for the first time, some as singles jars and hopefully some full batch orders. I've seen folks looking for apples and jelly on local buy/sell sites so we will see. Cheers

Well we ended up with 6 batches of pure juice all told, most of them providing over 8 cups of juice each. Takes me 90 min to prepare the apples each time. So far 3 batches have been canned and 3 bags of juice are in the freezer. So I went back to the tree and they're even more ripe now, all deep red. Picked 30 lbs in about 40 min so enough for almost 5 more batches. Still tons left on the tree, I haven't even climbed it yet. If I do go back I'll put a tarp on the ground, climb the tree and shake the hell out of it.

LMAO that was so funny.