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You definitely have to sort thru the people replying to adds but I got lucky this time, and each person I dealt with was great.

We'll discuss it on the West Arm next summer Phil LOL

Couple days ago I had a few things laying around here collecting dust and figured somebody else could use them, so I posted them on Kijiji. The last item was picked up an hour ago and I sit here $805 richer. Life is good

Saw Rob's wife on the tube last night and the poor girl looked like she was shell shocked. Terrible thing for his wife and kids to have to go thru.

With 650,000 guys blasting guns at them, they don't have a chance to become adults.

I hear ya Cliff, a group of us did alot of serious snowmobiling for about 10 years and even back then it was disgusting how much garbage was thrown around the groomed trails. Pretty sad actually.

Just my thoughts Cliff, but if there's as much garbage thrown on the trails as you say, and if I owned some of that property, I'd want it closed to those guys too. Always only takes a few pigs to spoil things for everyone.

I can put up with Rob, I just wish his brother would shut up.

Yeah, I'm getting pumped for spring

Always good to see folks helping animals in distress.

I just got home from the service in Lakefield, and even though the weather was miserable, the turnout was more than impressive. Nice to see so many school children there too.

I stored my boat in a barn for 10 years and always put a couple bowls of mothballs in it and never once saw any evidence of mice, and we all know how mice like barns.

My Dad served 5 years in the Navy during WW2 and spent alot of time escorting convoys across the Atlantic, doing their darndest to keep the German U-boats from blowing up the Merchant Marine ships. Sometimes they were successful, sometimes they weren't. Three ships blew up close to my Dad's one night killing everyone. That's Dad on your right, covered in coal dust, after coming off watch in the engine room. His friend beside him was killed not long after this picture was taken. Dad's ship, HMCS Kitchener, taking a pounding somewhere on the stormy Atlantic This is my Moms brother who was a bomber pilot over Europe and was killed in 1942 along with his entire crew when their plane went down. This picture was taken around 1939 when he delivered airmail to the small towns around Southern Ontario. My grandfather, Dad's dad, spent the 1st world war fighting in the trenches of France with the British Army. He was injured by shrapnel but survived the horrors of trench warfare went on to live a very long and happy life. Most of my uncles also served including one who spent 3 years in a Japanese prison camp in Burma where he was starved and tortured every day he was captive. I'll be going to the Memorial Service tomorrow as I do every year and as always, I have much to be proud of. Dad home on one of very few leaves.

When we were kids we were visiting my uncles house and my brother and I were in the basement. My uncle came down and noticed us looking at his shotgun hanging on the wall. He took it down to show it to us and the damn thing fired. The 12 guage blast hit the concrete floor right in front of my brothers feet and blew the concrete shards up at him. He wasn't seriously hurt but had small cuts all over his legs. Of course, the 1st thing my uncle said was "I din't know it was loaded" I still think of that day and shudder at the thought of how close my bro came to being seriously injured or killed. It was a very long time before my family spoke to my uncle again.

Rob Ford's scheduled to speak at the Toronto Remembrance Day service tomorrow, but I sure hope he has the decency not to show up. His presence would do nothing but detract from what the service is all about. But that's just my opinion.

A bait that's neutral buoyant works really well this time of year John. A few long slow twitches then let it just hang for a few seconds, then start twitching again. They'll normally hit right after the pause.

This time of year I like big weighted twitch baits worked slowly John. Slow cranked Jakes and Believers are also good in cold water. This is assuming your casting.

I think your ideas may be different than mine John LOL

Nice work

Doubt if their senators George, I don't see a trough anywhere.

50 odd years ago I knew an old man, basically a hermit, who lived in a log cabin in the bush near the s/e corner of Algonquin Park on the Bonnechere River. 70 years before I met him when he was just a small boy, he looked out the window of the same old cabin at sunrise and saw what he thought was a bear at the waters edge. His dad wasn't around so he got the gun and shot the bear. He ran down to the water to find that it was actually his dad he'd killed. Tough thing for a young boy to carry with him for the rest of his life.

It's odd, but when that plane came over so low and at that time of morning, the 1st thing I thought of was a plane in trouble. I was sitting here at the computer at the time and it sounded like he was only a couple 100' above the house. This Herc buzzed my tree tops a couple years back and this mornings fly-by sounded like he was just as close to me.

There's Herc flies over here most days Wayne but if the missing plane left Cornwall at 5:00 last evening I doubt that's what I heard this morning, 10 hours later.

Good to hear from you Geoff, I was wondering where you got to.

A plane flew very low over my place about 3:00 this morning, and I spose I'm sorta on the route he would have taken, but I guess the time line doesn't fit. Hope everything turns out OK for him.