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And a full windshield & stand-up top

You've pretty much won the battle now Chris....well done & congrats to you !!

HAHAHA

So sad...

Here's the picture. Not sure if were allowed to take pictures from other websites, but if not, please feel free to delete this post mods.

Last I remember, Bill Craig from the Ottawa River area still holds the Live Release record

I had either a coyote or wolf on my front lawn a couple months back but honestly don't know which it was. It was big, about the size of a German Shepherd and thick through the body with longish dark grey/black hair. I've seen plenty of coyotes but never one this big before. It came wandering down the road early in the morning and up onto the front lawn and when I opened the door to yell at him he took off. I'm over near Burliegh Falls but don't know if we have wolves around here or not, but I'm thinking I may be too far south for them

The old homestead is lookin pretty festive there Roy, and I still remember the great supper we had at that dining room table many moons ago. You should also give the crew a close-up look of some of your art work, it's more than impressive !!

Lotsa bears around here and I've had them in both the back yard & front yard and it's fairly common for them to wander down the road, but so far nobody has had any physical encounters with one. A couple months back though, we drove into town about 4:00 in the afternoon and got home 90 minutes later to find that a bear had come up the driveway and tore the downspout off the side of the house and actually ripped it in half. I've seen chipmonks go into the trough, supposedly to get the water, and I'm guessing perhaps the bear saw him go in there and was trying to get him. Nobody was home when it happened, but it coulda been nasty if someone came walking around the corner of the house just as it was going on. Here's a couple pics I took.

BIG fish for sure, very nice !!

If I'm understanding your problem correctly, your toilet is sitting too high above the flange ?? If so, you can get another flat flance from the hardware store and simply screw it on top of the existing flange to raise the toilet up enough to fit the wax seal in. I installed a new ceramic floor in the bathroom recently and it left the toilet too high, but the additional flange worked perfectly.

Fantastic collection of fishing tales as usual MB, always look forward to them. Best part of your year though has to be the accomplishments of Bren, truely well done !!

Happy New Year to you & yours too Mike. See you on LSC in about 10 months

And a Happy New Years to you & yours too Shadowfly.

And there's still nearly 3 months of winter to go Mike

Same here Steve, been in a couple times and was always treated very well. Infact, we drove down to the Oshawa store yesterday so my wife could get a new pair of winter boots @ 30% off and the sales lady went out of her way to make it an enjoyable shopping trip. Great store in my opinion.

1st, I have no idea who you are. 2nd, you never entered my mind when I made my post...see 1st above. 3rd, my facts are very straight.

Before retiring 13 years ago, I spent 32 years as a fireman in Toronto and a BIG part of the job is helping people who got themselves into serious trouble through misfortune, carelessness, accident or just plain stupidness. We'd assess the situation, figure out the best way to fix it and then do it. Never once in all my years on the job did I ever hear any other fireman, copper or paramedic say that a person should be fined for getting himself into trouble.....it's our job to go out and help them, that's why we're there and it's what we're payed to do. Emergency workers are on the job 24/7 and their job is to help people when the call comes in, not to judge them. Doesn't matter if they get trapped in a burning house, injured in a car crash or get stuck on an ice flow in Lake Simcoe. If an emergency worker sits in the station all day and doesn't respond to any calls, he gets paid exactly the same amount of money as if he'd responded to a dozen calls. It always makes me wonder where they come up with figures like posted in this story, where it cost Oro-Medonty (SP) $4300 to rescue those guys when the only extra expense I can see is the extra fuel for the trucks while they sit idleing on the shore. Personally, I think it's disgusting that these guys were fined because they got themselves into trouble and had to be rescued. But that's just the opinion of someone who was payed to help folks. And for what it's worth, I agree with EVERYTHING that Terry said.

Sorry to hear the news Jacques, condolances to all.

Greg, contact Superdad from this board for the ramp info. He was fishing the Reach just last week from his boat and should be able to let you know what's available.

Sounds like your getting hammered over your way Roy, but good to hear you guys are surviving intact. Nice being retired eh, and not having to drive around town in all that mess. We got about 5" here but it still took me a couple hours to clean everything up but that's OK, as I enjoy doing that kinda stuff.

Good to hear Santa treated you well Skip, must be that Karma thingy

Always enjoy your music Roger and have a great time in the sunny south. And the girls say "hey"

Just plain old egg nog does the trick for me, I luv that stuff, infact I think I'll go pour another glass.

Thanks Dave Me And thanks for the thoughts on Ed & Jim too Roy, that was nice of you.