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Thanks once again folks for all the well wishes, I most certainly appreciate your thoughts. As for the riding mower, this'll be the 1st time I've ever had enuff property to require anything more than a push model, but it's definetely on the shopping list and will be parked in the garden shed by the time the 1st blade of grass shows itself next spring. And GCD, your suggestion about not buying from the big boxes will certainly be taken. I don't take possession till the end of February but there'll still be plenty of snow around, so a snow blower is also in the works.

Thanks for all the great feedback folks, it's much appreciated. LOTSA room in that back yard, maybe once the snow melts we'll have an OFC g2g to christen the new digs Now I gotta go shopping for a snowblower.....

I've been retired from the Fire Dept. for 9 years but my wife loved her job & wanted to continue working, but we always wanted to get out of Toronto...(who doesn't ??) and move to the country once she packed it in and now the time finally arrived. We've had a house trailer at Lakefield on Lake Katchawanooka for 36 years now with alot of our best friends in the area and wanted to stay close by, and we finally found exactly what we've been searching for just 3 miles north of Yonges Point.....(10 minutes south of Burleigh Falls)..... and take possession in February. I thought long and hard about water front, but decided not to bother as I'm constantly towing my boat to different lakes all the time anyways, infact I towed my boat more than 2500 miles this year alone. Were right beside Clear Lake with only a dirt road between me & the lake, infact the water is only 150' from me If I want to lauch the boat there, it's only about 2 miles up the road to Kawartha Park Marina and that'll give me access to Stoney also. The house is only 8 years old and is in beautiful condition and is wired for a generator and has central air and also central vac. The property is 100' x 237' and at the end of the yard there's nothing but woods all the way back to hwy 28 a mile away. Gonna be a great place for me & the pooch to hike every day Anyways, here's a few pics of the new digs. I only took a couple and the rest are from the real estate website. I said I wanted country & I meant it........the road into my place A pic I took today....the house is actually beige but for some reason looks pink There's a circular drive in front and then the long drive up to the garage. I'm gonna have to buy both a riding lawnmower & snow blower The back with the full width deck Back yard......check out the garage Beautiful living room with wood fireplace Huge den Beautiful kitchen Master with ensuite, including a huge shower with built in lights, skylight and corner jacuzzi and walkout to the rear deck There's a couple more bathrooms, 3 more bedrooms, laundry, mudroom and a fully finished 8' high basement with a BIG family room downstairs. I think what really sold me though was the HUGE garage. It's 20' wide with remote door and a full 52' deep with a workshop at the far end. It's also fully insulated and has a propane furnace. I was in there yesterday and it was 70 degrees. Be a great place to build stuff and work on the boat all winter. There's more than enough room inside for my 19' boat, van & car. View inside And upstairs above the garage is a 20 x 20 finished loft that even has hardwood floors. Diane says that'll be my spot whenever I get outta hand Anyways folks, that's gonna be our new home very shortly and hopefully I haven't bored anyone, but I've waited a long time for this place and just thought I'd share it with you. If anyone wants me after February, you'll know where to find me

I've been using that 265W for a year now John and it's an excellent unit. The directions given are usually very accurate and the voice prompts are extremely clear. It's great when hooked up in conjuction with your cell phone and receiving calls is as simple as touching the screen, and to make outgoing calls is also only a couple finger touches in the units phone book. Sound quality is very good for both listening to incoming calls and also for talking to someone else. Amazing how the price comes down so dramatically on electronics as that same unit was $365 this time last year at Best Buy and Santa got it for me on sale for $300 BTW, The Source was selling it for $500 a year ago

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL Cliff, really really nice !!

I was across the Chemong causeway yesterday and the lake appeared to be mostly ice covered , although there's still a fair bit of open water in spots.

Thanks Beans & Jer, I appreciate the updates.

The Mrs. and I are heading up to Yonges Point, north of Peterboro in an hour, sure hope the snow conditions are better there than Haliburton & surrounding areas. Parka, boots, bags of salt & shovel are already packed though......just in case

Good to hear life is treating you well down there Steve & Merry Christmas to you & yours. You should stop by OFC more often though, you've become quite the stranger around here the last coupla years.

Every year when the ice starts to form there's a discussion on this board about folks pushing their luck and heading onto the ice too early and somebody going thru & drowning.....EVERY year. Jediangler is a good guy and I doubt he was trying to stir anybodies pot, it's just that folks are now going to be heading onto the Kawartha ice for the 1st time, in unfamiliar territory, and as mentioned by Raf, there's ALOT of current in some of the areas that will keep the ice thin while it looks good on top. New water.....new dangers

What about Canadian Coastguard standards, does your Crestliner meet them as that's probably what you should be more concerned with ?? My last boat was a Crestliner and the USCG rated it for a 90 HP while CCG only rated it for 50 HP so their sometimes quite different on their acceptible standards. I agree with JohnF, that if they did infact sell you a boat that didn't meet the standards, and your gonna have to give up much needed space to bring it up to par, then perhaps you ARE entitled so some sorta rebate or refund

Fantastic pictures !!

From Mark Bonokoski is todays SUN http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/...118291-sun.html

Thanks Roy, appreciate that.

Rick, how do we find out which version of IE were using ?? I think I've got 7 but not 100% sure.

I'll also be buying a new TV in the near future Ron and everyone I've talked to has said Samsung is the way to go.

Quality equipment sells fast

That's a great video by Roger & the boyz and always fun to watch every year.

Good to hear your feeling better !!

It's 3:00 AM and snowing here in East York now and windy too, but I think were only sposed to get a few inches here in town. 1st snow we've seen this year down here.

That's what makes em special

ferget it....

Kinger, we catch as many muskies at night as in the daytime, but it's a heck of alot more fun, specially when they hit right at boatside, as they often do, and you can't see them coming like you can in the daylight.

Clive, I always enjoyed your tarpon tales when you were living down south !!

I've always been 110% pro-cop, but crap like this is nothing more than an abuse of power and the reason soooooooo many folks have total disrespect for the police. Their sposed to be "Serving & Protecting".......not harrassing good folks who are trying to do the right thing by enjoying a few brews and then using a DD