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I guess things have changed over the years Sinker, and that's a good thing. I've had both hips totally replaced, one in '94 and the other in 2000, and your boss is right, the pain is gone within days but I was on crutches for a full 5 weeks after each surgery and that was the worst part of the whole deal.

Your right Brian, he was a great man and treated those who were down on their luck very well over the years. His son doles out the turkeys & Christmas cakes now. About 40 years ago my cousin & I owned & ran the Honest Ed's Santa booth taking pictures of the kids and Old St. Nick at Christmas. Ed Mirvish was a great guy to work for.

Another excellent day for you guys Dave, thanks for taking us along. Always enjoy your Quinte tales !!

Brian, tell your pop that hip replacement is a breeze. You've got a PM too.

Happy to hear it worked out for you, their a good outfit to deal with.

Quinte always produces hawgs, & that's another excellent example !! Great fish indeed !!

Probably Tiger Woods house right about now

How bout this nice Lund from our own classified section, it seems to have everthing your looking for. http://www.ofncommunity.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=38203

Bay Distributors in North Bay will look after you. Great folks to deal with. http://www.bwmarineproducts.com/baydist.htm

When YOUR happy TJ, were all happy

Some nice fish there, well done .

Very nice work Dara !!

I'm confused, you come on here and your 1st ever post is asking for our opinion of a TV show, and now that you've received alot of responses you don't seem happy with the answers you got

Was there ever any doubt that we'd reach our goal ?? This board always comes thru when one of our own needs a boost. Well done everyone !!!!

Seems like Tigers encounter with a hydrant is the most important event in the world this week cause that's about all any of the news channels are talkin about. Even while I'm typing this they've started another conversation on the radio about it. Maybe it's just me

Thanks for the laff John, funniest thing I've read today

I'm in for $100 and will get the cheque out to you in the morning TJ

F-is-H, musky hooks are big with big barbs and can do lots more damage being pulled back out of the fish than they do when their being driven into the mouth and cutting them is a very common practice. Once the shaft has been cut, the pieces are often very easy to extract. Safer for the fisherman & easier on the fish. Are you sure he wasn't removing the pieces after he cut them as I'd be very surprised if he was leaving them all in the mouth ?? Just my thoughts anyways.

I remember one episode where Charlie Ray was trolling for muskies on St. Clair. As soon a fish hit and he stood up and grabbed the fish'n pole, he said that if it wasn't for his quiet Honda outboard he'd never have been able to sneak up on the fish, and with his stable Crestliner he'd be safe fighting the fish in the big waves, and he was using his Mustads so it wouldn't get off and his Okuma reel would have no trouble reeling the big girl in and the Okuma rod was plenty strong and the Seguar flouro leader was invisible and that's why he hooked the musky and yada yada yada. In the short time it took him to land the fish he'd advertised 6 different products and I'll never forget that episode. I don't even watch that show anymore, it's just brutal

Evidentely this was the 1st November in 75 years or something that we had no snow on the ground in Toronto at all. Last nights few flakes came after midnight. Be nice to see an entire winter with no snow

I saw a trace of that ugly white stuff down in Taylor's Bush this morning Norm. That's more than enuff for me for the winter

There's a farm right across the road from our trailer park north of Peterboro and for years I'd hear them yelping early in the morning before sunrise, then one year they disappeared and I haven't heard them for maybe 10 years now. Still lots of deer & other critters around, so I have no idea why they moved on, but I always enjoyed listening to them in the early hours.

I do watch the show regularily because I fish for muskies almost exclusively, but as others have said, it's becoming nothing more than an infomercial for the baits he's using and that gets pretty boring after awhile. He's darned near as bad as Charlie Ray, but not quite. I did catch Bob's seminar at the Musky Odyssee last April and enjoyed that.

One thing I've found, at least in my neighborhood, is the HD has a lot of staff on duty if you need help with anything and for the most part are quite knowlegable, but the store is extremely busy, the parking lot is always full and the line ups at the checkout can be huge so it can take a long time to do any shopping. On the other hand, the nearby Ronas is practically empty most times with few shoppers, hardly any cars in the lot and no line-ups at the checkout so it makes shopping a breeze and I'm in & out in minutes, but if you need help or have a question, forget about it cause they also have almost no staff working. If you know what you want and where it is, it's great. I wandered around there for 15 minutes a couple weeks ago looking for a salesman in the door section. I've only been in the new Lowes a couple times (Warden & Eglinton in Scarberia) but it seems really nice and hasn't been crowded at all when I was there but maybe alot of folks haven't found it yet. Nice to have all 3 to choose from though.

Very nice and congrats on the new ride !!