kickingfrog

All neat sites, thanks guys.

So nice it had to be done twice.

You live in Shelbourne and Orangeville only about 25km/30minutes away? Quality of life is more important (IMO). Tens of thousands of people drive 4 times as far to go to work each day looking for their quality of life (that's open to debate). Take your time and find exactly what you want. BTW it can take 30 minutes for me to get across Barrie.

Look-up holdfast while you are there. I believe he is over near North Battleford. Sounds like great opportunity. Good luck.

Anybody read Carl Sagans book Billions and Billions?

Me too, although I'm not sure that it came across in my other post.

Hey, weren't you whining about three inches of snow on your street this past winter that wasn't plowed until the next day??? None of us likes paying taxes, and we would think $300 is too much if we had been paying $250 last year. The boat is insured so the direct cost to the force, and in the end to us, is reality small. Although the $25000 total price tag divided by the 130 thousand people in the city works out to less than 20 cents for ever man, woman and child; I don't wonder if it would be cheaper to just pay the bill instead of the increased premium going forward.

You've spent a lot of time thinking about this???

What have you used before with your braid? Mono or did you direct tie the braid? Could be your knot. Hard to say. Your style or fishing combined with your rod/braid combo may not suit the pound test fluoro. Could you have been overconfident in the fluoro and "horsed" the fish? I'm sure a few more people will offer some advise, good luck. It's no fun to lose fish.

Sounds interesting. I'll have to see what arrangements I can make. I'm cool bringing my camera?

How does this work? What is required of me as a "spotter"?

I was a kid the first time I saw one, thinking it was a house fly, I thought "How big was the pile of dung that that thing came off of?" Second thought was that it was a horse fly and "I don't want that thing to bite me!"

Upside down is not completely accurate. It was flipped over, with the console and the gunwale on the ground. If upside down is 180 degrees and on its side is 90 degrees then it was 120-150 degrees. I would agree that it must have happened turning from Cundles onto Livingstone or swerving to avoid something. I don't know where the boat was coming from, but if it was going to launch in Simcoe (as was stated in the article) it seems like they were taking an odd route.

I had to detour around this on Wednesday morning. The zodiac was upside down and I did not realize it was a police boat at the time (I don't rubber neck). I did think it was odd that there were big black police SUVs blocking traffic though. Three incidents in the time period does seem to be too many.

http://www.thestar.com/living/article/836216--science-answers-the-question-which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg?bn=1 Toronto Star Lesley Ciarula Taylor Staff Reporter Scientists wielding a powerful supercomputer have cracked the mystery of which came first, the chicken or the egg. The short answer: the chicken. The long answer is contained in the analysis called Structural Control of Crystal Nuclei by Eggshell Protein by British scientists Colin Freeman and John Harding of the University of Sheffield and David Quigley and P. Mark Rodger of the University of Warwick, published in the current journal Angewandte Chemie. “It had long been suspected that the egg came first, but now we have the scientific proof that shows in fact the chicken came first,” said Freeman. Sort of. What came first was a particular chicken protein found in the bird’s ovaries that governs crystal growth and how it spawns an eggshell overnight. The protein ovocledidin-17 (OC-17) is found only in the hard part of the shell, but scientists have long wondered what its role has been in the creation of calcite crystals and an eggshell. Using the U.K. national supercomputer in Edinburgh to simulate how the protein clamps on to a surface, the researchers also noticed that OC-17 sometimes just falls off on its own. The research took 5 million core hours of computer simulations using a tool called metadynamics, the team reported. What evolves is “an incredibly elegant process” of formation, detaching and more formation that manages to produce an eggshell within 24 hours. That knowledge, said Harding, “can also give clues towards designing new materials and processes.” Whether the Warwich-Sheffield solution definitively answers the age-old conundrum remains to be seen. A few years ago, a British geneticist, a philosopher and a chicken farmer pooled their resources and concluded that the egg came first. The first egg to have the DNA of a chicken would hatch into a chicken, said professor John Brookfield of the University of Nottingham in 2006. Chimed in scientific philosophy professor David Papineau of King’s College London: “If a kangaroo laid an egg from which an ostrich hatched, that would surely be an ostrich egg, not a kangaroo egg.” Brookfield and Papineau were speaking at the behest of Disney as a promotion for the film Chicken Little. But their theory has been the prevailing one. According to How Stuff Works, “Two non-chickens mated and the DNA in their new zygote contained the mutation(s) that produced the first true chicken. Prior to that first true chicken zygote, there were only non-chickens.” Alice Shirrell Kaswell took a different tack in her 2003 experiment. Using the U.S. Postal Service, she separately mailed a chicken and an egg. The chicken arrived first.

Sounds like a cicada (sp?) Most of us have heard them, less have seen one.

Very nice Joey! The best thing is that learning to take better pictures does not cost any money, just time and patience. Have fun.

I've used that set-up a few times the last few years. I use a half of a power or gulp worm and sometimes it is the only thing that will produce strikes.

Nice! What were you gettin' them on?

Not to take away from your post but.... Do you just happen to be a fan of the Mets and the Broncos or is blue and orange just your complementary colour combination of choice? Boise State? NY Islanders? Nice fish.

Picked-up a charcoal barbecue and here is the first dinner cooked on it: Beets in the foil And some fixin's ... and it was good.

Thanks guys. No problems with rabbits at this point, although I see them all the time walking the dog. I wonder if the dog's scent has something to do with it? Maybe the bunnies know something about my vegetables that I don't.

That's exactly why we didn't plant any this year, same with beets. If we expand it though, I would like some carrots. Herbs for sure next year.

Some of us have seen TJ in the light. What has been seen cannot be unseen. My little guy is only 18 months, haven't notice anything yet but I'm sure there will be a few along the way.

This our first year for a vegitble garden. Wanted small and simple 10ft by 4 ft. We'll see how this year goes and then see deside wether or not to expand next year. Tomatoes:Better boy, early girl and cherry Zucchini Green beens Pepers: green, yellow and red Cucumber My wife had some beens today and we'll have two of the zucinnies tomorrow. The zucchini plant is the one taking over the garden on the left. Zucchini I think garlic is going to go in next year for sure, and maybe some carrots.