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Well I became a father on New Years morning at 5:34am. 3rd baby born at the Barrie Hospital that morning. 3 weeks early. Ryan Michael and mom are doing great, dad's a little stunned. All should be home in 3 days or so. I am going to try hard not to crash the site with endless photos, but I'll put up 3 and try to stop. new aunt Dad! The bass was this big! This was the second photo I took of him.

No idea about ice conditions, but getting there is easy. Just past Casino Rama in Longford Mills there is a road that takes you right to the Lake. Google maps with the satellite feature works great too.

http://www.nhl.tv/team/console.jsp?id=28468

Have you seen Roy??? I say that those are the 1 3/4 lb lobsters.

The lobster market has almost completely crashed. There should be lots of goods deals. Great for us, crappy for the lobster fishermen.

Very nice! Just don't do what Wayne did at Lakair with his Speil special this year.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081225/...ke_trout_jell_o Weird news story of the day: By The Associated Press ADVERTISEMENT BOZEMAN, Mont. - A researcher at Montana State University says Jell-O, ultrasound, microwaves and electroshocking are among possible solutions to eliminate lake trout in Yellowstone National Park. Lake trout were introduced illegally into the park and threaten native cutthroat trout in Yellowstone Lake. To find the best way to destroy lake trout eggs, Al Zale received a grant from the National Park Service. He and his collaborators will analyze several potential solutions and recommend the best. If Jell-O is chosen, Zale says it would probably be unflavoured. He says workers could spread it over the fish eggs to smother them. Zale adds it would seem efficient to get rid of the eggs during spawning season, which occurs primarily during late fall.

Gerritt jonesin? Stay strong, and if this time doesn't work, try again.

Today, every time I lock my car the manufacture installed alarm goes off. Usually this means that a window or door is open, or not completely shut. This isn't the case today, but I wonder if the blowing snow has got in some place? I don't give a rat's butt about the alarm, but I (and I'm sure my neighbours) don't want it going off all the time. Can disable it? Nothing in the owners manual about that. Ideas?

My wife (who is 8 months pregnant) says I'm not allowed to go fishing with you.

My dad would say: Some of us are meant to hang. Glad it worked out.

Save Our Souls and abandon ship!

Thank goodness none of us think this way. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...al_gam_mostview COLIN PERKEL The Canadian Press December 14, 2008 at 3:22 PM EST TORONTO — D'oh Canada! We hardly know you. The prime minister is not our head of state. We are not a representative republic. We do not elect our prime minister directly. A new survey for the Dominion Institute taken in the aftermath of this month's political crisis suggests a woeful ignorance when it comes to our system of government. For example, results of the Ipsos Reid survey show 75 per cent of Canadians asked believe the prime minister, or the Governor General, is head of state. Bzzzz — wrong. A new survey suggests Canadians are woefully ignorant about their system of government. Seventy-five per cent of Canadians surveyed identified the prime minister, or the Governor General, as head of state. Bzzzz — wrong. It's the Queen. It's actually the Queen. Only 24 per cent managed to answer correctly, according to the poll provided exclusively to The Canadian Press. Marc Chalifoux, president of the Dominion Institute, said he decided to commission the survey in light of the furor caused when a coalition of opposition parties threatened to topple Prime Minister Stephen Harper's minority Conservative government. Mr. Harper's defensive strategy was to ask Governor-General Michaëlle Jean to prorogue, or shut down, Parliament until late in January to avoid what likely would have been a vote of non-confidence. With such unfamiliar words such as “treason” and “coup d'état” entering the Canadian political lexicon, Mr. Chalifoux said he wanted to gauge the understanding people had of what had transpired. “Canadians certainly were interested by what was going on in Ottawa, but lacked in many cases the basic knowledge to form informed opinions,” Mr. Chalifoux said. “We found a lot of ignorance.” The institute drew up four basic questions: • Who is the head of state? • How can Canada's system of government best be described? • Do Canadians elect the prime minister directly? • Can the governor general nix a prime minister's request for a new election? “These questions we're asking aren't just trivia,” Mr. Chalifoux said. “These are part of the basic tool kit of knowledge that citizens need to function in a democracy.” Given a choice how best to describe the system of government, 25 per cent decided on a “co-operative assembly” while 17 per cent opted for a “representative republic.” Canada is neither. Only 59 per cent correctly picked constitutional monarchy. In a similar vein, 51 per cent wrongly agreed that Canadians elect the prime minister directly. In fact, Canadians elect local members of Parliament and the leader of the party with the most members by tradition becomes prime minister at the request of the governor general. “Our school system needs to be doing a better job of training young people to be citizens,” Mr. Chalifoux said. One question that did elicit close to unanimous agreement was about the Governor-General's power to refuse to call an election at the request of a prime minister who no longer enjoys majority support in the House of Commons. A full 90 per cent responded — correctly — that the Governor General does have the power, which Ms. Jean may yet be called on to wield if the opposition coalition does defeat the government with a vote in the Commons. Overall, the survey found the lowest levels of knowledge in Quebec — 70 per cent of Quebeckers, for example, wrongly believe Canadians directly elect the prime minister. Only 35 per cent of Atlantic Canadians made that mistake. The survey of 1,070 Canadians done Dec. 9-12 is said to be accurate to within 3.1 percentage points 19 times out of 20.

Someone who needlessly fears the worst after using the internet to self-diagnose an ailment.

I wonder if he has ever seen the wonder boner?

I've been to that rink for hockey. The game finished around 5pm, he may just be getting out of the gravel "parking lot" now. Good rink for hockey, but if you put a rink that far from downtown you could at least pave the parking lot. Micky mouse.

Son of a gun!

Thanks for the help. A quick trip to the vet and $150 later and the dog's fine. The blood is all cleaned up. Now all I have to do when my wife gets home tomorrow from a shopping trip in Grove City, PA is explain that I spent more than her (remember my broken tv?) this weekend. The backyard looks a bit like an animal met its demise though, lots of blood all over the clean white snow. What ever will the neighbours think?

I've got a black lab with a broken nail on his fore paw. He's outside hanging out in the snow. It's broken off right at the base and bleeding bad, at least I kept him off the carpet. Does this need a trip to the vet?

Checks and balances would need to be used, but there is no way a profit would be made. Costs (tax payer dollars) would only be partially covered. It is more about hitting the crooks where it might hurt them, in the pocket book. It can be argued that since they have no ethics anyway, banning them from hunting or fishing is almost point-less.

Nah! A 23 footer is too much boat for me Wayne. It would be nice to see this type of thing taken more seriously though.

Thanks for the replies. The tv is going to be placed, that was never in doubt. I was just curious if there was any value to someone else for a 36 inch CRT tv (what a monster next to the new technology) that while only 5 years old is figuratively a dinosaur. And if you can't read between the lines: Does this piece of junk have enough value that someone would be willing to come to my house to get rid of it? While we're on the subject. Does anybody else get a kick out of these manufactures that try to sell you on a tv that they claim "will last well over 15 years"? Nothing is made to last 15 years (see above for proof, that tube cost more than the one I going to buy now), much less electronics that are out of date within 5 years.

http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/ArticleDi....aspx?e=1321198 Barrie anglers reel in fines Posted 7 hours ago Two Barrie men are facing fines following a recent fishing trip to Severn Sound. The pair and their 23-foot vessel was seized after a trip Nov. 3. Authorities say the pair were spotted fishing and failed to stop for a Conservation Officer and a Southern Georgian Bay OPP officer conducting a Joint Forces Marine Patrol. After a brief pursuit, they were stopped at Waubaushene and found to be in possession of fish of prohibited length as well as not having all of the required boating safety equipment. This resulted in a seizure all their fishing gear and their catch. Gregory Kempling, 46, pleaded guilty to and was convicted in Penetanguishene Court on Nov. on Thursday for Failing to Stop for Conservation Officer, Obstructing a Conservation Officer of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act, and Possessing Fish of Prohibited Length. Kempling was fined a total of $1,400 and received a one year fishing prohibition. His fishing gear and the fish that were caught were permanently confiscated and he was also fined in regards two offences dealing with violations against the Small Vessel Regulations of the Canada Shipping Act. The court further ordered the vessel that had been seized was to be released after the court proceedings. Brandon De Forest, 22, pleaded guilty and was convicted of Unlawfully Making a False Statement to a Conservation Officer of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act and received a fine of $35.

Big deal, you should see the parking lot at the local rink after the jr hockey game. I'd love to play like that, but the gas and tyres would cost even more than my fishing tackle.