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Watch this space for Brian's clearance sale in the summer! 😁 Good stuff, bud! Doug

and we are still flying those choppers, right? 😉

Buy TWO at that very reasonable price! For the same amount, you could have a three bedroom cottage in Toronto...........or a two bedroom fixer-upper in Vancouver....

There are times to shoot with a camera and times to shoot with a rifle. I think you lucked out! Did you go back to town and buy a lottery ticket? Doug

Back home again and at the computer after a few days away. Back to Barry, I said a porcine shape (like a pig), not a porcupine, I agree there is no way that is a porcupine. Thanks guys for the thoughts on trail cams. I will NEVER buy a Spypoint again, I had three of them. After a total of 5 new replacements for the original 3, they refused to honour their warranty. Absolute garbage, the worst trail cams I have used. (They were NOT cellular, just regular trail cams). Doug

Last year was the year of dying cameras for me, I had three just decide to pack it in and I replaced them with Bushnell Core DS no-glow flash trail cams. So far I am very impressed with these trail cams, and excellent battery life. But I have been thinking of getting one or two cellular cams for security purposes. Can you recommend a particular brand of cellular cams? Doug

It was the tail that sent me down that train of thought.....I agree it is a porcine shape but that looks like a bushy tail. Maybe it will appear in daylight one of these days! Doug

Good on you for this generous venture! Happy New Year! Doug

Well, it is a pretty wild night here. We had some venison sausages for supper, and my wife is doing dishes while I fart around on the computer. I might stay awake until 9 pm!!!😲 HNY folks! Doug

Wolverine? NOT a bear Shoulder height seems low for a wild boar? Doug

attaboy, BRIAN!!! And a Happy New Year to you as well! Doug

Whetting my appetite for sure! Thanks for sharing. Doug

Would that be a parade where some of the participants wear rainbow colours? Brian has a real rainbow there for sure! Attaboy, Brian! Doug

You want to see people going out on thin ice, Owen Sound in the late 80s/early 90s was the place to see anglers doing LUNATIC things like lying on the ice with their rod arm stretched out to a hole in half an inch of ice. Or KICKING a hole in the ice on the Pottawatomi River to fish running water below. NUTS.

The earliest in a year that I ever ice fished was 19 November, in about 1979, on a lake up in the foothills around Pincher Creek, Alberta. The ice was crystal clear and you could see down to the bottom, down to about 15 to 20 feet, but not in deeper water. It was kind of spooky walking on that! Doug

I was JUST thinking, I bet there is ice up there where limeyangler lives. I envy you that! Rifle season is done here for deer, and I might hunt the smokepole season I guess. But bring on the ice, I am ready! Doug

Absolutely! I keep telling my buddy that he should bring back MORE than 50 pounds after his (annual) elk hunts. Doug

My wife has been away for a bit, and I was at deer camp for a week, so I have been enjoying LOTS of wild game. But I rarely take pictures of my meals, even when my wife isn't around. (If she is, she wonders what the heck I am doing taking pictures of the food...) One dish I dreamed up and would make again was ground venison, cooked with diced vidalia onions, with green peppercorn sauce and acini de pepe pasta. First meal was all that mixed together. On the rebound, I took half of the leftovers, put it in a loaf pan, added a layer of shredded mozarella, a second layer of the meat and pasta mixture, topped it with a generous layer of mozarella, and into the oven at 325 for three quarters of an hour. Very toothsome. A hunting buddy shot a nice bull elk in BC this fall, and gave me some elk steak. I pan-fried it to just barely rare, then cooked a couple free range eggs in the pan juices. Those eggs had been collected less than a couple hours before they went into the pan. That one I did photograph. And for the record, I actually had a SALAD with it! Doug

What time do you open? 😉 Doug

Hmmmm. My wife suffers from migraines, and has for her entire adult life. For about five years, the neurologists had her on various elimination diets. The worst one was no onions, tomato, or something (garlic, maybe)...........so I made food for her, and food for me and the kids. Lots of that stuff freezes just fine, so I would make a LOT of something she could eat, and freeze individual portions for her. Just sayin'....... Doug

Tagged for interest. WOW, just freakin' WOW!!! Doug

How did you like the cherry smoke? I use three pans of maple for my bacon. I do use cherry sometimes on other things, and had an awesome batch of cherry smoked steelhead a number of years ago. The bacon looks great, and reasonably lean. Did you trim the pork bellies? Doug

Very good news, Dave, and I am sure lots of us here let out a big breath of relief to hear this joyful news. Doug

Yes, now as I am looking at it on a computer monitor and not an itty bitty phone screen I can see that....... Doug