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To date, I have yet to find a suit or shell that keeps me dry. Best suit I bought was a little over $200 at MEC some years back. Did a great job keeping out the rain. Just was not breathable enough. I always end up soaking wet no matter what I wear.

Never wise to let some button pushing bureaucrat have more command and control over the details of your lives.

 

Personally, I sleep quite comfortably at 60F. My wife wants 75F or warmer. Those with circulatory problems need warmer. Many cancer patients need warmer.

What right does some snot nosed bureaucrat have to make the lives of the frail and sick more uncomfortable.

How is this any different than the waterside bar at many marinas. Pull up in the powerboat for a burger and brews, unslip and cruise away.

Everybody go down to Niagra.

 

 

PS natural gas is where its at

They don't deliver natural gas to rural locales beyond the pipelines, so it is not an option.

I'd be hard pressed to decide who to take for such an adventure. My son or my mother.

 

Mother loves to fish as much as I do. You'd also gain a few pounds if she starts cooking

Ya. I've burnt 1600 littles of oil this season.

 

Time to put in a wood stove me thinks.

 

Just need to convince wifey...

Simple argument. Do you want to stay warm next winter??

Cliff, even if you are fortunate, and play the game just like you were told, you still get screwed. Banks and governments just change the rules. Remember when the government promoted GIC's by making them tax free ?? The tories changed that in a hurry, and it cost folks a lot of money when they went to cash in on retirement. Your pensions are now only as secure as the government allows. I'm not the only person to lose a pension because of a government loophole. The Black's reneged on 50% of their Dominion Store employees pension when they sold out to A&P a few decades back. Too bad we can't cut a politician's pension in half. Government loophole made it legal.

Its not easy trying to fight back. For the older generation, I do not know what to suggest.West Niagara is blessed with two of the best support organizations/foodbanks in the country. They support over 1000 families in need. Folks are going to have to relearn old skills and learn to be adaptable and creative once again. I am fortunate in having been taught many old world skills. I will be relying on them a little more, and trying to impart that knowledge to my children, nieces, nephews, and the generation now being born.

 

I've heard that 10% retirement saving goal before. It's not realistic living on minimum wage and spending upwards of 60% of income on rent. Not realistic for those on a fixed income.

 

I followed that rule and had 2 different pension funds. Thanks to government created loopholes. One employer was allowed to borrow against the company pension. The company folded and so did the pension. With the stock collapse a few years back, my locked in RRSP, taken out from another past employer in trouble, lost 70% of its value overnight. First news of the mess was that all payments from the RRSP fund was being suspended until such time as the fund recovered sufficiently. Those already drawing on that pension were cut off for almost 5 years. They have only now started paying out again. I guess enough of the previous recipients had died off.

Big government and big business does not give a hoot about what happens to the average citizen

4 simple words all men MUST memorize and USE frequently when living with a woman.

 

OH

 

YA

 

RIGHT

 

SORRY.

 

If used in different combinations, they will save your marriage and life.

When I got married, the uncle ( once known as Oi Sydney!} took me aside to impart the following words of wisdom...

 

There are three things to remember for a successful marriage:

Yes Dear

No Dear

Anything you say Dear.

Armed with these three phrases, and depending on how you use them, your wife can be putty in your hands, you will avoid stress, and I have found that 2 minutes of monotonous repetition of the magic phrases will drive her nuts and have me free and clear to go fishing for as long as I need.

Stop in at the Brass Rail before leaving the city and 1 of your criteria will be met! LOL!

That dump is still around!!! I remember back when jerry K was the talent agent for them and 1/2 the peeler bars in the city.

This is my pet peeve.(ya been down this road) Do you pay to enter your sporting goods store? NO.

 

YA YA not everything over one roof. Oh wait,some do.LOL

 

Ya these shows charge the vendors to have booths. . It,s a cash grab from the top to the bottom.

 

Thing is,the bottom guys have to feed more,cause the top feeder is taken more then they should.

 

Bring the vendors in,NO CHARGE.. Ask say 10 dollar entry per person. Kids under 12 free,WAIT, 15 and under.(Their kids still). Now you might get more people coming in and find some deals.

 

Minimum wage is going to $11 dollars an hour in June. How many spend more then that on ONE LURE.?

There also lots of smaller local shows that go on around the province. Not the big showy splash of the big Toronto shows, but affordable, with deals to be had, and supports your small local businesses.

Also have to take into account that some wives are never totally happy. We are about to make our 4th move in 26 years. The bride has had pet peeves about every home {and every vehicle} we have had. Even when she has had the final say. I'm sure I will get the same routine 2 months from now LOL

Are you using lighter or heavier rigs. I fish lighter setups, thinner lines, finesse hooks. Horsing don't work

Boy would that be an experience.

Don't know many wives who have been happy with "homes with potential"/ fixer uppers. If you do go that route you better have a solid game plan and timeline to follow. Two of my neighbours bought project houses. They wound up selling before completion as part of the divorce settlement.

Should make for another extended maple syrup season.

Stay there Cliff. Another possible blow coming Sunday.

Got to admit I love strolling through BPS. I've seen the big tank 100 times and I'll still gawk at it 100 more. No different than the MNR tanks I've stared at during the Sportsmen and Fishing shows these past 50 years.

I also get to see a much wider selection of product, and ideas, than any where else but the trade shows. Once in a blue moon I may buy something that catches my eye, or for the right price. Like the 1/2 price fish fryer I picked up a few years back.

 

I'll probably enjoy strolling through the new Cabelas just as much.

I paid $10 for my last set of 4 rechargeables for the camera. 3 years later and still going strong.

You still have to peel out of it to do your morning constitutional

Sadly Canada's history of veteran services has been rather pathetic over the past 40 years. It starts with Trudeau and has raised a shameful face with every new political generation in office.

Our government asks our citizens to put their life on the line, give their all, and die, and once they are no longer needed they are discarded like a used snot rag.

They signed up to defend Canada against her enemies. Our government, in turn sends them off to die in god forsaken holes like Cyprus, the Golan, Somalia, Serbia, and now Afghanistan. I am so tired of hearing of Canadians losing their lives for the sake of some dirtbag politician's agenda. Once they are no longer useful/ spent/ broken, the government casts them off, tries to cut obligations, and pretend they don't exist.

I watched enough friends come back in boxes, not a single government representative at the funeral. Little or no support for their families. The veterans of this nation have every right to be angry

 

I pray my nieces and nephews in uniform do not have their lives so poorly used.

Even with a well insulated garage, you only keep cold out if there is heat within. Where walls are shared with residence, there is heat transfer and added shelter from external cold. A free standing structure needs some heat source to stay above freezing, especially in this more severe winter. I had one small electric radiant heater with fan, and it kept our fully insulated 2 1/2 car garage hovering at zero during cold snaps.

My wife tested at a facility in Malton and I was floored. She's a fine driver (Australian who drove all over the world, left and right wheels)) but the testing there…well I just shake my head. f I recall correctly, it was a closed system of roads etc.. She did have to hit Airport Rd and real traffic as part of her exam but to test in a closed loop with no real traffic and distractions is just baffling and explains much. Not sure if this place is still open but it should be shut down. Learn on real roads in real traffic, test on real roads in real traffic.

You are supposed to imagine there are other vehicles, and pedestrians in the roadway. You "imagine" you are parallel parking between two large vehicles. It is not an ideal way to assess driver ability, but it makes it easy for those driving schools that focus on teaching you "to pass the test" rather than how to drive.

One of the reasons for the Malton facility, according to one MOT supervisor, was that it was a safer alternative/option that reduces risk and hazard to the MOT employees. I was amazed when told just how high the accident rate was during driver testing in Toronto some 25 years back. Would you believe one a week. That's a lot of tax money paid into lost time and WSIB.

what it comes down to with the 4 ways is people turn their heads to look at the lights, your natural instinct is to go where you're looking ( try walking a straight line while looking to the left or right) so if you're looking at the blinking lights at the side of the road, you're going to go to the lights, like andrew lovehusband says, look where you want to go

You are quite right about it being a natural reaction/reflex. It takes a lot of training and discipline to not travel in the direction you are looking. The military spent months drilling that particular habit out of us so we would march in a straight line without deviation despite having our heads turned to the right or left

You are in the right place. Judy wants you to adopt her next winter