Big Cliff

We tried to get insurance for Sue so we could travel down South in the winter. We were totally up front about everything (she has had pretty serious health problems) the lowest quote we could get for her was $1000.00 a week and it would not cover pre existing conditions. Now you know why we aren't going down South in the winter any more.

You always trap more bears with honey than you do with vinegar

And it'll sit in the garage for 7 or 8 months a year, only get taken out on nice days when it's warm and the sun is shining, you'll be paying a premium for insurance because it's a convertible...... Sue always wanted a 57 T-Bird, we did the math, it would cost a lot less to just rent one when we wanted to go for a ride LOL.

Sue had an appointment with her cardiologist the other day. As usual they reviewed her medications and he went over the test results with her; the general day to day how are you coping kind of stuff. The whole thing lasted about 1/2 an hour. During their conversation she was telling him that our washing machine quit and it was $95.00 just to have the guy come and tell us we needed a new one, took him less than 10 minutes. The Dr. just laughed and told Sue that with the new health care cutbacks he actually gets paid $29.00 for the visit with Sue. Wynne wastes money like there is no tomorrow but our health care is getting destroyed, how does this moron get away with it?

From CTV News: OPP say they handed saw highway violations this past Holiday weekend were almost doubled from last year. http://bit.ly/2aJNktr

Panty hose 100%.

Oh Lew, I have to say I know the feeling, been going through the same thing myself for the last couple of years now. Gave my portable ice hut to Brian, sold my boat to a neighbor for less than I know I could have gotten for it, gave my son and grand son-in-law about half my fishing rods and tackle. At some point you realize that it just doesn't make sense to keep things sitting around all year, pay insurance on them, store them and maintain them for the amount of times you use them. It is nice to know that when we pass these things on to others they will be used and appreciated! Good fishing!

And that is why I don't do much work on outboards, special tools are needed to do a lot of it!

I don't do a lot of work on outboards but when working on lawn tractors (and any other small engines) I use a feeler gauge. Loosen the screws on the coil/trigger, place a 12 thou feeler gauge between the coil and the flywheel, rotate the flywheel until the magnets line up with the arms on the coil at which time the coil will snap tight against the feeler gauge, tighten the screws, remove the feeler gauge/flywheel and you should have your 12 thou gap.

When you say "paddled" were you in a canoe or in a power boat and in trouble? If in a canoe then had those boats slowed down they'd have thrown a much bigger wake than staying up on plane. I had a couple of guys in the river here a few years ago in a canoe right in the channel, I went past them they screamed at me so I stopped and came back and slowed down. They almost upset from the wake. I explained why I had passed them and kept the boat up on plane and when they understood they were fine. If you were in a power boat and having problems did you try to signal any of the boats that passed you or did you just expect that they should understand because you were paddling? While I tend to agree that they could/should have done things differently, I still wouldn't leave them hanging out to dry. I have towed lots of people that ran out of gas, they should have been better prepared too but sometimes things just happen. We are all human after all! Sue and I had a close call on Scugog a couple of years ago. We took a day trip from our place up to Port Perry, I knew we had plenty of gas to make it without any problems. We got to Gorskies had lunch and went to fill up for our return trip; They were out of gas (and I wasn't sure we had enough to make it back home). Fortunately there was a marina on the other side of the lake that did still have fuel and we were fine but I was starting to run out of options.

Beans, after all these years now you tell me! I haven't taken a ME day in so many years, if I'm not working at work I'm working around here or helping friends (which I totally enjoy too).

I use to fish pike a lot when I lived in French River. Most of the lakes I fished were shallow so they warmed up quickly one of the most productive ways I found was to troll just off weed lines and keep your lure shallow and in the prop wash (if you couldn't see your lure flashing you were too deep. Williams gold/silver was my go to choice and many times I fished with other guys that were fishing deeper, I was pounding fish they were only getting the odd one. The other thing I would sometimes do is back up to a weed line, then blast off about 30 yards, stop and cast back into the prop wash. Pisses off the big pike and they smash anything they see for the next couple of minutes.

Excellent advice and carry a few spare fuses in the boat with you JUST IN CASE!

The headline reads: "Skydiver becomes first person to jump and land without chute". I would suggest that everyone who jumps, lands! Some you walk away from, some you get scraped up from but you do land. or "I found it in the last place I looked"! Of course you found it in the last place you looked, once you found it you stopped looking right? duh!

Mechanics on Trent have a wonderful reputation, Rob and Leo are very stand up guys!

It seems like I am always working these days, yard work, work work, moving work, everyday it's the same, get up in the morning start working and crawl into bed when I just can't do any more. (8:00 seems late some nights LOL) Today I got up and decided that this was going to be a ME day! Cooked a nice breakfast, some nice fluffy cheese omelets. Found a box of my fishing lure making stuff and decided to make a couple of spinner baits. I walked down to the dock and WHAM a couple of the biggest LM I think I have ever caught!, Not one, not two, but in total five really nice ones and all within about 1/2 an hour. To top it all off I was getting perch, rock bass, sun fish; almost every cast was another hit. Now I'm planning supper (might be delivery LOL). This is the way life is supposed to be at 70!

So you aren't just another pretty face LOL. That would also be a great help but knowing the SN will give us a clue to the age of the motor, from that we can determine the type of ignition system and fuel supply system.

Who here has never made a mistake? Me, I make them all the time, the only people that don't are the ones that don't do anything! Fortunately I have never had to be towed but I have towed plenty, it's called "paying it forward". Now did these guys have all the right gear? Should they have called a marina? Were they inexperienced boaters? We just don't have all those answers but I do know that to leave ANYONE in distress on the water, the road, or the trail just isn't being a good person. In this case the man and his dog that took the time to make sure they were safe is the kind of person I would be proud to call a friend and I wish him (and his dog) all the good karma that I can muster!

Ok, lets do this properly! Ernie had a good point, could be a coil but before we can rule that out we need to know more about the motor. Instead of just offering possible solutions we need to know some facts. How old is the motor? The serial number can help us there, do you have it? It's so much harder to try to figure out these things when you don't have the item in front of you. Sometimes just the sound can provide you with a clue.

I'm sorry I wasn't able to help you more but with all my tools in storage until after we move and with my garage packed full of stuff for the pending move, there isn't much I could do. I do suspect the carb is the issue and cleaning it and a simple carb kit should solve the problem. I wouldn't expect the cost to be more than max. $150.00 parts and labor.

Our friend Beans emailed me this, I liked it so much I thought it was worth sharing. Thanks my friend! A successful businessman was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business. Instead of choosing one of his Directors or his children, he decided to do something different. He called all the young executives in his company together. He said, "It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO. I have decided to choose one of you. "The young executives were Shocked, but the boss continued. "I am going to give each one of you a SEED today - one very special SEED. I want you to plant the seed, water it, and come back here one year from today with what you have grown from the seed I have given you. I will then judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be the next CEO." One man, named Jim, was there that day and he, like the others, received a seed. He went home and excitedly, told his wife the story. She helped him get a pot, soil and compost and he planted the seed. Every day, he would water it and watch to see if it had grown. After about three weeks, some of the other executives began to talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow. Jim kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks went by, still nothing. By now, others were talking about their plants, but Jim didn't have a plant and he felt like a failure. Six months went by -- still nothing in Jim's pot. He just knew he had killed his seed. Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but he had nothing. Jim didn't say anything to his colleagues, however, he just kept watering and fertilizing the soil - He so wanted the seed to grow. A year finally went by and all the young executives of the company brought their plants to the CEO for inspection. Jim told his wife that he wasn't going to take an empty pot. But she asked him to be honest about what happened. Jim felt sick to his stomach, it was going to be the most embarrassing moment of his life, but he knew his wife was right. He took his empty pot to the board room. When Jim arrived, he was amazed at the variety of plants grown by the other executives. They were beautiful - in all shapes and sizes. Jim put his empty pot on the floor and many of his colleagues laughed, a few felt sorry for him! When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young executives. Jim just tried to hide in the back. "My, what great plants, trees and flowers you have grown," said the CEO. "Today one of you will be appointed the next CEO!" All of a sudden, the CEO spotted Jim at the back of the room with his empty pot. He ordered the Financial Director to bring him to the front. Jim was terrified.. He thought, "The CEO knows I'm a failure! Maybe he will have me fired!" When Jim got to the front, the CEO asked him what had happened to his seed, Jim told him the story. The CEO asked everyone to sit down except Jim. He looked at Jim, and then announced to the young executives, "Behold your next Chief Executive Officer! His name is "Jim!" Jim couldn't believe it. Jim couldn't even grow his seed. "How could he be the new CEO?" the others said. Then the CEO said, "One year ago today, I gave everyone in this room a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it, and bring it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds; they were dead - it was not possible for them to grow. All of you, except Jim, have brought me trees and plants and flowers. When you found that the seed would not grow, you substituted another seed for the one I gave you. Jim was the only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a pot with my seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the new Chief Executive Officer!" * If you plant honesty, you will reap trust * If you plant goodness, you will reap friends * If you plant humility, you will reap greatness * If you plant perseverance, you will reap contentment * If you plant consideration, you will reap perspective * If you plant hard work, you will reap success * If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation So, be careful what you plant now; it will determine what you will reap later. Think about this for a minute. ** If I happened to show up on your door step crying, would you care? ** If I called you and asked you to pick me up because something happened, would you come? ** If I had one day left to live my life, would you be part of that last day? ** If I needed a shoulder to cry on, would you give me yours? This is a test to see who your real friends are or if you are just someone to talk to you when they are bored. Do you know what the relationship is between your two eyes? They blink together, they move together, they cry together, they see things together, and they sleep together, but they never see each other; that's what friendship is.

OK, first thing is check the exhaust, make sure it isn't plugged up with anything. (zebra mussels can do a real number on them) Next is the carb, fuel line, anything to do with the fuel system (fuel filter if there is one). It doesn't sound like a serious problem if the motor starts and runs at idle it's likely a fuel/air problem!

Oh if we could only walk a mile in their shoes! I am not defending him, to be honest with you I think he crossed the line but: have you ever had one of those days when......... We don't know what was going through either of their minds on that night. Yes we have a trained professional who in my opinion didn't follow what I would have expected his training to have dictated his course of action BUT, just because you have been trained doesn't mean you are qualified. Accountability is sadly lacking in not only our police forces but in every walk of life. Our kids are taught that their parents will fix everything, our politicians lie to us all the time and then lie some more, the gang bangers shoot at each other then walk away with suspended sentences. How are we ever going to expect respect for our laws?

Sad that other boaters ignored someone in distress, happy that no one got hurt and in the end they were saved. I hope they find the person that rescued them and get a chance to tell us who it was because I would like to thank them just for being good people! http://www.mykawartha.com/news-story/6779244-boaters-seek-the-good-samaritan-who-towed-them-after-boat-hit-a-rock/ What goes around comes around!

Interesting read. I've never tried them, don't think I ever will, I haven't had a cigarette in so long I can't even remember when the last time was. I have a couple of friends that tried using them to quit smoking but I don't think they were very successful, in most cases they went back to cigarettes after a couple of months. Anyway good on you for trying to quit, I hope it works out for you.