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Check. The route through Montreal is a little difficult. Check. Nice place. We stayed there overnight on our return trip to Ontario. Check. A very nice drive. Scenic. Longest covered bridge is just off the highway (Hartland, I think). We were fascinated by the barns half-buried in hillsides. Regretably a place we missed. Heard a lot of good things about it, though, and it's definitely on our list for our next trip. Check. At the time we were there they advertised them as "lobster rolls". Pretty decent! A couple of other tips - Lawrencetown beach, a little north on the coast from Halifax/Dartmouth is fabulous! Miles of sand and smooth stones, sand dunes, wonderful swimming. Lots of round, flat "pancake" rocks for collecting. Local artists use them for painting on stone. If you like pioneer villages, the one in Sherbrooke is one of the best. Expect to have to make some effort to stay on the out-of-the-way highways near the coast if you want to see water (Cabot Trail is the exception). A lot of the highway travel is out of sight of the ocean, even if you try to stay close. Bring a picnic basket and/or a cooler. There are a number of places where you can have a great seaside picnic. One of our favourite spots - go south along the coastal highway from Peggy's Cove - not far, you can see the lighthouse across the bay - and you'll find a widening of the shoulder where people park, and a trail leading off to the seashore. An easy, clean walk five-minute walk through brush and HUGE boulders (erratics) will bring you to some very scenic spots where you can picnic on the rocks at the shore. No tables, just use the rocks! Peggy's Cove itself is very crowded, but you can have this scenic area almost to yourself!
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Good tip on the nurse-practitioners. They should become a standard feature of our medical landscape. There are so many things you shouldn't need to see a doctor for. Re-filling many kinds of prescriptions, for example. As fot the 'rate your doctor' site, I looked up several and the opinions sure do range widely! If you kind of 'average out' the comments, it does give you some idea. Unauthoritative, yes, but probably still of some use if you don't put too much stock in it.
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In my case it did. I wouldn't have been able to change the boat registration into my name without showing proof that I had paid the tax. I believe that's why the clerk at the license bureau annotated my "declaration/tax receipt" to show that the tax was paid on boat, motor and trailer (not just the trailer). All of this begs the question of why we have to pay tax on second-hand goods in the first place. No matter how many times some things are sold, the government gets sales tax after sales tax after sales tax on the same damned item. It's a bloody rip-off.
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Attached... A copy of the message I sent to the seller day before yesterday, and a copy of the result today... I will keep my end of the bargain and NOT post negative feedback on ebay. Others will have to watch out after themselves. At least our guys here on this board know what's what.
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I just checked on those, Johnny. BPS has them. Too bad I don't have one near by, but I'll keep an eye out locally.
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Sure will, Victor. I've been waiting for some calm conditions so I can get a good look at how it behaves. Lots of wind lately, and today high waves again and a severe thunderstorm watch til the evening.... the story of the summer so far except for a few good "normal" days. Here comes the rain again!
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I don't quite understand... what am I forgetting?
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Thanks, Darcy, I'll check it out. As far as word-of-mouth, I'd also still like to hear about anything anyone knows. My wife had a bad allergic reaction about a month ago - extensive hives, etc - and went to emerg at the West Nipissing Hospital. It took 4 hours to see a doctor. Needless to say, next time she goes, she'll go to the same clinic I visited. Clinics defintely have their place but there's some peace-of-mind associated with a family doctor. I hope we can find one.
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The courier services - UPS, FedEx, etc. - charge exorbitant customs clearance fees. Those do NOT apply when you have items shipped by United States Postal Service (USPS). So be careful to look for and specify USPS delivery. Canada Post supposedly charges a $5 handling fee for cross-border purchases, and you could be asked to pay GST, but I have never run into either one of those, over dozens of items. I'd say you can buy by mail from the States with confidence that it's not going to bite you much, if at all. Same applies to a few items I've bought from the UK, China and Japan.
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OK, good to know. 100's are about half the size of the 180's. What's his store called, and do you find it worth a visit?
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I haven't seen a doctor in about three years but I've seen a couple of them in North Bay lately, at a clinic. I haven't had a family doctor for several years, since the time ours gave up his private practice and we moved to North Bay. I must say, the clinic was OK. The first time I went was just to request some routine tests I hadn't had done for a while. Wait time --- 10 minutes from the time I registered. Office time with the doctor didn't take long, and it shouldn't have. The second time was last week when I did something stupid and cracked a rib. (Boy, you don't think about ribs when everything is OK... different story when you crack one!) Wait time --- 30 minutes. The doctor gave me a crash course on rib injuries, then wrote me out a slip for x-rays, as a precaution. Office time... about 10 minutes. I went to the x-ray lab and expected a long delay, as the doctor said that staff holidays were slowing them down. I hardly got a chance to read 2 pages in my book (I always bring a good book... no, not The Good Book), and I was called in to be irradiated. All nice folks, and much faster than I thought. Way faster than some of the times I used to sit in the family doctor's office. Still, my wife and I would like to find a family doctor. Anybody know of one taking patients in the North Bay/Sturgeon Falls area?
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Ok so I think I've figured this out --- $2 spinning reel and line $1 bamboo pole $1.25 roll of aluminum wire for pike leaders $1 black electrical tape to tape the reel and aluminum wire guides onto the pole $1 can of Carriere Hot Hamburger Gravy for dipping your lures in (fish scent) That leaves $3 for three lures of your choice. We don't have to net the fish with those fancy bamboo-pole dip-nets they sell, do we? OOPS! Leave it to me to piss of the boss after the very first time I meet him! But in all fairness, I don't think cosmetics should count towards the $10 limit.
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I voted but summer is really unpredictable with all the visitors we get here at the lake. I would only know a few days ahead of time if I'm free. Would love to participate, though, depending on time and how it's set up (i.e. in-person derby or on-line entries, or both).
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I said, "Hey since we're part of the same group, do you think you could put some of that stuff back on the shelf?" He said, "Not a chance." j/k BTW, neither of us could find telescopic rods. Are those going to be part of the requirement?
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Back to Nova Scotia, though, KennyG. If you haven't been, there's so much good to see in the province but the most impressive, we found, was the drive around Cape Breton Island on the Cabot Trail. Never have I seen vistas of water and shoreline from so many good vantage points. There's also Louisbourg (very impressive, even though they've reconstructed only select parts of the fortress and the town), the Alexander Graham Bell Museum in Baddeck, whale-watching from Cheticamp, Scottish music and festivals, and lots of places where you can get at the shore and fish if you've a mind to and have the time. Hold on to your steering wheel if you happen to pass by a roadside fried-chicken restaurant in the Sydney area called "Lick-a-Chick" !
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Yes, we saw the Devil's Tower too, unfortunately at close to dusk and the entrance was already locked up, but we got close enough anyway to that very strange formation. We saw dozens of white-tail in the forests of that area, and hundreds of pronghorn in the sagebrush. The Badlands too, yes, awesome to drive through. Like a different world when you're down in the valley. Makes for a pretty arid picnic spot though... ... Sorry, don't mean to hijack your topic... just brings back some good memories!
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I was at one of the local $ama's today and I wondered why the stock of fishing stuff was so low, until I met this nice gentleman and his wife and grand-daughter. He informed me that his group was having a Dollarama Derby and I said, "Hey I'm part of a group that's working on that too!" Turns out it's the same group!
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Oooh, that came back to bite ya pretty quick, GBW!
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You mean that when you walked down the aisle you wife was already .... ? .... oh, you're talking about flowers!
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Thanks for checking on them, MF.
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OK, we've established that they're fake --- good fakes but fakes. "Refurbished" in market parlance doesn't mean they've had anything done to them. Refurbished just means checked over and basically new but possibly without original box or papers. It often applies to items that have simply been returned for refund, not necessarily ones that need work to make them operate properly. The most obvious lie in the ad is where it says that the boxes were damaged (on hundreds or thousands of lures). Obviously there were no boxes in the first place. But a seller might say that even if he has access to an alternate supply of the real item and is not allowed to sell them as "new". What I find surprising with this seller, as I've said, is that he's making quite a business of it over a considerable period of time, and freely using the "Lucky Craft" name, and yet he hasn't been nailed by the company. I go back to those NFL jerseys I mentioned. They were brand new, current year (2008), had all the proper tags, authentic material, Reebok, team and NFL branded, proper official letters and stitching, absolutely undetectable as "fakes" and very likely are not. Some were being sold by Chinese sellers who had access to the real stock, and they were being sold for about a quarter of the normal price. It didn't last long. We ordered several, checked them over and found them perfect, ordered several more (and told friends who ordered as well). It lasted about 3 to 4 weeks and then the source dried up. We compared those jerseys in fine detail to "store bought" jerseys, and they were perfect in every regard. They were not even "seconds" with flaws in them. So are there "real deals" like that out there? Sometimes yes.
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We LOVED Montana. Everything else was good too but that was our favourite state. On the way out it was more-or-less a "straight trip". We took 10 days to come back and saw some pretty great sights - Yellowstone, Little Bighorn, the Black Hills, Rushmore, etc. Thoroughly enjoyable. And effortless driving on the Interstates. The Americans know how to do up a highway system! We'd seen the Canadian Rockies a few times, so it was OK to miss them. The American Rockies were not nearly as impressive, but still nice.
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Just going by your "nick" on this board, I'd say you could make her up a nice arrangement with wood shavings, carpenter's glue and spray paint. Congratulations on one of the milestones in life. If he's a good guy and he makes her happy you couldn't wish for more.
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I don't fish for muskie myself, but I know from reading that they will strike your lures right in the prop wash and that sometimes that seems to be the best way to trigger them. You'll want that corroborated by one of the muskie fishermen here before you take that to the bank, but I'm pretty sure it's accurate.
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Looks like an allegic reaction. My wife gets this same reaction to certain things. As you get older you can develop a reaction to things that didn't bother you before; it happened to her. Benadryl is good advice (same as the doctor told my wife). For disinfectant - iodine or hydrogen peroxide on the open wound. No good if it's skinned over. If it were me I'd make sure the puncture is well-open and give it a good shot of iodine. I would say it's not very likely you have a piece of spine in it. The spines are flexible, not very brittle.