dave524

I confess, back in the 50's as a kid, I kept a Painted in a galvanized laundry tub and fed it earthworms , lettuce and raw hamburger all summer letting it go back in a pond Labour Day weekend.

When I lived in Port Rowan I had snapping turtle soup/stew with veggies and barley, it was tasty. Locals said there is 7 kinds of meat on a turtle. Don't know of Painted Turtles being marketed illegally as pets but I know there is a problem with persons releasing alien Red Eared Sliders into the wild .

Seriously , grumpy old men don't care about climate change

If indeed we are experiencing global warming it happened in the past. A 1000 years ago when the Vikings first came to North America, the climate was much warmer, Greenland was indeed a green land and they called either Newfoundland or Quebec Vinland because of the copious grapes. Their first settlements were agricultural based, but eventually after a couple of 100 years it turned colder and they moved to livestock and fishing only to eventually abandon settling. I ask what caused this warm period in the past, coal fired power plants ?? or perhaps there is natural cycles in our climate that are evident looking at the long term rather than a few decades of recent data. edit: this graph illustrates it nicely

Thanks, we've already started this year and have purchased a 6 pack for both dogs, I will inquire at the vets about other options next time

Another cause of a lot of ice cap and glacier melt is simply dirty snow, some of it is from volcanic activity, remember that big one in Iceland that played havoc with trans Atlantic air traffic. Dirty snow will absorb heat from the sun much like a dark car in summer, this photo shows it very well. Edit: and as it melts more dirt is exposed compounding the problem

With our large areas of forested land using CO2 , there are scientists who theorize that Canada may already be carbon neutral , so why are we crippling our economy with these carbon taxes and regulations, we should be telling the Eurotards to pound salt.

I've seen reports down here in Niagara, especially the hotspot for ticks along the Lake Erie shoreline since late April. We started our dogs on their monthly dose of " Revolution " on April 15th. http://www.revolution4dogs.com/

save the horseshoe for the Warriors and Curry, if they play like today, Cleveland is doable.

was watching a baseball game and a hockey game broke out

Nice, back when Walleye were Pickeral we called them Pigeonhawks and their little cousins were Sparrowhawks.

The odd laker is caught off Point Abino in the spring in 50/60 feet of water by perch fisherman using minnows and also throughout the winter in the upper Niagara, think the guidelines say they are safer to eat than Lake Ontario fish.

Never ate one but they fight better than pickerel, pound per pound trolling Erie style. I hear they sell them at the Asian Fish Markets in TO as Yellow Croaker.

It hasn't been gorging itself, just extremely preggo

What I really miss is "Killex", this new Weed-B-Gon is junk , kills the tops only to have the weed reappear from the roots, have to put it on 2 or 3 times heavily to finally kill a dandelion or plantain and creeping charlie just laughs at it, would it make more sense to use a single application of Killex than 3X the amount of this safe stuff

They used to stock both Cohos and Chinook , caught both off Port Maitland years ago rigging for pickeral. The New York record Laker comes from Erie, most probably would have guessed Ontario or maybe one of the finger lakes. Oh and I've always felt Cohos are the best eating fish of any of the salmonoides or trout in the Great Lakes. For the first 10 years or so the Lake Ontario salmon fishery was based on Cohos, I believe the first big stocking of Chinooks was in 79 with a big return in 83.

You've got The Shopping Channel confused with Tractor Supply Company, we've got a real TSC in Grimsby, great place, I watch the flyer from there all the time, just stocked up on their 30-0-8 fertilizer at 1/2 price, which was already a good deal compared to Scott's or C-I-L.

Correct me if I am wrong , but would not wheat have to be genetically modified to be Roundup resistant otherwise if you used Roundup/ Glyphosate on a wheat field to controll weeds it would kill the wheat as well. But some one just said the is no GMO wheat???

Yes Roundup is a poison, but it is far less dangerous than what it replaced. I sprayed this stuff for weed control in orchards and vineyards in my teens and as a Forester U of T 74 , I know it was used in copious amounts by roadcrews, railways and hydro crews for weed and brush control on railway lines and hydro right of ways at that time. You can buy Roundup, without a permit for small time weed control at CTC, this stuff is banned by International Treaties. https://www.ontario.ca/page/contact-herbicide-245-t https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic_acid

My take on it is . the use of gmo's in agriculture now allow us to use less environmentally damaging herbicides and controls in agriculture than in my day. Roundup is a pussycat compared to 2-4-D, 2-4-5-T and Atrazine in the environment . Actually, I'm more concerned with estrogen and antibiotics in our water systems and drinking water and its effect on fish and other wildlife.

For sheephead, I know they love crawfish cause as a kid dad and I would always dredge several dozen crawfish from a pond before going bass fishing out of Port Colborne and they'd get half of them. I'd buy the cheapest shrimp ring you can find and use them as bait, work good for cats too as well as other species.

Actually, working on a farm during the sixties, the stuff sprayed today is actually less scary than the stuff we used on a regular basis back then. I recall DDT and arsenic based insecticides, atrazine killed everything but corn, once applied that field would grow only corn for at least three years and 245-T , better known as Agent Orange as a herbicide. The genetically modified food stuff is scary though.

He was/is a member here, look at the member " Bulbob " .

Yeah, it was slipping away until Lowry got that huge three from downtown Sault. Ste. Marie with about a minute left.