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Stop looking up.. they're not roosting at that time of the day! lol Glad you're having fun bud..

Thank god for that eh Bill... I could just imagine the fireworks. Beauty fish fella!

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I didn't think you and Tookie where that old Boss...

Had me thinking there Dave... 40th anniversary of his 1971 Massey Hall solo gig. Figured we're only gonna be 5 blocks away sitting at the hosptial, so why not. Ticket resellers at EIGHT times face value ($1448/seat floor).. I'll pull out the albums! What ever happened to Ontario's ticket face value laws?

uni uni or a swivel.

He got censored Ron... it can happen to anyone!

Looking at his fingers he's got a serious disease though! lol Very nice fish, even behind the colour enhansement.

Anyone got a "swoosh.. right over your head" emoticon??

I've got Fishers in the yard Dave!

Yah it definitely could have been worse Dann... chipmunks and squirrels live in them roxul bundles as well. Even had a white weasel in the hangar last year eating them. Wish he'd come back!!

So I get my customer work done about 11am and decide to find all my stuff for Sunday's pike outing on GBay. Told we're using suckers, so knowing I have a couple quick strike rigs somewhere (and can't find them) I think maybe they're in the glove box of the boat. Open the door and see movement.. not good. Now here's a real good reason not to carry any original documents. Glad my vessel licence/insurance/etc are all copies. Them and the zip lock bag they were in are part of this mess.. as is my roll of TP.. roll of shop towel.. part of my Nippising paper charts. I got two of the babies.. but damn sure momma ran off with one or two in her mouth. Glad I caught them when I did.. pre eye open and hope she bails out of the boat or gets caught in the traps I set. Now for a bit of history, I noticed 2 pieces of mouse crap back in the fall at the rear of the boat but suspected it was just dropped in from above from a mouse crossing a roof truss above. Haven't had an issue any previous year. I purposely remove the trailering straps so that they have nothing to climb up etc. How or why they take the time to jump up to a trailer frame.. onto a bunk board.. up the transducer wires is all I can figure.. all the way thru the gunnel storage compartments and up into the glove box is beyond me... all while carrying ACORNS in their mouths. I can't even find a spot the size of an acorn that they can get thru to get in there. Another interesting thing.. they seem to do most of their eating over in the right storage locker and they only like the nice plush carpet under their little friggin feet. Not a speck of acorn beyond the carpeted area and I had to pull every rod locker end plate out to get at the full interior of the gunnel/storage compartments. They don't eat in their nest area at all, so if you see signs of eating you'd better start tearing EVERYTHING apart until you find their nest. So 4 hours of going through the boat, accessing everything short of pulling up the floor boards and I think I got everything. Still a mouse running around in there I'm sure. That's a lot of trips in and out of the boat, and out to the oak tree and back ! I got lucky.. right in front of this pile of chips was the food stash... full acorns pushed up inside my rear curtain that was rolled up in this compartment. Not a scratch or bit of mouse piss on it... was like the mouse sat each acorn down and shoved them in with it's nose! If you haven't pulled your own boat out yet, it might be worth a good look soon. Been a bad year for mice. I've never had them in the airplanes in the 17 years my hangar has been standing and figured it was all the junk to the sides and a pile of Roxul bundles left over from the house keeping them happy. The mice are so determined this year I've had 3 out of 6 airplanes so far that they've jumped up to the floats (on blocks).. climbed the mounting struts... somehow gone thru closes doors and made nests in various places inside the airplanes. Oh and by the way.. this puts to death the myth that bounce sheets keep mice out of things!

Very nice Lucas / Jay.. well worth the early morning drive!

Give yourself some time before the show and go down to Young and Front and eat at Houstons Steak House. Medium well for me please... Find your parking place early and then walk down Yonge to Front is the best bet... or drive down Yonge.. left onto Front.. very next left and the underground parking garage is an unmarked entrance in the back of the building. $3 or something with supper receipt. Wish I'd know that before blowing $30 (twice) to park under the sports hall of fame. Houstons is in the building on the N/E corner of Yonge/Front. Entrance is at the North end of the building on the Yonge face.

Old roadway culvert?

You nip guys are never happy!!

BE great if that happens curlap! Temagami is still well over a foot below normal.. almost 2, as of yesterday.

Any Canadian Tire Mike.. just like in Quebec.

You don't need to register the boat Geoff if you're not gonna put more than a 9.9 on it. Keep a copy of the bill of sale in a zip lock bag in the boat and put the original one under your mattress. It shouldn't get too tattered there with the lack of activity. As for the trailer.. if it's gonna be yours.. down to the MTO and get your own plate for $10 and pay the tax on the trailer or get a "gift" transfer from your father for free.

Promised myself, after going thru my sisters stuff back to the day she moved out of our house in Milton, that I'd start shreading/burning my own stuff so nobody had to go thru what I did with her stuff. Still hasn't happened. I still have all my school engineering notes as well.. might need them someday you know.. Geoff... that licence plate has nothing to do with the boat, it belongs to you (and what ever trailer you register it to) period.

I need to get one of you guys that don't have such an important bill around after only 4 years to come over and clean up my "clutter". You can start with the filing cabinet in the basement that still has my phone, natural gas, etc bills from my house in Milton (~1984).. and then work you way forward from there.

I was clenched last night Roy.. but I think it was something I ate...

Not sure Ray.. I put mine in my camera case and leave them there, as I never go fishing without the camera.

Picked a package up today at the post office and I'd like to publicly thank Nancy, on Jennifer's behalf, for the gift she sent her. An envelope with a healthy handful of money in it (you shouldn't have Nancy!) and a nice fluffy bear, with a pouch for a heating bag in the back. It will help with the bone ache days that the anti-infection needle causes and maybe that heating bag can be frozen for when Jen's friends wheel her into TO's beerfest in her wheel chair this summer! (we add humour where ever we can Nancy!) Thanks from the bottom of our hearts Nancy, it arrived at the perfect time as the last two days Jen's been teetering on fever and we've all been up to 3am the last two nights. Today's she's back to normal and very tired, but this gift really picked up her spirit!