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Bill was a character, no doubt about that! Died on the 30th @ 78 years of age.

Well you can, just depends how far South you want to go!! My F-in-Law is leaving Cape Coral tomorrow to go to Curacao before he finds frost on his lawn on Sunday! LOL ... Leah and I have been laughing all day, my older sister is headed for Florida (driving) tomorrow for her 3 month stay!

I still have about a dozen of these. $15 and the ride..

The lastest on Henrys !! Sounds like you'll be able to get your Pickerel fix this summer !!! Message from John Cooper regarding Henrys Restaurant in San Souci: Friends, I had a call from Paul Elliot this morning, from Florida, to tell of the sale of Henrys to a mid 40’s couple who have restaurant experience, The gentleman is also an experienced carpenter! Their children are in their late teens, in school, and will be participating. These folks are from the area. Paul said that they are high energy, aggressive and very likeable, and have great plans to expand their o...fferings. Paul said that final details are being put in place and as soon as the ink is dry, he will let us know, so we can help to generate much enthusiasm, and encouragement for the new folks. Paul said he will be there to help out, introduce them to their customers and familiarize them with all systems, etc. Paul has been pushed by all the commercial dependents, GBA, the Chippewa Cruise boat, water taxi operators, etc., as they need to prepare their marketing plans for the coming summer. He has now notified all, so they can move forward with their preparation! More to come! Cheers! John

It's at around 900 of those $172 drills right now!

Sounds like an expensive hobby !!

I see Santa forgot to bring the razors again...

HI Paul !

Midland CTC is blowing out the Lowrance Hook 5 on Saturday... Regular $629.99 for $229.98 !!! They currently have 44 in stock ! product # 77-7536 if you want to search canadiantire.ca

I can't believe the lack of snow 35 miles away! There'll be no safe ice up here anytime soon... I've been plowing daily for the past week. Christmas day was 16" of fairly light stuff and yesterday was 12" of heavy compacted snow that came down similar to sleet. Almost thinking I live in PA right now!! That's my matching plow truck under there.. see the mirror..

Yep, but make sure you install them to the trailer come Spring... they'll serve better purpose than on the boat!!

Now, if that cat had of killed someones little pet dog, let alone a child, they'd be up in arms that the MNR hadn't killed the cat themselves to protect fluffy!

12" of ice on Cassels Woodsman!

Hear that someone fell in out by my old childhood neighbour Monique's floating house as well last week.

LOL.. and I was talking about Temagami, in front of my camp.. not trying to cross spring filled Penetang bay or worse yet the guy that went swimming in my old home spot on Farlain Lake. At least the kid in Penetang had some brains, nice picks around his neck!

Oh, I have a 125,000 BTU oil furnace in the house too, wood just keeps the consumption/bill down a tad. In the shop I have an electric 6KW heater that keeps the shop at 48F (60F when I have TIG work to do) and I stoke the stove while I'm working out there and just before I quit for the day. Combined.. 2 story + full basement that has about 45' of windowed walk out to the yard. Sure wood's a PI TA, but it's good exercise and for me at least basically free. A bush cord cut, split and piled is about 8 hours work. So a Fall/Winter's burn is about a FULL weeks worth of work on the original piling to dry and the wife has always been right there beside me piling. Once it's dried for 2 years, we put a bush cord at a time into the basement and that does two things. Adds a bit of moisture to the house and it dries the wood out completely for burning. We're about half way through our second house loading. Those go pretty quick, load the Kubota bucket from the pile, drive to the sliding basement door and re-pile inside. If we ever finish off the basement (been in the house 20 years) not sure what we'll do... lol Fireplace maintenance to date, a door rope on 2 out of 3 for a better seal. Nothing else. We've inspected, video'd, etc the two insulated chimney's on the Napolean zero clearances and we have ZERO issues and they've never had a cleaning brush down them since installed in '96. I was on the roof last Fall with a 10 million candle power looking down both stacks to see zero creosote build up in the top 30' or so and my 12' inspection camera from the bottom showing the same. Chimney from basement is 40' long and main floor 30', both running side by side through a chimney enclosure to the last 2.5 feet of stack. Don't smolder a fire and burn good wood, and thing stay simpler. I also use a couple of the "CSL" creosote "logs" each season that help clean the chimney. That said, my old shop stove (that came out of my grandmas parlour in Gooderham)... I throw the 25' of chimney away about every 5 years. It goes through the shop wall and from there as soon as the smoke hits the cold pipe its creosote city!

LOL.. good stuff.

I don't see the old one in the classifieds YET!!

Thanks Brian, gives me a morning smile everyday.

3 zero clearance fireplaces in the house (5700 sq ft), 2 that we use and that I barely let go out and a wood stove in my 1800 sq foot work shop. As noted earlier, a bush cord of wood costs me about 5 bucks in gas/oil and chain wear .. and a lot of work that keeps me in shape. I could cut wood everyday for the next 2 months and just keep up with the dead falls and diseased trees in our hardwood forest.

Yah, they've been advertising in the local buy and sell here for a month or more. Still don't understand why no material flap to kick some snow up onto.. so the wind doesn't freeze your feet or blow snow into your hole.

Goodyear Marathons on my Lund Shorelander

Radials for sure.. I put that on everything!

There was ZERO ice on Midland Harbour on Tuesday, with 2 foot waves. Today, 48 hours later, there are three sled tracks ripping past the coal dock for Port !! Darwin awards coming soon....