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What was with #1.. all I saw was a Beaver !

Might be a couple of holes out at the mouth ! That said, nobody here is going to give you a "spot" to fish. As noted, make sure you are aware of the no fish zone. Walk the river and find yourself some pools / undercuts / fallen trees and see what you can find with a few drifts.

If it wasn't that way we'd always watch Lloyd carrying the fish home.. oh wait... we do anyhow..

4 X 4.. send me a PM with your email address, I took shots from North and South of the 5th right down to the dead end at the park. Then you can narrow it down for me and I'll get a better shot closer in the next time around.

Zoom on the picture.. it's well marked with 4 ' reflectors and a ladder folded upright.

Going out for another in about 2 hours Phil... anyone want a picture of anything specific inside the "block" of Wasaga Beach, Christian Island, the Global Tower on 69 and Honey Harbor?

Either do I Lew.. can't stand a sauna. Now a nice hot tub... that's another story!

I'm sure many have eyes on it already... about 10 grand of dock there..

For sure Raf... -C every night for the next 14 days in the forecast.

My second flight of the entire winter... the first was just Friday past!

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If you know anyone in the Moore Point.. Quarry Island.. Green Island.. Port McNicol area that is missing a nice L dock, it's out locked in the ice at the entrance to the long marked channel through the Green Island chain to get to Port Severn. In the main bay.. between Snake Island and the channel, but after the yellow/black caution marker! Also note it will be close for Pike opener... No signs of ice letting go even after the week of +9C temps on the main lake or through the Port Severn system.

The good thing is that you're still celebrating them !! Enjoy YOUR day John! I'm sure Barbara baked you a cake, or if not will make it up to you in some way!

Best words I've heard all week.. COVERED 100 % ! Damn good thing as there isn't even much left for the moths to feed on in my wallet.

Start tying baits! As soon as I backed the boat into the hangar in September... the lead mouse yelled "our house is back"! Electronics don't work.. too cold for sticky pads now.. I just keep emptying the traps and praying they don't chew anything important before May.

Yep.. as stupid as the gun licence, you must be in possession of the card AND the piece of paper with the "conditions" stated on it (that are the same on the card!)

We should know today if Sun Life is going to cover her. There are a few paths to try and get some reimbursement, but the only one for sure so far is a 20% "compassion" on price reduction from the mfg! Just sell the things for 20% less and cut the crap...

That's not getting serious.. that's forgetting the wrapping! I picked up a granddaughter 1.5 years ago.. she's now 17!

Triplets... or he's been making the rounds Bruce?

Laminar flow or turbulent?

Justin just wants to make it okay to raid the stash his father left under the cottage floor boards! Either way you slice it.. there will be corruption whether it's legal or not. I grew up in the pot capital of Ontario and now 35 years later we ain't making chocolate bars at Hershey's anymore! Difference is "Rusty" ran the roost back then... now the government is making large money off of "Tweed"!

..and that was just the first night!

Well folks, to continue from where we had updated you a few weeks ago... Jennifer has finished up her 10 days of full head / brain radiation, with Dr. Sahgal at Sunnybrook, as of Thursday (Mar 12th). Leah has spent the past 2 weeks in Toronto with Jen taking her back and forth to Sunnybrook and sleeping on her love seat couch. I stayed home to give them a bit of room in Jen's little apartment and to get a few things done around here with Spring around the corner and bills needing to be paid. Jen seems to be doing okay after the latest ordeal. The "bump" (that was a large skull tumour) seems to have disappeared for the most part .... but none of us are dumb enough to know this is the final hurdle for her. Even if she is fortunate enough that this full head radiation was the magic to stop these "floaters" from finding a new spot to grow in her brain, she still has two spots in her left lung to monitor and deal with as time progresses. She (we) saw her Oncologist, Dr Razak at Mt Sinai, yesterday afternoon and as discussed the last time she saw him there aren't any chemotherapy cocktails "left in the cupboard" for Jennifer. Dr. Blackstein had "stretched every string" he could in her battle to this point. Dr Razak had previously mentioned Experimental Immune Therapy, but Jen has to be stable for a good period of time before she can even be allowed to start one of those trials. What was decided yesterday is that she needs 3 weeks (from last Thursday) to let the radiation continue to do it's thing and importantly for her to recover from the effects. She is to be back to see him on March 31st for another full body CT and a head / brain CT. These will be used to set bench marks while he then tries a drug called Pazopanib, which is a potent and selective multi-targeted receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor that blocks tumour growth and inhibits new blood vessels from growing. This will be used to see if it can keep her stable long enough (or maybe even knock the spots out of her lungs). It's at least hoped that it will stop any new head or body tumours from developing, so that she can start the immune therapy trials in a few months. He advised us that the "Pazopanib is about $5000 / month and I'll have you on it for two months to start". When Leah and I got home last night I looked it up and from what I can find the average is $8800 US dollars a month for 120 pills ($11,000 Cdn). We are still waiting to find out if her current drug plan will cover her for this medicine, as OHIP certainly does not, and I guess we'll learn the real cost on March 31st if she gets to fill a prescription. Jennifer wanted to be left on her own in the city for the two weeks until her next appointment, so I cooked her a good supply of beef stroganoff last night while Leah and Jen went grocery shopping. Leah headed for home about 10 pm and myself about 10:30, somehow we arrived about 2 minute apart! Jen seemed content and happy to have her place back to herself. I'm sure that there will be a few "eyes" checking in on Jen over the next 2 weeks and we'll pick her up on the 31st for her Doctor's appointment. There may be a need for a ride to Sinai for her CT's prior to that, if they happen not to be on the 31st. From there we see how the new drug works and keep pushing forward.

On Saturday at 12:30 they lost an entire phase that stretched from Orillia thru to Christian Island. I was unfortunately on that phase until 4pm and broke the rope on my generator trying to start it. It was a X member in a main tower, todays is some major switch gear failing somewhere.