canuckjack

We really need to pick up the pace...

Oakland Raiders Just win Baby! Bracing for the ridicule in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

I was up at Bon Echo earlier in the summer, first time pulling the boat for a weekend of camping and I was really excited about it... Then I spent the weekend cleaning lures and cursing the Mazinaw. Finally on the last morning I snuck out real early while the Mrs was still sleeping and with only about 45 minutes before I had to head back in I managed to find something other than the tiny rock bass that I was finding. This guy put up a really nice fight, crappy pic but I was alone And I can't leave out the little dude that left me such a nice present... What a tough lake though, saw some guys walking out with a couple nice pickeral but they wouldn't give me the time of day.

Very nice looking pickerals you got there

That's a great looking game, what are the dimensions/rules I may need to build one to go with my washers game You talking about this Ron? Finally made one for myself few weeks ago, but my family has had them around for every camping trip and BBQ for a few years now.

+1 to Zeeter's reply, bounce sheets and/or mothballs should do the trick.

Done, she's wise beyond her years. It took me a lot more time and mistakes in life to come to some of those same realizations. Sounds like you've done a great job raising her Dad.

That's mesmerizing, very cool

Wow, amazing report I'm so jealous, I can't wait for the day that I get to enjoy hauling in that many pickeral

Not nearly as impressive as the other reports around here, but we're having fun and slowly learning.

Well I haven't gotten out nearly as much as I would've liked lately I guess that'll always be the case unless I'm living on the water, and when I have it's been tough I'm still feeling very much a newbie but starting to find more success. Last weekend I decided to try a new area of the St. Lawrence and found some promising spots. Snapped a few pics while we were out, nothing to write home to mom about but the Mrs. finally had a decent catch from the boat and broke a terrible catchless streak so she was really happy about that and that seems to have given her a bit of an itch to get back out there. Anywho, the pics... Hrmm, gonna have to add a reply, how do you guys get around the 250Kb limit??

That's weird, my phone has rung yet, and I was so sure about this one ... Oh well there's always the Lotto Max tonight.

It's good to be a male in those waters

I am loving the replies, good to know this happens in some form to just about everyone. I've talked to all kinds of people today about this problem. One of those was my Dr. and he told me that the idea that you won't feel or notice a bat bite is a myth, he says no question you'll feel it and see the resulting bite. No rabies shot needed today. Talked with a company in o-town that will do basically what monsterman described but not until mid-August once the babies can fly and the cost is high, too high for this Dutch boy. So instead of that I have a local pest control company coming out tomorrow morning to investigate and tell me what needs doing to keep them out. I put a bunch of screening in place today to hopefully keep them out of the house and keep them from getting through the upstairs cold air return vents so we wake up in a more pleasant way tomorrow. Fingers crossed

Wise advice Lew I definitely hadn't thought of all those possibilities...seems I've got some trailer prep to do

Same exact thing happened to my mother in law, apparently it was the scream heard around the globe...her umbrella hasn't been closed since. Agreed, other people's stories are great The Mrs. is off to work, and she was quite glad to leave, I get to spend my day off dealing with this fun. Need to get it tackled before 5 when my BIL is coming over to go out on the river for another shot at some Pickeral.

We have a chimney for our gas insert and I'm pretty sure it was orinally an open hearth fireplace, there's a cap up top but I'd have to go up on the roof to see if it's a possible access point or if the cap has mesh in it. Could they make their way out of an insert?

I think the bottom line is he risked his life in an attempt to save someone else's. He may have been unsuccessful but it's still a brave act....Not heroic, but brave. Iggy on the other hand thinks he's brave for riding a bike: http://www.liberal.ca/newsroom/blog/the-day-of-living-dangerously/

I'm gonna need a few days before I can laugh at this one Don't get me wrong, I love them for what they do..or rather what they eat, which is why I will always try to C&R without injuring them, but maybe they could find a cave that isn't my house

Thought you all might enjoy this. At 5 o'clock this morning the Mrs. wakes me up saying she thinks my son is up because she heard something at the door....I open the door and there's nobody around so I close the door and tell her she's hearing things. Then she says maybe it was a bat, we had one in the house a week ago which I trapped and released but we've since been "hearing" things. So I flick on my nightstand light and there's a bat flying straight at my head! So I run to get a broom from the garage (I won't even try to pretend that I'm brave around these things) and by the time I'm back in the house he's flying around the kitchen, just going nuts, he can't land anywhere so I can't trap him. Then I hear the Mrs screaming something about there still being one in our room, now I'm having horror movie images of thousands of bats streaming into my house. So I open the down stairs patio door hoping the one down stairs will fly out and then I go upstairs...but there isn't one up there she was hiding under the sheets and thought she'd heard it in the room still. By the time I get back downstairs I can't find the bat...did he fly out? Is he hiding somewhere? I don't know. I don't have many phobias but bats absolutely freak me out, something about how irratic they are, you can't follow their flight path so one minute they're across the room and then zig-zag they're near my head. We knew they were living in an area in the siding out front where new siding overlaps old and the previous owners didn't seal it off properly, but there's no access that I can figure out from there into the house. I was told to wait until the babies could fly before flushing them out and sealing it off so I was going to wait another week or two before pulling off the siding. What I can't for the life of me figure out is how they are getting into the house...especially my bedroom there's no access into my room when the door is shut other than possibly the cold air return. Anyone ever hear of bats hanging out in air ducts? Waiting for pest control to call back...nervously sipping coffee

Wow, glad to hear your Dad`s ok. That looks like a Toyota, I be willing to bet they blame it on a stuck peddle

Sounds fairly painless, I plan to go order the part tomorrow so should be able to install it next week. Might take it out for a couple of quick trips, I'm guessing it's been an issue for awhile now so I'll be interested to see if there's a difference once the new seal is installed. I think I can actually "stuff" the seal back into place temporarily, but there's no way moisture is getting in that far up, it's more the exhaust coming out that I'm not loving. It's definitely the rubber seal and not the gasket, it's an 89 johnson which has a gasket under the seal as well, thinking I may want to grab one of those as well while I'm at it. Thanks for the replies guys

Well I'd much rather be posting a nice report but instead it's more fun with a newbie and his outboard. I noticed after the last time out that there's a chunk of seal hanging out from between the lower engine cover and the mid-section. It's the housing to cover seal and it looks to have broken near the front and it's now slipping out, I'd imagine one small tug and it'd be free. On the upside, it's a nice cheap part but I'm going to need my FIL to lend a hand replacing this and that probably won't be possible for a couple weeks or so. My question for the experts is, other than getting a bunch of dirty exhaust crap on the side of the mid-section is there any harm in running the motor again before replacing the seal?

Very nice home, it's a shame you have to leave it. My totally uneducated opinion: I would consider changing the colour in the pink room before listing.

+1 to fishburn's answer