Old Man

In related news, I hear Bell Canada is making a small change to it's name and logo.

A study done a couple of years ago showed that out of all the G20 countries, Canada had the most expensive and worst telecommunication services. The ironic thing is, that most of the technology that is currently used in this sector was pioneered and developed in Canada.

The CRTC just approved an application from Canada's ISP's to allow them to ditch flat rate billing and start charging on bytes downloaded. If you don't want to start getting gouged even more for Internet access, you need to sign the following petition. http://www.stopthemeter.ca/

Bulletin Boards Systems were around starting in the late 70's and hit their peak in the mid 80's. CompuServe, while being in business since 1969, started to offer Internet connectivity as early as 1989. We all use the internet so much for everything today, that it's hard to imagine living with out it. I guess every generations feels like this. For my great grandparents it would be the telephone; my grandparents the radio;my parents TV, and for myself computers and the internet.

Mill St. Tankhouse. An ice cold Steam Whistle on a hot summers day after cutting the grass. Two of my favorites of many.

Ditto for me. I empty everything except the boat. In the boat I always use Marine Grade Stabil and ethanol free premium in everything. The only exception to emptying some equipment would be if it has a steel fuel tank. Then I'd recommend filling it as full as you can get with stabilized gas. With 2 strokes, particularly in carborated engines, if you are burning E10 gas, you should increase your main jet size to the next larger size due to the extra O2 the burning ethanol produces. E10 can cause a lean fuel condition in 2 strokes and make them run hotter if they aren't re jetted for it.

He's got it all down pat. He'll be showing us all up in no time.

Depends on what you want. All you need to be legal in Ontario is 3rd Party Liability. I got one million coverage through RBC for $105/year. Comprehensive (theft, fire, vandalism) was an extra $83/year for a 2007 Arctic Cat Panther with a $500 deductible. Of course, if your talking All Perils, that will cost more.

I've had my Eskimo Shark Z51 8" for 4 seasons now and not a complaint. Start great and cuts quickly.

Had a great time Simon. Trust me everyone, it's amazing to watch him catch and reel in a fish while taking a video. If that was me, my camera would be down the hole in a few minutes. After I got back home, I went and broke a trail into another lake. You'll have to come out my way and give it a try sometime soon. Surprisingly the Vex and the X67c worked okay side by side, we only started having trouble when Carmon turned on his X67 in their shelter. I do love my Vex, but after seeing and fishing with Simon's X67c, I could be a convert. PS. I don't know who that old gray haired guy is that you were fishing with, that definitely can't be me.

Great Musky fishing in Eagle. Limits for some species are strict and there is no fishing allowed after sundown. Check out the "Exceptions to Zone 5 Regulations" in the Fishing Regulations Summary.

Let us know where you decide to go. For giant pike, I'd recommend Arctic Lodge. My cousin worked for a number of summers for the founder of the lodge, Fred Lockhart. Fred wrote a book about the establishing the lodge back in the fifities and it's and interesting read if you can find a copy. The title of the book is Deadline June 7th.

Yeah, my first gear was a piece of wood to hold the green cotton line and what we called a Swedish hook with some frozen smelts. We kept warm by using our old dull Swede bore auger to drill holes and sat on our 5 gallon pails to rest.

Boy, sure beats the -31 here.

Yeah, they could have been simpler times, or is it just that life seemed simpler when we were young. Time, age and life experience will weigh a person down.

I never forget the first day of haying season. I'd be on the rack and grandpa was on the tractor. We would start out and the first few bales went ok, so I thought. Then the tractor would stop and grandpa would come check out the bales and would decide they weren't packing hard enough so he would crank down the rails a few turn and off we go again. I'd think "boy there a little heavier now". A few more bales along, the tractor stops again, and bales are check and the rails cranked down a little more. This would go on until grandpa looked back and saw me struggling stacking the now 80 + lb bales and a big grin would come across his face. Good times. Still, I always preferred haying to picking stones. That was the worst. I could never stand wearing gloves haying, so by the end of the summer the callouses were so thick that I could stick pins into them and not feel a thing. Great painting by the way. Thanks for bring back those memories.

Hopefully it's as good as last year. See you Tuesday.

Lived and worked in Saskatoon for a number of years and went up to Thompson's Lodge a number of times. Always had great fishing. I highly recommend Bellows Lake if you are looking for fantastic walleye fishing. Here's a link. http://www.google.ca...k7gReK2g28t8ZAg Another great Saskatchewan lodge, being in business since the fifties, is Arctic Lodge. Can't ever go wrong with fishing on Reindeer Lake. http://www.google.ca...gajb5FDGz4pQ4ig

The wife want's to do some walleye fishing today. I'm going to head down and get a fire going in the shack.

I'm staying put in my permanent shack today with a big pile of fire wood.

That's my new excuse. "it's not a beer gut, it's a spider gut!!!" Darn spiders.

It's a thankless job, but somebody's gotta do it!

I'm a GM fan, but the Escape is a pretty good vehicle and I'd probably pick it over the Equinox.

I've got a couple of medium action Rapala Ice Rods that are good, but apparently they're not making them any more.

Probably more than you want to know. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera Suborder: Heteroptera Family: Rhopalidae Subfamily: Serinethinae Genus: Boisea Species: B. trivittata Boisea trivittata is an American species of true bug, commonly known as the Box Elder Bug, the Zug, or Maple Bug. It is found primarily on boxelder trees, as well as maple and ash trees [1] . The adults are about 12½ mm (½ in) long with a dark brown or black coloration, relieved by red wing veins and markings on the abdomen. Nymphs are bright red. The boxelder bug is sometimes known as a garage beetle or may be confused with other Jadera spp., especially Boisea rubrolineata. The name "stink bug," which is more regularly applied to the family Pentatomidae, is sometimes used to refer to Boisea trivittata. Instead, these insects belong to the family Rhopalidae, the so-called "scentless plant bugs". However, boxelder bugs are redolent and will release a pungent and bad-tasting compound upon being disturbed to discourage predation; this allows them to form conspicuous aggregations without being preyed on.