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Its an 18qt roaster and I have no idea what im doing with it lol

The wife made two full sized chickens in it the other day and wow was it good and moist!

Hopefully my chicken thighs cook good in the monstrosity in our kitchen lol

I added some montreal chicken to it and some beer to keep it moist

New cooker? I thought you and the wife were really happy!

???? zing! Good one cliff!

 

that's a longboard and they're very popular. there are 'board meetings' in Toronto where most dress up in shirt and tie and ride down Yonge St.. tempted to go one time but my board is a pool and pipe stick

 

If that's our best puppet, God save us...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQrOM_ZrSwk

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKXxLNtwmhg

I hate Harper.

Dont get me wrong.

But at least to some extent he is respected by other leaders(as a puppet)

You get a lesser experienced(puppet) and things might go south very very quickly.

I dont like any candidate tbh

Which is the best puppet? Probably Mulclair IMO.

Either way we are spiraling downword fast.

I cant even begin to list all the issues we have.

We need a true leader, I see none

Experimenting on some chicken thighs tonight with the new cooker we bought?

Hopefully it comes together nice, fingers crossed.

Nice!!!!

Still no snow yet in NW ontario

 

MB2 at the end of WWII Canada had the 4th largest Navy and the 5th largest Airforce in the world. The biggest turning point, obvious to any one my age, is when Diefenbaker cancelled the Avro Arrow program in '58 I believe choosing the protection of the US ICBM's. ( Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles ). Air raid drills were as common as fire drills in schools back around the Cuban Missile Crisis, fun times, put your head between your legs and kiss your butt goodbye

Yeah that must have been unpleasant to live through.

And I totally agree with you about Trudeau. The fact that the crowd laughed during a debate when he was questioned about "how he would handle a meeting with Putin" pretty much sums it up.

None of the candidates stand a chance against Putin.

All answers were laughable but it is clear Harper has the most experience and is a better speaker.

Trudeau is a horrible speaker and im not sure what he brings to the table? He seems confident NATO protects him if elected.

When was Canada ever a leader in military force?

Its been along while since we kicked the US in the hiny lol.

I hate saying this but Harper may just be our best puppet

Thats a horrible skateboard

Hed be beat up at most skateparks???

It funny cause i usually eat more of the salad then anything else lol

Super easy and tasy as ....

Wow!!!!!

Wow!!!!!!!!!

WOW!

The soup is stupid good!

 

As for the salad it's very simple! Cucumber, tomato, feta, fresh cracked black pepper and a bottle of Greek dressing....

 

Don't need a lot of the dressing for this salad. Add the dressing 30 minutes before serving.... So easy and so good!

 

G

We are doing the same salad tonight.

Its unreal good

T minus 10

I wonder what he was carrying? Is that propane?

I seen this once in grande prarie with an unsecured load in a pick up(work truck) if I remember correctly it was a gas used for fracking. It was just one cylinder and it broke the tailgate at a stop and shot off like a rocket.

Thankfully nobody was hurt, but im sure the driver faced some wicked fines

As a child i loved r/c cars and trucks.

Ask for new ones every christmas lol

Eventually id destroy them building jumps and just doing silly stuff with them

One of my friends flies planes now and he helped me fil alot of my sturgeon footage with my gopros.

Hes an awesome pilot but im always nervous he'll losw my cameras lol

Hes a spaz he can fix or rig anything lol, and hes almost 60!

I cant justify the costs but its infectious to see the fun and passion he has for planes and cars!

I have a train run 40 yards in front of my house 12 times a day/night. It literally shakes the house.

Do wind turbines really generate such unbearable sounds? Or just enough to disturb peace?

Honest question

And for the record I enjoy the train lol

Best bass crank ive ever used I recoloured at home with some neon paint from dollerama and nail polish.

First time I used it I was fishing from a dock and my wifes family were all there havin beers and a bonfire.

I bet I caught 40 bass in about 3 hours on that one crank.

I tried it on other water badies too and same thing

It was just a cheap body plastic too, shaped like a cotton cordell

I should make some more lol

Thanks!

And yes back on topic(ive noticed Im very good, unfortunately at derailing threads)

My bad

The mud was very hard to drill through. The cylindical of the bottom of the pile would slip off its mark quite often and that was a real challenge in late fall early winter

Thanks man!

I actually followed each driller for a few hours each morning for 4 days to teach them how to do it. Id measure on the spot to save time.

Each driller got a good system going and I was measuring RTKs and northing and easting by hand to the tune of 350 piles per day.

Here is a pic of the conditions lol

And also a football i made from tape the held the elctrical on the panels as they were installed lol.

Gotta have fun on breaktime?

 

Solar and Wind will NEVER replace Nuclear - nor is anyone saying it will. However, the more we can supplement the nuclear based grid with green energy, the better off we will all be in the future.

 

Was your piles going into earth, or was there any rock anchoring into bedrock? (or a mix of both). I would guess they were all anchored into bedrock, based on the location, but I'm not overly familiar with the topography of rainy river.

Most was just into earth. A pile typically took about 5 minutes to drill once the operators got the hang of it

We had to redo one section on the south side as it was all sorts of outta wack

The northing and easting measurements were WAY OFF

I actually had to go in and tell the contractors that not every pile was meant to be exact length because thats how they started, when in fact it was designed to contour the land(ie it would dip at the roads etc)

Once we got that straight though things went up quick!

And did I mention the pay was great? Lol

Once I switched from TBT engineering(as they were done there contract) I moved over to black and macdonald

There I worked with the electritions to tie everything up(boy was that a chore with the gloves you have to wear and in -15 weather)

It was a fun project, I learned alot

Nevermind, I stand corrected.

 

I've done some more reading, and Black and Mac did act as the EPC contractor.

 

Cool!!

 

I've seen them on just about all the large scale solar projects, but never seen them act in an EPC capactity.

 

Black and Mac is a great company, and I love seeing them involved with any solar project.

 

edit:

Just read RB Somerville was hired by B&M to be the civil contractor responsible for installing all the racks, foundations, and helical screw piles.

 

You have some of Canada's best contractors construct that site. It'll remain functional well beyond its 20 year life cycle.

I enjoyed working for them

Very well run company

Rumour has it an even bigger farm is in the process now in the same area.

It was my first time doing a solar farm and my main job was data collection and running RTK measurements on all the piles

I measured every single pile on that site. Many of them two or three times when we had a small glitch.

I was walking 40km a day according to my phone hahah

 

Wow , birds don't stand in the way of a wind turbine

 

http://ontario-wind-resistance.org/2013/01/08/wind-turbine-company-nextera-mnr-destroy-bald-eagle-nest-habitat/

Thats just bad, very bad

 

I read that there was a delay early in construction. Didn't read what the delay was caused by.

 

Out of curiosity, who actually built the project? The RRFN project, at 25MW (a very big farm) should have had a very large builder, likely PCL, or Canadian Solar, maybe White or ABB...but usually it is easy to find out who built the farm...in the 25MW RRFN project, I could not find out that information.

 

Do you know who actually built it?

I know all the contracting details but not much of the backing behind it???

If I remeber correctly the loan was $160 million.

I worked for both TBT engineering and Black & Macdonald. "We built it" but im unclear as to who we we actually contracted by?

I can certainly find out however

And the solar farm, as Im sure you read, was also held up by a bird.

They did alot of work trying to avoid damages to a local birds enviroment.

At one point the project was almost cancelled all together.