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Had a CTC intelligent charger, but it wasn't so smart after all, took it back for a refund after a year of putting up with it and got my money back. It wasn't the same as that one in the link, it was the one with a plastic housing. Bought a different one that will stop charging when the battery is full and stays on to monitor. If you want a Minnkota 30 lb. thrust and a battery I might want to sell mine. Haven't used it in a few years and it has low hours only being used a few times. Had it occasionally on the old 12'r but it isn't strong enough on a 16.

Great looking place Lew. Glad to hear he move was a success. Those deer are just waiting for you to plant a nice little veggie garden come spring Wishing you and your wife many happy years in the new digs.

Best defense....get a road runner. Beep beep.

Great! Isn't it enough the we have to deal with clowns on seadoos buzzing us while fishing? Now maybe someday we will be getting buzzed on the water and from the air all at the same time. Pretty idea though and I too was also hoping the girl was part of the deal.

I like the one where he gives the little boy a really neat toy truck and then snatches it away and replaces it, the kid says "That's a piece of junk. The look on the kids face is amazing!

Got called to the Milton courthouse years ago...1979?? Got selected, I was there for 2 weeks, an assault case. Found him guilty, most of us were amazed that we had to be called in as jurors as the evidence was so obvious. Well obvious to all except the old school teacher who looked like Opie's Aunt Bee! Took us all day and well into the supper hour on the last day for us to convince her, I think she just got wore down in the end and changed her vote to guilty so she could just get out of there. Pay back then was 15 bucks a day plus transportation. Got the papers again a couple of years ago but was not called in. Wife did too back when my son was a newborn and she got out of it for that reason.

I too had a 12' and I had a 2000 or maybe it was a 2002? 6hp Merc on it. That was a beautiful little motor, easy on gas and quiet, so quiet that I was asked more than once if it was a 4 stroke. It was fine if alone in the boat, OK with 2, but then I am the size of 2 smaller guys myself. You will probably be satisfied with a 6 but if you have a deal on the 9.9 then go for it, then you will probably be more than satisfied. BTW, my 12'r was only rated for a 7hp.

I can understand what you are feeling as I have seen many posts regarding fishing with few replies and have made some posts with little response also but I didn't take it personally. Figure that sometimes people just want to look but have nothing to say but still enjoyed the story or the pictures however yes responses due make a difference because if no comments are made then a person can say why bother? Hope you have a change of heart and stay around, I do enjoy your posts and can still remember your escapades about the accident on your way south. If you decide to keep with your plans best of luck to you and good health.

Congratulations Cliff. I'm happy for you that you realize that you are not old yet. That is the trick to picking up more knowledge and skills. I had an opportunity a few years ago after a heartbreaking realization that I was no longer physically fit to do the job of my desires and took a course receiving an honour diploma from a travel and tourism school. Problem is though I was not successful at landing work in the field so returned to my 1st. old standby from a previous time however, what I learned at the travel college was invaluable. Keep up the good work with your chin held high.

Very sorry to hear of your loss. May she be in peace. Grandmothers are a treasure we must remember and keep close to our hearts forever.

Can't say I feel a lot of sympathy for your situation, sorry to say. You work at a trade in the construction industry so you have to take the good and the bad. My father worked in construction. Built houses after the war, did some other things and worked as a cop too. But his favourite job was construction, steel construction, 40 years in the Iron Workers Union. Made a good living and paid his dues (besides union dues that is) and had to travel to where the work was. Sometimes other cities, other times other provinces. You have to go where the work is, either that or get out of the business. You have a dream of a nice house, a garage and a nice truck parked outside by 40. I wish you well but some are into retirement and haven't had such luxuries, so if you succeed consider yourself fortunate. Best of luck.

Exactly as Rick stated. That pretty much says it. My ex had to receive medical attention in Florida once, around 1977. Even though we had insurance we had to pay up front for everything before the hospital would do anything, even a simple urine test had to be paid for before they would do it. My now wife was pregnant in late 1989 early 1990. We had an extensive 6 month long trip planned to the States which was to end up in north west Canada in a year. Two weeks before setting out we discovered that my wife was pregnant. Doctor says to her go ahead, just get a medical exam every month and all will be fine. Would have been that is if we could have found a Doctor or anyone with medical knowledge to look at her! All the way from Florida to San Antonio we never found a Doctor, a clinic or a hospital that would take her in to do some simple tests...because she was pregnant. They were all too afraid to take the responsibility because of pregnancy and malpractice insurance. What a great system! We had great insurance coverage which was also backed by our government insurance and we did have the cash and resources to pay by the way so there was no excuse other than the American system is screwed. She finally had a Doc look at her in San Antonio Texas, not because she was pregnant but because she had a sty in her eye and after asking for the Doc to check her blood pressure and such did she get looked at. The Doc asked why, my wife told her the situation and the Doctor was kind enough to look her over quickly only after saying that if she had told the clinic's reception she was pregnant they would have shown her the door. The Doctor being female felt a fellowship with another woman and her condition. For these and other reasons I am happy to live on this side of the border and thank my father for moving back to Canada after our immigration to the States when I was a child. no

Read that to myself and groaned. Then told it to my wife and then I laughed, we both laughed...funnier the 2nd time around. Good one thanks for posting.

Loved Rocketship Seven! Great kids morning TV show Davey and Goliath, Gumby, Dave Thomas, Commander Tom, Promo the Robot, great memories. Fantastic television in the 60's/70's and to think we had less than 13 channels but we were lucky as we had that many to choose from because in the middle or southern States there were less and in the north there was even fewer to choose from. Boy we had it made! And remember back when car radios were an option, and then FM radio came out wow!

Now that's a union! Talk about an instant come back to an allegation...and not only that there was photographic evidence too! Gotta love it. I fell asleep on the job one time while working at Stelco. I was relieving a guy for an hour who's job it was to push 2 buttons about every 20 minutes (night shift) the object was to shut off the flow of sinter into an open train car so that you could move the train along to the next car and open the chute again to fill the next one. The result: a buried train car! The next night the foreman sat with me for the entire relief period and he wouldn't shut up! I never fell asleep again but about 2 weeks later when I was coming in on day shift it happened to another guy. We had to spend the 1st half of the shift digging the train out of a mountain.

Nice truck! Nice to see some loyalty to the one who puts the food on your plate. It bugs me when I see my sister-in-law's husband buy foreign a he works at Ford. A Mercedes, an Accord and a Canadian made Chrysler. Mind you he didn't drive any of those to work, too far to walk from the outcast parking I assume. He did break down though and bought a new Escape last summer. She said he didn't like paying for the repairs on the German car. Plus all the flack too.

It'sabout time! I hadn't been there since a teenager in the early 70's when it was a stocked bass paradise. Tried it twice a few years ago and nothing. But I did see a park owned rented boat overloaded with an entire family keeping every fish they could find, didn't matter how small the fish were, even little fingerlings found a home in an overloaded mesh bag! It was a sad sight.

Around the turn of "the" century? Isn't that what they say for any of the years around 1900? Sometimes the early 1900's is often heard. Don't know what this past decade has been coined yet but I guess we'll hear some phrase soon to describe our first years of this century. Maybe the recession years or decade?

Good point Hometown, didn't think of the HST coming in, this is a good time to buy the 3 year permit. Bloody HST

I had the day off thank you scheduler at work. Did a little work on the basement, (no it's still not done Hometown ) picked my wife up at her job and decided that with no other plans for us or our son we figured we'd go out...either for dinner or take the coin for eating out and go to a casino for a change of pace. Eating out was voted for 2:1, I lost. Tried King's Buffet in Stoney Creek but it was packed and the line up was long. Next choice, Black Forest Inn for some great German food. They also had a wait but a beer helped to pass the 40 minute time span and while sitting with drinks a fella from work and his family enters the restaurant . Then right behind him is my niece and her boyfriend! What a small world. We ended up getting a table before the others at a booth and had the waitress get my niece and her friend come over and squeeze in. We all had too much too eat and it was cheaper than the buffet including the beverage. Then it was back home to watch that great Can./U.S hockey game and the dropping of the Times Square ball and the Niagara Falls festivities. A happy and great 2010 to all.

She's a beauty Lew, good on buying N/A but too bad the F150's are no longer made in Oakville, but that doesn't matter. Does driving a red truck bring back any memories? But then it doesn't have a flashing red light up on the roof does it? Yes 2009 should be renamed the year of Lew Didn't ya all know? Lew won the 649 and forgot to tell us all Selling your house in a T.O burb is much the same thing as hitting the lottery, you get a very good buck for what you have and the funds can be stretched a long way when moving to a different locale. Congrats Lew, all the best in 2010 and enjoy the new ride and new pad.

Love the old Ford Joe. It would look even nicer though if it were to reside in my garage I saw one just like you have recently, same colour combo too. But it said Mercury on the tailgate, not many Merc trucks around anymore.

Brew your own and buy her a thermos if she needs several fixes throughout the day. Sure she won't be proud of you but that will only last a dy or two. She will either develop a taste for the money saved or will quit altogether. The trick to a good cup of coffee is the temperature the maker gets the water up to, 195 to 205 is what I have been told is ideal. Read some reports and reviews of coffee machines and make a decision. Expensive also doesn't mean that the machine works any better that a cheap one. The brand of coffee I liked was he No Name Columbian as it was cheap and flavourful but the only way I have seen it recently is in a larger package if at all. Otherwise it is what's on sale, Maxwelhouse or Folgers (I think Folgers mountain roast is a little stronger than the classic blend?) I found Folgers stays fresher longer, also don't leave your coffee machine turned on after it has finished. Turn it off and either cool the coffee and nuke it for later drinking or put the remainder in a thermos, keeping it on heat only cooks it.

DanD is correct, look for signage related to launch rules. Grand Island BBQ Dunnville has a posted sign in regards. Seems that the bottom end of their launch got washed out really bad from power loading and it caused them a buck or two for repairs.

If I was somewhere where my presence was questionable and someone came along with a shotgun in hand I would leave in a hurry, no doubt the trespassers didn't put up an argument. If he did fire it at them this would be far too extreme and I wouldn't be surprised to hear from the local authority. I can remember visiting a friend's home some years ago. His father was a gun nut, well known to the Burlington/Halton police at the time probably because for his collection and his character. They had moved to a different house in a nearby rural village right next to a baseball park. One particular day that I visited there was a game going on at the diamond and someone had parked their car on the gravel shoulder along side of the road in front of his house with the two right wheels on his lawn. Buddy's father picks up a shotgun, walks out to the roadside with gun in hand and does a walk around the parked car. Steps back about 20 or 30 feet on the lawn and points the barrel down at the front tire, brings the gun back down to his side and walks back into his house. The car was moved in less than a minute! I couldn't believe it! I'm still amused by this so many years later. I'm not condoning his actions but nobody in their right mind messed with him.