Rattletrap2 Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Well, a day out ice fishing would have been nice, but as luck would have it, all three of our girls were home for the week-end! Our middle Daughter Amanda turned 23 this past week and this was our chance to celebrate her Birthday! The Son - in- laws were here, so we decided to clear off a section of the pond and made an area to skate. we cleared an area about 35' x 80' and found some decent ice. I drilled some test holes with the auger and found anywhere from 8 to 10 inches of solid ice relatively smooth ice under all that snow. We skated for a couple of hours Sunday night under the lights and I went searching around the shed and scrounged up some old hockey sticks this morning. we cleared last night's snowfall off the ice and had us some fun! Having the girls all home was a lot of fun and we really enjoyed the day off work! Hope you all had a great day as well. Even ol' Bubba got out for some fresh air! Sarah and Amanda taking a time out! The youngest (Jessica) was busy taking the pictures today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danbouck Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Went fishing with the guys lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Handlebarz Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Just got done another 14 hour day at work well 13 3/4 gotta love the family day that does not work for everyone Oh well maybe next year. I was happy to see that the traffic was very light in T.O. I did not touch my cruise control until I got to my exit for the 400 (this was at 8:30 am today) and the same for the return trip kicked it off for the 401 ramp around 11am.Heck the traffic was worse trying to cross the bridge in Windsor at 5pm from all the people heading home for a family day in the USA and also saw alot on the 400 all packed with there skies and snow boards. Cheers to all who got to spend the day with the family time for bed to start all over again but tomorrow I will not chance driving through T.O. I will use the back roads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cast-Away Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 My wife and 2 daughters and I spent the day at Horseshoe skiing with my sister-in-law and her 2 kids. What a great day and talk about busy. It's nice to see winter outdoor places doing well on the 3rd annual family day weekend. Both of my daughters instruct at Snow Valley every weekend, so it was nice to go somewhere else for a change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skud Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Fell out of bed at 6:30am so I could work from 8am till 8pm. Loads of fun. I get to do the same every day right through to Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solopaddler Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 (edited) Fell out of bed at 6:30am so I could work from 8am till 8pm. Loads of fun. I get to do the same every day right through to Saturday. You're a good man Doug. We spent the morning with the wee ones sledding then I left at 1pm for my 16 hour shift. Edited February 16, 2010 by solopaddler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCTFisher9120 Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 My Dad took me out and I took him fishing. We caught a handful of Perch with no Pike but still had a blast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archie_james_c Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Washed work clothes and organized tools for my 16 hour shift in the morning. Cruised the net and fantasized about new outboards periodically as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pike slayer Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 of course i went fishing and yes i layed the beats on some lakers and specks! family?? what?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redneck666 Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 dreamin i was fishin is how i spent my family day....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waterwolf Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 yes i worked ,, and yes that's undue punishment . very jealous. play nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smitter Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 I worked and yes I'm bitter about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splashhopper Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 went fishing for Perch..... FINALLY GOT SOME TOO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
douG Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 . And then we went out to dinner - Italian seafood was the menu. It was nice to have a meal with my family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Went for a hike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jer Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 My GF had to work, so my buddy and I spent the day perching on Chemong. Seems alot of other people had the same idea, there were tons of people fishing and otherwise playing on the ice. We had a good day, lots of good-sized perch, a couple of monster perch and a few OOS bass. We had an even better day on Saturday with a crappie thrown in to the mix. Both days we had a massive muskie (must have been 45"+) swim past our holes a few times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishing n autograph Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Family Day? What's that? Worked a 12 hour shift plus 2.5 hours of overtime...got home at 9:30pm in bed by 10:30 to but up again at 3:30 this morning.... At least I got half an hour to hold my newborn.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigugli Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Jigging for smelts with part of my OFC family. In the evening, made a gorgeous grilled steak dinner ( Well, gorgeous for the son and I. Wifey likes her steak cooked til it is shoeleather ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBW Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 spent it with my wife and kids at my folks place and did some ice fishing for a few hours with the whole family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyb Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Spent the day in Muskoka with the wife and baby girl...my son was at his mom's this weekend. Mostly sat by the fire, but managed to put our little girl in the carrier and walk out on to Rosseau a few hundred yards in front of the Windermere House. Good crowd of people out there...and we got our lines wet for maybe half and hour before the breeze had picked up enough to make us think we better head in. I was surprised that it went as well as it did, and ultimately was glad I spent the whole day with them instead of dividing it up to go fishing by myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinger Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 I watched horror movies with Meaghan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRIFTER_016 Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 I got up bright and early and watched some olympic coverage before heading off to work at 8:15 AM. We don't have family day in the NWT. We do however have aboriginal day on June 21st. I think I would rather have the longest day of the year off, don't you? We also get a half day off in March for the Caribou Winter Carnival. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blaque Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Wifey likes her steak cooked til it is shoeleather ) When cooking for company, and i experience this type of individual............i make sure i buy them hamburger for their next visit. Its sacrilege. Not to mention always screws up the timing of the other steaks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigugli Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 When cooking for company, and i experience this type of individual............i make sure i buy them hamburger for their next visit. Its sacrilege. Not to mention always screws up the timing of the other steaks No problem with timing. Start her steak 15 minutes earlier. Once it is black outside/grey inside, put the rest of the steaks on for 1 minute a side for regular steaks, 2 minutes for the 2x6 slabs we had last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlowPoke Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 The 'family' and I spent much of 'family' day moving lumber from the garage to the basement for our new 'family' room. I paid them of course, I'm just glad they're not yet aware of statutory holiday entitlement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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