Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474

My cholesterol, Blood pressure and kidneys are crying for mercy, while my taste buds are making me salivate!

You think that's Disturbing?? How about:

She is the Premier of the Province, (Alberta) gearing up for an Independence vote. There is a great deal of dissatisfaction among a significant portion of the population over a laundry list of issues that have been festering for decades.

Yes.

Due to a postal strike in 2024 in Canada, I and 99.999% of the card sending Canadians did not mail Christmas Cards. Many are deciding not to this year, while some are. Do you send Christmas Cards ?

I (and the HBC agent I sold the hides of the ones I used to trap) always called them Urmun And if that little black tip on the tail was damaged, the price went down significantly!

OH THEY CAN GET PRETTY BIG! These are some older ones that hang around Kapuskasing": a bull and a cow. Trust me. I wouldn't lie! I'm a Liberal

Living bulldozers. Up past Deux Riviere, Ontario, we were 4 wheeling in to our hunt camp to clean things up for the moose hunt in a few weeks and to bring in some coal oil for the oil stove and do a little partridge hunting. My buddy stopped and pointed ahead where the bush road was torn up and then to a "hole" in the Tamarack bushes beside the trail. We shut down the motors and followed the "hole" noting bits of hair and the torn up forest floor, plants and small saplings uprooted, until we came on to a full grown dead bull moose. Pretty much pulverized It was during an early start to the "Rut" and a bull had been fighting with another bull that, maybe broke the leg or got a hook in the losers rib cage, resulting in a damaged lung. It was hard to tell, since the winner of the bout had kept pounding on the loser. The loser moose had been pushed almost 100 yards through pretty dense growth, before the winner stopped pushing.

My version of Chili Con Carne tonight for Big Red and I. Our Thanksgiving was last month, October 13 I cooked Turkey w/stuffing & cranberries, scalloped potatoes, peas, carrots, turnip/carrots, Tomato/Strawberry & horseradish aspic. In honour of my Alberta Roots, I made Saskatoon Berry Pie with berries sent from extended family in Saskatchewan. Oh yeah and ice cream. Had 12, family and friends.

Lucky. Up here in Canada, they quit selling ammo and firearms, but hung onto selling hunting clothing and accessories, leaving ammo, firearms etc. to the smaller stores. That removed a large revenue stream from the smaller stores and many/most have now gone out of business. Just another insidious thing that is ending shooting sports in Canada.

As a kid back home in Alberta, I drank coffee from a pot left on the stove, with several days grounds being added as required to ensure "Good Flavoured, Strong Coffee Boy!" The old timer called it "Building a Pot" I recall the Condensed Milk can with a spoon in it to tame and sweeten it a bit. George Stoffer(sp?), on Little Bear Lake not far from Grande Centre. Used grounds were spread around the outside edges of the cabin. George claimed it helped keep mice at bay. I use a SS mesh filter ever since I quit using paper filters. I can usually taste the difference in the coffee, when a paper filter is used. Sulphites in the paper I am told.

Sorry for going off on a tangent.

Bell, here in Canada uses it in their on line customer support(?) "I Don'T Understand!" is the most common response I receive. I was able to obtain another contact telephone number that always lets you talk to a human, due to the fact I am a hard of hearing Senior.

MY BAD

My country, Canada is 18th, behind Lithuania #16 and just ahead of Slovenia #19 All that duly noted, but I kinda wonder, since Mexico is #10

Mine is so smart, I can't just simply turn it on and watch a TV program!!

Prior to the Canadian freeze on the legal registration and transfer of handguns, I managed to sell my Artillery Model Luger; my Red 9 "Broomhandle" and a plastic grip P-38, similar to the one bottom right, along with a Colt Officer's Model Match, a Browning Hi-Power and a Browning Medalist. I used to laugh years ago, when a friend stated: "Registration will Lead to Confiscation!" I'm not laughing anymore.

If my 80+ memory is still somewhat intact, wasn't it also .25 ACP in the earlier books!! ?? A REAL manstopper!

I had one, but sold it due to my inability to hit the broadside of a barn with it. While I was inside the barn.

White Christmas.

Something similar here in Canada during the 1914/18 conflict. Many communities had their own Militia or Reserve Regiments, Battalions or Companies. At the outbreak of WWI in July, 1914, most were activated and the men volunteered for Overseas Duty, proud to go and they went as an intact unit. The old ways of war however were no longer viable. A bad battle could and did see the entire male population of a community wiped out. Today, driving the byways of many Provinces, you will see signs that appear to indicate a town or village, but it no longer exists. The men did not return to marry and father children. The young woman left, the older ones died off over the years and the villages or towns died off. Walking through the areas even today, you can encounter partially filled in stone basements and foundations.

The answer to that is a high pressure water cannon. With an electrical charge introduced to the stream.

Here in Canada, minting the penny was discontinued in late 2012 or early 2013, if memory serves. Bills are rounded up or down depending on total. Credit card purchases are still debited to the penny, but payment of credit card bill reflects the practice of rounding, unless it's a pre-authorized or bank transfer. Talk is going around about discontinuing the the 5 cent piece. We use 1 dollar coins (a Loonie) and 2 dollar coins (a Toonie) now, rather than paper bills.

Same thing up here in Canada. Victoria Day was always May 24, Queen Victoria's birthday. Kids even had a ditty: "The 24th of May is the Queen's Birthday! If we don't get a holiday, we'll all run away!" Now it's the closest Monday following. (Fortunately, we still celebrate with lots of fireworks!)