Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474

Handled carefully, you can burn it.

RCMP HQ, Security & Intelligence Division. A high security area, inside a secure building. My wife was assigned duty at the reception desk, since the regular civilian receptionist was off. Fellow, wearing a rain coat and a hat, tries to get by the desk and fails to stop when challenged for his ID and special pass, whereupon, my sweet, loving, even tempered love grabs the fellow and hollers for her Sgt. Sergeant runs out and starts laughing. It was the Commissioner, (Head Mountie) Sherron said she thought it was him, but the standing Orders were very clear. She got an ATTA BOY (Girl?) for her file.

I suggest you consider the "downstream" population, if the fire front keeps on coming and they jam the roads. I helped at a fire in Northern Ontario, many years ago, and saw how quickly it could jump in the winds. It crossed a major paved highway and a small river.

Leave now, before the roads get blocked or clogged by something unforeseen. Keep safe and Good luck!

Red Storm and I are heading to Kingston, Ontario, for a 6 stage with the Frontenac Regulators. Temps will start in the low 60's heading up to the mid 70's by the afternoon. Fortunately, no rain forecast.

A medical examiner/coroner I knew, said he favored smaller shot, indoors/close range, as it had less chance of over penetrating and could usually be stopped by drywall.

I have similar nuts on my "Wyatt Earp" open hammer shotgun. Is there a proper tool to unscrew them? I've "worried" them off once, as Cheyenne has done, but I would rather do it with the proper tool.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of scammers out there, but it isn't a new thing. Decades ago, I heard of a fellow who put an advert in some magazines: "Send Your Dollars To Charity! Receipt Guaranteed!" The money poured in and it was discovered to be a scam by the post office, who embargoed the mail, collecting and storing the flood of donations. The scammer went to court and won the release of his mail, after it was shown that every donation received a receipt from "Charity" who was his daughter.

I've considered it. The children of several friends have made the choice, (Texas, California, Wyoming, New York, Florida), marrying and having children there. They are doing well. As my country becomes more socialist, with laws now beginning to impact freedom of speech, religion, censorship etc. as well, I am looking at it again, in spite of my age.

Almost a shame to shoot down a Storch. Almost. Great little aircraft though.

Had one ourselves just a couple of weeks ago. Big Red left a pot on low and left it for "a couple of minutes" Monitored alarm started sounding and I tried to call the company to tell them all was OK, but couldn't get our home phone line. The in home monitoring system had taken it over. Finally got a cell phone booted up and called the company, to learn they had dispatched Fire., but they got through to the responders, who turned off the lights and sirens and only had one vehicle drop in to check. Ian and I met them at the door with the burned pot and embarrassed faces. On the bright side, I bumped into a Capitan of firefighters, who I had made acquaintance with, when he was a rookie and I was the City Purchasing Agent who had just bought a new Pumper. Small world.

Our Police Service, (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) has ab auction of recovered/found/unclaimed/no identifiable owner, for two to three years, items annually. No firearms, of course, but well attended, principally for the bikes. I bought some Royal Doulton figurines there one year for 15.00 to 25.00 when they were worth more than 100.00 each.

We got around a lot of useless gifts, in my immediate family, (wife, son and I) by posting a "Wish List" for each of us on the frig. Other stuff was bought as well, but it did help eliminate a lot of things that just became dust collectors or drawer dwellers.

I predict I won't deliberately watch any of it.

When I was a kid, I saw something like that happen in Wood Buffalo National Park, near Edmonton, Alberta. Driving through the park, to our campsite, we came up on a car from Ontario, driven by a fellow who got impatient about the mixed herd blocking the road in front of his car. He was blowing his horn, trying to get them to move off the road and finally bumped a calf, to try to get them moving. My Father said: "OH **IT! and Mother "OH GOD NO DON"T DO THAT!!!" Two adults in the herd, turned, when the calf bleated, decided the calf was being attacked and started battering the car. Dad put our car in reverse, Mother grabbed the movie camera and we watched the car get battered. The car had to be towed out, doors battered and bent, some glass windows gone and the rad leaking fluids. Apparently, they didn't believe or read the sign at the entrance to the park about Bison having the right of way.

For consideration: A lot more pressure would have been on Australia and the air raids on Port Mosby and the surrounding areas would have intensified. Could Guadalcanal have been held after a Midway defeat? All the British Commonwealth countries were engaged in Europe with minimal strength in Hong Kong, which had fallen quickly. In my view, the saving graces in it all, was the distances involved, Japan's lack of natural resources, ( Japanese victories could have alleviated some of that problem), and the abundant resources and manufacturing capabilities of the United States. It would have taken longer and been far more costly, but I believe, ultimately, the end would have been the same, with more nuclear weapons being deployed.

And to think we pack it all up north, some 750 miles, then a two hour boat trip up a river and set it up.. (Then bring it all back!)

WOW! Even the Firearm Hating Canadian (mis)Government allows us to mail firearms person to person. Or at least they did prior to Katy P's boy friend's temper tantrum about handguns.

Same here in Canada. The (mis) government is bailing it out again and there is consideration and exploratory talks with the Unions about cutting out door to door delivery everywhere and going to Community Mailboxes, (even in the older communities, where mail has been delivered to the door for 100++ years.) as well as eliminating daily delivery, cutting deliveries to three days per week.

And to think: We looked forward to living like that all year!! Coffee breaks before, planning. Getting it all together. Then reminiscing for 6 months afterward, before starting to plan another!!

Only needed the legs off the ground. It was at the rivers edge and our hunting Palace was p the bank. I just remembered: That was the one the Whiskey Jacks ate the tenderloin out of before we covered it with cheesecloth!

You mean like this? Me, cranking up a cow to hang it for a while and finish cleaning it.

Prayers being said for Prairie Dog from the Northern side of the Medicine Line.

One year, in our hunting lease, the rut started earlier, due to a few frosty nights. Walking in to our camp, at Dieu Riviere, Ontario, to set things up for the nearing moose season, we came upon a section of the trail torn up; saplings and small trees knocked down etc. and a cleared "path" into the tamaracks with ever increasing spots, then pools of dried blood, hair and tissue. Upon reaching the end of the path, we found a dead bull moose, broken legs, side ripped open and ribs caved in. It appeared that two bulls had been battling and we think one got horns into the ribs and lung of the loser, then in the heat of the rut, when the loser fell, the winner just kept battering the loser deeper and deeper into the brush. The "path" from the start of the trail to the end was paced off at about 120 feet.