TBow

Just curious about yall's prowess at knot tying. As a kid, I belonged to Cubs and Boy Scouts, and ya I had the scout manual with all the pictures of the various knots. Every so often we'd pull out rope pieces on meeting nights and try our hand at those fang-dangled clumps of rope that were suppoed to resemble the pics in the manual, but to be honest, my attention span just wasn't there and my resulting efforts always seemed to be "never-ending knot" topped off with the ever hard to undo "granny knot"! Then when I garduated school, I went to work as a sailor for a year and a quarter with the Canadian Coast Guard, where, strange as it seems, all those scout training efforts actually came in handy. Although not proficient in my early sailoring days, I got better at it as it was now part of my job and the boatswain and officers would commit time for us newbies to pratice. Well I left the coast guard for a couple years then retruned back with the guard for over 35 more years. I was running small boats 9 months of the year and securing loads on helicopters and trucks where those elusive knots soon became 2nd nature to me. I even got pretty good at rope splicing. I recall on one moose hunting trip where we were using a dual tracked swamp buggy to retrieve a moose from a mile and a half back in the bush, that the V-belt broke on the fan/generator. The engine was overheating, the battery was just about dead and the rig wouldn't run. We were 40 miles from the nearest town with a moose carcass heating up in the back of the buggy. No time to doddle! I took a piece of 5/16" rope, spliced it into a knotless loop and mounted it back to replace the V-belt. It didn't have to last a long time, just enough to get us back to the road and out of the wilderness we seemed to be stuck in. It actually worked. Thank you knot tying lessons! And of course 45 years of hunting in the great out doors had many occassions to use those rope tying skills too. I may knot (pun intended) be a master knotsman, but I like to think I can handle myself around a rope better than the average person. I guess I'd say on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the best), I'd like to think I'm around an 8 or 8.5.....at knot tying that is! So how are y'all with a chunk of rope? How many of y'all are ex-Scouts....or Guides? TBow

I think extended fender flares look sharp. Here's a pic from the Bushwhacker Body Gear site: And as for those "old man running boards"! HEY! I resemble those remarks! :boxing: Nice ride. One suggestion though! If'n you plan on keepin' her for a while, I'd be thinkin' about gettin' her sprayed underneath with rustproofing. She looks solid, but never know once you take her off-road and get some mud and sand up under there. TBow

Haven't loaded my ladder stand in it yet, but for all my other stands, I just throw 'em in the back of the 8X8 Argo. I'm sure the ladder stand will fit there too. If'n I had a 4wheeler ATV, I'd consider putting an overhead rack onto it to cart things like ladders, ladder stands or even a canoe. TBow

Went to Timmy's this afternoon and all the R-r-r-r-roll-up-the-Rim cups are "c'est toutes"....all gone! TBow

I don't want to own or run any store where you have to contend with customers. 95% of them are great, but the 5% that aren't, can simply ruin your day beyond belief. I once considered opening an archery shop, but then I realized that archery store operators are busiest when the archery season is on. MAN! That's when you'd want to close up shop and go hunting, but you can't! Thought about guiding, but again, that 5% of clients might ruin what should have been a great day! I'm happiest when guiding myself or family and friends. Customers be gone! NOTE TO SELF: Retail and Service business out! Thought about a maintenance business, but really don't want to fix other people's stuff. Got enough stuff of my own that's broken. Daycare maybe? OhHhHhHhHhHhHh! Perish the thought. Had my own fill and resulting grey hairs from raising my own rug rats! Ain't goin' there again! Maybe a Picker, like the guys on TV who bum around north america seeking out other peoples' junk, then handing it over to someone else to fix up and sell. Ya there's potential there! I know! I think I'd like to be a grand lottery winner and become a land baron! YA! That's a business I could get my head around! TBow

I see that Conception Bay won with just shy of 1 million votes. I couldn't find anywhere that mentioned the vote tally for Wolfe Island or what placement for 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th. Congrats anyways to Wolfe Island. You'll still be receiving $25K for making the top 5. TBow

NOPE! You're all wrong! It's Del Que, mountainman from Jerimiah Johnston, buried up to his chest and left to fry in the sun! Ya right! A deer? Silly wabbits! TBow

Giant Mushroom. TBow

I think I'd like to be on the Grassy Knoll on November 22nd, 1963 to resolve that question once and for all. TBow

I've got a Harris extendable bi-pod on my .243 and am happy with it. At the restrictive costs of any of the commercial shooting sticks, tri, bi or single, I'd consider making my own. Man there's not really a lot to them. If you watch any of the big game hunting shows done in Africa, you'll see that some of the tri-pods that the guides carry for their clients is nothing more than 3 pieces of wood tied together at the top. OH YA! I can see a project coming out of this! TBow

D.B Cooper.....and the question(s) should be pretty obvious! TBow

Resolving that issue should be the responsibility of the Executor of the will. It's not that they would have to research it personally if they were not comfortable with it, but rather I'm sure that there should be a lawyer on strength to administer the nuts and bolts of the will (if there is one). Usually a letter from a lawyer, basically telling the contractor to "Blow Smoke", may very well resolve things. Even should they consider going to collection, which would be in Small Claims Court I believe, as it is under $5K, would not bode well for them in a community where their industry requires compassion and non hard-handed tactics. If they do opt for collection, I'm assuming that their challenge could tie up the final closure of the will until such time as all issues were resolved. Resurecting the receipts and contracts for the services your aunt paid for in good faith 10 years ago should have been part of the will package, but if not, a thorough search for them would seem in order first. POST SCRIPT: I went online and read up on "prepaid funeral packages". There are several methods to that end and include "guaranteed" and "non guaranteed" packages. I was actually quite shocked when I read what I perceived to be quite a scam in a multi billion dollar industry. You can pay directly to one or a conglomorate of funeral homes, to an insuring agent, in lump sum, monthly payments, indexed to the cost of living or not, etc. There may be an administrative charge for management of the fund or penalty fees for cancelling, transferring or altering the plan. If additional options are applied at the time of the funeral that vary from the original plan, then the costs are to be borne by the estate or survivors. Additional costs can even be applied to a "guaranteed" plan depending on what's provided and what is shown in the contract. Best of luck and condolences. TBow

I don't think anybody, old or young, should be allowed to own a pisqueak yappy excuse for a dog that should only be used as finger foods on a bear bait. But HEY! That's just me! TBow (neighbor to a house that owns 3 little yappy fur balls that NEVER NEVER EVER shutup when I'm in the backyard!)

Tally me up for another coffee. TBow

Got me another coffee tonight. TBow

My '98 Dodge Ram was paid for, but it was costing me, on average, $2400 per year to keep it maintained and on the road. Because the 318 in that Dodge was using more fuel than an Abrams A1 tank, it was costing me $300 per month to keep 'er topped up, 'cause I was always touring here, there and everywhere. So annually I was spending $6000 to drive a 13 year old 2WD, regular cab pickup that was starting to rust and held very little resale value. I now have a 2007, 2500HD, 4WD, extended cab, diesel, with drive train warranty, which runs me about $5700 per year in payments, little to no maintenance costs (at least for now), 200 per month in fuel, and still have a vehicle that has retained a descent equity should I ever opt to sell it. So my '07 is costing me $8100 to keep it moving on the road. That's only $2100 per year more than I was spending on my '98 Dodge beater that didn't have the options that I wanted. See you can do anything you want with numbers. So let's see. Hmmmm! Naught goesinto naught, naught times.......carry the naught.....!:shifty:

Every time I've been logging onto the computer, I always drop by the Kraft site and lay a handful of votes down for Wolfe Is. Haven't been counting, but should be around 100 or so. I saw that Conception Bay South tallied up over 460,000 votes in the last round of voting, so it may come down to a battle of the Islands.....Wolfe Is. vs dat big island knowd as da Rock! Good luck Wolfe Island. TBow

I just sold my '98 Dodge Ram and picked up an '07 Silverado 2500HD last fall. It now has about 150,000 km (90,000 mi.) on it and hope it'll go the distance and give me 150,000 km more. To replace that buggy with a 2011 with similar options was between $50K to $60K cdn...OUCH! Unless I win a lottery, that'll just be a pipe dream. I've seen a lot of advertisements in the local papers showing price reductions for 2011 pickups running in the low to mid $20K cdn range, but the models shown don't have many options on them. So I guess if you want tires and a steering wheel on it (exagerated), it'll run the price back up into the $30K + range. I was getting sick of paying for repairs on a 10+ year old vehicle that was worth little to nothing, so moved up a few years to try and cut back on the vehicle doctor bills. TBow

Got another donut this morning. TBow

I got another coffee this afternoon. TBow

That's why in a committed realtionship, a man must always remember the three most important words and remember to always tells her: I AM SORRY! :yes: You don't need to know what it's for, just remember to say it. And when she asks you what you're sorry for, just say: YOU ARE RIGHT! I AM WRONG! :bang::hammer1: TBow

Took me a couple trys, but I got him....finally! BTW: Is this all I can look forward to in my retirement? :jaw: TBow

Was Wolfe Island only competing against Navan to move onto the 5 top finalists? It seemed to indicate only 1 finalist per region, and it looked like Ontario may have been considered 1 Region, or so it seemed. Good luck Joe...and Wolfe Island of course. Now the long wait until March 19th for results! TBow