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Avalanche, Nomad and I went out last night to fish a nearby creek... I picked up 14 beer cans and 2 bottles out of one spot alone (oh and an recent fire ring, as well)!! WTF! No wonder landowners aren't too keen on people accessing the water from their land!! Sheesh! P

Colin, Inbetween concrete slabs, between slabs and garage, and between sidewalk and fence (landscape fabric, white rock and small pavers for potted plants) and between sidewalk and fence (gravel)... Will try vinegar but most of it's in the shade and then the Round up if that doesn't work... Thanks everyone. P

Ok so I need to kill some grass, weeds, flowers, etc. along the fence and walkway... What's gonna work that is available at Canadian Tire, Home Depot, Rona, etc.? Also, no personal "opinions" on the environmental debate of using herbicides, etc. Please! I've heard "Round Up" will work, but I thought it was just for weeds... Thanks, Peter

Thanks Mike, I'll pass this info on... P

Mike, Taller or more square footage?! P

What about if you are repairing (and extending) an existing deck? Not sure if there was a permit pulled when it was built (it's 3.5') P

Dune, Don't you mean the other internationally renowned rodeo that takes place in Strathmore in July?! http://www.argra.org/ P.S. Not meant to be insulting, just providing the link...

Chris, Some of us aren't part of the "Crack book" network (by choice)! Where can we get info? P QUOTE (chrisbird @ Jun 25 2010, 05:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi Everyone, On behalf of Fly Fusion Magazine I am very excited to announce that Canadians are about to get our very own fly fishing film festival. The film festival will be launched in early 2011 - dates and venues to be announced later this year, however, Calgary will be on the list and will of course be hosted by Fly Fish Calgary. Cheers! Chris

I do too, except when they throw coconuts in the the Bow, eh frypan, my friend!! Lol P

Interesting Rick (not agreeing/disagreeing with you)... This is a little bit of an "aside"... A buddy of mine (grew up with him here in Calgary) who moved to NYC (Brooklyn) a few years ago was here a couple of weeks back and he couldn't believe how expensive restaurants are here!! He happen to mention that restaurants in SOHO (very trendy upscale area in NYC for those who don't know) are 1/2 the cost of restaurants here!! P

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Rob, I use a BIG cow bell actually (what I'm referring to is the dinky little bells that MEC sells - which I can bearly hear myself [pun intended], but I am getting old LoL!)! I keep it in the tent at night... If something's rustling outside in the middle of the night, that's when I use it!! I had it dangling from my pack once coming down from (South) Molar Pass a few years ago and the people that were coming up said that they could here it from below... Doubt they would have heard one of the dinky little ones... P

Realtively speaking... Edmonton has WAY more "Culture" ("cultural" type celebrations) then Calgary, for sure! But Alberta (Calgary) compared to other cities/provinces... We're definitely lacking! If you've even been to "Caravan" in Toronto... Now that a cultural celebration!! P

Actually, no!! They are too quite for them to even hear (there is actual research on this)!! P

Jay, of course you mean "dinner bells"!! LoL What a brilliant idea, let's sell something that doesn't work to tourists and make billions of $!! P

LoL! And if it was pissin rain, you would have been "chomp'in at the bit" to go to that same casino to play a few hands, eh there Don!! P

Yeah I know... It just "chaps my hide"! P

It's the "unsolicited" part of the equation that bothers me!! P

I'd say they're all a bunch of criminals!!

Yeah I'm pretty sure they all do it, but it was just an empty threat to see if they would budge!! They're all a big racket!! P

So today I get another "unsolicited" promotional text from Rogers regarding some useless service that I'm sure they will ding me more $ for... Anyway, I called Rogers customer service to have them stopped... So the agent says that I don't get charged for them and that they can't stop them, but for and extra $5/month I can set up something to have them stopped... yeah right!! I don't have many complaints with their service (other then the cost that they [and all cell providers in Canada] charge) - I have a very basic package with NO contract, but this is just BS, you can't stop an unsolicited promo text! Bull$hit!! I should have given him the line, I guess i'll go with Telus, Bell or Wind, then as they don't send unsolicited texts!! P

Yeah when I lived there it was AWESOME!! Always a 4 day weekend for the 4th of July!! P

So am I (but in the backcountry, as opposed to "the bush" )! But then again, I've learned how to dry (dehydrate) food (in a regular oven, mind you) and that has opened things up for full on gourmet in the backcountry!! ANYTHING that you can make at home can be dried!! P

With the water this high, just mooch near the bank (as others have said)!! Why cast even out?! P

So are you saying that you have not "physically" been to this location?! It might be totally different then what "google map" shows, from my exp. Remember, the google map, maps are quite old (often prior to the flood of 2005) so the river may not be exactly as it shows... I'd be curious to find out if this is the case, please let us know... Also, what about standing on the top left bank, that way you have the entire side channel to fish as well as the seam that is formed from where the side channel meets the main river?! As well bank below... P