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BobEMonster...surely your comment were not directed at anything I wrote ... basically saying that using dates were just fine since trying to define anything else was impossible. Surely not me good sir ? ? ?

Terry...here's my lifelike stoney nymph......wanna concede now? KIDDING.....Have fun! Clive, OF

Look you guys the local EMTs are getting sick and tired of coming over and restarting my heart. You know you are having a bad day when people in uniforms are standing over you and yelling, "Clear!"

I'm sending it to adc immediately!

Don, that is a good concept. But try to define "no fishing through the ice" in a way that a judge could accept or that lawyers could not successfully argue either way. What you mean is "no fishing through man-made holes." Right? Okay, what if I break ice by wading through shore ice to cast into naturally open water. Guys were fishing Police last week into open water that in fact was completely surrounded by ice along the shore and in the main part of the lake. The water was open as a direct or indirect function of the aerators. So....they were indeed fishing through the ice. There is a lake near Brooks in which methane (or ???) would bubble up from the bottom. Even when there was two feet of ice on the lake there were a few open pockets of water a few feet in diameter. We discussed dates the other night at the area fisheries round table. It was agreed that the date is fine and from time to time people will indeed be able to ice fish for a few days. Also look at it this way. Darwin will take care of a few of them at this time of year.

I photographed scaups two springs ago from about 20 feet away. Also have only P&S shots of geese in late season---second try I guess. I am not sure if anyone wants to see that or not...I sposed most don't know how tis done. Just like cats but underwater--for one of them anyway. Now the forced CF is strange...three or four males all but downing a female--quite the cacophony. I've heard they can drown a female...not sure.

... so to keep it clean, here is the CWS "Hinterland Who's Who" item about the male lesser scaup after Jeffro's reported "forced copulation rituals "

Thanks flyslinger. Jeff .. aren't pintails so cool to watch flying? Nice pix. I guess it would not be cool to post pictures of copulating scaups, eh?

Hey sun if she is your wife, what do you care about the floors? Good luck with the floors BTW.

This will help a lot ...

There is no reason to disbelieve this. The enlarged image has not obviously been Photo shopped. See larger image. How about this? Crazy glue maybe. What is bullshit, is the several references to when and where it was actually caught. It seems to have been caught in ND, but it is not clear. I'd prefer to see a DNR website authenticating this. But I don't think the image is faked. Several billion pike are born ever spring...a few have to be a bit wonky. Just look around this board if you want proof of genetic aberrations.

eBay....just got some.

Well I for one sure as hell hope you two have purchased carbon offsets from Al Gore's company GIM!! http://www.generationim.com/ http://www.junkscience.com/oct07/al_gore.html http://riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_cons...res_inconv.html http://www.generationim.com/ http://www.freedomszone.com/archives/2007/...of_becoming.php

As Birchy noted, Shaw Secure is very good. F-Secure is based out of Scandihoovia and was one of the world's first "virus" protection companies. Norton and McAfee should be flogged in public.

How to install tiles BY DAVE BARRY (This classic Dave Barry column was originally published Dec. 31, 2000.) Today's topic for homeowners is: how to install a tile floor. Any home decorator will tell you that there is nothing quite like a tile floor for transforming an ordinary room into an ordinary room that has tile on the floor. But if you're like most homeowners, you think that laying tile is a job for the "pros." Boy, are you ever stupid! Because the truth is that anybody can do it! All it takes is a little planning, the right materials and a Fire Rescue unit. Consider the true story of a woman in Linthicum, Md., who decided to tile her kitchen floor, as reported in an excellent front-page newspaper article written by Eric Collins for The Capital in Annapolis, Md., and sent in by many alert readers. According to this article, the woman, who wanted to be identified only as "Anne" for reasons that will become clear, decided to surprise her fiance by tiling her kitchen floor herself, thus saving the $700 a so-called "expert" would have charged for the job. Step 1, of course, was for Anne to spread powerful glue on the floor, so the tiles would be bonded firmly in place. Anne then proceeded to Step 2, which -- as you have probably already guessed -- was to slip and fall face-first into the glue coat she created in Step 1, thus bonding herself to the floor like a gum wad on a hot sidewalk. Fortunately, Anne was not alone. Also in the house, thank goodness, was one of the most useful companions a person can ever hope to have: a small dog. Specifically, it was a Yorkshire terrier, a breed originally developed in England to serve as makeup applicators. A full-grown "Yorkie" is about the size of a standard walnut, although it has more hair and a smaller brain. Anne's dog, named Cleopatra, saw that her owner was in trouble, so she immediately ran outside and summoned a police officer. Ha ha! No, seriously, Cleopatra did what all dogs do when their owners are in trouble: lick the owner's face. Dogs believe this is the correct response to every emergency. If Lassie had been a real dog, when little Timmy was sinking in the quicksand, Lassie, instead of racing back to the farmhouse to get help, would have helpfully licked Timmy on the face until he disappeared, at which point Lassie, having done all she could for him, would have resumed licking herself. So anyway, when Cleopatra decided to help out, she naturally also became stuck in the glue. But again, luck was on Anne's side, because also at home were her two daughters, ages 9 and 10, who, realizing that the situation was no joking matter, immediately, in the words of the Capital article, "began laughing hysterically." Eventually, with their help, Anne got unstuck from the floor and was able to lay the tile. But she still had glue all over herself. So, according to the Capital article, "she called a glue emergency hotline, but no one answered." I don't know about you, but that sentence disturbs me. I think somebody should check on the glue-emergency-hotline staff. I picture an office reeking of glue fumes, with whacked-out workers permanently bonded to floors, walls, ceilings, each other, etc. Come to think of it, this is also how I picture Congress. But getting back to Anne: Still trying to solve her personal glue problem, she called a tile contractor. During this conversation, the glue on her body hardened, such that (1) her right foot became stuck to the floor; (2) her legs became stuck together; (3) her body became stuck to a chair; and (4) her hand became stuck to the phone. "I had to dial 911 with my nose," she is quoted as saying. When the rescue personnel arrived, they found Anne still stuck. Perhaps this is a good time in our story to bring up the fact that she had been working in, and was still wearing, only her underwear. Fortunately, the rescue crews were serious, competent, highly trained professionals, and thus, to again quote the Capital article, they "laughed until they cried." Once they recovered, the rescue crews were able to free Anne by following the standard procedure for this type of situation: licking her face. No, seriously, they freed her with solvents, and everything was fine. Anne got her new floor and saved herself $700, which I am sure more than makes up for suffering enough humiliation to last four or five lifetimes. So the bottom line, homeowners, is this: Don't be afraid to tackle that tile job! Just be sure to have a dog handy, and always remember the No. 1 rule of tile installation professionals: Wear clean underwear.

Funny. Know a few of those myself.

Thanks GB ... that is indeed a good concept....seen smaller plexi frames like that downtown (obviously not 80 inches long tho.) I will call this commercial printer as he has a fancy Epson printer... shall see. Taco...Don't tell anyone, but I did not use a tripod on this --- which I should have done. Cameras are worse than fishing gear...now I have the new camera I think my good lenses are not good enough. So I have two new ED lenses on my sights. The camera wars (pixel envy) are getting silly...soon to release a 24MP full-frame...which people will flock (at $5K..not me) to and realize then they need three new top-drawer lenses at $1500 to $5000 each and THEN their computer won't handle the files which will be stoopid size. (Even off my 12 MP camera the jpegs are 8 to 13 MB and the RAWs are 18MB and the TIFFs are 69MB each!!)

Hell NO troutlover.. I meant cooling....been cooling since 1998.

I am gonna call my man here in town ... he owns one of those high-end Epson 8-cartriddge printers that does rolled canvas up to 18 inches wide and any length. I suspect we can do it on canvas and put it on a hidden frame--like an oil. Will let you know. No rush.

Below is Lake Newell south of Brooks at 1 PM today ... wall to wall ice. (Taken from 1 km away at 100 kph.) The shore ice didn't even look rotten where we could see. Dugouts around Brooks are still frozen. Ponds down here are open. Here is the wx forecast for Onefour. Things can change fast, but it is late. (In keeping with a colder winter and perhaps an overall cooling earth ... since 1998.)

Cheeler ... too funny.

If you have the number it would be good to report. There were hundreds of swans down here this past week, but they are tundras..simply based on numbers and locations. A banded swan MAY mean a trumpeter--just because tundras are much more common. But tundras/trumpeters can be difficult to ID for sure. A yellow beak marking indicates a tundra, but it can be absent on a tundra. I took the pix below two years ago and believe it to be a trumpeter for three reasons: It had a guttural call -- unlike a tundra swan It was in SW Alberta where trumpeters are known to occur--versus out on the plains. It had no yellow beak marking Great trout BTW...

Funny ... I think anyway! Since I am the only person in the world with that name.....one assumes this is a piece of online software stuff. Right? Please say tis so. HTF did you do that?