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"It's a great place to lose the wife at." Yabbut ... not a great place to get a new wife. Don .. They sell a stacks of 2-mm craft foam for five bucks ... good for ants and hoppers ... you get half sheets of about 15 useable colors and you give the rest to your grandrats to cut up and make a mess with. If you decided to commit an act of terrorism you could bomb a Wal-Mart and improve the overall genetic stock of the land. (Like WE never go there. )

Thanks BBT. No I have not thought about selling this. Ive made (in Photoshop) a 12 by 72-inch .. sample below...can change wording... The problem with this image is it has a length-width ratio of about 8:1 and it loses its impact if the scene is cropped at one end. So I can actually get a 72-inch print made at a lab but then WTF am I to do with it? They won't (can't) foam-core mount it. I could get some foam core and attach it myself. My foam core alone tends to warp. I know a guy in town here and he may be able to help me. Would like one for my house. The 36-inch prints are great too, but are only 4 inches tall...need to think on this.

Too late troutlover. You are doomed. Give me all of your gear and join a convent. Don't feel bad...we ALL do it. I installed a new wireless router the other day for my new laptop. The damn thing would NOT work. So I called the router tech line and his first question was. "Have you turned on the wireless switch on the laptop yet?" Um .. er ... ah ... well ... er ... no.

TL .. You are looking in the Alberta Fishing Guide perhaps. That's not the regs. They are definitely in the 2008 Alberta Guide to Sportfishing Regulations .. got my regs today. Also see here.... http://www.albertaregulations.ca/fishingregs/ Police (Outpost) Lake (8-1-26-W4) Apr. 1 to Oct. 31 – Trout limit 1 over 50 cm; Pike limit 3 (no size limit); Bait Ban. Nov. 1 to Mar. 31 – CLOSED

Geez Dave, that's easy for a thirties-something guy to say. Rickr is like ... you know...getting old.

rickr ... Loved you story. Mortality faces us everyday--or I think of it almost every day. The problem with the younguns is they believe they are immortal. I'm guessing that "Go hard .. or go home" was not coined by someone (say) 48 years old. More like 22. The bad part (maybe the good part) is that us guys (I dunno about the gals) always feel like we are 18 mentally. But our damn bodies know we ain't. Mortality sucks. I am now older than my mother got to be and yesterday one of my "American cousins" died. He was one year younger than me. (Hadn't seen him for 45 years...but still.) Read my signatures. Clive

Thanks.

The irony-- or eco stoopidity.. The weather channel Earth Hour website says: On March 29, 2008, from 8 – 9pm local time, people and businesses are asked to turn off all lights and other non-essential electric appliances to bring attention to promote electricity conservation, awareness and lower carbon emissions. But the idiots want us to watch Earth Hour on TV? Classic eco double talk! Bloody lunacy. Saturday March 29, watch live coverage of Earth Hour on The Weather Network, 7-9PM EDT!

Every few days the board requires me to log in every time. The "remember me" box is clicked. Logged in three times in a row over a ten-minute period and same thing. Wassup? Anything I can do to correct? Thx.

Thanks for the reminder. Will get one at the lumber yard today. As of April 1, it will be four years and seven days and this geez ain't gonna need a license. The BIG question will be....will the fishing be any good the first seven days of April 2012? Hopin' not. Decisions.

Yes Jeff, I agree. I been down a few roads and maybe had too much schooling and traveled a lot and read a lot and try to stay somewhat apprised of life in general ... and yet there is always more to learn. (Real science versus the bogus claptrap in the media and promoted by fanatical eco groups. ) I knew birds did this to lose height FAST. I took some pictures last year which showed this a bit. But this current series shows it well and I was surprised to see several birds flipped 180° .. with their heads still upright. Very cool stuff. Will try to get some more next week--we've a few hundred birds across the road again.

" I do most of my fishing on the Upper Oldman, Gap " Donate $900 to Stream Watch and then go to Wal-Mart.

Ding ding ding. Monger gets a gold star. Monger is spot on ... when geese (and some other waterfowl) are dropping into a lake, sometimes a few of the birds will "dipsy doodle" down by turning sideways. This causes the wings to lose the lift and the birds slip downward faster. You may not know that sometimes the birds will turn completely upside down and reverse the uplift effect to a downdraw effect -- and they drop like stones. (A reverse Bernoulli effect.) In the first picture below here you can see a few birds twisting--see arrows. The second composite shot shows a bird turning in the top image and upside down in the second shot about 0.2 second later. (The camera shoots at 5 frames per second.) Note how the relative position of this bird in the second shot is lower compared to the normal birds. The third shot shows another bird completely upside down. Note that the head is always upright. (The next picture in this sequence--not here--shows this bird dropped approx. 3 m in the 0.2 second relative to his upright neighbours.) Like Yogi Berra said, "You can see a lot by looking." Yeah Pyth....LS's comment is hilarious.

Okay gang what is going on here? NOT Photoshopped. Heavily cropped. (Terry..you are disqualified.) And, no, it is not shot.

Here you go Terry....I have over 2,000 goose images...just had to look. Not quite the same, but the right idea. I've given flight images to a few teachers as they cover "flight" in grade six. Have some nice series. Fun stuff.

Don... serious old fart moment...you other guys just ignore us. On August 6, 1966 I was camped in a ridge-pole tent up on the Skyline in the Porkies. Woke up at 4 AM with the roof caved in. We had 3 inches of wet glop on the tent and ground. We drove into the Pass to see the boss and he wondered WTF were were doing in town instead of working--no snow anywhere except the Porkies. (I've no idea why I remember the exact date.) End of hijacking.

fisher26 said, "Looks like the crow in August... Except there is snow by that river." I take it you were not here in 1992! Have a boo here... pacreseltoro ... time to take up golf when things get that bad.

Just change your avatar and things will become much clearer. Mother Nature is indeed fickle.

Tako! Wrong. (I guess it is all explained in your avatar. ) Definitely a take off. Trust me I was there. See below. There were tracks going from left to right. And you know? Their little feet point ahead. And THEN ... it took off. No more tracks. Surprise. Just call me Tonto. Here are the same tracks from another angle showing the pointy feet ...

Thanks Pythagoras. I've a few snaps. My granddaughter and I spent hours (and hours) across the road after C'mas as she is a skater and the pond ice was sweet this year. We explored and saw lots of cool stuff. We saw the pheasant "tracks" so the next day I sent her on a pheasant hunt--this time no skates. One flew up about 5 meters in front of her in the tullies (sp??) ... she screamed!! Was hilarious. Me? I'd have simply died. Naturally I took some pictures of the cool patterns. Can't have too many pictures. TERRY!! Be careful out there. We could be fooling you. Could be one of these ... watch yourself down on the river .. specially near dark..and if you hear drips of blood ... aaarggh!!

Pheasants are terrifying when you're alone in bear country, almost as bad as beavers when its pitch black out HA HA HA ! Scare the crap out of you AND ME! But yeah, good guess on the bird.

Bird wing tips.. the marks happen when they land and take off. Don't think it is a pheasant because there is no tail trail...here are pheasants taking off and landing...across the road at Xmas. He he he...BBB "'look i'm injured dance'" They don't do that in February--they only do the dance when they have young. Here is a pheasant taking off....

Took a series yesterday that melded rather well. Here is the small version... A 2000-pixel image is shown if you click here. (The really big one is 10,000 pixels wide.)

Monger, ya may wish to hold off a day or three with the tube....

adc and I went to Police this morning and put up seven of these signs at strategic locations around the water and campground. We are seeking permission to put up a temp large sign. (There are replacements for when these get destroyed, shot or stolen.) There is some open water near the aerators and island, but 80+ percent of Police is ice covered--in fact a couple of guys were ice fishing.