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Hope you all have a happy holiday season and I wish everyone a healthy and prosperous 2013 with many joyful piscatorial adventures.

It took three attempts but I got it into the SRD office on Bearspaw Road. I just hope it gets to the office in Edmonton, where I also tried to drop it, but it was closed and no one had any idea what I was talking about. I have a feeling.....

I worked on the whole a bit at a time. So printed it off and did the analog thing. I guess I'm just old school.

My wife keeps hinting for a 2013 Infiniti convertible.

Nothing yet. I will probably have to pay the ten bucks or so to mail it.

I have filled out the workbook, lots of stuff in there. I then tried to drop it off at the Mcdougall Government Office. They wouldn't take it because they had no idea what it was, where it was supposed to go or how it could get there. Doesn't appear to have as much interest as getting your mother and daughter to the London Olympics.

I don't know if it is the same bird but it seems they habitually go through Calgary on their way south. I saw one when I was fishing last Sunday. And the Calgary Ornithogical Society reported some a couple of years ago that were hanging around the river even near the downtown core.

Congratulations, nice fish and it's interesting the assumptions people make. Could it be that fish was caught in a lake? Oh and why can't my fishing partners look like that, all I seem to get are grizzled old farts. But then birds of a feather....

Very cool, New Zealand I presume.

I figured it out

I used to be able to mark all posts as read and I still haven't figured out if I can do that now. or how to do it if I can.

I have seen some big moose in that area so I suppose the elk are there too.

Rick that sounds so recognizable to me that I could picture the whole thing. My wife is a tiger when it comes down to the hiking/mountaineering thing, but whenever something unexpected happens its always my fault. But the funny thing is after the fact it becomes an "adventure". Best way to play it with women I think. You get to laugh about it afterward. As far as not making it to the top. it's better to be alive and regretting not acheiving the summit, than dead on the mountain. And I have to give kudos to your wife for not kicking your ass for dislodging a rock down onto her. Anyway I think you will both look back on that with a real sense of amazement.

Was fishing the Castle a couple of years agp, doing the usual bankside bushwack in spots, I didn't realize the safety clip got pulled out somewhere in the shrubery. I was wearing the can in a holster on my belt. When I got back to the truck at the end of the day the can pushed into the seatbelt in my truck and the spray blasted directly onto the inside of the windshield. I was lucky in that I was only halfway in my truck and not facing directly forward. Some of the spray got on the left side of my face and in that eye. I used some paper towels and windshield antifreeze to clean it off but it still took about a week for the smell to disipate. My fishing buddy thought it was super hilarious.

Here's the website for the Hook and Hackle Club http://hookandhackleclub.org/ Theres a membership fee, $50 per year, but you can drop in for free the check it out.

A few years ago my wife and son threw out a bunch of sport collectible stuff, same thing we were doing a basement reno and it was taken to the Calgary dump, no luck finding it there. You could get lucky and find it at the transfer site still. Anyway as has been said you can replace things but not people and we can't pick our family, we just get them the way they are. I just sucked it up and let it go, though it still bugs me on occasion.

Ah that brings back memories of my yout! Thanks for posting.

It seems to be a very passionate topic. I'm sure the pipeline company didn't plan on having it leak. But I'm not sure when that line was built. It could be very old given the fact that it was not in use. If we want to stop this then society as a whole has to change. No more fossil fuel use, we have to convert everything to some type of renewable clean energy. Perhaps solar charged vehicles, someone did fly a solar powered plane from Morocco to Spain, so it's doable. But people will have to slow down, no more pedal to the metal 4X4's haulin ass down the highway. Electric vehicles don't accelerate very quickly and don't have a very high top end. Think that will be acceptable to John Q Public? Meanwhile from what I gather the spill happening during runoff is the best of a bad situation. I feel for the people downstream.

That is just the pressure coming out of the line from the pump to the tire. IF you have the lever on the pump flipped to the correct position. Does your pump have the pressure gauge built in?

I have been riding to work in Calgary since 1978 and it's way better now than back then, drivers are generally more courteous. However there are the exceptions, had one guy actually chase me through a residential neighborhood for about 8 blocks, he kept trying to cut me off into the curb. I finally got to a busy street and stopped at a bus stop with a lot of witnesses, where I confronted him and said if he wanted an assault charge to go ahead and hit me as I had his license plate number. I learned a good lesson though, don't give the one finger salute. Now I just smile and wave when someone in a car gets aggressive.

I spent part of a summer at the Lloyd Lake Lodge in the Lac La Ronge area of Sask. I found anything in black worked. As a dry fly in particular the black gnat caught them pretty steady, in fact I got bored and quit after about an hour, mind you I was tired from working all day.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.... Seems like a life lesson here, and as is the case with them you have to make the decision and then live with it. But as Rick said don't regret the decision. I had a great job when I was young, wouldn't call it a dream job. I think that is one where you get to do whatever you want and still get paid for it, aka independently wealthy. But I took the big money job up north, made good coin planned on going back to the town job, but it didn't work out that way due to various cicumstances. Most out of my control. Sometimes I think I would have been better to stay in town but most of the time I'm glad I made the decision that took me here. Anyway I like Lynns take too, gut reactions are often the right ones for you.

It sounds like this 25 year old is a spoiled rich brat. The bike is registered to his mommy, he has lost his license numerus times, in fact only had a learners, and has had numerous offences too. Loser!

There is also a small motel in Coleman just west of the BCMI, across from the PetroCanada. It is very inexpensive, and the snowmobilers stay there a lot. It's supposed to be pretty good. Don't know the name off the top of my head.

Something similiar happened to me about 2 years ago. I'm working mostly out of home now and it ended up being very positive. More risky but more rewarding too. I sometimes think things happen in life for a reason and the old adage, that if life gives you lemons make lemonade is true. Good luck and go get em.