Toirtis

Double-check your ice reports...there have been a few cases of surprisingly thin ice in the past week.

I picked up very nice fistful of tying mats on Saturday, between taking in presentations, etc. Want to thank Doc for hooking me up with some hard to find mats that I have been wanting to tie with. Drooled over a couple of Meiser rods, and a few drift boats. Spent all Sunday helping man the booth for the wonderful folks at FlyFusion mag. Came home very tired, but very happy.

If you do a Canadian Llama order, I would be up for adding a few to the order to share with bulk pricing, shipping, etc.

I could do most of Sunday.

Me too, please.

"I think were gonna need a bigger net..."

Me too, please!

Ditto me.

Not for those patterns, but for lots of others that call for glass beads. For brass/copper/silver beads, I usually hit one of the local shops or this guy: http://www.canadianllama.com/

Just thought I would post on tailing fibers, since a discussion on fibbets came up on another forum. Dollarama has some good paintbrushes that have very useful bristles for $1 each, and the $5 boar's bristle shaving brushes at WalMart are great, too.

A new favourite place to buy some colours/sizes of beads that I could not find locally: www.fusionbeads.com ...really reasonably priced, as the Toho silver-lined beads that I wanted were $4.50 for 8 grams at Michaels (they had sizes 6 & 11, but not 8), but $1.67 for 10 grams on fusionbeads, and shipping on three 10 gram bags was only $2.99. I like Beads and Plenty More in Northland Village Shops for beads, too.

Have a Merry Christmas everyone...I hope those dear to you are close by.

I am guessing that talking dirty to them is probably both legal and effective.

Chiquita is two faced...they have shifted money to a number of terrorist groups and fascist regimes to protect and broaden their own interests...this is a whitewash job, and a poor one at that...nevermind just the bananas, Chiquita has a lot of products that will not be seeing the inside of my shopping basket.

Only if the call center is in Canada....the Canadian laws have absolutely no power over telemarketers in the US and Caribbean (and anywhere else)...which is why such a huge percentage of these calling centers are now located outside Canada.

Welcome to the new US....a mixture of extreme personal rights, and zero rights, all potentially occurring simultaneously.

Very good. Very low. Depends on how handy you are...it is not that difficult if you are reasonably handy, but do your research first, as it is very difficult (as you might imagine) to tweak/fix once you have installed your floor. Big difference. Warm feets = warm you, and since the heat radiates upwards from a broad base, it warms the air nicely, too, so your furnace will not be on as much. It is very efficient, and due to its nature, does not dry the air or create/move around dust the way a forced-air furnace does. I know a number of people with this sort of heating in one or more rooms of their home, and not a single one regrets installing it.....it is particularly nice under the bathroom tiles, and in the kitchen.

Sweet...thanks, Don. I will have to see if I can swing by there this week.

I think those might be a tad thick...I really need the sort used for dishes, cleaning about the house, etc. Thanks...linky: http://dronsworld.blogspot.com/2011/11/lat...-la-caddis.html

Sadly, too thin for my use...I have lots of those at home already. haha!...yoou very funny, Mr. Don!

OK, this is a weird one. I found a funky pattern online that I desperately want to tie. The main ingredient is strips of chartreuse rubber gloves...the sort used for doing dishes, etc. Problem is, I can find gloves only in varying shades of yellow. If anyone spots chartreuse gloves out there (WalMart, CanTire, dollar stores, etc), please let me know.

Ohhh...those Russians!

I was mainly a spin, hardbait and ocean fisherman (taught by my father) until '81 when I got a fly rod, reel, and tying kit for my birthday. The gift came along with a series of fly-fishing lessons...those plus a lot of self-practice was my path.

I may go a bit more spendy with this one just for the sheer output: http://www.ebay.com/itm/UltraFire-WF-501B-...=item1e6815a1e8 Do you know the output on the ones you have?

Full rotary, and although it is considerably more than my original budget, I am now completely in love with, and am going to save for, a J-Vise.