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Dwayne

In B.C. are you close enough to the coast that you don't get blizzards or do you still get them? Here in Southern Missouri we do not get blizzards but we get ice storms. It is worse for driving that snow.

Talking about your father-in-law's family and being stuck in a barn because they could not see 60 feet to the house. My Great Grandfather came over to the U.S. from Norway in 1885. He was in Southern Minnesota. He made the comment that they had a rope tied up in the winter from the barn to the house so they could follow the rope back to the house during a blizzard.

Scotty

Back in 2006 went up to Saskatchewan in late Sept to early October. Stayed for 9 days hunting geese and huns it was fabulous. Snow, blues , specklebellies and a few canadas until 11am or so everyday except Sunday. Then we would pickup our spread of decoys and layout blinds. Hit a few places for huns. Then head back to the bed and breakfast to clean birds and eat. We had a whole house for the 3 of us. Some other guys were staying at the other house on the place fishing on the river they gave us a big bag of walleye fillets and we gave them a bag of goose jerky. The b and b owners and neighbors treated us royally. It was an incredible experience the 3 of us shot 270 birds in 9 days. We had along my buds black lab and my Gordon Setter. Each of us took a 12 and a 20 the other guys kept their ammo load at 200 rds each to be duty free. I took 400 I told my bud that I'd rather pay the duty than run out and waste time and money finding more. Never did run out and did loan some 20's to the other guys. Nothing is free but total cost for everything was $125 a day for each of us. All the Canadian folks we met were good folks . we were given permission to hunt their land graciously for free everywhere we went. Mostly hunting pea and wheat stubble for geese and grass for huns. It was a dream hunt and I'll never forget how welcome we were made to feel. No unpleasant surprises as my buds had done this for several years and knew everything that was needed to know. It was great
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Gotta be a special kinda stupid to expect any police or border agency to just hold onto your guns for a couple weeks while you have a look around.

Scotty;
Top of the morning to you sir, I hope your part of southern Missouri is getting no ice storms this morning and you're all well.

You're correct in that we're both a bit of a desert here as well as being 4 hours or 2 mountain ranges from the coast we don't get blizzards here that we did back in Saskatchewan.

The last year we farmed there, the worst snow storm of that winter was May 8th. I looked at my wife over a cup of coffee we were sharing - I'd been forced in off of the field I'd been cultivating - and said, "If this farming thing don't work out, the cherry blossoms are out in full swing in the Okanagan by now and it's tee shirt weather"...

In the nearly 40 years we've been here we've had enough of a snow dump once that I went up and shoveled the roof off. I want to say Scotty it was about 16" deep and very wet, which is the outer limits of what our snow load building code is designed for.

We'll usually get some wet snow and occasionally freezing rain as well, but nothing like Malcolm and kolofardos have to deal with out at the coast. Our youngest daughter teaches high school down in that neck of the woods and we're always watching the weather channel in winter and then anxiously texting her if it's one of their freezing rain storms.

The resulting traffic snarls on the vertical curling rinks that the roads become is wild to watch on TV, but as a Dad it doesn't do my old heart any good for sure!

I've read about ropes from the barn to the house too sir. That and so many other daily issues our ancestors faced is truly humbling to me.

My own late father was born in a sod house in southwestern Saskatchewan. They had a two day turn around trip to go get firewood from the Cypress Hills. Crazy to think about that too really.

Thanks again and all the best.

Dwayne

From what I hear, Canada is not a welcoming place anymore.

Are you serious? As of January 10th Timmy's brought the WALNUT CRUNCH back!
No [bleep]... a whole busload of friends here (Idaho) rented a van and went up for this!!

Next thing will be a caravan to buy Buckley's Cough Syrup...

I have plans to go to Northern Manitoba in June. My brother and I are going bear hunting.

They can hold guns while they work on the and return them to you checking with the Feds.Just tell them when you’re returning and have them clean it before you pick it up.

Journeyman;
Good evening to you sir, I hope the weekend behaved, the weather is decent and this finds you well.

Thanks for the chuckle on a couple points tonight, it's much appreciated.

Honestly and I know I'll be risking my Canadian citizenship somewhat for saying this - again - but I've come to prefer McDonald's coffee if that's all we're going for.

That said, Timmy's does make a good enough apple fritter and their breakfast sandwich things are edible.

When they came out with the re-release of the walnut crunch commercial, my wife and I started laughing as it was something my late Mom liked, but neither of us preferred them.

It sort of makes me grin to know a van full of Idaho folks would head up, I'm guessing to Creston or Cranbrook Tim's and get a feed. Wonderful adventure right there.

Buckleys, my goodness does that bring back memories of my childhood.

Mom would give us that if we coughed and it either cured us or we'd learn to hide the symptoms better so we didn't have to have another shot of it.

Speaking of shots of it, back when we still had our mountain horses, our farrier put us onto this stuff that was more or less Buckley's to the 10th power for stock and pets, called Zev if I'm not wrong.

Our Appy mare would get coughs sometimes, so I'd cut that Zev with a wee bit of good Canadian Rye so it'd flow better through a drilled out stock needle body - without the steel needle of course.

I'd coat that plastic needle body with stock molasses, wrestle it into Carly's mouth and then push the plunger as fast as I could so it'd shoot all the way back down her throat and she couldn't spit it out all over me.

Ask me how I learned that....

Anyways, that horse Buckley's mixed with rye did the trick for her a couple times and she got better quite quickly.

Come to think of it, she might well have been like me as a kid and just learned to not cough around me......

Thanks for the chuckle and the memories that were uncovered.

All the best.

Dwayne

Dude, did you miss the winky icon ??

Guess my humour, is too dry.

No issue here Rooster !

Wait, these guys were in on Gophergunner? I didn't know that LOL.

No, they were definitely not !

They were truly hoodwinked, just like everybody else.

My apologies. My humor button must have been broken at the moment.

No issues here either, brother.

You always make me chuckle, Dwayne.

I re-read my earlier posts and it seems I was a little harsh. Having to listen to my BIL talk crap about our country that he is now living in, gets me frustrated sometimes. I have met a few nice people from Manitoba so I should not lump them all together.

Rooster7;
Good afternoon sir, I hope you're all having a relatively mild Monday as we seem to be here other than a wee bit of non sticking snow.

We are sir, as my girls might've said at one time "good" so to speak and I didn't take your tone as too harsh.

As an aside, I am glad that on occasion I'm able to provide you with some mild comic relief.

It strikes me that likely your proximity to the border might allow you to understand some of our Canadian nuance and strange use of verbiage, we're neighbors alright, but sometimes laugh at somewhat different things.

Now I will say this about that before heading further into the rhubarb that my family back in Saskatchewan and Manitoba say I've developed a "BC drawl" and honestly we in the west do talk a tad slower than our cousins and brothers on the prairie.

My gut feel about that Rooster is that out there, since they get 7 months of winter, when they stop and chat it's both cold and they've got a lot to complain about, so out of necessity they turn the talking speed up to 1.5 and sometimes a tad more.

Out here in the most mellow climate in Canada, where half the province was stoned on weed long before PM Sparkle Socks was a gleam in Fidel's eye, so the pace of conversation had to wind it back a couple notches to accommodate that half.

It's a working theory no doubt Rooster and as with all things, I could well be entirely wrong.

Regarding your BIL who complains about your country while living there, I'm not sure of course what an appropriate response might look like, but have taken to asking my fellow boomers what they've done personally and lately to change our mess for the better when they launch into a diatribe.

If they're active in attempting to make positive change, my diatribe tolerance increases a fair bit, but if they merely wish to howl and complain and not do anything, I have much less time for them and that.

Again, there are way too many of my generation who are still not asking questions of what's being presented to us as fact by our legacy media.

That I can say with confidence as I do attempt to listen to those on the other side - as much as my stomach can take anyways - as I believe it's much like Christian apologetics I find when dealing with some of the true CBC Believers.

Anyways sir, sorry about the family issue, it's a fact we can pick our nose and our friends, but not our family, which sometimes makes life complicated.

All the best and thanks again for the reply sir.

Dwayne

PS;
I've been fortunate enough to wander the world a tiny bit, have family who did much more than I and served on mission trips in some truly poor places.

Lately when someone I'm dealing with is apologizing for taking my time or what have you, my standard reply has become, "No apology needed. These are first world problems."

Then I might throw in the thought that many of us Canucks might have a rude awakening if we traveled outside our major cities, especially to some of the poorer FN Federal Reserves and even more if they went to a poorer country.

Sorry for the slightly serious tone.

Dwayne,

Thanks for the kind reply. Our countries are not perfect by any means, especially with those in charge of them at the moment.

My BIL is a good guy at heart. He is just is very ignorant of what is happening in the world today. I've met some of his friends and family and they are the same exact way. You would swear they grew up in the north pole, far from any civilization. Some actually grew up 6 miles from the border and work in the US. As you know, southern Manitoba, between Winnipeg and the US, is pretty isolated from a lot of things.

They think that Trump is the devil but not one can tell me why. It's what they see on TV up there, I guess... ~shrug~

Thanks again for the reply and yes sir, you make me chuckle a lot with your stories and wit.

Take care,

Rooster

Maple syrup, hockey and communism, eh..