Why would your Tupperware box dissappear, perhaps those that find it ,aren't aware it's a geocache box,and nosey young boys like to go exploring, to see what they can find! As for the concrete steps,until they started grinding old concrete into new aggregates for new concrete, ppl used to just dump them,wherever! And one of our landfills in windsor ontario was full of used concrete! The area your wandering in look like a strip mine. The remnants of a bygone mines offices and equipment, but you should be aware of mine shafts in the area! This area might be on Alberta mine database!
Growing up in the 60s in Windsor Ontario, spring is generally in February about the 2nd or 3rd week. Any snow we may have had was GONE! I remember coming home from school at lunch time in the middle or last weeks of February and kicking a pile of slushy snow around so it'd melt,and say goodbye to winter! Growing up in the sun belt of Canada, we're a bit spoiled,we love our early springs,and crocuses coming up through whatever snow is left and tulips popping in late march,used to be April,and daffodils in May or June. But not in the rest of Canada,its a shock to us sunburnt Windsorites to have to wait another 2 or 3 months for spring! But this spring is earlier, and the weather has been warming up,sometimes earlier. But over the course of my lifetime in the Windsor Essex county area, it fluctuates from no snow for 10 yrs,back when I was a boy,with the occasional blizzards:1958, 66,74,78. A lot of times our wheat feilds can be seen to be greening up and 3 or 4 inches tall in February! Snowmobiling really sucks in Essex county! I'd like to do a calendar based on the arrival of spring based on areas and latitude! If you draw a line just along the shores of Lake St Clair due east or west,that area experiences shorter and less severe winters but go up besides lake huron,and you'd think your in New Brunswick with there 5 feet of snow,which doesn't melt off till the first week of May. My cousins lived in shipka ontario, tge winters are longer there,.it snows in April, not in Windsor/Detroit area! While in Northern Michigan nobody wants to live there becsuse of the cold lake effect snow and winds,just like lake Huron! I moved out of Windsor to a village north of Leamington. The weather is different there, and I noticed tulips popped earlier in Cottam Ontario then in Windsor,20 miles can make a big difference! Enjoy it,cuz up here in northern Canada,in 4 months it's OVER!
Hey masa,this dam dog harness is on to TIGHT! Pls loosen it a bit! Ya,you don't see your cousins much after we grow up,marry and move away! But to quote one,you only see your relatives after this at marriages and funerals!
Ya a lot of small towns were horse n buggy stops. You had to hitch up the horse to go down the road, it's how you lived,near home,or by horse n buggy to go further. That's why a lot of villages existed,till the automobile improved travel and ppl could go further for work and shopping in bigger urban centers,which was the death nell for little pop stand villages and corner store villettes! Out in the sticks!
Ya a lot of small towns were horse n buggy stops. You had to hitch up the horse to go down the road, it's how you lived,near home,or by horse n buggy to go further. That's why a lot of villages existed,till the automobile improved travel and ppl could go further for work and shopping in bigger urban centers,which was the death nell for little pop stand villages and corner store villettes! Out in the sticks!
Ya a lot of small towns were horse n buggy stops. You had to hitch up the horse to go down the road, it's how you lived,near home,or by horse n buggy to go further. That's why a lot of villages existed,till the automobile improved travel and ppl could go further for work and shopping in bigger urban centers,which was the death nell for little pop stand villages and corner store villettes! Out in the sticks!
Ya a lot of small towns were horse n buggy stops. You had to hitch up the horse to go down the road, it's how you lived,near home,or by horse n buggy to go further. That's why a lot of villages existed,till the automobile improved travel and ppl could go further for work and shopping in bigger urban centers,which was the death nell for little pop stand villages and corner store villettes! Out in the sticks!
I laughed more than I should have at your response to the pheasant. I had the same experience on a leisurely walk in the UK, only in my case, the damned thing burst out of the hedge right next to my head. I thought I'd been killed.
Ya a lot of small towns were horse n buggy stops. You had to hitch up the horse to go down the road, it's how you lived,near home,or by horse n buggy to go further. That's why a lot of villages existed,till the automobile improved travel and ppl could go further for work and shopping in bigger urban centers,which was the death nell for little pop stand villages and corner store villettes! Out in the sticks!
Ya a lot of small towns were horse n buggy stops. You had to hitch up the horse to go down the road, it's how you lived,near home,or by horse n buggy to go further. That's why a lot of villages existed,till the automobile improved travel and ppl could go further for work and shopping in bigger urban centers,which was the death nell for little pop stand villages and corner store villettes! Out in the sticks!
Geocache, dam things! A nice game,except for our mineral claims locations on the green E-Trek,which gave our claims locations away,but 2002! Wow it's that old! So ,who started Geocache? E-Trek GPS?!😮
Geocaching really didn't become a thing until President Clinton removed "selective availability" from the GPS. Until then, only the military had access to the levels of accuracy needed for the hobby. A fellow named Dave Ulmer hid the first container near Portland, Oregon, posted the coordinates in a newgroup (remember those?), and challenged people to go out and find it then tell their story online. That was the beginning.
@DanOCan So that's how it got started, I never heard that b4! But can we use your platform to discuss hydro bills in each province? Why,cuz I get a bill for hydro (new customer, back in Ontario,)but the company adds a delivery charge, a wire maintenance fee charge and was billing it in the middle of the month,incurring late fees and interest on top of that @ 19.95% per annum! They then give you a credit on some of it. The previous balance I paid,but their credit accounts adds it to the next bill,slaps on a late fee and interest on the 2 months bills, even though the previous was paid, and overpaid by .77 cents, which is not credited to my account! Our Ontario hydro was privatized, and these guys are really shoving the hose up our butts ,as seniors don't get a pension chq till 3 days b4 the end of the month! I did get them to stop billing me late fees and adjusted my billing date to the first. So,because of this,I was wondering what Alberta's Hydro does to its customers! And Bitchy Country? I lived on the east coast,no such bs,just a bill for the hydro you burn,plus the Hoser Sales Tax
Hey mom,I found a Tupperware box in the bush! Ok,bring it home,I'll use it for your lunch box!
Hey, that's a geocache box!
One day I'll have to make a trip to Lethbridge. Trails look great.
They are. I’d love to have more time to do more of them.
In this episode…..Dan screams like a girl🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, yeah. What can I say?
As an old Infantryman... Always keep your wife out in front of you when hiking thru the woodlands. Must be a gentleman at all times.
And, when something goes wrong, put the camera away and help, don't stand there filming it. :)
Any plans to visit the dinosaurs in Lethbridge? (Also I remember watching you winterize the boler, can you video getting it ready for camping?)
We’ll certainly have some Spring Boler videos. I have a couple of jobs I know I want to do on it as well.
Yeah!! Hi Emily, hi Mabel. Oh, hi Dan 😅
Hi! 😊
Why would your Tupperware box dissappear, perhaps those that find it ,aren't aware it's a geocache box,and nosey young boys like to go exploring, to see what they can find!
As for the concrete steps,until they started grinding old concrete into new aggregates for new concrete, ppl used to just dump them,wherever! And one of our landfills in windsor ontario was full of used concrete!
The area your wandering in look like a strip mine.
The remnants of a bygone mines offices and equipment, but you should be aware of mine shafts in the area! This area might be on Alberta mine database!
Yep, as a young boy I used to love to go explore -- still do, in fact!
spring comes a month later in Edmonton than in Calgary too.
So true.
Growing up in the 60s in Windsor Ontario, spring is generally in February about the 2nd or 3rd week. Any snow we may have had was GONE!
I remember coming home from school at lunch time in the middle or last weeks of February and kicking a pile of slushy snow around so it'd melt,and say goodbye to winter!
Growing up in the sun belt of Canada, we're a bit spoiled,we love our early springs,and crocuses coming up through whatever snow is left and tulips popping in late march,used to be April,and daffodils in May or June.
But not in the rest of Canada,its a shock to us sunburnt Windsorites to have to wait another 2 or 3 months for spring!
But this spring is earlier, and the weather has been warming up,sometimes earlier.
But over the course of my lifetime in the Windsor Essex county area, it fluctuates from no snow for 10 yrs,back when I was a boy,with the occasional blizzards:1958, 66,74,78. A lot of times our wheat feilds can be seen to be greening up and 3 or 4 inches tall in February!
Snowmobiling really sucks in Essex county!
I'd like to do a calendar based on the arrival of spring based on areas and latitude! If you draw a line just along the shores of Lake St Clair due east or west,that area experiences shorter and less severe winters but go up besides lake huron,and you'd think your in New Brunswick with there 5 feet of snow,which doesn't melt off till the first week of May. My cousins lived in shipka ontario, tge winters are longer there,.it snows in April, not in Windsor/Detroit area! While in Northern Michigan nobody wants to live there becsuse of the cold lake effect snow and winds,just like lake Huron!
I moved out of Windsor to a village north of Leamington. The weather is different there, and I noticed tulips popped earlier in Cottam Ontario then in Windsor,20 miles can make a big difference!
Enjoy it,cuz up here in northern Canada,in 4 months it's OVER!
Hufnpuff Dan,you need to get out and exercise more!
Hey masa,this dam dog harness is on to TIGHT! Pls loosen it a bit!
Ya,you don't see your cousins much after we grow up,marry and move away!
But to quote one,you only see your relatives after this at marriages and funerals!
Ya a lot of small towns were horse n buggy stops. You had to hitch up the horse to go down the road, it's how you lived,near home,or by horse n buggy to go further.
That's why a lot of villages existed,till the automobile improved travel and ppl could go further for work and shopping in bigger urban centers,which was the death nell for little pop stand villages and corner store villettes! Out in the sticks!
Ya a lot of small towns were horse n buggy stops. You had to hitch up the horse to go down the road, it's how you lived,near home,or by horse n buggy to go further.
That's why a lot of villages existed,till the automobile improved travel and ppl could go further for work and shopping in bigger urban centers,which was the death nell for little pop stand villages and corner store villettes! Out in the sticks!
Ya a lot of small towns were horse n buggy stops. You had to hitch up the horse to go down the road, it's how you lived,near home,or by horse n buggy to go further.
That's why a lot of villages existed,till the automobile improved travel and ppl could go further for work and shopping in bigger urban centers,which was the death nell for little pop stand villages and corner store villettes! Out in the sticks!
Ya a lot of small towns were horse n buggy stops. You had to hitch up the horse to go down the road, it's how you lived,near home,or by horse n buggy to go further.
That's why a lot of villages existed,till the automobile improved travel and ppl could go further for work and shopping in bigger urban centers,which was the death nell for little pop stand villages and corner store villettes! Out in the sticks!
Do you know the story of the rail bridge you guys ran across?
We did a Short on it a couple years ago. ruclips.net/user/shortscoOSYKM6M9Y?feature=share
I laughed more than I should have at your response to the pheasant. I had the same experience on a leisurely walk in the UK, only in my case, the damned thing burst out of the hedge right next to my head. I thought I'd been killed.
Hehe. That would have been funny to see.
Ya a lot of small towns were horse n buggy stops. You had to hitch up the horse to go down the road, it's how you lived,near home,or by horse n buggy to go further.
That's why a lot of villages existed,till the automobile improved travel and ppl could go further for work and shopping in bigger urban centers,which was the death nell for little pop stand villages and corner store villettes! Out in the sticks!
You are so right.
Ya a lot of small towns were horse n buggy stops. You had to hitch up the horse to go down the road, it's how you lived,near home,or by horse n buggy to go further.
That's why a lot of villages existed,till the automobile improved travel and ppl could go further for work and shopping in bigger urban centers,which was the death nell for little pop stand villages and corner store villettes! Out in the sticks!
So true.
Geocache, dam things! A nice game,except for our mineral claims locations on the green E-Trek,which gave our claims locations away,but 2002! Wow it's that old!
So ,who started Geocache? E-Trek GPS?!😮
Geocaching really didn't become a thing until President Clinton removed "selective availability" from the GPS. Until then, only the military had access to the levels of accuracy needed for the hobby. A fellow named Dave Ulmer hid the first container near Portland, Oregon, posted the coordinates in a newgroup (remember those?), and challenged people to go out and find it then tell their story online. That was the beginning.
@DanOCan So that's how it got started, I never heard that b4!
But can we use your platform to discuss hydro bills in each province?
Why,cuz I get a bill for hydro (new customer, back in Ontario,)but the company adds a delivery charge, a wire maintenance fee charge and was billing it in the middle of the month,incurring late fees and interest on top of that @ 19.95% per annum!
They then give you a credit on some of it.
The previous balance I paid,but their credit accounts adds it to the next bill,slaps on a late fee and interest on the 2 months bills, even though the previous was paid, and overpaid by .77 cents, which is not credited to my account!
Our Ontario hydro was privatized, and these guys are really shoving the hose up our butts ,as seniors don't get a pension chq till 3 days b4 the end of the month!
I did get them to stop billing me late fees and adjusted my billing date to the first.
So,because of this,I was wondering what Alberta's Hydro does to its customers!
And Bitchy Country?
I lived on the east coast,no such bs,just a bill for the hydro you burn,plus the Hoser Sales Tax