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I am a great cook. Truly.
My wife, a southern girl, is also a great cook.
She will ask me to cook her one of my "specialty" dishes, and then proceed to tell me how to "improve" it. Make me nuts.

Randy

Dino - Tom Connors was adamant about never leaving Canada to seek wealth and fame. In the late 1970's he gave back his Canadian music awards in protest - the awards were being given to Canadian artists who left there country to make it big in the U.S. 
Most Americans have never heard of him because he never performed there. He could be found playing in bars in Wiarton, ON, or Sidney, NS or any number of small towns across the country, from the east to the west to the north. I once saw him at the Mad Trapper in Inuvik, NWT, when he wrote "Muktuk Annie", a tribute to a local Inuit musician, Aggie Thrasher.
He recorded over 300 songs and dozens of albums, to a Canadian audience.
He sang about everyday things, observations, and people he met in his travels. Simple music, but dear to the hearts of those who shared those experiences and observations.

Randy

I am from Windsor, ON - and Niel Young's very first solo performance was right here in my town.

The only name band from Windsor that I can recall is "The Tea Party"

Randy

Men of Arlich, stand ye steady....

I will be mailing them this afternoon (or tomorrow), depending on when I can dig out the appropriate fly box. When you tie your own, you end up with many many fly boxes.
Randy

Yes, Zurf - When I used to guide canoe trips, I used to put my guests up in a hotel room for the night, drive to the put-in point just before dawn, pack up the boats and set off with the rising sun, the only sounds,  the dip of the paddles, and the sights, sounds and smells of a sunrise departure are almost a sensory overload after a night in an antiseptic hotel room That is an amazing feeling.

Zurt, do you remember your first trout caught on a fly you tied yourself? That was a wonderful moment,too!
Randy

Steppenwolf Live!
Concert for Bangladesh.
Last Waltz.

Pick one,
Randy

She makes black-eyed peas, butter beans, cornbread, sausage gravy and biscuits, jambalaya and lots and lots of other good stuff. Southern cooking is a lot like French- Canadian cooking. Lots of ham hocks and pork fat. When I met her, 15 years ago, I was a trim 185 lbs with a full six pack. Today I have the whole KEG!

Randy

Canada here - The only time I drink hot tea is on canoe trips when you're rushed and "bilin' the kittle" is the quickest way to get a hot drink. I love coffee, but NEVER drink instant - yuck!

Iced tea in the summer.
Randy

Great write, Phil.

As a Canadian, living near the border (right across from Detroit, MI), and married to an American from Florida, perhaps my perspective is a little different.

I understand and accept the American right to bear arms, and understand the history behind it.

I also understand that the "militia" clause of the constitution was written at a time when the U.S. population was much, much smaller. It was written at a time when people, for the most part, respected each other and actually watched out for each other. That, sadly, is no more.

The writers of the constitution certainly had no vision of what the U.S. is today. They certainly didn't forsee the "Michigan Militia" and others, blowing up government buildings and killing so many with so little justification or rationality.

It is my belief that Americans much do some soul-searching, and forget the rhetoric. They must decide what kind of country they want to live in; one where there are over 300 million deadly weapons in circulation, where random acts of insanity can destroy communities, where any nutjob with a cause, rational or crazy, can grab a gun and make a name for themselves, or a country where peace and security are paramount virtues.

Do I have a solution? No, not really. With that many weapons out there, the genie is long out of the bottle, and won't be pushed back in.

The best I can think is that all owners of weapons should think seriously about the security of those weapons, about their accessability to others and to the actual reasons they have for owning them. The woman who owned the guns that caused the mayhem in Connecticut certainly did not forsee their final usage. She paid the price in full.

Solutions? Lockups or gunsafes. Trigger locks. Separate storage of weapons, ammunition and breach blocks, in separate safes. Make weapons safety the culture, not the politics of gun ownership.

Assault weapons, pistols, short-barrel pump shotguns are not hunting weapons, These weapons are designed to maim and kill fellow humans. We store paint and battery acid with more regulation than we store weapons and ammunition. It's time to rethink the culture of responsible gun ownership. Start with regulating the storage and security of the weapons already out there. Small steps, before any actual weapons bans, which, given the number of weapons already in circulation, will do nothing to curb the violence.

My .02, which, I suppose, is what it's worth.
Randy

I think that I was the first to respond - got an email from bushy way back before he got sick. I'm not sure if he's sent it yet, but if I get it, will add a few thingys and forward it.

Bushy, if you haven't mailed it yet, by all means, send it to Chordie-stock, and I will wait for another opportunity.

Thanks all,

Randy