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    How I Ruined Easter

    Sigh - family gatherings... We were at the inlaws with our 9 year son. They have a history of keeping but not properly training their dogs. The last one they had they had to have put down because it was behaving more and more erratically, attacking other neighbour's dogs and getting dangerous...
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    Best Reasonably-Priced, Macro-Capable Universal Remotes?

    What are you folks out there using, like and and recommend? Lady Scoutabout just about had a seizure the other week navigating the five or so remotes on our system when neither myself or our 9 year-old son was about. (At least the business case for buying a single good one is now a...
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    Any such thing as a good $1000 snowmobile?

    Headed to the cabin last weekend for the first time in the winter, ever. No running water, colder n carp, big hassles hiking the last bit of unplowed road hauling wood and water on toboggans....in short - what a blast! My friends and I can't believe what we've been missing all these years. The...
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    4 digit club

    Just did my 1000th post! Well, this one is technically 1001 - but you get the idea. And, it only took 5 years....:rolleyes: Is there a pin or hat for such an occasion? :D
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    GE Dishwasher not cleaning properly

    So - it figures - I just drop a whack o dough on a new fridge and now the dishwasher is acting up. It is now leaving fine particles of crud in and on glasses stowed in the top rack when the wash is finished. Dishes and cutlery still come out relatively clean. (Sounds like a bad dishsoap...
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    Great New Topics!

    Don't know what rock I've been under but I just noticed the Safety section. That read on how drowning doesn't necessarily look like drowning was terrific. I'm closing in on near 40 years of boating experience and don't learn many new things in a season. That was certainly one of them. Thanks!
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    Cleaning stainless fridge

    We just got a new fridge today and of course had to succumb to the stainless fashion. After spending an eternity peeling all that blue plastic film of the thing there's a gummy residue that soap won't remove. The instruction manual warns against harsh cleaners or anything with petroleum...
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    Overcharging question

    Talk about taking advantage of the digital age. I'm writing this on my blackberry from an island in Georgian Bay after a 20 mile run out of Parry Sound. My 2004 Yamaha 90 4-stroke started flashing a 16.4 volt reading at me on the way out. The digital trip distance log disappeared from the...
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    Squirrels - Arrrrgh!

    Danged squirrels are shredding my bbq cover (for nesting material I guess). Don't even know for sure - just my neighbour's .02 but he says he's seen it before. Myself, I never hear or see them. The cover is just a little more shredded each week. The cover went unmolested all spring. Any advice...
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    New Season Starts!

    ...at least the prep for it. I may be a bit behind some of you other southern boaters. :) Car is packed, tunes are loaded, gps is primed, travel mug ready for Coffee No. 1. I'm heading up to the cabin today to re-commission the water system, check on any winter damage, pay the boat storage...
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    Hijacked AOL address book?

    Riddle me this, batmen and batwomen - People in my AOL address book have started reporting getting spam from my AOL email address. The interesting thing is that if I delete the address book content or export it to a csv file and store it locally, the outgoing spam stops. Also, the address book...
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    Betcha can't help smiling

    ...damn - I almost cried myself. There's something very touching about this vid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY
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    Woodworking question - table refinish

    I'll bet some of you folks are into woodworking and can help here. Last summer we finally got fed up with the finish on the oak diningroom table at the cabin. Table is about 30 years old, solid oak, light stain. The surface had gone all sticky over the last number of years and was unpleasant...
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    Communicating with my kid's school

    You guys are great when it comes to suggesting ways of handling life's big and little challenges. The feedback on my ponderings over my FIL's secretive approach to his illness were very helpful. So...here's another... I'm about ready to pop a valve dealing with my kid's teachers. The little...
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    Opinions on handling serious family illness

    My wife and I got blindsided this week by a call from her mother telling us out of the blue her dad was in the hospital getting a cancerous kidney removed. Apparently they've known since before Christmas he had cancer and yet we all sat around the table that holiday and they told us nothing...
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    Sail numbers peeling - what adhesive?

    The sails on my little Petrel dinghy are probably 30 years old and the sail numbers, Petrel insignia, etc are starting to peel off. Any suggestions on a good adhesive that will stand up to the elements and remain flexible?
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    For Cold Water Boaters - the 1-10-1 Rule and More

    Seems like a good time of year to remind everyone who boats in frigid temperatures of the 1-10-1 Rule as well as other critical facts about hypothermia. From www.coldwaterbootcamp.com "Dr Gordon Giesbrecht coined the phrase 1-10-1 to describe the three critical phases of cold water...
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    Help needed with "Limited or No Connectivity" message on wireless network

    Looking for some permanent solutions here. The setup is a D-Link 615 wireless N router in the basement home office providing WPA2 access throughout the house and accessed regularly by a Dell work laptop and a personal Samsung N120 Netbook. Basement desktop and netbook are running XP; work...
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    Ideas wanted on mast repair

    I picked up a cheap little dinghy last year ($350 including trailer!) and have been having a blast with it. It's called a Petrel, is 12 feet long, built in Toronto (probably circa mid 1970s I'm thinking -- I'm trying to track down more info). Also, it's all aluminum, which is an interesting...
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    Bearing Buddies -- Will they work on any hub?

    We inherited a real old, homemade utility trailer with the backwoods property our family bought a few years ago. The trailer looks fashioned out of plate steel - real thick and heavy. The wheel assembly welded to the bottom looks like the drop axle and leaf springs off an old car or pickup truck...
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