saskatoon whats it like
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Get a Canada goose parka,if by chance you do freeze to death with one on there is a convenient handle sewn into the back so a chopper has something to hook on to and lift your frozen body off the ice.:lol:
I've worked for weeks in -60 and 70 outside and even a record -80 but thats with windchill.If I didnt experience it myself I wouldnt think it could be done but it wasnt bad at all.I had my fur aviator hat and facemasks and goggles,no exposed skin anywhere.
I had no choice as I was plunked down 60 miles south of the Arctic circle and once the ground blizzard moved in there was no way out.You spent your days rolling 45 gallon drums of fuel to each tent,fixing diesel gravity heaters in tents and patrolling the big generators to make sure they were fueled and still running.
I might be going to shanauvan or something like that in Sask next week,no work here in Alberta,Sask is starting to boom and should only get better.
YouTube - CORNER GAS Comedy Clip 1 - How flat is Saskatchewan?
(This is more like the terrain around Regina, but still funny.)
(This is more like the terrain around Regina, but still funny.)
This is a Canadian site,time to purge the "mericans" with mucho Canadiana.
They dont like it then too bad,go back to free republic.
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The freepers should also maybe stick to their own forum.
Take your American **** somewhere else as this a Canadian site and most of us couldnt give a rats ass on what you peeps are doing right now.
you made your bed,you lie in it.
They dont like it then too bad,go back to free republic.
:lol:
The freepers should also maybe stick to their own forum.
Take your American **** somewhere else as this a Canadian site and most of us couldnt give a rats ass on what you peeps are doing right now.
you made your bed,you lie in it.
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Kakato, the good neighbour said:
"This is a Canadian site,time to purge the "mericans" with mucho Canadiana.
They dont like ot then too bad,go back to free republic."
Bet he would be royally offended on his next shopping trip to the States, if Americans felt the same way about him.
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"This is a Canadian site,time to purge the "mericans" with mucho Canadiana.
They dont like ot then too bad,go back to free republic."
Bet he would be royally offended on his next shopping trip to the States, if Americans felt the same way about him.
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Try and figure out how to quote someone because it's hard to tell if your just arguing with yourself or what.
It's not that hard bud,I can walk you through it if you want.
Kakato bellyached thus:
"Try and figure out how to quote someone because it's hard to tell if your just arguing with yourself or what.
It's not that hard bud,I can walk you through it if you want."
cockatoo, I used the quote feature and I came to the conclusion that it was put there by the designers to accomodate simpletons who can not breath and fart at the same time.
When I quote someone, I say whom I quote. Then I use quote marks (") to enclose the words of the person I am quoting.
That was the way it was always done before high tech crutches like the quote feature here was developed to help the feeble minded.
BTW, when are you going to the States?
"Try and figure out how to quote someone because it's hard to tell if your just arguing with yourself or what.
It's not that hard bud,I can walk you through it if you want."
cockatoo, I used the quote feature and I came to the conclusion that it was put there by the designers to accomodate simpletons who can not breath and fart at the same time.
When I quote someone, I say whom I quote. Then I use quote marks (") to enclose the words of the person I am quoting.
That was the way it was always done before high tech crutches like the quote feature here was developed to help the feeble minded.
BTW, when are you going to the States?
Untill you figure it out,it looks like your argueing with yourself.
Some of the old timers have you figured out and dont say anything,too funny.
I guess their just humouring you.
I can walk you through the quote process bud,if you want to.
I remember seeing -54 degrees F on the OAT (outside air termperature) guage on my Cessna 185 in February in the late 80's in Northern Manitoba. I flew the thing around for three weeks where it didn't register oil pressure because the lines congealed. There wasn't a weather station close by so we didn't set the record that year, but we would have. My whiskey froze solid, and my gin actually broke the bottle, made for one massive ice cube.
The environment canada web site has all the temps from remote sites right back to the 50's,it's kinda "cool" to go back that far when it's really freaking cold out and see if you set a record.
I allways flew over Manitoba on the way to work and landed in Churchill and Thompson for a change of planes,the tragically hip song was allways in my mind(Thompson girl) but when flying with calmair you needed a distraction.:lol:
None of my booze froze but It wasnt watered down and when it it -80 I didnt have any left but I do remember pepsis exploding all through the nite in my tent.
Boots froze to the wood floor,beard froze to the side of the tent....no way out.8O
My mom,dad and bro are pilots,we had a piper 180 low wing at one time named JLS,good times hitting all the fly in's all over Canada and the USA.
Ma got her licence at the age of 35 and became an instructor,commercial pilot and bush pilot.
She taught most of the air cadets around here for years and then her boyfriend who was also an instructor died in a plane crash doing canyon turns and she never flew again after that.:-(
I still get the odd turn on the stick of a single otter.;-)
and the odd longranger.
Dave, have you considered living outside Saskatoon in one of the smaller towns? You mention your girls have horses. What about a small farm? Real estate prices in small towns are a bit more reasonable than those in S'toon.