French Collection

He put up some great numbers and lasted a long time. I never thought he was as skilled as Perreault and Lafleur, but he was effective. He was also on some weak west coast teams and didn’t get as much recognition as the others. My visual of him is a skating fire hydrant with great hands.

Perreault in his prime was amazing. Team Canada players he played with have raved about his talent in the best on best tournaments. Hawerchuk in his prime (Jets) was one of the best players after Gretzky and Lemieux. 6 of his first 7 seasons he scored over 100 pts.

Following the OHL Priority draft online. It is hockey. I am an OHL season ticket holder. My son has played with some of the kids getting picked.

People keep their distance while we carry those little bags of poop. Lol.

We have two large dogs and they are getting way more exercise and attention than usual. We are sleeping well at night though.

Hang in there. This our 14 th day. My wife is going out for groceries, she is craving shopping and seeing other people. We live in the country, so we have only seen a few people at a long distance. I am an introverted only child, so I have been OK. My son (14) is used to being in school, on multiple teams and hanging with friends. He is having a hard time with the social aspect.

Some of his best years were in San Jose.

No one has ever escaped from Stalag 13!

They need Simmonds from 10 years ago and sign him for 6 years.

Sitting by myself in my sugar shack watching sap boil. Sorry photo is sideways, not the greatest techie as you can guess.

Our tipping point was when I was working out of town and she had to shovel the driveway because her 4x4 couldn’t get out.

Is that your tractor? Kioti or Kubota? I have a 27 HP Kioti. Not digging dirt here, still have snow on the ground.

I love watching Forged in Fire on History, I would have time to forge a sword if I had the equipment.

British soccer guy is great.

Canada announced they were not sending athletes before this was decided. Australia was next to announce. I’m happy for this decision, there is no way there would not have been a flare up of the virus by bringing all of these people together, even in July.

That’s why a lot of stores are out of aloe cream. We have gallons of isopropyl alcohol at work, I never thought about bringing a small bottle home.

We have had a couple of cold nights, my son is skating and shooting on the pond while the dogs chase squirrels. Healthier than video games.

Canadian government wants all residents to come back. Health insurance coverage ending is a big driver of the exodus. I have heard different end dates but March 23rd is a common one.

I don’t have a fancy evaporator, I have a 12’ x 12’ sugar shack with a flat top wood stove. There is room for 3 large stainless steel pans on top of the stove. It takes me about 12 hours to boil 30+ gallons of sap. I just keep feeding wood (approx. 1/2 cord of wood) and adding fresh sap to the starter pan. I get it down to 80% syrup and then finish it on the electric stove in the house. We can get better precision and not burn it with the electric + hydrometer to measure water content. Filtration at the bottling stage takes a while as well. One can have a few beers over the course of a syrup day. No driving required as the shack is 300 yards from the house.

I plan on having some birch sap this year. I read that people in the northern parts of Europe drink it as a health supplement. It is best fresh and spoils in a few days.

It is darker and has a taste more like molasses. It is mainly fructose, where maple syrup is sucrose. Boiling it is more difficult, it can burn more easily. It is a lot more work to make, requiring 100 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup. Maple is 40 to 1. A lot of firewood is burned, but there are a lot of dead trees on our property plus scrap wood from projects.

It is still winter here so I am going to make some maple syrup. We usually tap about 40 trees and make about 2 gallons. We collect it by hand so it is exercise and a few 12 hour days of boiling sap. I have some firewood to cut and split as well. Once maple season is done I switch to birch syrup. The dogs love being in the bush all day. I am off of work for at least three weeks so I should have plenty of time.

There are many to choose from but... Lead vocals: Freddie Mercury Lead guitar: Eddie Van Halen Rhythm Guitar: Malcolm Young Drums: Neil Peart Bass: John Entwistle Keyboards and backup vocals: Burton Cummings

1976 Canada Cup ad: If you were Russian to Czech out the Finnish of the Canada vs USA game what would you say? How Swede it is!

My son and I were going to the Raptors game on Saturday. Mixed emotions but I am happy it is cancelled. We got the tickets for Christmas and were looking forward to this trip. I was getting anxious over the last few days of being in a big crowd like that as cases were increasing in Toronto. Be safe folks!