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Nice! I haven't posted in a couple of months, but I'm still reading fairly regularly. Thanks for all your work, Glenn.

And that's a small one. The maples next to me have three foot thick trunks...

I'm spending a couple of nights doing some prewinter chores for my flying club in south central Ontario right now. My trailer sits under a couple of very mature silver maples. The idea that, in a windstorm, one of them could lose a very large piece of itself, has not escaped me. We have a high...

What model of Outback and where are the bolts? Maybe my 2012 has them as well...

Not that I've seen. I'm not sure I would trust something like that at highway speeds even if it did, there'd just be too many points of failure and moving parts. I sometimes tow a small trailer - like this: It has the added benefit of allowing me to put a canoe on my roof when the packing...

I have some older ratchet straps that found a second life as a DIY version of what @billconner posted, just with a massive knot instead of the tube. Even with the pictured tubes, I'd be afraid they would warp my hood. I tie down my boats pretty snugly. Otherwise, I just use ratchet straps over...

An appropriately sized coffee percolator for me, big enough to make two cups per person, at least (and therefore, enough coffee that there is no chance it will need to be rationed). They're awkward and take up a lot of space in a pack and I've dug my heels in the sand on this one. I'm not a...

I can't believe I didn't think of borax! I add it to all my regular laundry loads already...

I'm not sure if this applies, but the odd time, I cook in my dining tent and pack it up wet. Once in a while after that, I've missed setting it up again at home and airing it out. Let me tell you, it STINKS of rotten fish if I make that oversight. Simply airing it out isn't enough. It's a...

If you'll all forgive an indulgence, this sonnet, "High Flight", very aptly describes why some folks are crazy enough to pilot something that would fall to Earth like a rock, were it not for a pilot. Written by John Magee, a fighter pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. He...

Bee sting. Reaction. Blue to sky - orange to thigh. Call the cavalry. (yes "orange" is two syllables here)

If you haven't taken a canoe through the Peterborough lift locks, do it. It's quite fun and oddly humbling.

You don't need to go that far out to drink the water. You just need to be smart about it. I prefer thirst and dehydration to the risk of giardia, in the following circumstances: Small standing pools/ponds/very small lakes of water Kettle lakes When I don't know what's upstream (especially in...

I'll second Wabakimi. Especially if you're okay with flying in or out (or both), the options are almost limitless. There's whitewater if you want it, and plenty of flat water if you don't. If you stick to the more well traveled routes, the portages are generally in remarkably good condition...

Let me add a little background. As long as your cell phone remains connected to the data network, your IP address should not change. If it did, certain things, like a video call or watching Netflix from a train or car would be essentially impossible. They'd get dropped every time your cellphone...

That's exactly it. The canoe is the thing that gets me there. I own a car, a bicycle, and a fishing boat for the same reason. I don't take canoes to head up to the hunt camp, because I have a boat and motor that get me there. (And you can't carry a dead moose in a canoe.) A bicycle gets me...

Two big reasons: 1) If they can hide pages full of links on the domain, they can influence Google search ratings. A lot of shady search engine optimization companies do it this way. 2) It's a database of usernames, emails, and passwords. If you use the same username/email and password...

It was an accident. I have a nasty habit of letting my pinky finger linger on the Shift key for a microsecond too long.

The name is because I'm an IT man. I analyze Internet packets on the daily. Quite the disconnect from my other passions.

Rain on the water. Big thunderstorm approaching. Make shelter. Find peace.