Life in Muskoka

[iluvemocharlybrown]

Ok so most here know I'm a carpenter/cabinet maker. When I set up my shop I built a small paint booth/table for spraying cabinet doors etc.

It consists of a 3' x 8' bed, covered in perf metal and ducted to a squirrel cage exhaust fan and outside via PVC tubing.

So I'm downstairs getting stuff ready to spray and I hear all this rustling and scurrying under the perf metal....I look down and here's a fricken CHIPMUNK sitting in my spray table.....the little bastard must have hopped into the duct then whoop...slid down the PVC tubing (cause it's damn smooth inside).

So WTF am I going to do? Can't turn the fan on to blow him out (I'd be picking up chipmunk chunks for weeks).....I DON'T want to disassemble everything...so I give him some peanuts to calm him down (he did eat). I lifted up the metal top and almost got my gloved hand on him...(I was surprised how close I got actually) but he jumped down into the fan....FUCK.

So I take apart all the ducting, and he's now inside the fan itself. I get a flashlight and see him laying in the bottom...

Ok, disconnected the fan, tape up the inlet and outlets with masking tape and carry the damn thing outside.

So I take off the tape and sitting there waiting waiting waiting....sure enough, 2 minutes later he pokes his head out of the inlet, looks around, looks at me, jumps down, walks over to me, looks up, looks around and calmly scurries across my deck....

Damn, I KNEW I should have put a grate or screen over the vent that runs outside lol....

Besides a deer scaring the fuck outta me the other day life is fun up here in the wilds.....lol....

 

[Greeen_Pixie]

You do kitchens?

Seriously though, what about the ladies during the cold season, or should I say lack of? I mean, little critters are fine to look at but dude what about the women???:he:

Then there's the snow, being snowed in, getting stuck. It's nice in the summer but the winter, yikes!! Well, at least you have a chipmunk that will be your winter buddy, he must love you. You fed him and saved his little chipmunk ass. :

 

[Piplup1011]

yeah, women are a little scarce up here......I have found that there is no middle ground. They are either quite attractive....or fugly as sin....not much in the middle lol........

 

[TerraL]

Nice story Tboy, you are a good man.

 

[Nostromo]

Well... WTF were you trying to do to the deer tboy?????

[video=youtube;QeA5ow7cS1c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeA5ow7cS1c[/video]

 

[miguel sabah]

Ouch :gasp:

 

[st. nino]

hahaha too true. I come from up north too. you know what they say " contrary to popular belief Cougars do not live in the bush"

 

[Jessica G]

and I have yet to find out if the cougars up here HAVE a bush lol....

There is one hottie that works at Crabby Joe's, going to put the moves on her sometime soon...I'll report back when the mission is complete!

Problem is: everyone is so friendly up here, you can't tell if she's friendly because she's interested or just being normal.....

 

[Cherry*Blossom6]

I have 3 teenaged HUMANS running around bugging me, asking for money and for rides all over gods creation, wrecking my stuff, wasting hydro and water etc. :grrrrrr: :grrrrrr: :grrrrrr:

Sheesh!

 

[Shil]

What were you trying to catch?

 

[Wing]

lol smartass...a squirrel cage is a type of fan.....

Speaking of Black Bears: I was riding my harley down a nice smooth backroad and saw a teen black bear coming out of the woods to my left. I slowed to a crawl as did the car coming towards me. He passed uneventfully and we both stayed for a minute to see if mama bear was following...nope.

The other night I was riding home around 11, the road to my place is PITCH black, I turn into my drive and my headlight flashes onto something in the bushes. It was bigger than a german sheppard, smaller than a deer and was moving a bush about the size of a doghouse....scared the living shit outta me I tell you. I don't know if it was a bear or what but it was BIG.

I was told by some local riders that if I do hit a bear while on my bike DO NOT STOP to see if he's alive. If he is? You can't do anything for him and if he isn't? He'll most likely eat you.....lol.....(and not in a good way either)

 

[ledzepfan203]

Have you actually spent a winter up there yet?

 

[bullsfootball]

All I can say is they are brave little fuckers...the tit did it again! I just went downstairs to paint some cabinets and there he was again.....

Got him this time, put a paperbag over the outlet tube, scared him and he jumped right in lol.

I went yesterday to Home Depot to get a mesh or something to put over the outside tube but didn't want to spend $25.00 for a huge 5' x 3' piece....Put a fibreglass one over it until I can get my hands on a metal one.....

The gall of the little bastard too: let him out of the bag, he was up 2 minutes later on the deck looking for peanuts!!!

 

[mark l]

Up North are the 2 most scariest words when Brash says them. Why Mother-In-Law, Black Flies, Bears, etc.:

Winter is great, love the snow because when it snows we can not visit.::

 

[Kevin[Loves Jayneeee]]

Spoken like a true city slicker ^^^^^

Black flies only happen in the spring.
Nothing wrong with having bears around, as long as you don't bother them, they don't bother you. Just like bikers: don't call one gay and you won't have to go to the hospital to get your head removed from your ass lol....

The thing is, up here? When you're chatting up a hottie in a bar, you don't have to learn french to guess her perfume, it's either muskol or deep woods off lol.......

This happened before I moved up here:

I was visiting a lady friend who had a fireplace. So I built a fire before heading over to the liquor store.

As I was checking out, the cute cougar said to me: you smell smokie, were you sitting around a fire? I said "no, that's my cologne" and we both laughed...but she thought for a second then said "awesome idea, worked on me"!!!!

 

[NeedASurgery]

I'm a Big City Kid, but spend a lot of time in country all over the place.

Most of my past and present SO's and close friends have had a lot of country in them, even though they've gravitated to the city eventually. They're more wholesome, fun, and have vinegar in their veins when needed. They tend to get under the weather less than city girls, possibly because they've spent more time around dirt and germs and less time in the hermetic bubbles of the house and office spaces of the Big City.

City girls tend to want to drive be driven or take taxis. The world goes to hell in a hand basket should they break a nail or blow a heel on their latest footwear.

 

[Chylers Mom]

We own acreage up north and I grew up on a beach and in let say also in the country. I still don't like My mother-in-law, black flies or bears.:

 

[johnny fettcakes]

Rather than trying to catch them, get some of those electronic rodent repellents that plug in to a standard electrical outlet. They give off a low, quiet buzzing sound that you'll barely notice, but they annoy the hell out of the wee beasties and they vacate the area, never to return (as long as the gizmo is buzzing). No harm done to them & no hassle for you.
We use them in our cottage and haven't had so much as a mouse in the 3 years we've used them. Highly recommended!!!!

 

[SkittleSniffer]

No but I'm actually looking forward to it. From the friends I've made up here it is actually kind of pleasant. Instead of the brown crap you get in the city, you get actually white stuff.....

As for accumulation, last year they got 5', all in one week. Rest of the winter it was a smattering here and there...oh, and here? They don't lose their minds when they look into the sky and see WHITE. They know how to drive in it. (unlike in toronto where within 15 minutes of the show starting you have 125 accidents reported).

Anyhow, where my house is located it will be postcard perfect with the white stuff. I'll post pictures when we get our first heavy fall (which should be next week lol)

 

[amranKay]

Just watch the locals don't steal your cut firewood.:

Remember to shovel your roof.:

Put a Light in your well so it will not freeze, the lines.: