Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the
> villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.
> The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the
> forest, and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as
> supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He
> further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the efforts
> of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.
> Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to
> their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys
> became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone
> catch it!
> The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50! However, since he
> had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy
> monkeys on his behalf.
> In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers: 'Look at all
> these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell
> them to you at $35, and when the man returns from the city, you can sell
> them to him for $50 each.'
> The villagers rounded up all their savings, borrowed all the money they
> could, and bought all the monkeys. Then they never saw the man nor his
> assistant again, only monkeys everywhere!
>
> Now you have a better understanding of how Wall Street, brokers, and
> financial advisors work.



Rick

I saw on another site a powder coater in Durham Region. It's Flashfire Coatings. W/ them located in Blackstock, it's a lot handier than driving out to Port Hope or into Toronto.

When you go out riding, do you go out and say well we are gonna go 200 miles today, or do you just go out and see where the day takes you? Lots of the time we will go out and spend the whole day and not go farther than 15 miles from town, we just cruise through the ditches, play around, maybe find a powder meadow and play for a bit. It seems that sometimes we don't even get 80 miles on the machines, but we were out for 8 hours, lol.

It just makes me laugh because we will show up in town at the end of the day, and people will ask where we went and when we say we were just over there, they will say that they saw us leave way earlier and we should have made it farther than that, and we are like no, we're serious, thats only how far we got! But when you drive past that area on the highway, you Know we were there, lol, no drifts left untouched. And this area is also pretty nice because most of the farmers either ride, or have kids or family who rides, so they don't care if we go out on the fields, very rarely will you see posted land, unless its new hayland, or has a winter crop planted, and there is so much other land, that people don't trespass because you can go in any of the other fields around the area.

Bauer

$50.03 which is the lowest in 22 months. Don't think we really want it too much lower than this.

Digger