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Pot roast with gravy, PEI potatoes and carrots and peas from my garden. With football on the side.

Well after I retired, two different former students, came separately to my home and told me that I had turned their life around, Makes it all worth while.

I LOVE the little black dress!!!!!!! Bra or no bra?

If you're still talking sundresses then 100% from behind!. If you're talking intercourse then from the front. Women's clothing. Awesome lingerie under the incredible little black dress, or causal - jeans and sweat top?

I just sent in my Proline bet on NFL football and set my lineup for fantasy football. I have my little table all set up in front of my big screen to skin tomatoes and cut up peppers and onions from the garden to start the next batch of tomato sauce for the freezer.

Happy Birthday Boomer. I hope that you have a great day and I expect you will be at the football game tonight. A birthday victory will be nice! MN2

I hope that you have a wonderful day on your birthday and that your wishes come true.

Happy birthday BCguy. You have a tough year behind you but this birthday may mark the start of more good news. Have a great day.

Right now probably Liberal from those two choices. From the garden - fresh peas, fresh corn or fresh baby carrots?

Having a beer after an absolutely incredible first day of fall in PEI. I'm doing fresh pan fried haddock with veggies for supper and am looking forward to watching tonight's Jays vs NNY game with great anticipation and some trepidation. :)

After a couple of days of preventive maintenance on my crutches and in my wheelchair I am truly mobile again. It was a great outside day here on the Island and I'm getting set to watch game one of the Jays vs the NYY.

I have just read through this thread and am quite taken aback by what I think I am hearing. Taken aback because I cannot see why there would be a relationship between the new law and clients exhibiting worse behavior. I DO understand that clients might be less forthcoming with personal identifying information and at that point it becomes a screening decision for the SP to make. Therein lies one of the dangers of the legislation. Other than that one area I don't see the law changing a clients personal code of conduct or behavior in the way that they treat a woman. People either respect others or they don't. I must be missing something.

Hypocrisy, lying and deceit go hand in hand with politics I am afraid. That is a very sad statement to make but I think reflects today's reality - maybe a reality that has always been there. All three of the major party leaders have been caught in outright lies and all commonly use misleading statements or pick and choose selective, "facts." In relation to your representative government comment, there is no way that in our present climate any of the three parties that might win a minority government will be representative, but they will be the government under our present electoral system. Bring on election reform please.

Interesting question. My car is from a local small town dealer. My big TV unit purchased three years ago I got from a small independent locally owned store that has now gone out of business. However, that being said, I HATE shopping. I detest it. I am almost a half hour drive from any store where I can even buy milk and bread so the thought of driving to Charlottetown to spend a day doing shopping errands is not a pleasant one. Several years ago I discovered Amazon and I use it a lot. It's easy and usually includes free delivery right to my door at prices that match or beat the local box stores in Charlottetown. If I could get my bread and milk and groceries that way I would do that too. I still don't get the idea of shopping being fun.

Yes it was street. However that "might" make us feel safer but I for one will never see anyone in a small market place like PEI again. As well, street does not make it acceptable from a client or SP perspective. These are the women who will now move deeper into shadows and men in CB will be pretty damn careful to not disclose to anyone. So that hurts everybody and potential secrecy and violence will be directly attributable to our wonderful Safe Communities Act.

Twenty Seven Clients Charged So.....the police won't use any resources eh? All 27 men were named in the local paper today. The women are receiving guidance and counselling. Jesus! This is now the second time in NS where I am aware of clients being arrested without any relationship to trafficking or underage women. So it begins.

No Costco on PEI so I reluctantly choose Walmart. Travelling - Flying or Driving?

I'm not sure if I am changing the intent of this thread or not, but it is certainly related. Retirement is a big thing financially as has already been written about but also psychologically. I know a few individuals who were in high stress jobs that upon retirement were bored out of their minds. They found that they needed something to occupy their time, and regretted the decision. Another friend who had an amazing professional career went to work at the take out window at Tims and absolutely loved it. When I retired I figured that I could take a year and putter on my beautiful old home and property. Now here I am seven years later and still puttering and not the least bit bored and I am loving it. Life is short enough for some so for me to retire from a job that I truly loved was a wonderful decision. The passing of my wife two years afterwards and before she had decided to retire was a huge blow and I always now encourage people to retire when they can financially and take some well deserved time to relax and enjoy. As for CPP I took it at 60 because I have no vibes that I am going to live past the break even point. Not morbid, just a bird in the hand sort of thing. :)

Wishing you a very Happy Birthday Nicolette. Have fun!!!!!

Usually early dinner. Baseball or hockey or football?

Corn from my garden picked about 20 minutes ago. The raccoons are being nice this year and sharing. Then BBQ hamburgers and fries to go with the Blue Jays game shortly.

Getting ready for a road trip. 5 Provinces in two weeks! And taking one of my baby giant pumpkins to a friend. It will take two of us to load it. Fun..

This is an interesting side debate to the entire election process. I might understand the action taken against the songwriter and performer if he were using his role as a public servant to work against the political climate, or if he were verbally trashing his department or carrying it into the office. However, even if I understood the present decision and felt it were a correct decision to discipline him, this issue has already been ruled on by the Supreme Court of Canada in Osborne v. Canada (Treasury Board). He has every legal right to have written, produced and distributed the Harperman song without penalty from his employer, the Government of Canada. From the Supreme Court decision. "The act of balancing must start with the proposition that some speech by public servants concerning public issues is permitted. Public servants cannot be, to use Mr. Fraser's apt phrase, "silent members of society". I say this for three reasons. First, our democratic system is deeply rooted in, and thrives on, free and robust public discussion of public issues. As a general rule, all members of society should be permitted, indeed encouraged, to participate in that discussion. Secondly, account must be taken of the growth in recent decades of the public sector -- federal, provincial, municipal -- as an employer. A blanket prohibition against all public discussion of all public issues by all public servants would, quite simply, deny fundamental democratic rights to far too many people. Thirdly, common sense comes into play here. An absolute rule prohibiting all public participation and discussion by all public servants would prohibit activities which no sensible person in a democratic society would want to prohibit . . . . On the other side, however, it is equally obvious that free speech or expression is not an absolute, unqualified value. Other values must be weighed with it. Sometimes these other values supplement, and build on, the value of speech. But in other situations there is a collision. When that happens the value of speech may be cut back if the competing value is a powerful one. Thus, for example, we have laws dealing with libel and slander, sedition and blasphemy. We also have laws imposing restrictions on the press in the interests of, for example, ensuring a fair trial or protecting the privacy of minors or victims of sexual assaults." But then, we all know what respect Harperman has for the Supreme Court of Canada.

Thanks for sharing. On September 17th there will be a national sing along across the country. If there is an event in Charlottetown I think I will go if \i am home. For those unfamiliar with the story, the singer is a folk song singer who is also a scientist in Ottawa who studies migratory bird routes. He has been suspended from his job for the federal government for doing this song. For those who are undecided, is this the Canada that you want that Harperman has brought to us? I guess migratory bird scientists are terrorists too.

You are right on regarding Bill C-36 (Safe Communities Act) I also agree with a valid ID for voting however what I do not agree with in the Unfair Election Act are things such as the folloowing which are now law in Canada. It is now illegal for Elections Canada to put on a commercial telling people the election date and to use their democratic right to vote. It is illegal for Elections Canada to go into high schools to teach children how to vote or what a polling station looks like, or what a ballot looks like and a ballot box. It is very clear that he does not want people to vote, especially young people. As for C-51 mentally unstable people are not terrorists and even though I have not a thing to hide, including being here, I do not give the government the right to read every text and email I send. You have more chance of being killed by falling in your bathroom or getting killed by a moose than by a terrorist. Should we pass a law? Unjustified FEAR is NOT a reason to elect a government. Finally. I would LOVE an NDP-Liberal coalition.