Can you compare a newborn flag to the infants of other species? Yesterday, UPEI hoisted their new banner for the first time. I approve, and I hope that the public relations people will be mailing me one, soon.
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In the restaurant world, there’s good food and then, there’s consistently good food. Charlottetown has had it’s share of the former, but my tag for the latter goes to our favourite place for a lunch: Papa Joe’s.
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How we spend a day depends (very much) on the temperature. Too hot and a campground loses its charm. Too cold, I don’t know. We haven’t had to deal with that alternative yet.
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Last evening I relented and watched the campfire. It still doesn’t beat HDTV with cable for content, but the colours are SO realistic. My Mythbusters bent had me testing the chemical content of certain foodstuffs with the original gas spectrometer;. For your information, cheesies don’t even burn/ Think about that, the next time a choice for munchies comes up.
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With a good night of needed sleep behind us, we were ready to assault the beaches. Funny thing how much a short stretch of shore can vary from one year to the next.
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Today required some things that were out of the ordinary, since the sun had finally appeared. Unable to choose, we built a house and went for a ride on a passenger train.
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The winds howled and the desk chairs moved from place to place. Rattle and moan, to paraphrase Bono’s gang. Little matter, because we were safely tucked away in a friendly bed in a friendly cottage. The other members of our extended family are now out of vacation chits, but we’ll muddle on.
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Sometimes it helps to get up before the light of day. Before you can see what you are doing, and have second thoughts. The alarm clock rang. Without hesitation, we leapt out of bed, dressed, had that necessary spot of java and then hit the highway.
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This is not an urban myth. I didn’t hear this from the friend of a friend. Once upon a remembered time, I actually knew how to pack lightly for a vacation trip.
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