cometman

Hope things are going well for you, bud. Bottoms up!

One of the hired hands brought Greco pizza tonight and it wasn't half bad........washed down with Moosehead beer. Great thread here, folks. Gotta tell you, though......if I can't pronounce it, I probably won't order it. Redneck, much? LOLOL!!!!!

Police comb the area where human remains were found Friday in East Chezzetcook. (INGRID BULMER / Staff) UPDATED 9:15 p.m. Friday Nearly three years after Nadine Anne Taylor vanished, the man charged with murdering the Halifax woman took investigators to the site of her remains Friday. Just after noon, Steven Elliott Laffin led detectives to a spot in the woods off Inletview Road in East Chezzetcook, the RCMP said. Sources said the remains were under some brush but not buried. Police could not confirm that account. The remains looked to be about three car-lengths from Highway 107 at Exit 21. Police couldnâ??t explain why Laffin chose that site to leave the body. By late Friday, a blue police tent had been set up over the area. Scrubby evergreen trees only partially blocked the site from view of the highway or from the houses on the other side of the ditch. A line of police tape blocked access to Inletview Road. â??Well, thatâ??s a little close to home,â? said a man who lives just down the road. He said he didnâ??t know Laffin or Taylor. Several residents were shocked by the discovery of the body and described the rural community as safe and close-knit. Major crime investigators, forensic identification officers and a medical examiner were on the scene Friday afternoon and were expected to stay overnight, Const. Pierre Bourdages of Halifax Regional Police said in an interview. RCMP and regional police detectives working together on the case had been stymied in attempts to find the 29-year-old Taylorâ??s body. Sources told The Chronicle Herald that police had not expected to find the body because they thought Laffin had dropped it in the water. â??Itâ??s hard to talk about specifics, but there was some information ... (that) led investigators to believe (they) may never recover the remains,â? said Cpl. Scott MacRae of the RCMP. â??But fortunately in this case, especially for the families, we were led here today.â? MacRae couldnâ??t say why Laffin suddenly co-operated with police or whether he had volunteered the information. This latest development comes just days after it was learned that lawyers were in talks connected to Taylorâ??s murder and Laffinâ??s sentencing in an aggravated assault on another sex-trade worker. Both cases are slated to be back in Halifax provincial court next Thursday. Laffin, 38, of Dartmouth was set to go to trial next month for second-degree murder in Taylorâ??s death but he gave up his trial dates a few weeks ago and court was told he intended to plead guilty. On Feb. 21, while Laffin sat on the prisoners bench in a Halifax courtroom, there were repeated discussions between the Crown and defence. Laffinâ??s defence lawyer, Kevin Burke, declined comment at the time, but Crown attorney Rick Woodburn said the two sides were talking about â??sentencing and parole eligibilityâ? in the two cases. On Friday, Woodburn said he was pleased about the discovery of the body because â??it might help provide closure for Taylorâ??s family.â? He said he couldnâ??t say any more about the case until Laffin is back in court Thursday. An advocate for Halifax sex workers described Taylor as a â??force of energy,â? beloved by friends and family. Rene Ross, the executive director of Stepping Stone, an outreach and support group for sex workers, thanked police for their thorough investigation. She said sex workers are especially vulnerable because of the perception that those who hurt them will get away with it. Taylor was reported missing from her Fairview apartment on July 31, 2010, by her fiance, Gene Hape. Hape died last April 10. Laffin married his live-in girlfriend on the day Taylor was reported missing. Laffin was arrested on Sept. 21, 2010, and was charged with her murder on Oct. 27 of that year, the Mounties said. Police have said they believe Taylor was murdered in Dartmouth sometime around July 28-29, 2010. Investigators conducted an extensive search of Laffinâ??s home and reportedly seized several items of potential evidence. Laffin became a suspect in Taylorâ??s disappearance after he was charged with crimes against the other sex worker in a separate case. Last fall, he pleaded guilty to kidnapping, aggravated assault, forcible confinement and uttering threats in the August 2010 attack on that woman. The victim in that case ran to a nearby home to call 911 after she escaped from a moving car on Old Sambro Road in Halifax. She told investigators she had been attacked by a man who had driven her to a parking lot.

LOL...sometimes, ya just gotta go redneck!

February is not kind to me. 2 years ago, I broke my leg in February. 10 minutes ago, I missed a fricking step on a landing and took the last 6 steps sideways and upside down- landing on my head and wrist. I'm here, so I must be okay, but I still don't know how it happened. Frick, I hate being clumsy like a one-legged penguin. Cannot believe I was an athlete in my younger days. I'm just glad there were no witnesses........except a little dog that licked my face for me. LOL

Five men face charges for arranging to pay for sex with a person they thought was a 16-year-old girl. There was no girl, it was a four-day operation launched by the Halifax Regional Police and RCMP, the police forces said in a news release Tuesday afternoon. An officer exchanged hundreds of emails with adult men and arranged the meetings, where sexual services were expected, at local hotels. Police were waiting at the hotel rooms and arrested the men when they arrived. All of the men have been charged with using a computer to communicate with a person believed to be under 18 for the purpose of prostitution. All of them are due in Halifax provincial court on April 2. They have been released on conditions. The five men are: Mitchell Gary Kays-Rose, 25, of Halifax; Alan Tek, 29, of Halifax; Peter Lee White, 39, of Halifax; Donald William Moore, 43, of Shubenacadie and Pierre (Rick) Joseph Simon, 57, of Hilden. Kays-Rose also faces a charge of possession of a controlled substance. Simon was once the chief executive officer of the Shubenacadie First Nations. Additional Comments: I saw this one as it happened. Unreal that some would pursue this ad after the following post. "Chrissie is 16 years old (HALIFAX) BEWARE GUYS THIS GIRL IS ONLY 16 YEARS OLD!!!!!. DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT CONTACT HER.!!!! Here is a portion of her reply to me when I responded to her ad the other day. "Hi my name is Chrissie ! Im 16 years old and trying to make some extra cash to get a fresh start in life. I'm charging $X for a half hour and $X for an hour ! You would have to wear a condom. I dont do anal, or at least Im not very good at it. :) Chrissie" YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN WARNED!!! I REPEAT DO NOT CONTACT HER OR ME!!! I AM JUST WARNING YOU GUYS. SHE GOES BY THE NAME CAREFREECHRISSIE." Additional Comments: For clarification, the first additional comment was a BP post- not my personal thoughts. Hence, the quotation marks.

Congrats to all three of you great contributors!

I learned that if you are towing a 20' stock trailer behind a 1-ton pickup, the risk of something going wrong rises with the value of the horse being hauled. $10,000 horse (in foal) in the trailer, approaching a stop sign at a T-intersection at approximately 80 k/hr, go for the brakes and they slowly disappear. No visibility in either direction until the last moment, so I gritted my teeth, hit the trailer brakes, puckered my sphincter, and entered the intersection way too fast. I had to swing to the far lane to make a wide turn and hopefully save the horse from damage. It worked.......no traffic and therefore no crash. A mile down the road, I pulled over to empty my drawers. New brake line installed this afternoon.

Have a great day,bud.

Please wish Maria all the best.

I swear this problem seems to be growing......people that open their car doors without checking for traffic approaching from behind. Riding a bike keeps my senses keen, but some day I am going to rip a car door off with my F350 and people in the vicinity will hear a loud "WTF".........followed by a barely audible "WHOOHOO".

Grrrr, I'm late to another party. I hope you had a wonderful day, Emily.

Even though the majority of the ladies seem to favor leniency, I voted no for now......temp ban. When bans from here occur, I do not know for what reason, but often, nothing has transpired on the open forum for the general membership to understand. This site and EC are built on the foundation of trust and when that trust is betrayed, there must be a consequence. If she participates here and shows integrity, I am all for reinstatement.

That's why I like this site. The info is here, the links are here, the recos are here,and the ladies are here. I can read exhaustively and if I am missing something, a pm is easily sent and received. I am not a prolific sender of text messages and when I do,they are brief- VERY brief, unless I am begging, lol. My non-smart phone isn't conducive to texting a lot, so I rely on typing here or by email. I can be Sir Galahad when I type, but not so much when I text unless I have time to kill.

The effing bathroom reno is just about done. A couple of pieces of baseboard to nail tomorrow. This has been a real learning process but ends up with a sense of accomplishment.

Great Superbowl commercial-with Paul Harvey. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHjV-FPMm_I

Ooops......hope you had a great birthday, bud!

My friend, who was almost killed in an accident, is home and recovering nicely.....a true miracle. The angels were truly watching over her.

Awesome!!!! Congrats, Nicolette!

Marathon sessions, but I finished my 2012 books and off to the accountant. Gawd.......CRA bugs the bejeezus out of me.

Saw the strangest thing today. I was feeding cattle and happened to glance beside the tractor at an English sparrow that was acting weirdly. Turned out it was beside another sparrow that was lying still in the snow after presumably hitting the barn. The active bird was standing over it and using its' beak to repeatedly pull feathers on the downed bird's head and neck as if to get it to stand up. When that failed, the healthy bird spread it's wings and laid on top of the still one. For warmth.....protection.....I do not know, but when I returned less than 5 minutes later, they were both gone. It warmed my heart.

Wishing you a fantastic birthday, Meg.

19 day preemie heifer calf born an hour ago and it is blistering cold, so I put her beside a forced air heater and am thawing out colostrum. Decided to put a glove on and check her momma. Fml......another calf in there. I'll wait for momma to settle down and then deliver the second calf. It is going to be a short night after a long day with another day of -29 here tomorrow.

Lol....this entire thread is a hoot.

All the best, bud! I had to make the same trip and I'll always be glad I did.