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Posted on 07/14/2005 3:23:55 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Does this mean you are not going to take the trash to the landfill tommorow? Poor excuse! ;oD
Thanks, now if they can find a place to stay. : )
Gasoline over three bucks a gallon here in some places.......
Fill im up? : )
I have stopped most of my daily drives. Filled up my truck Sunday and parked it. Driving a car now that gets good mileage.......
It's nasty dark and windy here right now. I think a major storm is blowing in.
Be careful! It was very rough here yesterday and it's all up there now....
Today I saw a man on a horse riding down the main highway in my hometown. He had a t-shirt on that said "Coast to Coast" Does anyone know about this guy?
Do not know anything about the guy riding his horse but he should keep an eye on it at night though. Someone will steal it now that the price of gasoline is so high.
I was too late. I paid $3.09 for premium (which is all I can burn in the Jeep) on my way home. I was just watching the news and it's $3.29 in some places. I called Lee who works in Decatur and he found a place that still had regular for $2.59 but it went up 30 cents while he was pumping. But at least we can get it....right now. I'm parking the Jeep after today and going back to my old '85 Buick. It gets 22mpg. Lee can drive his old mustang. It's 20 yrs old too an ugly as homemade sin, but it still gets 25mpg. I ain't too proud to drive an old junker!
Stalls ($20), pasture ($8) and picket line ($3) We will picket. The Arabian and the one eyed pony are going with us. My daughter's friend is bring 5 of her horses. We are leaving tomorrow afternoon, so that we can be there for the cattle round up. I don't think I will do that, but the others will. It will take us close to 5 hours to get there. My first time pulling this trailer, so my knuckles will be white, by the time I get there. Maybe the high gas prices will keep everyone home this weekend.....naw!
Good job with the pictures and movies. I just love that. The bridge did sound scary! Your horses are real troupers going over it. What beautiful trails too.
At least our horses will be worth more now. : )
I have about three hundred gallons of diesel to use if I need it. It is in one of my old trucks. Now if I just had a diesel car.......
I don't know if someone else had originally picked it or what. It was just about finished when he found it - he ordered the colors/appliances/carpeting, etc. and then after we got in, he installed a sliding glass door since the wall where he put it was already finished when he found the house.
I'll betcha a buncha people will be burning red or green diesel if things get much worse, and I wonder how closely it might be checked.
Last red I bought was about the same price as green. Luckily I have green stored.
I love watching Bay's ears go from focus-forward to straight out each side over the bridges. His ears follow his area of concern, for sure. I always know what he's looking at by where the ears are pointed, his little radar.
Your camping trip sounds great.... Bring lots of photo taking capacity! Extra cards, extra batteries! We want to see the whole trip!
I read somewhere that the regulations were being suspended for the time being to allow people to use whatever they could get.
Yeah, I've heard that saying all my life. It's the first one that comes to mind when something is REALLY ugly. And that car really is too. If he doesn't get it painted soon, it's gonna have a homemade sunroof.
I like your new camping trailer. Does your truck pull it ok?
That'll be nice. I heard on the radio going home that the EPA was relaxing emissions regulations to allow more grades of crude to be used to make gas and diesel. Hopefully that'll help too.
ROFL! One of my very first cars only cost me 50 pounds. ($80). Unfortunatly it had been used as a chicken house for the past 5 years and so even after cleaning it out, I could never have the windows all the way shut! Phew! LOL
Luckily I had more on my mind than trying to impress friends!~
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