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Price of gas drops

Here in Nashville the price of gasoline dropped, for a few day we were paying $3.15 a gallon. Now it has went back up to $3.45 a gallon. Still better than the over $4.00 a gallon we were paying just a few weeks ago. I know this current price increase is from the hurricanes hitting the oil producing areas of the Gulf of Mexico.

Hope that when the storms are over, the price will go back down to a reasonable rate. We need the lower prices to make any money in our newspaper delivery business. Our expenses have gone through the roof this summer and we are on the verge of going under due to the price increases.

We will just have to sit and wait to see what the price does this week after the storm passes. I, for one, hope it goes back down, but I am not going to hold my breath.

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Football time in Tennessee

Tennessee has always been a hot bed of college football with their beloved U.T. Volunteers. I am not a huge fan of the Tennessee Vols. In fact, I do not like them at all and I especially don’t like their coach. He does not deserve even half the money he makes yet they continue to give him big raises and worship the ground he walks on. They need to wake up and face the fact that he’s lost his magic and the team’s losing record these past two years proves that.

I went to a Big 12 school and will always think that the Big 12 is a better football conference than the South Eastern Conference. I mean, for gosh sakes, any conference that has Vanderbilt and the two Mississippi schools in it, how good can it be?

I really think that Oklahoma has a good shot this year and I hope they do well every week except when they play Oklahoma State.

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Low prices?

Today, the price of gasoline dropped to $3.15 a gallon, a price we have not seen in a long time. Not so very long ago the price of gasoline was over $4.00 a gallon and rising.

I took all the vehicles that needed gasoline and filled them up today. I am sure this simple act by me will force the price to rise several cents over the next few days.

I hope it keeps going down and gets to a level that more people can afford. Just this drop of 85 cents or so has made our delivery business more profitable and has eased our money crunch. I hope it keeps going down, but I am not counting on that. We are formulating a “Plan B” to find an alternate source of revenue if the prices go over $5 a gallon this year.

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Dry summer

After a very welcome wet spring and early summer, we have hit a very dry spell the last of July and the first part of August.

We have had no rain at all since July 20th and are creeping up on the dreaded “D” word again. Drought is a bad term to use any way.

We had a very dry 2007 and the start of this year was very wet, so we are still ahead of the total that we average in a normal year. It is not too late to get some needed rain and get us back where we need to be, wet and wonderful.

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Summer storms

When Mother Nature unleashes her summer storms I love the smell after the rain is gone and the earth settles down and absorbs the moisture.

The locusts and crickets get busy making music and the smell of the rain and wet dirt is one of the very best smells going, as far as I am concerned. I could sit in the swing in our front yard for hours and just get lost in the sounds and smells of nature after a summer rain, except for one thing: the rain brings out the mosquitoes in droves, so you can not sit outside for very long and enjoy the smells and sounds without getting eaten up by the bugs.

You have to take the bad with the good that is one sure thing.

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Price of gas dropping

Finally the high price that we have been shelling out is starting to drop. The price has dropped .30 cents a gallon in the last month and the price of a barrel of oil keeps dropping too.

I hope that we can see some savings on our fuel bill soon. As a small business, we need all the help we can get, and a few cents saved at the gas pump is money in our pockets to spend on other things.

School will be starting soon and that means new clothes and shoes along with school supplies. The price of living in this wonderful world never ends, does it?

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Rain

Today we finally got some much needed rain, of curse it started while I was out walking dogs. I can handle getting wet no problem there, but the lightning was a bit nerve racking. A good friend of mine her husband was struck and killed by lightning and since then I have been a little nervous around lightning. I guess we have to have a little lightning with our rain so I will just keep going inside when it starts and watch out the window.

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New phone

My daughter dropped my phone and cracked the crystal on the front screen. I need a new phone, this one works for phone calls but you can not see who is calling. I am not sure if I want to extend my contract with AT&T or try a new provider. I do not need a fancy phone I do not take pictures or text with my phone I make phone calls. I do not watch movies on my phone, I make calls. So the most simple phone works for me no need to pay for extras I will not use.

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Big concert

The biggest concert of the year was tonight at the football stadium here in Nashville, Kenny Chesney and Keith Urban held their concert tonight, the weather held off and it was a wonderful night to attend a concert.

I do not go to concerts very often but this was one I did not want to miss, I was amazed at the crowd and parking was a mess like always downtown, this would of been a great time for the idiots at Metro to run a train to the concert, instead the train sits not making any money.

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High price of living

Now that prices have soared people are having to cut back on eating out and road trips, no longer is it so easy to run to town to buy a pint of ice cream, now the ice cream has to be bought on the normal trip to the store and it will be store brand instead of name brand ice cream. Maybe this little step will help trim the waist line of America. Lord know we need that done all around the country.