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I am so tired of cold weather.  What must people who live in Wisconsin or Maine or, yes, New Hampshire be feeling?  The people in Alaska chose that area.   I am not sure I feel sorry for any of these folks.  I think I was living in Amarillo the last time I felt this way.
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I can remember when I was in high school in Levelland - west of Lubbock.  We always had to go sing at our church's Easter sunrise service, and it was always cold on Easter morning.
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My plum tree was covered with flowers.  Now, all are gone.  Before long it will be nice outside, then, without much warning - summer will Blast in.   Our weather man said that an El Nino is forming - or is it El Nina?   Anyway it will cause us to have more rain NEXT FALL and Winter.  No help is foreseen for the summer months.  The only blessing that I can see is that I won't be teaching marching band next fall if there is more rain.  Thanks for small blessings.
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About a month ago, we went to the Dallas Car Show.  They had 700 cars to see.  I like things like that.  We have been thinking about a new car since the Marauder is at 160,000 miles.  I want to keep the Marauder till I croak.  So we need to reduce its yearly mileage.   At the Ford booth, the lady offered us a $50 Visa card if we test drove a Ford product before the end of March.  I signed u p.
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After much to do, the email authorization came through.   In the meantime, we received a recall on our motorhome's Michelin tires.  We had to go to a Ford dealer for the recall.  Soooooooo, we drove over to Athens  ( in Texas, not Greece ) and left the motorhome.  Why waste the opportunity, we test drove a couple of Fords:  Flex and Explorer.  I thought they were both nice to drive.  My wife liked the Flex the most.  Our Visa card should show up in a few days.  Now, we are counting pennies to see if buying is viable.    When we drove the Explorer, the computer said we had 12 miles of gasoline left in the car.  That doesn't seem too brilliant if you ask me.  You'd think they would plan better than that.
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By the way, have you seen the rices of cars now-a-days?
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That was yesterday.  The Ford salesman called today.  It will be interesting to see how many times he calls before we answer the phone.  This brings me to another subject.  We don't answer the phone if the caller ID says "unknown"  or  "private caller"  or any of those handles.   My Ford salesman had one of those "names" along with his phone number.  Still, I didn't recognize that phone number.  The phone went unanswered as it should.
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stopping now - too depressing and too cold
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