Economy

Yes it is a mess. A greed generated mess. And there may be a few of us who do not think it affects us and I may have been one of those. After all we did and do have our ducks in a row. We are in Carthage MO and the nice Mountain Aire MoHo sitting next to us contains a couple who retired in April, still have a stick built house but spend several months a year in their motorhome. They are not hurting financially. They went to Sears in Joplin to buy a small shop vac. $113. Decided to write a check for it. The check was not accepted. Sears has a company that assesses the likelyhood of a check being okay. They called the company and they said it was a numbers thing and to try another check. It didn't work either! They said a check is NOT guarantee of payment. After all your bank may not be able to honor it! They ended up using a credit card. But this incident bodes the way of the future. This mess will affect ALL of us.

A Moving Day

We are moving today from Peculiar MO to Carthage MO. Only 129 miles but all of it is south! We will have to fill up with fuel today too but we are grateful for the drop in prices. Last I checked the Flying J was selling diesel for $3.619. That is the lowest we have seen since last fall. It is always a crap shoot when we fill up. Should we put in a small amount because it may drop further? Or maybe there is a better price down the road? Bottom line is we do not like to travel with one eye on the fuel gauge. It just isn't a comfortable feeling. We do check fuel prices ahead of us as we travel using these two sites mostly. With the MSN site you need to know the zipcode of the city but that is easily googled.

Gas Prices MSN Auto:
http://autos.msn.com/everyday/gasstations.aspx?zip=&src=Netx

Flying J

http://www.flyingj.com/flyingjPortalWebProject/flyingjPortal.portal

Leaf Collage

All these leaves were real when I started. I photoed and fiddled, cropped, copied and pasted. This is the result!

Icy!?!

I needed to go the grocery store this morning to get some things to put in the crockpot for supper. Butch turned on the windshield wipers to clear the windshield of what appeared to be moisture...it was ICE. He had to get out with a trusty credit card, the only thing they are good for, and scrape off the ice before we could proceed. I was not expecting temps so low so my rescue plant from Snow Mountain Ranch may be frosted. Time will tell. And it tells us it IS time to head for parts further south.

In Missouri

We travelled to Missouri on Friday and we are parked in Peculiar. I had called for a reservation and they were still full! It was merely luck that they had a spot for us. We will be leaving next Friday for Carthage and we have called ahead there too. Anyone wanting to get into the RV Park business should have an easy time of it. Especially around the perimeter of Kansas City.
The kids are tied up with the auction today in Savannah MO. Looks like it will be a good day for it and we hope people are a bit more relaxed and ready to spend a bit of their money for some really good stuff.
I stayed with Susan's mother, Eloise last night and Butch went back to the MoHo and stayed with Angel. This morning I went to check my mail on the kids computer and all of a sudden it disappeared and then it dawned on me that Butch had brought in my mail on that computer!! Oh well, always time for that later.
Better get my walk in .... more talk later