Good morning here in Atlanta at 5:42 a.m. Wishing all well for you wherever you may be on the globe, Wandering Viewers.
It’s time to smell the coffee, but Miss Bosley says it’s her cuddle time instead. Everytime I move she gives a little, “Don’t make me get up,” kind of moan.
Well, now she is grooming. First things first before she starts her day. She brings joy, delight, and aggravation. She still gets with the tv and scratches at the screen in a ploy to be our number one point of focus. Last night I rolled up a few newspaper sheets longways to use for a mild-mannered swatter. That worked, but then she went up to the tv and gave it one scratch and ran before I had time to swat. She had to prove she could. With tricks like that she makes us laugh at the same time we are mad.
Morning Janice. I had a very small class today with two out sick and the twins just left for the village. Pray for rain in their village. It is a multi language project, with, I think, twenty languages involved. With everyone gathered together they need rain to provide for their needs.
a series of books that are simple for the children to decode. Mat, Mat sat. Sam, Sam Sat. Mat sat on Sam. Sam sat on Mat. The children can easily sound out the words, and, as you can see, the books begin with the short a.
Costco carries them.
I see from yesterday’s thread that Californians are leaving for Idaho and Texas.
That’s because of high taxes in California.
That means that the state will have to raise taxes again because there are fewer people to pay taxes. It isn’t that people are leaving California. It is that the money is.
The people leaving are being replaced by people coming. The people coming require services, but have no money.
The people leaving required few services, but they have money.
There could be tremendous changes in California if people in Sacramento understood what I just said.
Problem is. People from California moving to Idaho are going to try to make Idaho like California.
We notice that here in Western NC. People come here from NJ and Conn. and want to make Hendersonville like Hoboken.
Some while back I had some dealings with a real estate agent from California. She was located in the San Diego area and she and her husband were predicting just this very thing based on the number of self serve moving trucks rented one way out of California.
It is really sad because even though I have never been to California I understand it is quite a lovely place to live—if you can afford it.
Just the other day a realtor I am connected with on FB posted about qualifying for a $550,000 mortgage on an $80,000 income. He was suggesting that the better way for “parents” to invest their money was to “gift” the down payment to their children. I couldn’t stop myself from replying. It is one thing if your parents are financially stable and OFFER to gift money to you for a down payment on a home, but to suggest that you “guilt” your parents into helping you buy a home….well that is another ball of wax.
Many years ago mine and ex husband’s Christmas present from both sets of parents was a fence. We had an Arab guy who lived around the corner and hated dogs so he put anti-freeze out for them to drink. While we had a well disciplined Golden Retriever who didn’t stray from our yard without us, it wasn’t worth the risk of him being poisoned. We were already paying mostly out of pocket for the high cost of infertility and I may have had to be institutionalized if something had happened to that dog. 😉 A new fence wasn’t in the budget and the parents knew what we were going through. The two potential grandfathers built the fence as well.
I remember in the 70s when people were moving from the East to Arizona. Back then, Phoenix and Tucson were not so car friendly- no freeways. There was a push to get freeways, which Phoenix eventually did, but not Tucson. The slogan there was “Don’t Californicate Arizona”. Now Phoenix reminds me of LA, and Tucson, though a city of 500,000, still has a “small city” feel to it. Of course, one needs to be patient on the crowded streets.
Good morning!
I’ve been away. I spent most of last week helping a sick friend care for her little ones while she recovered. Yesterday, I spent a long (14 hours) working at the election polls. We have had a change of government, from Conservative to Liberal. Most people close to me would say that it is a change for the worse; but I was reminded this morning in the Psalms that God is ultimately in control and we need not fear.
There are lots of California people in Tennessee, as well as Northerners. The cost of living is so much better and the jobs are moving to such places. We have so many options for communication and travel these days. Still, sometimes it is difficult to leave family and ‘home.’
But, half as many Idahoans are going to California as Californians are coming to Idaho. Is that because they are disillusioned? Decided they did not like the cold? Or is it Idahoans fleeing the new California mindset? We do have a lot of them here and many do want the comforts of California. Wait, my family came from California. Well, from Michigan. Well, from Massachusetts. Well, never mind.
There are actually signs in Oregon telling Californians to turn around and go home. That used to be our escape state.
They got kind of tired of us apparently.
My friend who is a nurse has looked to buy a place in Tennessee & SC, she loves hot, humid weather and has gone back to both states several times, including specifically to “house hunt.”
But she felt like she needed to find a job first and despite sending out lots of applications she never landed one. She could have bought a house first, she has enough savings apparently, but felt like she’d be going out on a limb without a job lined up. So she’s still living in a 1920s apartment down the street from me and working at the Catholic hospital on the other side of the harbor.
But it is a concern that so many businesses are pulling up stakes and moving to Texas and elsewhere. The liberals I’m around always brush it off, saying good riddance, the workers who transfer will be sorry when the realize they have to live in Texas. But I suspect they’ll be happy as clams, paying less in taxes, able to afford a house at last. Except for the heat — the heat would kill me. But with the cost of living being lower, they can probably afford a/c in Texas, too. 🙂
Donna- I visited my sister when she lived in Seattle. They had billboards to discourage Californians from staying that showed a girl on a beach in the rain. The slogan said: “People in Seattle don’t tan, they rust.”
Elvera’s sister was a nurse. She lived wherever she wanted to.
I think a nurse can always find a job.
My middle GD is a nurse. She has always had a job.
My RN friend is 59, close to 60 now (but a youthful 60, we’re all youthful in California 🙂 ) and she’s still working on her nursing BA (or maybe it’s an MA) online (but she’s graduated from nursing school so is a full-fledged nurse), so that may be a factor. She’s been working in the field for over 10 years now (she went to nursing school later in life).
She also has a physical limitation, one of her ankles was fused when she contracted a mild case of polio from a vaccine as a child — so ideally she’d like a job that afforded more stationary time at this point in her life. The 12-hour hospital shifts requiring her to constantly move across the floor, lifting patients, etc., is getting a bit tough. But she usually works only 2 days in a row then has a few days off, so she’s got lots of free time which is a nice aspect of the job.
“Thanks to El Niño, California beachgoers have more to worry about than shark attacks and a deluge of sewage and plastic: Now highly venomous sea snakes are washing ashore too.
“On Friday, a surfer found a yellow-bellied sea snake slithering in the sand at Silver Strand beach in Ventura County, about an hour north of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times reports. …”
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No nursing positions in my county, either. And as my daughter’s intern experience showed, they’re using kids needing hours–and not paying them anything– for medical school applications in lieu of hiring LVNs. 😦
But don’t get me started on that subject . . .
Still exhausted from the weekend, but now headed off to teach on Heaven. I had a tremendously productive day yesterday and am totally unmotivated today! 🙂
But, with adorable grandchildren watch coming and a lot of disruption to the schedule the next 10 days, I need to stay the course and get my work done. After Thursday, there won’t be time to do any writing for awhile!
“The Associated Press made waves last year with its decision to use a technology that generates articles about public companies’ quarterly earnings results as opposed to having reporters write such coverage.
“Now the company behind that technology is making a push for its software to be used more widely among a broader array of news organizations, as well as other types of companies. …”
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Donna, he ain’t my type at all 😉 The awful suspicion though, is that was a deciding factor for many people (i.e. middle aged women). That and the fact that he is Pierre Eliot Trudeau’s son, who was elected Prime Minister four times in the 70’s and early 80’s, which was all before my time.
Roscuro, I really appreciated the Psalm you shared on Facebook. Very reassuring and comforting this morning. I was feeling a little trepidatious last night as the results came in.
But, God is in control and for that I am very thankful.
Karen, thank you. I put it up because it comforted me and reminded me of God’s power, and I thought it would help others, as I knew many of my dear friends and relatives would be feeling the way you do. I did a little (I was too tired to feel much), but I think the Lord put the verse into my mind this morning.
They have an annual Wooly Worm Festival in Boone, NC
The festival is over and they read the stripes on the wooly worm to predict weather for the coming winter.
The Wooly Worm predicts that Western NC will have a cold and snowy winter.
Good skiing weather. The Wooly Worm always predicts good skiing conditions.
Just because you never know who might know something you need to know…does anyone know anything about Irrigation Components International? I mean besides the fact that they got a new branch manager in Twin Falls, Idaho.
I know nothing about Irrigation Components International. I did not know that they got a new branch manager in Twin Falls, Idaho.
But I am now wondering.
What does it matter that ICI in Twin Falls got a new branch manager?
Companies are always getting new branch managers.
Is Guy going there?
Is Kim going there?
Did they come out for Trump or Hillary?
Is their stock in the tank?
Watching a colleague transforming from being a liberal to a conservative — he has the tenant from hell living in his late mom’s house, and now they won’t leave despite the lease being not renewed; it’s led to legal action, legal fees, the tenant/squatters have just appealed, accusing colleague of being essentially a “slumlord” which is ridiculous. The law is tipped in favor of tenants vs. landlords here. Not pretty.
For a while, Connecticut & California were going back & forth with the highest gas prices in the nation. I don’t know how we’re doing on that now. (Since I don’t drive, I don’t usually pay close attention to gas prices.)
Wandering Views 
Good morning here in Atlanta at 5:42 a.m. Wishing all well for you wherever you may be on the globe, Wandering Viewers.
It’s time to smell the coffee, but Miss Bosley says it’s her cuddle time instead. Everytime I move she gives a little, “Don’t make me get up,” kind of moan.
Well, now she is grooming. First things first before she starts her day. She brings joy, delight, and aggravation. She still gets with the tv and scratches at the screen in a ploy to be our number one point of focus. Last night I rolled up a few newspaper sheets longways to use for a mild-mannered swatter. That worked, but then she went up to the tv and gave it one scratch and ran before I had time to swat. She had to prove she could. With tricks like that she makes us laugh at the same time we are mad.
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Morning Janice. I had a very small class today with two out sick and the twins just left for the village. Pray for rain in their village. It is a multi language project, with, I think, twenty languages involved. With everyone gathered together they need rain to provide for their needs.
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Read the first ‘Bob’ book with one little boy today. His first time ever to read a book on his own. Such a delight.
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Good morning Janice
Good evening jo.
What is a “Bob” book?
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a series of books that are simple for the children to decode. Mat, Mat sat. Sam, Sam Sat. Mat sat on Sam. Sam sat on Mat. The children can easily sound out the words, and, as you can see, the books begin with the short a.
Costco carries them.
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I see from yesterday’s thread that Californians are leaving for Idaho and Texas.
That’s because of high taxes in California.
That means that the state will have to raise taxes again because there are fewer people to pay taxes. It isn’t that people are leaving California. It is that the money is.
The people leaving are being replaced by people coming. The people coming require services, but have no money.
The people leaving required few services, but they have money.
There could be tremendous changes in California if people in Sacramento understood what I just said.
Problem is. People from California moving to Idaho are going to try to make Idaho like California.
We notice that here in Western NC. People come here from NJ and Conn. and want to make Hendersonville like Hoboken.
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Some while back I had some dealings with a real estate agent from California. She was located in the San Diego area and she and her husband were predicting just this very thing based on the number of self serve moving trucks rented one way out of California.
It is really sad because even though I have never been to California I understand it is quite a lovely place to live—if you can afford it.
Just the other day a realtor I am connected with on FB posted about qualifying for a $550,000 mortgage on an $80,000 income. He was suggesting that the better way for “parents” to invest their money was to “gift” the down payment to their children. I couldn’t stop myself from replying. It is one thing if your parents are financially stable and OFFER to gift money to you for a down payment on a home, but to suggest that you “guilt” your parents into helping you buy a home….well that is another ball of wax.
Many years ago mine and ex husband’s Christmas present from both sets of parents was a fence. We had an Arab guy who lived around the corner and hated dogs so he put anti-freeze out for them to drink. While we had a well disciplined Golden Retriever who didn’t stray from our yard without us, it wasn’t worth the risk of him being poisoned. We were already paying mostly out of pocket for the high cost of infertility and I may have had to be institutionalized if something had happened to that dog. 😉 A new fence wasn’t in the budget and the parents knew what we were going through. The two potential grandfathers built the fence as well.
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I remember in the 70s when people were moving from the East to Arizona. Back then, Phoenix and Tucson were not so car friendly- no freeways. There was a push to get freeways, which Phoenix eventually did, but not Tucson. The slogan there was “Don’t Californicate Arizona”. Now Phoenix reminds me of LA, and Tucson, though a city of 500,000, still has a “small city” feel to it. Of course, one needs to be patient on the crowded streets.
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Good morning!
I’ve been away. I spent most of last week helping a sick friend care for her little ones while she recovered. Yesterday, I spent a long (14 hours) working at the election polls. We have had a change of government, from Conservative to Liberal. Most people close to me would say that it is a change for the worse; but I was reminded this morning in the Psalms that God is ultimately in control and we need not fear.
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There are lots of California people in Tennessee, as well as Northerners. The cost of living is so much better and the jobs are moving to such places. We have so many options for communication and travel these days. Still, sometimes it is difficult to leave family and ‘home.’
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But, half as many Idahoans are going to California as Californians are coming to Idaho. Is that because they are disillusioned? Decided they did not like the cold? Or is it Idahoans fleeing the new California mindset? We do have a lot of them here and many do want the comforts of California. Wait, my family came from California. Well, from Michigan. Well, from Massachusetts. Well, never mind.
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If I moved to Idaho I’d open a dog park. 🙂
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And provide tank tops and sandals?
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There are actually signs in Oregon telling Californians to turn around and go home. That used to be our escape state.
They got kind of tired of us apparently.
My friend who is a nurse has looked to buy a place in Tennessee & SC, she loves hot, humid weather and has gone back to both states several times, including specifically to “house hunt.”
But she felt like she needed to find a job first and despite sending out lots of applications she never landed one. She could have bought a house first, she has enough savings apparently, but felt like she’d be going out on a limb without a job lined up. So she’s still living in a 1920s apartment down the street from me and working at the Catholic hospital on the other side of the harbor.
But it is a concern that so many businesses are pulling up stakes and moving to Texas and elsewhere. The liberals I’m around always brush it off, saying good riddance, the workers who transfer will be sorry when the realize they have to live in Texas. But I suspect they’ll be happy as clams, paying less in taxes, able to afford a house at last. Except for the heat — the heat would kill me. But with the cost of living being lower, they can probably afford a/c in Texas, too. 🙂
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Oh yes. Flip-flops for all. It’s the dog park uniform.
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Then I can also open a doggie spa nearby as dogs will want to get pampered in the tub after a trip to the Idaho dog park.
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Donna- I visited my sister when she lived in Seattle. They had billboards to discourage Californians from staying that showed a girl on a beach in the rain. The slogan said: “People in Seattle don’t tan, they rust.”
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I were to leave Alabama it would for some place far away and very different. Like maybe Tennessee or South Carolina. 🙂
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Wow, talk about your culture shock.
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Maybe they are leaving California because of the poisonous sea snakes washing up on the beach.
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Elvera’s sister was a nurse. She lived wherever she wanted to.
I think a nurse can always find a job.
My middle GD is a nurse. She has always had a job.
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Yes, mumsee, there is that. Full-on panic, we are in now.
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My RN friend is 59, close to 60 now (but a youthful 60, we’re all youthful in California 🙂 ) and she’s still working on her nursing BA (or maybe it’s an MA) online (but she’s graduated from nursing school so is a full-fledged nurse), so that may be a factor. She’s been working in the field for over 10 years now (she went to nursing school later in life).
She also has a physical limitation, one of her ankles was fused when she contracted a mild case of polio from a vaccine as a child — so ideally she’d like a job that afforded more stationary time at this point in her life. The 12-hour hospital shifts requiring her to constantly move across the floor, lifting patients, etc., is getting a bit tough. But she usually works only 2 days in a row then has a few days off, so she’s got lots of free time which is a nice aspect of the job.
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Chas, “I think a nurse can always find a job.” Maybe in your day. Not in mine.
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http://news.yahoo.com/el-ni-os-effect-marine-life-goes-beyond-184029687.html
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“Thanks to El Niño, California beachgoers have more to worry about than shark attacks and a deluge of sewage and plastic: Now highly venomous sea snakes are washing ashore too.
“On Friday, a surfer found a yellow-bellied sea snake slithering in the sand at Silver Strand beach in Ventura County, about an hour north of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times reports. …”
____________________________________________
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No nursing positions in my county, either. And as my daughter’s intern experience showed, they’re using kids needing hours–and not paying them anything– for medical school applications in lieu of hiring LVNs. 😦
But don’t get me started on that subject . . .
Still exhausted from the weekend, but now headed off to teach on Heaven. I had a tremendously productive day yesterday and am totally unmotivated today! 🙂
But, with adorable grandchildren watch coming and a lot of disruption to the schedule the next 10 days, I need to stay the course and get my work done. After Thursday, there won’t be time to do any writing for awhile!
Ah, the glamorous life of a writer . . . not. 🙂
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Job markets change — especially as national health care systems undergo revisions.
roscuro, I will say your new PM is awfully cute. 🙂
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Lots of nurse jobs in Idaho.
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Robot nurses someday?
And reporter jobs, meanwhile, may go completely by the wayside someday …
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2015/10/8580048/robot-reporter-wordsmith-begins-its-advance
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“The Associated Press made waves last year with its decision to use a technology that generates articles about public companies’ quarterly earnings results as opposed to having reporters write such coverage.
“Now the company behind that technology is making a push for its software to be used more widely among a broader array of news organizations, as well as other types of companies. …”
_____________________
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Donna, he ain’t my type at all 😉 The awful suspicion though, is that was a deciding factor for many people (i.e. middle aged women). That and the fact that he is Pierre Eliot Trudeau’s son, who was elected Prime Minister four times in the 70’s and early 80’s, which was all before my time.
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Roscuro, I really appreciated the Psalm you shared on Facebook. Very reassuring and comforting this morning. I was feeling a little trepidatious last night as the results came in.
But, God is in control and for that I am very thankful.
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Karen, thank you. I put it up because it comforted me and reminded me of God’s power, and I thought it would help others, as I knew many of my dear friends and relatives would be feeling the way you do. I did a little (I was too tired to feel much), but I think the Lord put the verse into my mind this morning.
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They have an annual Wooly Worm Festival in Boone, NC
The festival is over and they read the stripes on the wooly worm to predict weather for the coming winter.
The Wooly Worm predicts that Western NC will have a cold and snowy winter.
Good skiing weather. The Wooly Worm always predicts good skiing conditions.
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So, KBells, I’m guessing that car I saw yesterday with the Alabama license plate way up here in the Upper Midwest wasn’t yours. 😉
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You just can’t never tell where you are going to run into a great Southern gal.
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This article may be of interest to those in PCA churches:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2015/october/exploring-evangelicalism-presbyterian-church-in-america.html?utm_source=edstetzer&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_term=14150006&utm_content=390424831&utm_campaign=2013
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Is the bird in the header a blue heron?
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Just because you never know who might know something you need to know…does anyone know anything about Irrigation Components International? I mean besides the fact that they got a new branch manager in Twin Falls, Idaho.
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I know nothing about Irrigation Components International. I did not know that they got a new branch manager in Twin Falls, Idaho.
But I am now wondering.
What does it matter that ICI in Twin Falls got a new branch manager?
Companies are always getting new branch managers.
Is Guy going there?
Is Kim going there?
Did they come out for Trump or Hillary?
Is their stock in the tank?
What is the issue here?
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Watching a colleague transforming from being a liberal to a conservative — he has the tenant from hell living in his late mom’s house, and now they won’t leave despite the lease being not renewed; it’s led to legal action, legal fees, the tenant/squatters have just appealed, accusing colleague of being essentially a “slumlord” which is ridiculous. The law is tipped in favor of tenants vs. landlords here. Not pretty.
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There are nursing jobs around here.
And might the new branch manager at ICI be Idaho Mike? (Or one of the former Nesters?
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AJ- I still need to know which game should be the tie breaker, since you won last week.
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You did realize you had been hacked, right Peter L?
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I have an interview tomorrow in their local office but as I was reading up on them I saw the press release for Idaho
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Connecticut, like California, but much smaller & on a different coast, also has high taxes, & an exodus of residents & businesses going on.
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For a while, Connecticut & California were going back & forth with the highest gas prices in the nation. I don’t know how we’re doing on that now. (Since I don’t drive, I don’t usually pay close attention to gas prices.)
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Our prices are low — $3.00+ — but it’s been suggested it won’t last
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Every time I went to see my daughter in Colorado last year the gas prices were a dollar lower there.
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I don’t suppose anyone else is racing to get 49 at 3am???!
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An even50.
Hi Jo.
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Hi Chas, we couldn’t leave it even now could we? 🙂
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