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How Rude!! You Interrupted Spring

I was unloading my truck tonight after working in Northern Alabama a couple of day and I was hit, yes hit, in the eye with a snow flake!!  Ok, no big deal North of the Ohio River, but how rude to deliver such a blow to us poor folks this far South.  I am ready for the warm weather to stay, now!!   The flowers are coming on and if it rains in the next couple of days, it will be mower time as well.   I immediately went inside and stayed there so I would not be accosted by the flying flakes.   I think I pouted a little.

A couple weeks ago I picked up my 2014 Silverado truck that is my work vehicle that is sponsored by Buckman- a great perk when they pay for all the bills associated with the vehicle.   I had a 2004 Volvo S 80 that I gifted this week to an organization that auctions autos and uses the proceeds to promote sight and blindness issues. Somebody is going to get a great car.  The gifting is a  really easy to get rid of them quick.   Sign the title and bye bye.   So, Linda and I neither one own a car now !!   She wants a Thunderbird, so do I, but we need a garage first and that is a year or two down the road.  So we drive the fleet stuff, we do get to pick the colors!!

  I do not know any other families that are in this sort of an arrangement, it is a great way not to spend money on transportation.   Also,  part of the fleet vehicle deal is using commercial license plates.   I guess I will have to retire the TISSUE for a few years until we get something else that needs a plate.
 

 
 


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