JSS: Vacations Sure Go Fast-- Gas Gouge-- Flooding

JSS--  Just Some Stuff

1.  VACATIONS SURE GO FAST--  We just got back from a sixteen day vacation to Panama City Beach in Florida.  It was two, well three, days down and two days back.  We were there by Feb. 2 and I was thinking, "Wow, we have eleven more days to go."  Then, suddenly it was time to leave.  Wouldn't it be nice if vacations lasted longer.

Well, for that matter,  every day goes real fast when you're retired.  Hey, we're almost through two months of this new year.  Didn't it just begin?

2.  GAS GOUGE--  Our local Fox Lake, Illinois, gas stations pulled their monthly gas gouge earlier this week.  Monday, I filled up one car for $2.30.  Tuesday that  station had gas for $2.60.  Because they can.

3.  FLOODING--  Since we got home northern Illinois has sure entered the monsoon season.  It has rained and rained.  Thankfully, though, it was rain and not snow.  Had it been snow we would have had at least 16-22 inches.  The warm weather melted around eight inches of snow already on the ground and then all that rain as well as frozen lakes and rivers and all that rain, there was no where for the water to go so we had a lot of flooding, but nothing too serious.

--RoadDog