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Skriven 2009-02-27 15:53:10 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 21309 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
Ärende: Basey-ball                                               [1]
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Hi Hap,

->  hn> Yep, that's me alright! No money to speak of
->  hn> on either Anne's or my side anymore...so we're
->  hn> just going to have to resign ourselves to the
->  hn> status quo. (grin) Which ain't so bad most days!

-> Yes, I know. We'll never be gazillionaires but we're so much richer in
-> other ways.

 hn> Amen and AMEN!!

We've always had food on the table (even if it was soybeans), clothes on
our back and a roof over our heads.  Can't get better than that.

->  hn> Got a surprise check in the mail a couple of days
->  hn> ago...seems one of my stocks has been bought

-> Nice!  In 2007, my mom got a nice settlement from a stock that had split
-> and resplit over a good numbr of years, the company bought out, buyer
-> bought out several times, etc. It was originally one of the firms my
-> grandfather had bought stock in years ago & he passed away 51 years
 hn> ago.

 hn> It's nice to have these little windfalls every
 hn> once in a while...but this is money I'd already
 hn> put aside to work for me....now it's doing
 hn> nothing till I reinvest it!

But it's nice to know you have it to reinvest.  Stock in a fast food
place?

->  hn> we have to figure out what to do with it.
->  hn> I'm thinking of another stock, maybe Ford motors
->  hn> like Unka Dave. We can get a pretty good number
->  hn> of shares and if the price goes up we benefit.

-> Yes but after having some problems with our Ford recently, I'd be a bit
-> hesitant to go with them.  Figured our car is either a Monday pm or
-> in it) from what's had to be fixed over the not quite 3 years we've had
-> it.  Extended warrantee gives us a rental if ours is in the shop over
-> night tho.  This time we had trouble with the air bag sensor on the
-> passenger side; the shop had to call Ford to get the "fix" for it.

 hn> I have a friend who's having lots of
 hn> problems with his Prius...and that's
 hn> supposed to be one of the most
 hn> reliable ones on the road today.
 hn> Never can tell about cars! (grin)

Yes; we thought ours was fixed and dog gone light came on again Wed.
night. This morning they gave Steve another 07 Focus to see if we could
get it to "trigger" the same reaction.  I've not ridden in it yet so
keep tuned for the latest.............

Regarding the Prius--some friends got one in 2000.  It had it's share of
problems in the early years, don't know how it's behaved in the last 4
or so.  They were in AZ, then HI with us but left in 05.

->  hn> anyday! Mostly we keep our snow in the
->  hn> mountains where it behaves itself quite
->  hn> nicely thank you!

-> But occaisonally you get storms like you had Christmas time.  Those are
-> ones where you hope you have a good supply of canned gooed,, a freezer
-> full of stuff and the pantry full.  Also hope that the power stays on so
-> you can cook. (G)

 hn> We infact had snow this morning...snowed during the night
 hn> and we had about 2" on the car when Anne went
 hn> to school...it had melted by 10 am and the high
 hn> for the day was about 45 I think.

There's a possiblility we'll have some snow Sunday night, with a Monday
high of 48.

->  hn> We tend to keep our house cool. 60 at night
->  hn> and when Anne gets up in the morning I turn
->  hn> it up to 70 while she showers and gets ready for

-> Ours is supposed to stay at about 72 but the thermometer we get shows
 hn> an
-> actual reading of 69 quite often in the winter.  I'll wear a couple of
-> layers, adding more if needs be, to keep warm.  Depends on how busy I
-> am.

 hn> I'm quite comfy at 65-70 with out any
 hn> jackets or such.

My blood is stil thinned out from HI. (G)

->  hn> I've always liked baseball, played it as a kid
->  hn> year round. I almost always had a baseball glove
->  hn> with me...even when I was riding bikes a lot!

-> Ever want to play on one of these teams set up to give guys like you a
-> major league experience?

 hn> I've thought about it...but all that
 hn> would happen now is that I'd hurt myself!

That's probably true of most of those guys but they still do it.  And
don't get paid for it either; they pay to do it.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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