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Watch out world! If you live up this way, better be on the look out for UFO's. The baby boy turned 15 last week, and now he has a driving learners permit. I just can't believe it.

And news from the financial world. I was planing on venturing out early next Friday morning and brave the rush at Wally World. They have a great deal on an HP laptop, but it is one of those door busters that you have to go in early (before 5 am) and get in line for. But, I guess not now, unless someone wants to loan me the $500. My credit card has been canceled. Yesterday, I got a call from the card company saying 29 cents had been charged to my credit card, did I buy something for 29 cents? Well, no. I might charge $500 but I think I can pay cash for 29 cent items. So, someone must have gotten my card number someway, and they canceled my card. I will get another one, but probably not by next Friday. I couldn't understand why they tried to charge 29 cents, but Lisa tells me that sometimes her cards get that when she is making online purchases. It is the store's way of testing the card to see if it was good. Well, it was good, but it is not now. At one time I had several credit cards, but now we only have two, so I guess someone did me a real favor and saved me $500 with a 29 cent charge. Cause, you know, when they tell you buy this and save $$$, they are lying. Really when you buy you spend.

Unless you are husband. He told me this evening that he went to town today and did not spend a cent. So, I asked why he went to town, as usually the reason is he needs to buy something. He said he got dog food. I asked if he stole the dog food since he did not buy it. He said no, he got it at Evans feed store. This local feed store is still like it was when we were kids. You go in, get something, and say put it on my bill. Or, you can call and tell them to set it out on the dock and you will be in after they close to pick it up. And, they have never, ever, ever sent us a bill. Which is a problem when you only charge things once in a blue moon. Sometimes we forget we owe a bill there. I think we went 6 months once owning them $20 or so for corn because we had forgotten we had bought anything. Still, we did not get a bill. Eventually, we went in and charged something else. When we went to pay for something else, the corn was on there also. That is what you get when you live in the sticks.

So, George charged the dog food, which he says means he did not spend any money and he did not buy anything. New math.

And Sister up the road has the crime beat. Today as I talked with her on the phone, she told me a relative of her husband had died. I said I did not know that, but I had read in the paper a month or so ago about this relatives son dying. She said, no he did not die. I said, I read it in the paper. Sister said this cousin's son was in a little trouble with the law concerning a self-authorized prescription for pain meds. It had been some time since his run in with the law and he had not heard what they had planned for him. He came up with a plan. He called the newspaper and placed an obituary for himself. I am guessing he give them a name other than his own as the caller. When his self-authorized obituary ran in the paper, his aunt that lived only a few houses from him (not Sister), called the law to inquire what had happened to her nephew. They did not know. She told them it was in the paper that he died. I am thinking the moral of this story is, if you are going to pretend to die, you might want to let close relatives in on the secret.

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