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Got a nice card from an old friend today, Lindsay. She apologized for being late with the cards but she has had a lot going on at her house, so she wrote a nice long letter and enclosed it with the card.

Her husband was on his way home from work a couple of weeks before Christmas and some woman with two little kids on the car ran a stop sign and broadsided him. He has been in the hospital in traction since the accident. To top it all off, the woman who hit him did not have insurance.Of course, his car was totalled. Thankfully he was driving a big Mercury or his injuries could have been a lot worse.

I feel really bad for Lindsay and her family. Just when you least expect it, something catastrophic like this happens and your whole world grinds to a halt. Of curse, she is lucky that no one was killed. But that is small comfort when your husband is lying in a hospital bed and not able to work for an unknown length of time.

If you have had your car insurance for a whole year, it’s time to shop for the best rates. There is no reward for keeping your insurance with the same company, year after year. When you have a problem and are a long time customer, you do not get extra consideration for having been a long time customer. You have a problem – they don’t like you anymore. Shop around for the best rates and make them earn their money!

Got a knock on the door about my old car sitting in the back of the house. You can see it from the street if you are looking real hard. But most people drive by my house so fast they don’t notice anything in my back yard. so it creeps me out to think someone was driving so slow down my street and looking for stuff in people’s backyards.

So this guy wanted to know if I was interested in selling my old car. And I’m not really interested. If I can scrape together an extra $2,500 I want to get the transmission repaired and drive it again. So I told him no and made sure he drove off and didn’t linger. Now that I think of it, I’m going to put a flood light with a motion detector on the corner of the roof. I would not be surprised if this guy comes back later an night to do something evil.

Walked my dog and noticed a strange sound in the sky. Now, I live pretty close to the big airport and hear jets all the time. But this sound was different. So I looked up and saw this weird plane hovering overhead, then it shot off and disappeared. No, I’m not talking about an alien ship. I’m just saying, this was no Southwest Airline jet. This was a military plane, an Osprey. They are like a combination jet and helicopter.

So, next thing I know, there comes another, but this one doesn’t hover over my house, it just goes streaking across the sky. And then three more follow along pretty close to it. So that was pretty cool. I’ve never seen that before.