Wayne Medley’s Blog

I have been working all week with no air conditioning in the truck, and it has got very hot and humid this week. As much as I get in and out of the truck it would not help a lot to have working air conditioning but it is something that I want. So the first of the week I plan to put the Tahoe in the shop to get the air conditioning fixed and that means I will have to drive the big van and I will not like that very much it has no air conditioning either and it is a mess to drive in traffic it is so big, but I will manage I always do.

As every day passes I am closer and closer to needing a new truck, I have about driven the wheels of the Mazda and will be needing a new work truck soon. I know what I want it is just getting the money together and going down to the dealer and picking out what we want. I want a new Ford pickup and my wife wants a car so the battle is heating up and we shall see who wins this battle of wills. I have to say I really like the new Lincoln MKZ it is very sharp and if she is leaning that way I can be drug along for the ride.

Today the price of a barrel of crude oil dropped to $47 it has not been this low in many years and I hope the pump price of gasoline keeps falling too. It is now at a level where I can make some extra money and not have to pay an arm and a leg to fill up my gas tank. I filled up the Tahoe and it only cost me $30 a few weeks ago it was very close to $100 every time I filled it up and that about drove me to drink. I was not going to drink gasoline either. Let us hope it stays down under $2.00 a gallon and I can get ahead for a change.

In spots around Nashville the price of gasoline is under $2.00 a gallon, if you had said a month ago that the price of gasoline would drop that much and as fast as it has dropped I would of called you crazy and at that time I would of been right too. I paid $2.24 last night for gasoline in Franklin and that seemed cheap to me until I noticed on Gas Buddy that the price was under $2.00 in a couple of places. I checked in Oklahoma City who are normally a month ahead of us in price and it is $1.91 there, let us hope it gets that low here soon, that will help the gasoline budget for this rest of this year.

Sunday morning my daughter wrecked her car while at work and I spent the bulk of my Sunday sitting in the Emergency Room with her. I think she destroyed her car and will be out of work for a while, since she needs her car to do her delivery job. I am very glad that my Grandson was not with her, he was at home and that was a good thing.

I just talked to her and she is sore but is going to be ok in a few days. People are hurt in car accidents every day and I am very glad that I have been very lucky and not involved in any accident for a long time, I drive safely and watch where I am going and I avoid red cars as much as I can. Of course my daughters car was red.