Weekly Chat Thread February 28th - March 6th

[sunsetpainter]

The gas stations in our town hit $3.99 yesterday. No price wars here, they are always all the same price.

[val2525]

We're also getting into the part of the year where refineries have a partial slow down of production so they can switch from making winter fuel formulas to summer formulas. That always causes a bit of a spike March-April because of increased demand (spring break etc) and reduced supply. Gas always goes up and down. I've learned to live with it. Although, I will say that the last time I remember filling up my car at less than $1/gal was in 1986, when I had just moved to Dallas and was filling up my car for the first time in Dallas. I have no idea why it stuck with me, but I can still picture the gas station even

[staytuned]

I just saw a Shell station about 10 miles from me jacked up it's price of regular to $4.50 gallon. That's a new record for probably the entire state of Ohio.

I still remember when I got my driver's license in 1975 gas was around 23¢ gallon and $8 to fill up a huge gas tank was expensive. And you sure didn't get many miles to the gallon, either.

[chapeaunoir]

staytuned - there's no reason NOT to sign up for medicare when you turn 65 - I did and the DH has health insurance through his job. It costs nothing and is easy to do. It's the Medicare plan B that you'll not need for now.

My running friend and I did our run today - he actually put in his miles for his virtual Ukraine run yesterday and also ran a half marathon. Today he ran the 15K Hot Chocolate run and I ran 5 miles with him for my Ukraine mileage. So far the running club has raised over $24,000. It started out dark and gray but suddenly cleared up and is in the low 50s!

[labbypaws]

Since many of us are older or getting older, I follow 2 groups on Facebook.

One is a Medicare Benefits Group but they also have plenty of Medicare info: www.facebook.com/groups/508122746351903

The second is a SS Group: www.facebook.com/groups/428684237572614

You can learn all kinds of things from both groups.

[blissfullymiserable]

That's good info Labby, it's a ways off here but will come around faster than I'd like.

It's spring break but our weather won't be all that springy. High is supposed to be 67 today but right now it's 43. 80's next weekend, or so they say.