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This is a pretty old story, but the ending is so good I just have to pass it along. A week ago Sunday it snowed. I couldn’t tell if the city had plowed the street, but I could see Jack Kadolph had been here and cleared out the driveway. Before I could go out to check, the phone rang. It was Jackie calling from Florida, and she had heard about the snow. She just wanted to warn me about going out to shovel.

In a few minutes she called again to say not to shovel, Stephanie would come and do it for me. So I thought, I can wait. Well then the late February sun got in the act and by the time Stephanie came the walk was clear. I thought about going out and shoveling some on the walk so her trip wouldn’t be wasted. But I didn’t think too hard. She had to work it in between working, taking Jackson to therapy and picking up Saylor. It wasn’t a wasted trip as she had brought along some freshly made ginger snaps, which she knows I can’t resist. I had gotten a new supply from Sue on Sunday so I just increased my consumption a bit and hopefully all will be well.

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While our cold spell has left and we are enjoying some nice sunny weather, the bad weather in the south is still showing some effects.

Yesterday I finally got a newspaper from Port Aransas. It was dated Feb. 11 and the picture on the front page made me chuckle a bit. It showed a group of people with their dogs, walking along the beach. The caption for it said they were enjoying some good chamber of commerce weather. Then they added, “Highs over the next six days are forecast to range in the mid-40s and 50s, with lows dropping into the 30s and 40s. If you don’t like that, don’t worry. This is Texas. It won’t last long.”

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I must have Texas on my mind as I had planned to write about a television show I watch a lot. In fact, it is on right now. It is on the Planet Earth channel and called, “Lone Star Law”. It is all about the game wardens in Texas.

There is one similar to it too, called North Woods Law and it is about game wardens in New Hampshire.

I prefer the Texas show as it often shows scenes from Port Aransas and other coastal communities.

I don’t understand the land ownership policy there, but it looks to me like the land is divided into some real small sections and it is illegal to be on someone else’s land. And there seems to be a surplus of deer roaming the area and some are shot just for the fun of it, or shot on someone else’s land.

The wardens have a tough job as they are often dealing with fishermen from Mexico who don’t understand the language. This is especially true in the coastal waters.

Then there is such a variety of fish, crabs, shrimp, oysters and other water creatures. Oftentimes seasons will be closed on some and then you have a size limit on some so if they are too big you can’t take them.

The amazing thing I noticed, as I watch, is the amount of fishermen who are apprehended who have no fishing license. Some don’t even have a driver’s license. When asked, some kind of act like, why would I need one of those things?

I would see an occasional warden checking things out along the ship channel jetty at Port Aransas. Bob Loos fished a lot and I’ll have to ask if they have ever checked him.

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I don’t know who to blame for this, but I’m sure it has been passed along a time or two or it wouldn’t have shown up on Facebook. Seems the circus is having trouble hiring clowns. Most of them have gone into politics.

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One of the big controversies out there right now seems to be the price of gasoline. Seems like it is continually on the increase and not a little now and then, but a dime at a time.

It is nothing new. People paid attention back in the fifties when I was pumping it and getting a little over twenty cents a gallon and that included the tax. I remember the day when gas hit a dollar a gallon and some people were going to quit driving, they said.

Some people like to blame the increase on our new president, but as I tried to look it up this afternoon there is more to it than that. The big issue seems to be the pipeline in the Dakotas. However, that oil is never used in the United States. Something about that the refineries don’t like it. That oil right now makes its way from the oil fields in the Dakotas and Canada by truck and train to the Gulf of Mexico where it is shipped to China.

When the pipeline was first started, President Obama put a stop to it as for one thing it would cross through some sacred Indian grounds. As in the past we kind of pushed them aside and did what we wanted to. Like I said, President Obama put a stop to it, but the next guy said alright and work started again. Now President Biden stopped it again.

One thing I don’t understand is why the pipeline was only going to Illinois? How is it supposed to get to the Gulf of Mexico from there?

As for gas prices in ‘17 and ‘18, the price per gallon was getting up close to $3.00 a gallon, but then started coming back down.

I doubt our presidents ever have much to do with oil prices. A week ago, when I went to Holmen to visit Sue, I had a chance to check prices going down and back. I ended up in Neillsville and saved 14 cents a gallon.

I doubt the president made a special trip just to Neillsville to cut the price.

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