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Old Nov 30, 2014 | 10:53 AM
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Well today we lay my papa to rest, this will be extremely hard on my grandma (they had been married 54 years) and the rest of our family.
 
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Old Dec 2, 2014 | 09:07 AM
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Life has too few guarantee's and death is the hardest to deal with.
Your family continues to be in our thoughts n prayers.
 
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Old Dec 2, 2014 | 09:10 AM
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Light Show

We have finally received our replacement light controller and it's a good one. We had a few more trips for more lights and extension cords, and have been officially told "We have enough lights", guess who made that decision, yup, wifey...
But we do finally have a nice Christmas light show, to music, and working on more music daily, and adding more to the show every couple of day's.
Hope everybody is doing well.
 
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Old Dec 2, 2014 | 09:25 AM
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No more lighted decorations for me since Duke Energy felt they needed another increase two years ago. Bows, wreaths, garland, Reindeer, and Santa adorn the outside of our house. Duke can find someone else to help pay my brothers 6 figure salary ..LOL ...
 
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Old Dec 2, 2014 | 02:17 PM
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We haven't got a single decoration, strand of lights, or tree. Not sure if we will either.
 
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Old Dec 6, 2014 | 02:42 PM
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Loss of MPG

WOW is it quiet here...


I've noticed a drop in the fuel mileage on my 2011 F150. I've always gotten at least 16.5 mpg with a mix of mostly city, and some hiway driving.
Now I'm getting 14.8 mpg and the only thing that I know of that is different is our fuel prices are steadily falling, and I'm still buying 87 octane, that Ford recommends for my truck.
Has anybody else noticed a drop in mileage, I'm really wondering if our fuel is being played with...
 
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Old Dec 6, 2014 | 03:04 PM
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Do you guys get a winter blend fuel?
 
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Old Dec 6, 2014 | 05:27 PM
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I have NO idea, but another guy in the 2009 chapter mentioned the same thing. I need to find out.
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Old Dec 6, 2014 | 05:39 PM
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I'd assume you do, usually results in a 10% loss of economy. Do you guys have emissions testing there?
 
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Old Dec 6, 2014 | 06:44 PM
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Yes we have emissions, I noticed about a 3mpg drop on the bike and the wife did on the car. I've always noticed a drop with cooler Temps.

New plugs and cleaned the K&N filter and got about a 3mpg increase in mileage. Hope when it warms that my mileage will be even better!
 
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Old Dec 6, 2014 | 08:34 PM
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I've always heard that we use winter gas here. I also remember a lot of complaints in November and December about mileage when I worked in the dealership. But that's not a guarantee.

Hope everyone enjoyed their turkeys! I've still got too much left over. Good lesson on getting a smaller turkey next year. But this was my first one cooking at home so I had to go big.
 
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Old Dec 7, 2014 | 04:51 AM
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48 out of 100 NC counties have emissions testing.
 
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Old Dec 9, 2014 | 04:02 PM
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48 out of 100 NC counties have emissions testing.
Still a few counties holding out? lucky buggers...
 
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Old Dec 10, 2014 | 04:37 PM
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Getting ready to head out to our company Christmas party at Morgan's Tavern in newbern. Time to order a nice big juicy steak!
 
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Old Dec 11, 2014 | 09:27 AM
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Nothing wrong with a nice Steak.
Be safe
 
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