My Favorite Blank

The winter rains have been a welcomed sight for the people in North Georgia and most of the Southern States. We have been in a severe drought and you have to go back to the 1950’s to see one as bad as the one we have now. Our rain still isn’t falling in buckets yet and we really need some gulley washers to help the watertable, streams, creeks, rivers and lakes in our area.

The bad part of our drought is forecasted for this fall. We are expecting below normal rainfall for the spring and summer months. The late summer and early fall has always been pretty dry for us. Sometimes hurricanes will stir up in the Gulf during the fall time and if they track through Alabama and push over to the east, we usually can depend on some tropical moisture for fall rains. So as bad as it seems to be rooting for a hurricane to come ashore along the panhandle of Florida; it is something we could greatly benefit from. Gas prices might soar, but we expect that to hit this summer before our water becomes a crisis in the fall. The more days that pass with no rainfall in our area, is the more likelihood of people having to do without water. It’s a very real scene for our area and the only thing that will help now, is more rain!

I like going to all the flea markets and yard sales to look for my sports cards I collect. I have found some real good bargains and you never know what you might find at some of these places. I like to buy things that might worth a lot of money down the road. I watch the Antiques Roadshow that comes on television and its fun seeing what some of those things are worth. It seems most people like to bring in furniture to get appraised by the professionals being showcased on the Antiques Roadshow. You hear a lot of stories how this very valuable piece of furniture was purchased at a flea market for dirt cheap. If you can buy a piece of furniture for a few bucks at a flea market and see that it is worth thousands of dollars today; that is what I call discount furniture! You hear other stories with dishes or maybe a painting that someone bought at a flea market and is now worth a lot of money. It seems most was just buying the item because they liked it. I’m sure the people purchasing these valuable pieces of furniture at the flea markets, are planning to use it in their home. Most wouldn’t have the knowledge or trained eyes to see these diamonds in the rough and that’s probably the reason you can still go out today and pick up the next piece of furniture or painting that could pay for a kid’s college education. So the next time you pick up an antique at a flea market, try to do some research on it and make sure it’s not worth more than the few dollars you spent for it.

A lot of businesses fail these days, because they don’t calculate all the costs that might come up they weren’t expecting. You never know when something will break or need a repair and before you turn on the “open” sign; be sure you have a lot of cash on hand to quickly fix anything that might get broken. You might start your business off with only 1 phone line and with one phone number. As things pick up you might need extra cash to upgrade the phone system for your business. If you don’t upgrade to the small business phone systems; you could be losing out on money that your company could be potentially making. So something as simple as a few extra phones might not be in the budget for some companies just starting out.

You will constantly want to have the latest technology and best employees working for your new business and you want to make sure there is extra money around to spread to these areas too. You can think for years of all the things that might happen and make sure you have the cash flow to take care of it, but chances are something will happen that you weren’t expecting. It’s the unexpected costs that cause so many new businesses to struggle or eventually fail. You can never have enough extra cash laying around once your business is given the green light to open for business. So figure how much extra cash you think you will need and see how close you can try doubling that number. If you can double your expected cost, you should have enough for the unexpected cost. Good luck to anyone that is just on the verge of opening up their new business!

I haven’t heard anything lately from Travis Tritt and was wondering what he is up to these days. If you know anything about the counrty singer Travis Tritt; then please be sure to leave a reply. I like a lot of Travis Tritt songs and he is from Georgia which is another plus for him!

Tell Me I Was Dreaming

Do you have any favorite songs by Travis Tritt? He has a lot of really good songs. Here’s A Quarter might be the one he is best known for. You can hear him on this YouTube video of the song that he said got it all started for him.

Song That Made Travis Tritt?

I also like that song Anymore by Travis Tritt. Some other songs you might of heard before are T-R-O-U-B-L-E, The Whiskey Ain’t Working Anymore, Put Some Drive In Your Country, Where the Corn Don’t Grow, Best Intentions, Foolish Pride and Drift Off To Dream.

I just wasn’t aware of anything new he might have done or any new albums that might be coming out from this country music superstar. So any Travis Tritt news you might have, be sure to pass it along!