Sign Of Bad Times

High gas prices drive farmer to switch to mules

MCMINNVILLE, Tenn. - High gas prices have driven a Warren County farmer and his sons to hitch a tractor rake to a pair of mules to gather hay from their fields.

T.R. Raymond bought Dolly and Molly at the Dixon mule sale last year. Son Danny Raymond trained them and also modified the tractor rake so the mules could pull it.

T.R. Raymond says the mules are slower than a petroleum-powered tractor, but there are benefits.

"This fuel's so high, you can't afford it," he said. "We can feed these mules cheaper than we can buy fuel. That's the truth."

And Danny Raymond says he just likes using the mules around the farm.

"We've been using them quite a bit," he said.

Brother Robert Raymond added, "It's the way of the future."



How do you feel today?



A lot of people getting laid off, a lot of small businesses with no business, a lot of foreclosures, sky high prices for gas, food, clothing, and the basic necessities.

Retirement funds gone, overwhelming medical bills - these are just a few reasons for depression.

de·pres·sion
Function: noun
an act of depressing or a state of being depressed: as a: a pressing down : lowering

b (1): a state of feeling sad : dejection

(2): a psychoneurotic or psychotic disorder marked especially by sadness, inactivity, difficulty in thinking and concentration, a significant increase or decrease in appetite and time spent sleeping, feelings of dejection and hopelessness, and sometimes suicidal tendencies

c (1): a reduction in activity, amount, quality, or force

(2): a lowering of vitality or functional activity

(3): a depressed place or part : hollow

(4): low

(5): a period of low general economic activity marked especially by rising levels of unemployment

So in today's time when you pick up the paper you will read about more and more people, even some you may know, giving it all up

and letting the pin hit the shell.


Keep in mind, should they be careless and you go visit them at the hospital but are worried about having your cell phone at the hospital,

it is OK.

Cell Phone Myth Explained:

Cell phones interfere with hospital equipment.

Cell signals disrupt hospital equipment and can kill patients.



True or false? False.
Many uniformed people have claimed that the radio frequency signals from phones somehow screw up medical technology in hospitals, so it's unsafe to use your phone in any of these settings.
Even some hospitals have cell phone bans as a way to avoid this potentially life-threatening scenario, but thanks to a study by the Mayo Clinic, this was proved to be completely untrue.

300 tests using two cell phones, four carriers, and 192 medical devices were conducted at the clinic's Rochester campus over five months and not one problem occurred.

The study even recommended that hospitals lift their bans, so you can forget about this one.

Just in case your weren't aware.