Our gas prices hit $4.05/gallon yesterday. Last week Governor Snyder declared an Energy Emergency for the Upper Peninsula because of a fuel line shut down in Wisconsin. The problem was repaired by the end of the week, but our fuel prices have gone up more than 50 cents a gallon since Monday. Hannah and I didn’t find any appealing pig books to continue our Summer of Swine, so we returned to a classic The World ofread more…
It is Monday, April 16, 2012. In Massachusetts and Maine it is Patriots’/Patriot’s Day (respectively … the two states spell it differently). In Washington DC, it is Emancipation Day. Bostonians know it as Marathon Day. In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan it is just another winter day. Currently it is 28 degrees with a windchill of 14 … snowflakes have been falling while the wind gusts to 40mph. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was photographed drinkingread more…
On Friday afternoon our gas prices reached $3.99 (and 9/10ths!) per gallon for regular unleaded. That’s about 50 cents higher than two weeks ago. I don’t know if they’ve gone up more as I haven’t seen a gas station since Friday. It is going to be very difficult for average Americans to handle these rising gas prices and continue to survive financially. While things look rosier on Wall Street and they declared the recession over aread more…
Our gas prices have gone up 20 cents in the last 2 days (not sure about this morning yet). Looks like it may be time to pull out the Magic Snow Globe. The Oscars are this weekend. I haven’t seen a movie in a theater since 2007 or 2008 (it was Horton Hears a Who). A grandmother and step mother in Alabama have been charged in the death of a 9 year old girl. She ateread more…
They announced that our gas prices were going up yesterday so I alerted my husband to purchase gas first thing in the morning. A couple of hours after he filled the tank, gas prices went down. Last weekend our Sussex Spaniel and Basset Hound (Nell & Sophie) had a short-lived adventure. I arrived home from work and since it was a nice day I let the dogs outside not knowing that my husband had been workingread more…
