When we got back into town on Friday, we noticed lots of busier-than-usual gas stations, as well as a bunch of places with bags over the pumps that were sold out. Not as frantic as when Katrina hit, but disconcerting nonetheless. We both had nearly a full tank of gas, so we decided to wait this one out a bit. I noticed a bit less of a rush on Saturday, and more so today. One of the places that was out on Friday has gas again. So I'm hoping things calm down a bit soon. Of course, we were paying closer to $5 a gallon last week in Canada.
In other news, Bad Kitty has been hanging around again. We've noticed him hanging out under a tree in the front yard a bit, and Greg has said he's seen him under our cars. But today he's in the garage. And he totally gets that the door from the garage goes into the house. He was trying to make a break for it when I was bringing groceries in earlier, and now Greg's out mowing the lawn, and sure enough Bad Kitty is back in the garage. We've tried to rationally explain to Bad Kitty that our kitties simply are not on the market.
Mostly just trying to catch up around here this weekend. Lots of laundry, lots of attempts at cleaning up. Ooooh, and Alton Brown's pot roast is in the crock pot now, minus the olives and raisins, of course.
2 comments:
The gas price gouging is ridiculous, ins't it? Our friend paid $5/gal on Friday in Columbia, SC. That's over $1 increase in price before the hurricane hit the coast and could even effect supply.
I'm a big fan of Alton Brown's, too. We regularly use his red meat marinade for grilling. Delicious!
Regional differences are weird, it's up maybe $0.10 here in Dallas. I had Nanditha fill up on Friday when I heard about the higher prices in the southeast, but it never hit here. Just speculation that it would be bad pushed the wholesale prices up in your area. Still cheap at $5/gal :-).
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Better higher prices than no gas at all. Gives us incentive to use less and leave the supply for folks who really need it in emergencies.
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