Saturday's Old Photo

As promised, here’s the photo of my Grandpa Vogt dressed up for Pioneer Days. I think he grew the goatee just for this occasion. I have this hung on my dining room wall, along with the photo from last week. This picture, like the previous one, was probably shot in the sixties.

Unfortunately, when the kids were little, one of them touched this photo with a very dirty finger and that bit of our family history is there for you to see, too.

My Desktop Photo 6: Finally, Spring in Real Life

Photo by Andrew Stark 

Gas Up: May 8

No need to take a new photo for me, because gas costs exactly the same this week as last—$1.359/litre or $5.14/gallon.

Other gas price reports
Rey gives us a breakdown of the gas prices he encountered last weekend in New York City, New Jersey and Pennsylvania:

• PA (where I live) $3.69 a gallon
  
• NJ (Family Stop A) $3.47 a gallon
• NJ (Refuel before entering NYC) $3.58 a gallon
• NYC (Family Stop B: NYC and where I refused to refuel) $3.89 a gallon
• NJ (Refuel before leaving NJ) $3.49 a gallon
  

Violet gives her report from Langley, BC where what you see is not necessarily what you get.

 

What about you? Up, down, or the same? 

 

Update on Friday, May 9, 2008 at 7:48AM by rebecca

• Candy is paying $3.75/gallon and she blames the Californians.
• See what Dorothy is paying this week in Crystal Lake, IL.

Dorothy says she was getting an error message when tried to comment here. The comments are working for me now, but if you have trouble, too, will you send me an email letting me know?

Update on Friday, May 9, 2008 at 10:32AM by rebecca

From threegirldad, who lives somewhere in the world in Kansas.

Well, prices here shot up almost 20 cents a couple of days ago, so it’s now between $3.50 and $3.55. And to think that I can remember my dad pulling into a full-service station, and paying 19 or 20 cents a gallon for someone else to pump the gas — as well as clean the windshield and check the oil. Wow…

I remember 19¢ gas, too. And penny candy.

Update on Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 9:11AM by rebecca

Missm gives us a link to an article in The Sydney Morning Herald about gas prices in her part of the world.

Update on Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 9:29PM by rebecca

• Elaine has posted a photo of the gas prices in her little corner of Northern Ireland. Remember, the price listed is in £, not $. (And it’s per litre, not gallon.)
• threegirldad came back to report that gas in his neck of the plains (Kansas) has gone up another 10¢ since Thursday, so now it’s $3.65 per gallon.
• Gas at my little neighbourhood station went up since Thursday, too, by two cents a litre. That means there’ll be a new photo this coming week.