What a difference a day makes, yesterday I was streaming my favorite Houston news channel and seeing how people were preparing for tropical storm Harvey. Was a little worried that my particular part of town was forecasted to receive 10 to 12 inches of rain.
This morning the cone of uncertainty has changed and San Antonio and surrounding area look like a more likely target for Harvey. This is going to be a very rainy event and heavy flooding is likely. I bought an additional 32-gallon trash can but I think I should have bought two for my primitive rain catchment system.
Gasoline prices have gone down, took the opportunity to fill the tank at $2.02 per gallon for regular unleaded. While at Stripes I remembered that the Powerball lottery was around $700 million so for the first time in my life bought one. The clerk threw me for a loop when she asked if I wanted the $2 or the $3 ticket...perhaps I should have Googled it?
I used to buy the Texas lottery and it is in my budget but I seldom if ever purchase one. That one costs $1.00 or at least it used to. This morning I read that some lucky person or persons in Massachusetts held the winning ticket.
For three days in a row, we have been lucky enough not to have gone over the 100-degree mark. We had rain showers yesterday bringing the temperatures down to the eighties, a welcome reprieve.
Good night. May you all have Terlingua Dreams.
Terlingua Dreams
Governors Landing Campground - Lake Amistad - Del Rio, Texas
I bought a lottery ticket from a machine in a grocery store in Vancouver Washington, $700 million is an impossible number but it's worth $2 to have that chance. It's entertainment!
ReplyDeleteYesterday I spent $2.69 a gallon in Shelton WA, that was at an Indian Casino express station and at least ten cents cheaper than anywhere else. I saw regular gas at over $3/gallon.
It's good to see you posting more often Ms Belinda!
$700 million is too tempting an amount to ignore and though I am aware what the probabilities of winning are, you have to play to at least have a chance, remote as it may be to win.
DeleteHaving to pay over $3.00 a gallon would not sit well with me but we can't do without it and have to fork out for this second vital liquid. Hopefully prices will go down some more after the Labor Day weekend.
Yikes, Ms. B. With property across the state, I guess you stand to get walloped no matter which way Harvey goes. Fingers crossed the worst of it skirts through non-populated areas.
ReplyDeleteI'm about to go fill up my tank now after I stuff my freezer full of juice containers filled with water to make ice now in case the power goes out. Definitely not looking forward to having no electricity/AC in this heat.
Good luck & stay safe, everybody!
Stuffing juice, soda or water containers filled with water to make ice is definitively a very good idea. I used to do that when I was preparing for the Chili Cook-off but now I have incorporated into my daily life. Great for when I go grocery shopping in this heat or stuck in long lines crossing the border with parishables. It also helps when we have power outages, the last one we had lasted nine hours a few weeks ago.
DeleteOne thing about living in the Houston area is that they make sure we are prepared. I am more scared of tropical storms than I am of hurricanes due to the large amounts of precipitation they carry with them.
Stay alert and safe.
I sure hope you do well with all the rain I remember you said it comes in one of your windows. Yes I rarely bought a ticket when they were $1. when I heard they went up to $2. I never bought one. I saw the winning numbers I wouldn't even have had one. Gas here went back up to 2.05 after being 1.99 for the longest time.
ReplyDeleteJO, fortunalety we are not expecting a lot of rain "they" say we should not even receive half an inch, I am not holding my breath on that one.
Delete$2.05 is a good price for your area and $1.99 was even better, I figured you guys had to pay a lot more.