Gas Prices for Motor Vehicles, Upcoming Weekend

[helwen]

For those who drive and haven't had time to read about this, it's being guessed that gas prices will go up 15 cents over the weekend, in anticipation of Gustav and what damage the hurricane may do (oil rigs in the Gulf). It's gone up 1 cent since yesterday. Mind you, that would still be lower than it was earlier this summer. And of course if there is serious damage in the gulf and to more of the folks down that way, prices may go higher. Not that I don't think they'll go higher yet in the future, but let's get through the next week or so first....

We went down to Williamsburg this afternoon to make a bank deposit. I was mailing them for a while, but the post office lost a rather large deposit earlier this summer. As long as we can combine that trip with some other errands, I'm okay with driving to the bank. Otherwise, might look into certified mail to compare costs... may come a time when that's cheaper, strange as that might sound.

Harper's Retreat is out of the question for us, at least this year. Farmers market Saturday, work on the sugarhouse and surrounds as prep for Crestfallen, and just too far to travel after going to Pennsic. And I really do want to work on things around here now, rather than the day before the event!

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Might go to the Tri-County Fair in Northampton though.... we need to get in a grocery shopping trip that includes Dave's Soda and Pet Food City, which is in the same town. Haven't been to the fair in years so I'm a little curious as to how it's doing. Still, $10 admission per adult... well, I'll see if they have a web site with a schedule of activities. I got to see an oxen draw last weekend, so if we could maybe see a horse draw, and check out the youth exhibits. When I was a kid I used to enter stuff I'd made into the youth exhibits (yes, I still have my ribbons, somewhere...) and at least one year I was one of the participants in a karate demonstration put on by class members from the YMCA.

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Looking kind of gloomy outside, better go and bring in the laundry.

Comments

[gardengirl6.livejournal.com]

I used to exhibit at the Three County Fair, too! I loved it. After the Cummington Fair, I was very tempted to exhibit at the Three County, but the registration deadline had passed. Maybe next year....

Were you able to have the missing check replaced? That's a bother, but for a large enough check it'd be worthwhile. Otherwise I'd suggest doing as much banking as possible online, if you can.

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Multiple checks and unfortunately wasn't able to get any of them replaced -- info on a couple of them seems to have gone missing somewhere in the office. Very strange since I'm usually pretty consistent. I do bank online, but can't make deposits that way. Or do you mean having people pay me online? Unfortunately insurance companies and the gov't don't often work that way, and book order people don't either, because I refuse to do Paypal.

[gardengirl6.livejournal.com]

Hm. Why no paypal? It has served me very well, though less so more recently as their fees have skyrocketed. As far as security, it has been top notch.

Would you happen to know that children's ticket prices are for the Fair? Their site just says "online ticket sales have closed". Really flipping helpful, eh?

[helwen.livejournal.com]

I'm still handling book orders for a friend of mine and some of the orders come from outside the U.S. The fee for the monetary exchange is... a bit high, and I don't make much on the book orders as it is, especially for international orders.

He has the shipping & handling fee set at $5, which is barely enough to cover for U.S. orders and insufficient for international orders. Back when Priority Mail was cheaper, he figured they balanced each other out. Not so much nowadays. But since he'll be taking the business back later this year I haven't bothered to see about getting shipping raised. I probably should though, since Priority Mail went up again this summer, and orders seem to be picking up again. Anyway, once I'm no longer handling book orders I expect the number of checks I get to go down, so having to travel to the bank a few times per month isn't too bad.

Ticket prices for kids.... 11 and under is free I think (it's the 11 part I'm not quite sure of). 12-17 is $5, IIRC.