Breezy saturday.

Strange weather indeed for May. Lot of wind, looks like we will have to get used to that Snow of all varieties and size yesterday, cleared overnight then winds from NW gusting to 99 clicks early to 65 to high 80’s rest of day.
The roads are rutted with ice and gravel all mixed, there is one cut up our road but the roads closer to ‘down town' are fairly clear.
Some geese around, depending where you go seems to depend on if you get any.
Heard that the ponds and rivers are still frozen north of here, with the winter we had most people were expecting things to open up by this. Could be with wind chills in the -18 range they could be freezing again.

The CCPA has a good little tool to see how much people are being gauged at the gas pump. Thing is this has been going on for years and people still buy the stuff, don’t down grade in size of vehicles [not overall] and no one is willing to deal with the issue in a way that it will make a difference.
I have the St. John’s price and the Goose Bay price here. The price in Nain is .04 cents a liter cheaper than GB at the moment, only due to the price freeze over winter. Big old shock when it goes up in a month, it’s usually at least 20 cents more.

I’m no bleeding heart on the sleeve lefty pinko, I do use less gas than most people, but then I like to travel. Can’t see myself dog sledding or kayaking to Goose Bay to get a bus to Montreal, no busses any way. But some hard choices will have to be made soon by government and the proletariat.

Example of how individual choices are not working. Noticed at the Northern store this morning some typed notices lying around from the NG Department of Health and Social Development. The notice was an appeal for people to cut down on the use of plastic bags, suggesting people bring there own cloth bags or back packs. So the staff are putting everything in plastic bags even before you can get to say, NO, I have my own bag. The staff at the check out are only casual so you have to give then a break, but it just goes to show that people have to pay more attention and work at this environmental change thingy. Maybe more time and education, but at moment I thing the big stick approach will move things along quicker, then you can put the big stick away.