The warm fog-less spell is most welcome. Almost balmy like, a nice breeze keeps the flies at bay. It has been up to 20 at the house, 17 and 18 official.

Friday night saw the belated Canada Day fireworks. It seemed to me to be the best coordinated fire works display put on to date. The finale was especially colorful and prolonged.

A barge loaded down with heavy equipment, a rock crusher and material for the new subdivision arrived at the dock yesterday.
Budgell’s Equipment of Triton has the contract. Judging by the amount of heavy equipment they have on hand they are going to have at it in a big way.

The increase in the price of milk is causing a kafuffle on the island. I was hoping because we get our milk, eggs and dairy products from Quebec that we would be spared. Silly me.

CBC Here& Now did a short piece on the cost of milk on the coast of Labrador Friday night.
It was ill researched but they did give to cost of milk in three communities, Nain, Hopedale and Rigolet. Of course Nain was given as the highest, $6.39 for 2 liters.

Here is the actual price of milk in two stores as of yesterday. All are per 2 liters.

Northern: 3.25%-$6.49. 2%-$6.39. 1%-$6.29.

BigLand. 2%-$5.79. 1%-$5.79.

To be fair to BigLand they have kept the price of milk at or about the same price for over 12 months while it has crept up at Northern.

In the absence of an audit of food costs covered under the subsidy programs it is not clear if BigLand is taking a loss, breaking even or what.

It has been said that the retailers on the coast can’t buy their milk wholesale for the price that some retailers sell it for on the Island. All the wholesalers of these dairy products for the coast are based in Happy Valley-Goose Bay

Worth a look at IMO.