It's hard to believe it's already the last day of May. Seems like I was plowing snow just a few days ago. Summer has come in with a vengeance. The trees are fully leafed out so we can't see the mountains anymore and the mosquitoes are breeding fiercely. I have 2 mosquito magnet machines sucking in the little critters. You don't realize how well they work until you step into the woods out of their range. Also, as soon as they run out of propane the mosquitoes start moving back in. That was one pleasant surprise this spring. The price of propane is about the same as last year. It costs $20 to refill a 20 pound bottle. I was really afraid with the rise in oil cost that I wouldn't be able to afford the mosquito magnets. So far so good on them. The cost of gas and diesel is outrageous, though. $4.16 a gallon for gas and $4.79 a gallon for diesel. I only have to fill the diesel Golf up every other month now but what worries me is that the diesel price is usually within pennies of heating oil cost and there isn't much left I can cut back on that. I did install new storm doors for the front and back doors so that should help keep the draft out a little. They sure make it nice in the summer because now we can leave the doors open for light and air. This house at least had screens on the windows when we moved in. The house we lived in for 20 years in Eagle River didn't even have window screens. Of course the mosquitoes were no where near as bad down there.
Got to go work in the yard....
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