Feels Like Summer, Looks Like Spring

 It is 78 today. We will be crashing down to high 30's on Monday. That is the high for Monday, not the low. 

My patio daffodil blooms are drying up. I bought a little bouquet at Martin's for $2.99 using a digital coupon. The pear trees are all in bloom now.

It is that confusing time of year when you don't know what sleepwear to use nor whether to keep the electric blanket on the bed. Often that comes in May, but we are having this warm spell in April.

We got 90 cents per gallon off the normal price of gas today using the grocery rewards card. The price jumped from $3.55 to $3.75 early last week. The dollar amount of grocery purchases to earn points has not changed and with higher grocery prices, it doesn't take very long to reap the rewards.

Prices on non-food services keep going up. The Fort Wayne paper weekend subscription didn't go up, but there is no Sunday paper, just Friday and Saturday now. We get more things in the Saturday paper than we used to, but I do miss not having a Sunday morning paper. Now starting this week, we were told they can't find anybody to deliver the paper in our area. Our paper is being delivered by the USPS. Yesterday's came OK; today no paper with the mail. I hope the postal service doesn't think it is acceptable to deliver a Saturday paper on Monday. Again, I miss not having a morning paper on Friday and Saturday.

The New York Times has notified us that our monthly rate will go from $17 to $20 starting in May. The games module which is an add-on subscription will go from $19.97 per year to $30 per year. Our subscription is digital only. Being able to access those games during the pandemic when the public library was closed was a blessing. We only started subscribing in 2020. Before that, we photocopied the games from the library newspaper. 

I gave the book review Wednesday at Winona Literary Club. The book I chose was The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street. It is targeted for tweens, but I enjoyed it and think other club members will too. One lady took my copy to read; another said she would like it next. It is available at the public library and on Hoopla. The part of New York City in which they live is a charming multiethnic section of Harlem.