Because of the cost of gasoline, everyone around here is anxious about what the summer will (or, worse, will not) bring in the way of tourists. Gasoline is over $3.75 a gallon in this area. The R&GN is a nonprofit, so a bad season won't be as bad for us as for some of the other businesses. Even so, the long and snowy winter we just had meant we opened later than last year, and we are running a thousand dollars behind where we were at this same date in 2007.We were under a frost advisory last night, and it was in the upper 30s when I got up. I didn't notice any evidence of frost having harmed anything. This morning Jerry was out planting corn in the field across the road. It has to be in by May 15, and a number of folks we know are fretting that they will not manage because the rain has kept their fields too wet.
On a lighter note, Tom bought six more flamingos last night and put them up across the road. Now Peggy can really worry that they are coming after her. It will be interesting to hear how her relatives react when they come for her picnic tomorrow.
A Johnny Depp movie is being filmed in our area, and when they went to Wal-Mart this morning Tom and Tim saw where some of the vintage autos were being stored. Tom is now claiming that he has walked where Johnny Depp walked, and Tim said maybe he has driven where Johnny Depp has driven. I suspect the reality is that he has driven near cars that Johnny Depp has never even seen. This is a gangster movie set in the northwoods, and they were filming scenes in Mirror Lake State Park. Apparently filming was delayed because the winter weather lasted so long, and even recently they found snow still on the ground in some of the more sheltered areas they had wanted to use.
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In Italy:
1.472 Euro a liter.
1 gallon= 3,78 liters; so 1 gallon is 5.56 Euro and 8.61 US dollars.
Here in Italy now many people use pubblic transportation.
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