Whoa Nellie!

I just clicked on Futuresource.com metals…November gold is up $7.60 today!  Spot price for November gold is $766.30.  Now I know what gold prices do during the day doesn’t mean anything, what matters is how it closes, because there are a lot of speculators out there.  But…my goodness, gold has been on a tear lately.  I’m really surprised that you don’t hear more about it, read more about it.  That the general population is unaware of the metoric rise in the price of an ounce of gold of the last few years.  Inflation anyone? 

Not to mention that yesterday or the day before (when you get to my age the days start blurring together, sort of like ones eyesight) oil hit $88 a barrel!  Lets just pray for the people who live on the East Coast that it’s a mild winter.  For those of you in the States, if you think you are going to have difficulties managing to heat your house this winter, I was reading about this program called “The Low Income Home Energy Program.“  LIHEAP that help lower income families pay their heating bills.  Look it up.  Maybe you qualify.  Check into it.  It doesn’t hurt to ask.

According to this report I read
-Heating oil fuel expenses will be up 28% from last year
-Propane costs are to be up 30%
-Electricity is expected to be up 7%
-Natural gas up 5%

Plan ahead.  It sucks being cold in those freezing winter months.  I should know.

Yikes!  Be right back.

Well, that was close.  I almost forgot the butter drop cookies I had baking in the oven.  Got to them in the nick of time!  Nice and golden brown soft and spongy with crisp crunchy edges.  Yum!  I made them for Will to have when he gets home from school…but I think I’d better go taste a few…just to make sure…

Bye for now.  Next time I blog, I’ll be slooshing around in the rain enjoying the beautiful metropolis of Surrey. (Actually, as far as I know, Surrey is not considered one of Canada’s more beautiful cities.  Just don’t want to mislead anyone into taking their honeymoon here.  I’m not dissing Surrey, I’m sure it’s quite nice and the people who have chosen to live there like it well enough.  It’s just when one says Surrey, I guess it’s the way it rolls out of the tongue, well it just doesn’t conjour up the most picturesque images.)  I am hoping to go there and to be suprised and amazed.

Posted by Meg Tilly on Thursday, October 18, 2007 in Chewing the Fat