{"id":4048,"date":"2016-02-28T16:59:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T23:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/?p=4048"},"modified":"2016-02-28T16:59:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T23:59:36","slug":"leap-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/leap-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Leap Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leap Day – well, not until Monday, but I needed a lead-in title. Hope everyone enjoys the “once in 4, one day more” \u00a0event.<\/p>\n

This weekend has been quiet for us; no house-hunting trips or other interesting news. Later today we tackle tax return preparation so I am doing the post now as I will be grumpy later on.<\/p>\n

The weather has warmed up the ground enough that we decided to take Soot the cat out of his styrofoam coffin in the snowbank, where he has remained frozen since he died in late December, and bury him near the garage. Burying a pet is always a sad event but Soot is now in his native sod.<\/p>\n

Saturday was grocery shopping day and I\u00a0cashed in our “fuel reward points” that totaled $.90 cents per gallon discount. (The maximum is $1.00 but resets to zero every 1st of the month.) This means I bought gas for $.73 cents per gallon for\u00a0the maximum-allowed 35 gallons.<\/p>\n

\"Gasoline<\/a>

Gasoline at $.73 cents per gallon<\/p><\/div>\n

After hitting very low levels (around $1.50) the price of fuel has begun to rise, going up $.12 per gallon this past week. I was\u00a0hoping fuel prices would stay low over the summer when we do most of our driving, including our 400 mile round trips to The Lot (often with the F-150). Since our daily commute is about 110 miles we buy a lot of gasoline and discounts like this are big for us. Last year the store ran “double fuel points” if you bought groceries on specific days during the summer and I\u00a0hope they have a similar promotion this\u00a0year. It certainly\u00a0helps the budget!<\/p>\n

In other auto-related news, Glenwood Canyon\u00a0(east of Glenwood Springs where Pam and I both work) had a rockfall of huge boulders falling off the upper rim that closed I-70 for almost a full week. The “alternate route” was about 140 miles around the closure. (There are few alternate routes through the Rockies in this part of the state.) Now open for one\u00a0lane of traffic both east-and-west-bound at reduced speeds (25 mph), the extended closure didn’t have much immediate effect on us. It did, however, impact\u00a0co-workers\u00a0who had to commute\u00a0west to get into town and east to get home. There will be periodic closures of the Canyon to allow for the movement of heavy equipment and construction gear and this will continue for many months until all the damage has been repaired and future instability mitigated. As this is also our most direct route to Sanderling, periodic closures going forward may impact our Spring\/early Summer trips into the high country.<\/p>\n

That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!<\/p>\n

(Pam says she had no $.02 this time.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leap Day – well, not until Monday, but I needed a lead-in title. Hope everyone enjoys the “once in 4, one day more” \u00a0event. This weekend has been quiet for us; no house-hunting trips or other interesting news. Later today we tackle tax return preparation so I am doing the post now as I will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4048"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4055,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}