If you came here following a ping, you’ve found the beta version of Funny about Money in WordPress. After I’ve worked out a few bugs, I plan to migrate the domain name to this site. Till then, to ease the workload I’m copying current posts from iWeb to WordPress as I write them.
The past week’s violent summer rains have borne fruit in the form of a spectacular new flower, spotted on an otherwise unassuming little cactus that grows under my desert willow’s canopy. Isn’t that the loveliest shade of pink? It’s evidently a variety of Easter lily cactus-the blossom has the classic trumpet shape. I’ve never seen one before that wasn’t white or magenta.
A lot has been going on while Funny was off the air. Jim at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity, along with Lynnae of BeingFrugal.net and Steve of Brip-Blap, got on this weekend’s Marketplace Money, quite a nice coup, indeed!
Feeling cranky as I am about Apple these days, I enjoyed Jim’s gentle jibe at the ridiculousness of the iPhone craze.
Out of Debt again is back from summer camp and Mrs. Micah is back from vacation and plumping her first blogiversary contest. Be This Way has her hands full this summer, between moving her dad out of his house and putting her own house on the market. Meanwhile, also on the home front Be This Way’s little one has already begun to test the law of nature that says to outwit a small child a parent must be faster than the child by a factor of ten to the twenty-seventh power.
Plonkee has an interesting series of discussions going on the question of whether one should (or would) move to engineer a lower cost of living. Five-cent Nickel thunders about the state of financial education in this country…only one small element, I might add, in the overall state of American education. Wisebread reports on a new subspecies of the Trophy Wife: the SAHW (she stays at home whether she has kids or not). Lordie. Who’d’ve thunk it?
SmallNotebook.org has a nice essay on how to zing “natural” housecleaning products to get them to work a little better. At The Simple Dollar, Trent et famille are off to the state fair and planning ways to keep their outing frugal. And My Dollar Plan offers an interesting strategy to use your Roth IRA to help lower your tax bill.