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Ate too much, had a nice bottle of wine with the meal. Hubby got two entrees 😂. Not uncommon for him. Southern food - delicious! Funny, I have a southern recipe book from a friend of mine. Nearly every recipe ends “cayenne to taste.” 😂. I might look at the recipes and see what’s there and leave off that last line.
 
LadyLocust said:
Ate too much, had a nice bottle of wine with the meal. Hubby got two entrees 😂. Not uncommon for him. Southern food - delicious! Funny, I have a southern recipe book from a friend of mine. Nearly every recipe ends “cayenne to taste.” 😂. I might look at the recipes and see what’s there and leave off that last line.
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THAT'S WHY YOU ARE HAVING ALL THE HOT WEATHER!! Now I understand!!😉
 
Today was mini-finance day. I had some liquid money in a high-yield checking account ("high" being relative to other checking accounts) and also a fairly high yield money market account ("high" relative to other money markets). With the recent interest rate drop the feds just did last week, those high-yield accounts will probably soon turn into mediocre-yield ones. Interest rates can turn on a dime for these type of accounts.

Since I still wanted this money fluid (relatively speaking), I cut those two previous accounts down in size a bit and put the money into a couple of laddered CD's (three month, six month, one year, and two year). CD interest rates stay fixed, so you're better set against fed changes to the interest rate.

Over the last few months, high-yield checking accounts have rivaled CD's interest rates. When rates are stable, favor goes to the high-yield checking (if rates compete with CD's) since that money is 100% fluid whereas CD's are only "kind of fluid" depending on their term. But when interest rates are themselves fluid, heading down, and the economy is volatile (the Dems are in control after all - so what else do you expect?), favor switches from high-yield checking to CD's. At least in my way of managing money.

I also wanted to give a little more "spread" to the fluid money subset by getting some more banks/credit unions folded in to the money mix. You don't want all your eggs in one basket. Or two baskets. Three baskets is the minimum for banks/credit unions in my way of thinking. You also need to be mindful of how much each basket holds - you want to keep individual baskets below the FDIC/NCUA insurance limits (currently $250k, but you can increase that by adding POD beneficiaries).
 
This morning I sliced a ham and a large block of pepper jack cheese with our new LEM meat slicer. After I cleaned the machine I was installing the blade it slipped and sliced my hand pretty good. These blades are sharp.
Later we went down south and picked up building materials for the new roof over the deck on the chicken coop. Did some grocery shopping on the way home too.
My daughter was released from the hospital today. She sounded pretty groggy on the phone. I think she'll be laid up for awhile, but it sounds like she'll be OK.
 
Looking at the weather. I guess we will be getting rain all week from storm. It poured last night and bad thunderstorm, woke me up. I hope Saturday doesn't get rained out, we have a festival to go sell at.

Glad we put all the animals in yesterday but now we have to go clean the barn. So not much else getting done today most likely. No point cleaning the house, dogs will track mud in anyway.
 
Trash Day, waiting for packages that require a signature, and stacking old decking for when we order the dumpster.

The guy that collects aluminum for donation will be by to pick up the wheels I have.

Bourbon supply depleted, will correct that in next few days :)

Lori gets to visit Star :p
 
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Toasted up some rice for non-caffeinated genmaicha. Is it really tea if there’s no tea in it? Caffeine for dinner keeps me up these days, even something as low-caffeine as green tea.

I need to cook up some mushrooms, get a walk, and clean the house. Friends are coming over tonight for D&D.
 
Had planned to bushhog a few acres this morning but it can wait till next week. Started raining last night, expected to continue through hurricane landfall into the weekend. Well, I got all the outside work finished that was necessary for the beef calf except getting a tank of water. I can do that saturday rain or shine.

Had bought oil and a filter for the truck but don’t want to lay in the mud to change oil so I’ll put them in the shop for next time. I need a few groceries, cattle feed and mineral blocks. Sooo… I’ll get the oil changed while I’m in town.
 
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Had planned to bushhog a few acres this morning but it can wait till next week. Started raining last night, expected to continue through hurricane landfall into the weekend. Well, I got all the outside work finished that was necessary for the beef calf except getting a tank of water. I can do that saturday rain or shine.

Had bought oil and a filter for the truck but don’t want to lay in the mud to change oil so I’ll put them in the shop for next time. I need a few groceries, cattle feed and mineral blocks. Sooo… I’ll get the oil changed while I’m in town.
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Rain. I wish we'd get some, maybe next month. You just reminded me that I need to change oil in the Perkins generator, my truck, tractor, my Jeep, both snow blowers, the side by side and the ATV's. I keep a good stock of filters and oil on hand.
 
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