Inlaws' Anniversary Trip Journal #5
Harrisburg, PA - Sat, 9 Nov 2024, 2pmToday my inlaws celebrated their 60th anniversary, and my father-in-law's 85th birthday, for the 3rd or 4th time this week. I mean, why not celebrate it a few times? 60 is a huge number. As FIL has pointed out, getting to his 85th birthday only required living. Staying happily ( Read more... )

PA Anniversary Trip Journal #4
Camp Hill, PA - Fri, 7 Nov 2024, 11pmThis evening was the first of two celebrations for my inlaws' 60th anniversary. ...Or it was the second of 3, or perhaps the 3rd of 4. I know they traveled to see a play yesterday evening; they may have done something the night before, too. But at any rate, this evening they had a ( Read more... )

This morning we're headed off to Pennsylvania to celebrate my in-laws' 60th anniversary ( Read more... )

As a child I found my Grandmother B's house enchanting. It was so full of stuff. Stuff made with quality materials. In the house where I grew up, things were made of plastic and cardboard. The ostensibly fanciest piece of furniture we had, our china cabinet? Medium density fiberboard, with a rich-looking veneer glued on it. My parents spoke of it ( Read more... )

I'm starting a short series of blog posts about the ballot propositions on my ballot this year. "Props", as we call them for short, are often thought of as a California thing, though they're part of the process in a number of other states as well. It's worth taking a close look at props each cycle because they can be complex; more complex, say, ( Read more... )

I mentioned the other day that rmy anniversary with Hawk was about a week ago. Often we travel to celebrate our anniversary. This year we took our anniversary trip early, visiting the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia and North Carolina  at the start of September. It's good that we took that trip then, because if we'd traveled the week of our ( Read more... )

Last week Hawk and I had our anniversary. How long have we been together? Well, that depends on how you define "together". Counting from our first date, it's now been 30 years!


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North Carolina Travelog #3
Pisgah National Forest, NC - Wed, 20 Sep 2023. 5:30pm

After wrapping up our hike to Twin Falls it was just a short drive up the country highway to our next stop of the afternoon, Looking Glass Falls. Again, the benefit of staying close to the action ( Read more... )

Continuing with my theme of how couple should manage their money together, my topic today is how many bank accounts a pair of people in a relationship should have. After " How should we share expenses?", which i wrote about yesterday, it's the next most common question I see in financial advice columns and blogs. And the two questions are related. ( Read more... )

This month I'm writing a series of blogs on how we split responsibilities and finances in our household. The prompts for this topic are advice articles about family/couples finance I've read in my newsfeed. On the whole I'm unimpressed with the advice peddled by supposed professionals. Some of the suggestions are weak, some are ridiculous, and some ( Read more... )