Monday Stuff On the Way to Other Stuff: Business As Usual

      It's been a bit of a strange week. The Brick spent part of it installing a new kitchen faucet. (Only hot water before that for two weeks.) Daughter #2 and Son #1 reappeared from a show in Utah, plus days of dinosaur and fossil digging, to scoop up their Freya and head for home. And we had a chance to attend an opening reception for "Stampede!" from our friends at Dundee & Lee.

      In between, I worked on appraisal reports, had a 'wellness exam' (so did the Brick)...and did some replanting. We now have more than a dozen little peppers doing their stuff, as well as eight or so tomato plants friend Tommy generously gave us. (What the heck does a 'Giant Pink Belgium' tomato look like, anyways?)

     Rain has moved in for the next few days here. We need it so badly that all the locals are cheering - us included. (P.S. I typed this just before midnight -- and it's snowing now, too. Early May? What's that???)

Meanwhile:

Mutual funds, index funds and ETFs -- what's best?  (From the White Coat Investor)

Warren Buffett is stepping down. Probably smart, considering he's 94...though he promises to "hang around" the office some.

Five incredible ways government money has been used...and I'm not saying this approvingly.

Do you need to check your IPhone for this?

A 'yellow brick road' leads divers to a pair of Danish slave shipwrecks -- just off the coast of a national park. Hey, we Bricks have to hang together...

Eight million dimes -- all over the highway in Texas, after a tractor-trailer overturned. Road crews were out there for hours shoveling them up.  (I'd bet they missed some!) Funny, there's a similar lost treasure story to this in Colorado's Black Canyon area.

Hikers discover gold coins, cigarette cases and more!

Poor man's sandwiches -- 25 of them. Some of these may seem a bit gross -- but I remember lard sandwiches being very popular in Austria when I lived there during college days.

Some great (and easy) breakfast ideas, courtesy of My Tireless Retirement. (I plan to make her 'zucchini bites' this week.)

"I was wrong about Donald Trump."  The weird part about this essay: I'm not sure it's still an insult, rather than a compliment. 

One of the longest lists of Whose Line Is It Anyways' 'Party Quirks' ever. I love this silly game. 

Andddd.... this is what a Giant Pink Belgium tomato looks like. It's an 'heirloom beefsteak.'

Have a great week. Rain on!