"Where both deliberate, the love is slight; Whoever loved who loved not at first sight" (Marlowe)

.....These  days there is no place for your money to make money.  A few years ago you could buy a CD for 12 months at an interest rate of 4.5% which was a pretty good deal. But now banks ads and commercials advise you to open their savings accounts or CDs at a whopping .80%!  So, if you deposit $10,000, after one year you earn $80.  Whoopee.  I could make more than that on scratchoff tickets.  Perhaps your money could make money in the market, but if you're over 80, it's much too risky.  Heck, if you're over 70, it's too risky.  Elderly people on fixed incomes cannot afford to lose money in the market.  My financial advice to myself is, take what you can get with CDs and savings accounts.

.....I know that the ALLY bank adds .25% to your CD if you renew it, so that if your CD had been earning 1.04% with them, your renewal with the bonus would be earning 1.29%, the best rate out there.  And you can even add funds to that same CD during the 10 days after it matures.  I don't think you can find a better deal anywhere these days.  Let me know if you have a better one.

.....Enough with the financial stuff. I'm not a broker. The good news is that my grandson, Adam, Joel's son, got married last Sunday in the house!  There were friends in attendance, but only Joel, Barbara, and daughter, Hannah, were blood relatives at the ceremony.  Rh+ and I felt that brother Bobby, who lives in the vicinity, ought to have been there, along with his girlfriend, Michelle.  But I was not running the show.  We only learned about this marriage on Friday before the affair on Sunday.  It was Adam's desire to do it all this way.  They could have accomplished this in Las Vegas with nobody there, and had some fun in the casinos.  When the time comes when the happy couple decide to have children, perhaps they will have a boy who could carry on the name, Ross.  I'm the original.  Maybe they could call the kid, Baron--Baron Ross.  No so bad a name, I'd venture.

.....The other good news is that my granddaughter, Bobby's girl, is pregnant with a male child, they will name, Huston.  I'm dedicating my next book to him, because Katrina is making me a great grandfather!  She and her boyfriend are both in the US Navy.  PK, as I call her (Princess Katrina), is a Petty Officer 2C.  She supervises the mechanics on the jet planes.  I believe she is going to make the Navy her career.  Now, not only is Katrina in the military, but my nephew, Jake, and his sister, Meagan, have both signed up for the Marines and are on their way to Paris Island.  I guess we were destined to be a military family.  Jake and Meagan are the children of Mark, my sister's son.