Much like yesterday, early morning weakness in the fixed income sector was followed by a nice rally later in the day in spite of more better than expected economic data. Helping to spark the rally in mortgage backed securities was a pretty large sell off in equities with the Dow losing almost 200 points. We are seeing a pretty dramatic shift in investor sentiment where even much better than expected economic data is not helping stocks move higher which is allowing some investor money to flow into...

Tomorrow morning I drive south to pick up my new pup, Bigun, from Mrs1885. I am excited to meet her almost as much as to finally meet my Bigun. She's my Saint of the abandoned dogs.

I've been really stupid about a lot of things in my life, and dogs are one of them. I grew up in a home where dogs were a part of our lives, and we were never cruel to any one, animals included. Still, after reading some of the dog forum's threads, I know that neither I, nor my parents, were well informed...

In 2009 :
Lo : 52 °
Hi : 80 °
Rainfall : 0.00 “

In 2008 :
Lo : 72 °
Hi : 92 °
Rainfall : 0.00 ”

In 2007 :
Lo : 61 °
Hi : 94 °
Rainfall : 0.00 “

In 2006 :
Lo : 61 °
Hi : 83 °
Rainfall : 0.02 “

In 2005 :
Lo : 63 °
Hi : 89 °
Rainfall : 0.00 ”

In 2004 :
Lo : 59 °
Hi : 84 °
Rainfall : 0.00 “

I wanted to take a minute, while waiting for the timetable of rides and meetings to begin today that may ultimately result in my moving into a nice home, to express some things about faith in God that might be of encouragement to others of my brothers and sisters in Christ who might be facing their own impossible circumstances.

I have done all that I can do and now, as I sit here listening to worship music, it is truly in God's hands as to what the final outcome of all this will be....

One of the reasons that we’ve seen such an increase in home sales recently (aside from the fact that prices AND rates are low!) is because of the Federal Tax Credit that is currently being offered to first time home buyers.

The stimulus works like this: people who have not owned real estate in the last 3 years are considered “first time home buyers”. If they purchase a house right now, the government...