Prices of mortgage backed securities went on quite a rally yesterday closing at levels not seen for quite some time. As the rally continued into the close, lenders did issue new rate sheets improving consumer borrowing costs. There were even few lenders offering 4.5% for 30 year mortgages for consumers with exceptionally high FICO scores and low loan to values. But today is Employment Situation day which is arguably the single most important piece of economic data that we get on a monthly basis...

EL NINO TO THE RESCUE!

We finally had a month with not just above normal rainfall, but much above!!! With 6.35 inches, that is more than double the average rainfall of 3.00 for September. In the whole month, there were 11 days with registered rainfall. Most of this rain fell around the 10th associated with the first major cool front of the year. Then the rest fell on around the 23rd.

The month was also cooler than normal by 1.0 degrees F! This is the largest negative...

Sorry for the delay everyone, I've gone back to school in August and havent had much time.

Basically, August 2009 followed June and July in XTREME heat and tied August 2006 for the warmest August and 2nd warmest month after July 2009.

Rainfall was low again, matching June 2009's total with .45 inches.

Thats all, another boring month...

DH's still suffering some lingering "symptoms" from his flu in Fond du Lac, and we're hoping for test results today, thinking there's a treatment for relief if they could just discover the cause.

Bigun's "symptoms" are also returned, so it's opportune that he has a vet visit scheduled for this afternoon.

Meanwhile, our biopsies' results came back yesterday. Mine were negative. DH wasn't so lucky. Squamous cell carcinoma, AGAIN. Luckily, he was able...

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