[robtcorl]

Off to our Credit Union shortly.
They have a one week only offer of 2% APY on 24 month CDs, time to move some emergency money into to one from our money market account. Two percent isn't much, but it beats 0.3%, and their 72 month CDs are only paying 1.90% APY.
I'm 70 years and 8 months old so I have to start tapping my 401K this year.
Mrs Bob retired in April, and so far so good money wise.

[Rupert]

Amazing how sitting out with the little creatures just going about their business is such a calming experience

Truly!

Regards!

[Racer X 69]

How about something different. Every year the Northeast section of the American Dairy Association commissions a sculpture in butter for the New York State Fair. It's kept in a refrigerated display case. Here is the sculpture from this year.

This thread is the best place for a photo like that.

Now how about a photo of a bacon sculpture?

[ccc_]

Amazing how sitting out with the little creatures just going about their business is such a calming experience.

ain't that the truth?!

[gaweidert]

This is my good deed for the Army of Otis up here in western NY. My walnut tree had a bumper crop this year. So here is a pile of over 700 walnuts I picked up from the front yard. The statue of the cat is in memory of my wife's late, much beloved, cat Nico.

[robtcorl]

here is a pile of over 700 walnuts I picked up from the front yard

Did you really count them?
That's just nuts!

[gaweidert]

Did you really count them?
That's just nuts!

Well, the bucket held 70 or so. And there were at least 11 buckets. I low balled the guess. May be closer to 800.

[Ex Finn.]

Soem time ago one of you mentioned a Finnair flight, 666 from somewhere in Sweden to HEL.


On Friday 13 October it flew its last.


As a result of restructuring Finnair flight numbers it is now:
SIN -> FinnAir666 -> HEL


Can you believe anyone would really do that?


Got that from BBC last Saturday.

This? AY 666 will be retired.
Brave passengers board last ever Flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th

[clackers]

Our physics teacher keeps saying 1)The world is logical. and 2) The world is explainable. but that is not always the case...

He could be talking about the world he hopes for rather than the one he lives in, Bert!

[Rupert]

Now how about a photo of a bacon sculpture?

This is the best I can do Racer........a bacon bra......I have no idea how the song goes?


Regards!

@robtcorl It's not too late to get in on some Amazon stock....the target price is over $1100. and it is currently at $1006.00 Mrs Rupert is up 21.24% as of today which more than covers her minimum required withdrawal this year. Johnson & Johnson...Kraft...Google...Amazon....these are about as safe or safer than the almighty dollar. Banks are ripping us all off. They make a fortune on services and high interest on loans...but don't even give us a chance to beat inflation with their low rates on savings.

[bertwert]

He could be talking about the world he hopes for rather than the one he lives in, Bert!

She, but for her it is, I guess...

[ccc_]

one should absolutely, positively avoid making definitive statements regarding the world's qualities...

[tim60]

Your physics teacher should get out more!

...or at least visit this thread

Your physics teacher should see the physics students at Oxford University at 0030 on a Sunday morning in the streets of Oxford.

[tim60]

Off to our Credit Union shortly.
They have a one week only offer of 2% APY on 24 month CDs, time to move some emergency money into to one from our money market account. Two percent isn't much, but it beats 0.3%, and their 72 month CDs are only paying 1.90% APY.
I'm 70 years and 8 months old so I have to start tapping my 401K this year.
Mrs Bob retired in April, and so far so good money wise.

You make is sound like you don't really need the money from the 401k, so even if the rules say you must take some out, you can roll it into another investment. Can you control the amounts you move so that what you take out makes reasonable investment parcels?


In US, at your age is this money treated as already yours (not taxed) or the whole amount taxed, or the profits from the original amount invested taxed?


In Australia I have three years to go till my pension money is treated as already mine, not taxed. That is a nice thought. It also makes a couple of decisions needed, a bit like yours and the questions I asked. I will not need the money at that age, if things continue as they are, so I will be in a position where I can roll the money back in, which works out more profitable than just leaving it there untouched. Hmm????

[tim60]

This thread is the best place for a photo like that.

Now how about a photo of a bacon sculpture?

But the dairy club are not trying to promote bacon. Hopefully many of them do eat bacon along with their dairy stuff.