Lovely morning but I am not doing anything much except reading. Yesterday was a busy day cutting down the tomato vines and generally cleaning up some of the accumulated mess around the pots.

I looked at this story and blinked because the number of Americans living paycheck to paycheck was more than cited in the last such story I read. I was right. The article mentions that the number was "only" 75% last year not the 78% for this year. Some 56% have less than $100 in savings. Another factoid which says a lot people aren't doing well in this so-called economy.