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Ahh spring!!  Spring really starts to hit the Pacific Northwest when April rolls around.  Things finally start to green-up again.  It’s also the time of year when our weather starts to turn towards “dryer” and “slightly warmer”.

This is typically when I emerge from my winter hibernation, and start spending a lot more time outside…

Another month another dollar.  That’s how I like to think about these regular monthly reports anyway.  Every month we turn the crank one more time on the Wealth Machine.  While our net worth actually increases a whole lot more than $1 in a single month, I like to think in simple terms — Dollars at a time.

It’s the KISS principle applied to wealth building!

Turning the crank means saving, investing those extra dollars, and then compounding any additional value…

Happy New Year!  It’s no secret that I’ve had this blog on ‘pause’ for the past few weeks.  I took some time off from writing to enjoy the Christmas and New Year’s holidays with the family.  It’s been fun.  I’ve spent a lot of time with the kids, playing board games, and ‘helping’ them test out their new toys.  There’s also been plenty of socializing (virtually) with friends and family over Zoom. 

It’s certainly been a very different Holiday season (to say the least), but we still managed to have a good one!

“It was the best of times, and it was the worst of times”… as the saying goes.  July fit this description quite accurately.  Much of July was a very good month, but we had to deal with some costly equipment failures and a health scare.  It was a difficult month for my mental health…