Weekly Link Love

(My mother took this beautiful photograph.)

Condo Blues posted an article on a very neat “plantable” calendar. The pages are embedded with seeds. At the end of the month you tear off the page and plant it! How cool is that?!

Funny About Money relates a shocking story of a friend of her son’s who found out, after being in a terrible motorcycle wreck, that his employer was not paying their part of his insurance premiums. Pretty sad and, like Funny, I’m not sure how you’d check up on that.

A while back I wrote an article that touched on the idea of making a list of what you want in a mate. Fabulous Financials took up the theme in her post, A Book I’m Reading About Men. In her post she said, “I want a life partner who will complement me and add joy to my life”. Doesn’t that just say it all?

Another of my very clever nieces (a sister to the one who took that great photograph I used on my roundup post last week) wrote about how using Windows Live as your IM client can Save the World One Instant Message At A Time. Who knew?

Emotionally Attached to Your Investments? appears in the Carnival of Finance, Investments and Trading at Fulfilled Dreams. The Digerati Life has an excellent article on the Best Places to Put Your Money When The Stock Market Tanks. Icarus Landing has some good money advice for his son in Money – Yours, Mine and Not Pink Floyd’s.

Bargaineering put up a fascinating video from TED.com. It’s a talk by Benjamin Wallace, from GQ magazine, who set out to try some of the world’s most expensive items and/or experiences. Very interesting stuff! Can Money Buy Happiness?

Check out all these very cool green roofs at Ecosalon. 17 Living Roofs.

Commercial Beekeeping vs. Commercial Agriculture appears in the All Things Eco Carnival at Focus on Organic and the Carnival of the Green at Get With Green. Are you in the market for a used car? Veggie Revolution has some helpful tips in her post How to Buy a Used, Fuel-Efficient Car. Want to try something new? Groovy Vegetarian posts 8 Fun Facts About Squash.

5 Minute Brownies appears in the 100th Edition of the Make It From Scratch Carnival at the carnival’s homepage. Grandmother’s Pattern Book has a pattern for a precious little knit baby coat. I don’t knit but this little coat makes me wish I did. Our Red House is lucky enough to be picking peaches in January and has a recipe for homemade peach jam. Yum!

I'm always looking for interesting reads and am happy to pass them along to you. Let me know if you have found something interesting for me to read!