LittleJohn, thankyou for posting and sharing the very helpful info.   Well this may sound funny but I'm looking at a little property and scratching to get some down payment together and instead of paying the bank 6%  I would rather figure out a way to give it to the Misses. We're not talking big dollars but 2% is ridiculous and it is a 30 year bond that has 12 more years to go, but it does have an interest payment coming up in about a month.    Also if the Dollar decides to go crazy in whatever direction I don't want her bonds to go stagnant for several years.  The other ones at 4% are not terribly bad considering what the other money markets are doing at least for now.

Another dumb question what effect does the dollar do to bonds?  Do they typically travel in the same direction?