Dargo
Like a bad penny...
Not looking for any sympathy, just an explanation.
A couple of months ago we had an ice storm that kept us without power for a week or so. When the power came back on I discovered that we suffered a HUGE power surge that took out about half of the things in my home that were plugged in. You can imagine how long that list is. It was only then that I discovered that State Farm has decided that no one item in a home that is plugged in is worth over $1000. That hurt.
Fortunately I have a couple of generators and we were only inconvenienced and not in trouble. I spent a lot of time with on my tractor clearing snow, ice and trees for others. I didn't feel well after a few 16 hour days of doing so but figured that was normal. Soon I felt much worse and was diagnosed with pneumonia. That kept me down for a bit and I didn't even feel like getting online.
Right after that I had to run 90 miles an hour with my hair on fire trying to catch up with some work issues. This last weekend I was nearly caught up when I decided that my wife had been sick for too long and insisted she go to the hospital. Monday they operated on her for a ruptured appendix. She is still in the hospital and will be 'for a while', according to the physicians who are attending her and trying to get her internal infections under control.
In the mean time I'm trying to run my businesses, keep up with getting my kids everywhere they need to go and stay at the hospital as much as possible. Of course, I had several hundred trees arrive Monday that I'd ordered last fall. I intend to plant them in my spare time.
Anyway, I'm not intentionally staying away from here, I'm just a little busy right now. I didn't want anyone to take my very limited posting as any sign of dissatisfaction or as any statement.
A couple of months ago we had an ice storm that kept us without power for a week or so. When the power came back on I discovered that we suffered a HUGE power surge that took out about half of the things in my home that were plugged in. You can imagine how long that list is. It was only then that I discovered that State Farm has decided that no one item in a home that is plugged in is worth over $1000. That hurt.
Fortunately I have a couple of generators and we were only inconvenienced and not in trouble. I spent a lot of time with on my tractor clearing snow, ice and trees for others. I didn't feel well after a few 16 hour days of doing so but figured that was normal. Soon I felt much worse and was diagnosed with pneumonia. That kept me down for a bit and I didn't even feel like getting online.
Right after that I had to run 90 miles an hour with my hair on fire trying to catch up with some work issues. This last weekend I was nearly caught up when I decided that my wife had been sick for too long and insisted she go to the hospital. Monday they operated on her for a ruptured appendix. She is still in the hospital and will be 'for a while', according to the physicians who are attending her and trying to get her internal infections under control.
In the mean time I'm trying to run my businesses, keep up with getting my kids everywhere they need to go and stay at the hospital as much as possible. Of course, I had several hundred trees arrive Monday that I'd ordered last fall. I intend to plant them in my spare time.
Anyway, I'm not intentionally staying away from here, I'm just a little busy right now. I didn't want anyone to take my very limited posting as any sign of dissatisfaction or as any statement.
I contacted them to find out why, and was told that the agent who inspected my property for the hail damage noticed that I did not have a handrail on the stairs of my back deck. I said that can be taken care of very easily, and I did not want to go insurance shopping ....so they agreed not to drop me. As I understand it since I had not been with them long (I switched to them because my daughter was working in the field, so it was in support of her) but since I had not been with them long and had already had a big payout they knew they would never make money on me so they'd rather cut the cord now. Insurance companies are slimy. 
I hate doing my taxes so bad that it's crazy. It seems like I can't force myself to even start on them until sometime in April. I suppose being at home a bit lately left me with enough time to escape out to my office to get them done 'early' (for me) this year. I guess I ought to be happy. They weren't neither good nor bad, but about what I expected. At least there weren't any nasty surprises like I've had at times in the past.
