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Melensdad said:
Met up with Doc & his wife today.
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But Bob ....why in the world would you mention that Candle place. :bonk: OMG. Gail loved the place. She found something around every corner. Thank buddy. I owe ya. LOL

Seriously we have driven by that place a dozen or more times heading home from Kansas City or Chicago and Gail would say I'd love to stop there sometime. Up to today I had been able to resist the stop. Today she got her wish and found stuff she could not live without. A neat place but I'll avoid it next time.
 
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But Bob ....why in the world would you mention that Candle place. :bonk: OMG. Gail loved the place. She found something around every corner. Thank buddy. I owe ya. LOL

Seriously we have driven by that place a dozen or more times heading home from Kansas City or Chicago and Gail would say I'd love to stop there sometime. Up to today I had been able to resist the stop. Today she got her wish and found stuff she could not live without. A neat place but I'll avoid it next time.
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They used to have a gourmet food section in there too, but that has been eliminated. I was able to find 4 bottles of wine for holiday events in their wine section today.
 
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I was out plowing snow at 7:30am as we had a break in the weather. The snow held off until the evening yesterday but this morning we awoke to a foot of the wet stuff that was a pain to plow. I did our property without issues as I had scrapped it down yesterday. My neighbor didn't and had about 6" of semi frozen slush underneath the snow. I made it 20ft into his driveway plowing snow and slid sideways almost into a ditch. He was in town but he had to kick his wife out of bed to come tow me out. We tried from 3 angles to get out. Thankfully it worked. I finished their yard in 20 minutes then came back home to bring one of the kids to an appointment. The busses are all canceled due to the roads. I drove 30mph all the way into town following a line-up of vehicles all fighting to stay on the road.

The snow and wind have picked up again so I may have to plow again later.
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NorthernRedneck said:
I was out plowing snow at 7:30am as we had a break in the weather. The snow held off until the evening yesterday but this morning we awoke to a foot of the wet stuff that was a pain to plow. I did our property without issues as I had scrapped it down yesterday. My neighbor didn't and had about 6" of semi frozen slush underneath the snow. I made it 20ft into his driveway plowing snow and slid sideways almost into a ditch. He was in town but he had to kick his wife out of bed to come tow me out. We tried from 3 angles to get out. Thankfully it worked. I finished their yard in 20 minutes then came back home to bring one of the kids to an appointment. The busses are all canceled due to the roads. I drove 30mph all the way into town following a line-up of vehicles all fighting to stay on the road.

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You do know this sh!t happens in Canada every winter. :whistling: :yum:
 
Yep. I enjoy plowing snow though. Spent half the day so far. Got stuck twice. The snow packs very hard and slick making it like ice. A lot of the time I would spin backing up from pushing into a bank. I learned quickly to feather the throttle a bit so as not to spin and let the 4x4 do the work.

My 17 yr old was impressed. 🤣 I had him come out in my f150 to pull me out of one spot where I slid off the shoulder. Afterwards I was pushing snow downhill and tried backing out from the bank. Well, all 4 tires slid sideways a couple feet. I stopped a few feet from one of the apple trees. I decided to drop the plow to anchor the front and cut the tires hard right and floor it in forward making the back of the truck swing around on the slick ice doing about a 160 degree swing from going uphill to going downhill 🙃 😅. Once it swung around facing downhill, I easily backed out. All this on our single lane drive.
 
Heading to Notre Dame tomorrow morning to pack up Dasha's dorm room and return her home for the Christmas break holidays. Entire move out process has to be completed tomorrow because she will be in an off-campus study program next semester.
 
We finished the last packaging project of a major account today.
The comparatively small quantity medical packaging remains until Christmas.
Lights out?

Maybe.
But then we received a call that the frozen Steak company wants another run of 200,000 books.
So today I began making warehouse room and preparations.
 
Relaxing with my feet up this morning but going to help out a community member down the road who put out a request for a one time plow as her husband is working out of town. Taking the new puppy for her shots this afternoon then a sleepover for the scouts tonight at the church we meet at. I'll probably end up shoved in a closet or entranceway to sleep again as the adults don't sleep in the same room as the kids. And it's a 100 year old church.
 
Did horse chores and everything was going so well until everything turned to shit. Got the poo cleaned, gave them hay then when I went to fill the stock tanks the water came ou cloudy. WTF alge in the 2500 gallon holding tank. Had to dump the whole thing then filled it back up with a cup of Clorox in it. Screwed my whole morning plan. Only happened one time before but that was a PITA too. Now its lunch time.
 
Just got back home from taking my dad's dogs to the vet. There are four left now, and we can't take care of them. We don't know what the outcome will be with his house, nor mine. We're going to have to lawyer up but fortunately - he had some very good friends that also know some very good lawyers. I just hope it doesn't come to that. But they're also going to help us find the remaining four homes. But the vet visit went well. No real issues other than three ear infections and one eye infection. All can be remedied through anti-biotics and ointments.
 
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Had a busy day early seeing my granddaughter Kasey off for her Christmas break to State College, Pennsylvania.
My son Jeff drove after we had breakfast at Bob Evans.
That was my Christmas spent with her.
She's staying through Christmas so I gave her the gift of cold hard cash.
She took the birds with her.
😁🦜
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Just got home from a restless night of sleep in laying in a small closed in room with a photocopier on my right and an elevator shaft on my left. We were watching over 8 teenage scouts upstairs at a church while around 16 younger kids slept downstairs. We basically made homemade pizza and watched movies all evening. Now I'm resting before heading back to the city to play music at our church.
 
Spent the day mostly loafing.

Cleaned up some old Crystal from when Crumpy and I were first married. Packed away in the basement it had gotten wet when the sewer plugged up. Beautify stuff from a grocery chain premium program that we couldn't finish the set out as we had moved to Chicago. Yes, cheap, ($2.00 ea) but really nice stem ware and barware. For newlyweds first years in hand-me-down furniture, drapes, kitchen utensils and plates, it was special.

We proudly set them out, with our miss matched plates and silverware, for holiday gatherings.

We now have Jamestowne Gold stemware from Mikasa. At least16 each of wine glasses, Iced Tea, Hi-ball, aperitif, you name it. Probably over 80 pieces and they all match. So, despite the nostalgia, the Gold trimmed "Specials" were put away for a bar I have never built. The space in the lower lever is currently occupied with other "stuff" with which we cannot seem to part.

New boxes and bubble wrap. A few metaphorical tears, and they went back in storage. Hopefully they don't have to wait another 30 years.
 
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Been running my butt off for 2 days. After the scouts sleepover I was supervising (yawn) and playing the 5pm service at church yesterday, I skipped out on church this morning to plow the yard again cleaning up the mess after the storm this week. This afternoon I am headed to the local snowmobile club for a meeting. They put out a call for volunteers this season so I'm going to go check it out. (I may end up running the trail groomer occasionally)
 
Relaxing today. I'm going to speak to a lawyer tomorrow and begin trying to settle things. I'm getting some time off, but it's going to be anything but relaxing. We're momentarily in a hell of a mess with what happened, but I feel I've got this.
 
J.J. McDaniels said:
Relaxing today. I'm going to speak to a lawyer tomorrow and begin trying to settle things. I'm getting some time off, but it's going to be anything but relaxing. We're momentarily in a hell of a mess with what happened, but I feel I've got this.
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Good for you ❤️
I've been through similar when my Mother passed away, but you'll get through it. 😉
 
my brother was married _eight_ times, seven females. he married the 7th wife, divorced, married her as 8th....
he had one child by one wife.
as life progressed I chided him he really needed to have a will - given the number of parties / situations involved . . .
advice he ignored, he suffered a massive heart attack (while hunting turkey....) never regained conscientiousness and died the next day.

no will, state law gave everything to his (then) wife, his own kid - who he raised while living at home with our parents.... - got zero.

some situations go from bad to worse real fast - so all the folks with no will and still "thinking about it" are encouraged to get to the business of your affairs. the day will come.
 
My biggest concern for tomorrow is the bank. His business account was locked because his card was reported as stolen. That's not so. I have it, and I've used it to pay his bills with. I wrote checks to pay his employees on his behalf, and I had his consent to do so. I just hope the bank doesn't see it as forgery because it wasn't. Not a single cent more than what was earned by everyone was taken. And our bank was more than well aware he was ill and wasn't physically able to make an appearance, let alone sign anything.

And he's got money tied up in that account I need to access so I can keep the ball rolling with his business, and it's either going to be dissolved, or re-organized into a new business with a new name. I at least hope the lawyer can do something with that as soon as tomorrow. I don't want his employees to work and not get paid, but I've got a backup plan just in case. They'll still get paid, but I won't. At least for this week.
 
state laws vary and can be exceptionally goofy at making common sense.
if you were an authorized person on the accounts, the bank may or may not allow you to operate them, because 'his' accounts are part of 'his estate' - which is frozen at death - and nothing happens until somebody is legally granted executor powers. the lawyer should be able to make that happen quick - presuming you are the named executor....
if it was an incorporated business account, you may have more leeway - as 'the corporation' continues....
note that if you were operating by "Power of Attorney" - that authority ceases at his death.
lawyers have good uses, not many,,,, but some.
 
Setting myself up for another "easy" day.
Pancakes and French Toast in the morning.
Clean up the kitchen.
Season a bottom round for the crock pot and put in all the veggies for a pot roast.
Cleanup the kitchen, again

Clear the greenhouse of debris and clean the cat boxes
Tend to the bird feeders.
Carry out the trash
Split some firewood

Set the table for dinner.
Easy day.

Crumpy says my training is coming along just fine.:thumb:
I could make somebody a good housewife. :ermm:
 
We took care of a few things today. We opened up a safety deposit box for his valuables, checked his house for anything else we may have missed, fed, watered and gave his dogs their meds, (we're in the stages of adopting them out to good homes) and his bank account can still be used, but only for so much longer. I started the process for the Memorial Service today. I've set it for next Friday. I'd like to have some great pictures of him, followed by a slideshow, music, and some words from family/friends. I've kept everything mostly in check, but that's going to be a tough day. I'll only have a few days off afterwards and start getting back into the swing of things.
 
JJ....I can relate as we went through all that last year after dad passed. I know it's hard but stay focused on all the important things that need to be done. It's a lot but after the funeral/memorial service and everyone goes home and things settle down, it'll hit you like a tonne of bricks. All kinds of emotions will flood you. What eventually helped me was every time I'm having a "dad" moment, I take a deep breath and tell myself that it's going to be OK.

I hit the ground running again today. I was at a snowmobile club meeting yesterday with around 40 other guys. They were looking for groups of guys to head out and inspect the trail system now that we have snow and do any final brushing and pack the swamps to drive the frost down before they take the groomers out in January.

All three of my sleds were still sitting outside with a foot of snow on them so I went out and cleaned them off, unloaded two of them and put them in the garage to clean and service them before I head out later this week with a group of guys to inspect a section of trail and look for a possible bypass for a stretch that will be plowed this winter by a logging company.

I headed to the city with my oldest son to shop for shoes and pick up a grocery order. After supper I headed back to the shop to do some work on the plow truck as the filter in the lift pump keeps clogging. Easy to do but time consuming. Take the motor off the pump. Drain the fluid. Remove the internal pump mechanism and remove the screen filter. A replacement isn't expensive but you can clean them and reinstall. Just spray it with brake cleaner and use an air hose to clean. Once I threw it all back together and refilled it, it worked great. This would have waited but we have another storm coming tonight so it needs to be ready for the morning to plow. Now it's 🍺 time.
 
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NorthernRedneck said:
JJ....I can relate as we went through all that last year after dad passed. I know it's hard but stay focused on all the important things that need to be done. It's a lot but after the funeral/memorial service and everyone goes home and things settle down, it'll hit you like a tonne of bricks. All kinds of emotions will flood you. What eventually helped me was every time I'm having a "dad" moment, I take a deep breath and tell myself that it's going to be OK.
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Man, I don't even think I've really taken the time to grieve. It just seems so surreal. Both of my parents are gone right before Christmas. I'm 41 but it still boggles my mind.... why do these things always happen around Holiday seasons?
 
J.J. McDaniels said:
Man, I don't even think I've really taken the time to grieve. It just seems so surreal. Both of my parents are gone right before Christmas. I'm 41 but it still boggles my mind.... why do these things always happen around Holiday seasons?
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Right now just focus on what needs to be done then as things settle, you be sure to take time to grieve in your own way. There's no easy time for it to happen. It sucks but the end result is the same. We all gotta go sometime.
 
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