Slothy day post work. The overcast and darkness at 5:30p.m. didn’t help. Making Chipolte BBQ chicken for dinner, after the cocktail hour Manhattan.
5 days? 
that was some serious surgery. Hope you mend quick.
I want a corgi!
We have a conch shell here that is cut off to make a horn of sorts. I haven’t blown it in a long time but when I did my signal was 2 longs and a short and that was how the alarms were. Alarm…alarm…alarm. No one else in the world would know that except him, just strange. Anyway his employee is gonna change all the batteries tomorrow. I just hope there is no repeat tonight.
Cannot find the will but I know he had one so I spoke to his lawyer friend who is not even licensed to practice in Florida. He said hubby wanted to make things as easy as possible on me meaning he made me a Vice President of his company that I am now full owner and he put me on his bank accounts. They had discussed all these things. He said he gave him advice and he would tell him he had done this or that. So he said I shouldn’t worry about anything. Of course when the time comes to sell the house his name is on the deed along with mine and that’s when I would present a death certificate. He said I don’t want to say these words to you but “upon his last breath” everything became mine.
He said he could recommend a Florida probate lawyer but did not see any need for one. Of course I will continue to look for a will because I thought he had one. This would have been the guy he would have taken advice from. The man actually got a little choked up and weepy.
So I just need to go to the bank to figure out what if any payments are set up automatically. I know the phones are paid through the business. Hubby also got a regular paycheck each week so I need to see if the lady that does the payroll will just give me a check or continue to auto deposit his. I’m sure there are a hundred other things I haven’t even thought of but his conversation made me feel better.
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to sort.
{{{{Butters}}}}
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 74 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 83 and rain/tstorms/apocalypse this afternoon. Or not. The willy-nilliness of TWPTB is nuttin’ short of phenomenal. This mornin’ we shall lay in provisions. Not much is needed, so that’s good I guess. I sorta kinda said I’d assist with pee-kahn rollin’ this afternoon. We shall see what the weather does. Sup shall be poke tenderloin which shall be slow roasted in the oven, flytrap’s favorite succotash, smashed N.O.T. 'n gravy, and rolls.
{{{Butters}}} glad you have someone you can look to for advice about this stuff. Hope you find the will soon.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah.
Happy Hump Day and Happy Veteran’s Day Y’all!
Butters - I guess this varies from state to state, but in MD, the original will is kept by the county records folks, recorded like deeds and such, so we don’t have our originals, but the lawyer gave us copies. You might at least ask how things are done in FL - it could save you some hunting.
The rain isn’t supposed to hit here till after 10 or so. Once it’s light, I’m going to put on some grubbies and go out to plant as many bulbs as I can before precip starts. I did get the mulcher/vac emptied and put away yesterday, so all I’ll need to pull out is the wheelbarrow and a small trowel. Dunno if I’ll have a time to plant everything. I’ll start outside FCD’s shop, then head out front. At least it’s still mild - cold comes later this week.
Once I’m stuck inside, I’ve got a little sewing to do. I want to make a couple of runners for the little cabinets in the dining room, and my daughter asked me to make her kitchen curtains from a curtain that came with her house. Neither of those are difficult tasks, but they should fill my afternoon.
I am slightly ticked that I bought the turkeys already - Food Lion has a sale starting to day that would have saved me $20 on them. Dammit. Oh well, it’s just money, right?? * sob * Unfortunately, they don’t have the bottled cokes on sale this week. I may have to break down and buy the cans that are on sale. It doesn’t matter to me a lot, but FCD hates the cans, plus he wastes a lot because he won’t finish a whole can. At least with the bottle he can put the cap back on. Yeah, yeah, first world problems…
Anyway, Happy Wednesday!!
Morning, mumpers! Well, it’s morning here for another four minutes.
Welcome back, hippie, glad to know you made it home safely. Healing vibes on their way across the pond.
{{{{{Butters}}}}}
Comfort food is on the cards for us tonight too, I am using leftovers from the freezer and pulled out a couple of tubs of chilli for later. Breakfast was a fried egg sarnie, just because I felt like it.
Today’s fun and games will be with the Guv’s latest announcement that they will allow a travel window from 3rd-9th December for students to go home, and the rest of their teaching will have to be online. Somehow or other, this travel window will be staggered so that students aren’t all travelling at once - leaving accommodation probably in much the same way they arrived with a booked hour-long slot and only one person to help them. I fully expect a deluge of parents on campus at the weekend to take their offspring home sooner rather than later.
All my bulbs have been planted - it only took about an hour. I didn’t have as many left as I thought. All of the tulips went in front of the shop, and the mixed wildflowers were spread among 3 beds. It’s lots easier to plant in a trench rather than digging individual holes. Plus the soil was moist and loose, which helped a lot. Rain later will help set all in place.
I’m showered and dressed and shortly I’ll start my sewing chores. And it’s not even 8:30! Go me! 
Butters. I’m so sorry to hear about Mr. Butters. I’m sure you’re still in shock but please take care of yourself and let others take care of you too. That’s a hard lesson I learned this year and I’m still learning.
On a practical note, get yourself a notebook or legal pad and keep it with you. Write down anything that comes into your head that you want to look up, look into, follow up on, etc. It doesn’t have to be pretty or make sense to anyone but you. A kind nurse gave me a legal pad and a pen on Ruble’s first day in the hospital and I filled it up with notes, lists, etc. and I still refer back to it sometimes.
That is an excellent suggestion, OW. I second this.
Up a 7am and have retrieved the newspaper from the front yard. Need to do some errands this morning and have the Drs. appointment at 2pm, so for me it’ll be a fairly busy day. Temperature is still in the 70’s, but cloudy and some rain here and there.
FCM, hope the flowers bloom in the spring as planned.
boo fae, I predict this leaving plan will begin at “SNAFU” level and quickly progress to “FUBAR”. Hang in there.
swampy, just looks at the NWS radar and kinda depends what direction that big storm now around Tampa-St. Pete goes this afternoon/evening.
OK, need to instant-breakfast myself and then prepare to face the things I need to get done. All y’all take care
Mom had her surgery yesterday. It never ceases to amaze me what kind of brutal trauma the human body can endure. It lasted 11 hours - the cancer was more extensive than they realized, but it sounds as though they were able to remove it. Just waiting for the pathology report to come back. My mom keeps trying to talk to people but since she has a tracheostomy in and her throat is so swollen, she can’t make any actual noise. So when she wants something she’ll do her best to mouth it, then wave her casted arm around until given another blanket or moved.
Anyway. It’s going to be a long, hard road, but I am so grateful nonetheless. I hate that I can’t see her as much as I would’ve pre-COVID, but I guess it’s better in some ways without me sleeping in her room, snoring and keeping her awake between nurse and doctor visits. I hate feeling this lost.
Overly I hope she has a speedy recovery. I couldn’t stay with hubby but 9-9 and not one minute before or after.
My kind neighbor lady from across the street came over yesterday and we started a list. With today being a holiday-Shout out to all Vets- nothing much on the list can be accomplished today.
Some neighbors from across the canal brought me a plate of shucked raw oysters and a dish of oysters Rockefeller last night. Was so good.
And the rain has begun. I’m starting work on Daughter’s curtains while watching a show on the Library of Congress. I need to go there - hard to believe I’ve never been there, even tho I grew up so close by. Heck, I didn’t get to the Archives till I took my nephew there 10 or 12 years ago.
Anyway, back to work. Can’t be entertaining you people when I have chores to do… 
I’m so sorry, Butters. And thanks for your kind words - you’re going through all kinds of crap yourself and I wish I could help, if only to bring you a barrel of oysters Rockefeller.
Thanks Overly.
I forgot to tell y’all that I walked straight into the very clean slider door yesterday. It broke my glasses and gave me a pretty good ouchie to my cheekbone. Thankfully I had spare glasses and I shall add decals or something to put on the doors to the list so I shan’t do that again.
Mine too!
Of course, I bought a single bag of tulip bulbs, and planted about 2/3 of them (with the idea of forcing the rest) so my bulb-planting wasn’t quite as ambitious as yours!
Currently sitting at my gate waiting for my flight back to Michigan. I had a nice time with my former I.T. Guy! He even bought me a pound of my very favorite snack (the landjager, a kind of jerky sausage, from Kuby’s Deli) to take back home with me. 
Ouchie, Butters! That’s one good reason why I have never had patio doors here, I would be forever be walking into them.
Wordy, sending healing thoughts to you and your mum as well. It is amazing what the human body can tolerate, it is a truly remarkable machine.
OW, I was the same with the lists. When mum was in hospital and the doc said she only had days left, I started thinking of all the things I would have to do afterwards, and all the people I’d need to contact. I am still finding things that should have been on the list too, but it was really useful to get it all on paper and clear my mind a bit.
metalmouse it all makes me very glad I’m not on campus at the moment. I am still working from home although there are still some people staffing our campus offices. I am pretty sure once it becomes obvious that students will be off home at the earliest opportunity, there will be a mass exodus sooner rather than later. On the plus side, it does mean all the campus staff can work from home again for the last little bit of the semester. We were due to finish teaching on 18th December anyway, with offices open until 23rd, then the Vice Chancellor magnanimously gave us two extra days off because we’ve been working our socks off all year so 18th December would be close down for everyone.
I have been sitting here looking forward to chilli for dinner tonight…bit of a surprise when I moved the tubs I’d got out of the freezer and realised what I’d mistaken for sweetcorn was actually orzo, so it is beef stew tonight instead!
Sorted Green was screwing up as usual…
Butters, ouch. Glad you had spares.
{{{{Wordy and Wordy Mom}}}}
Dr has confirmed that Roxy doesn’t have the plague, so huzzah!!
Lunch has been ingested. One curtain is done, the second will be done shortly.
Rain continues. Leaves fall. Somewhere, a rooster crows… I guess. I don’t hear any, but what are the chances??
Morning all!
Mrs. Wheelz surprised me last night with a bacon and eggs dinner when I got home from irk. Yum! Then she wanted to talk about my recent mood. She urged me not to make any long-term decisions about employment right now because the current situation won’t last forever and I’ll be happier when things are back to normal. I pointed out that even so, I’ve seen some things from management that have soured me on the place as a whole. Still, she’s probably right; I should wait it out at least until the pandemic is over and reassess then.
She also theorized that even if I don’t realize it, I’m probably experiencing some depression because the holidays are coming up and it’ll be the first year without my mom. And that’s made even harder by the fact that I can’t even get together with my brothers and nieces.
It’s good to have such a smart wife.
Sounds like both of you married well.