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A tough job, BigJim. I hope your task joggles some wonderful memories. FTP for Saturday.
Not memories, so much, but we learned some things that we didn’t know about her (she was a very private person). She had a cedar chest filled with kimonos and embroidered sashes from Japan. She also had a dulcimer that none of us knew she played. We did have some fun “Paying it forward” this weekend. We found a coin purse full of laundromat tokens in her house, so we took it to the laundromat and asked the attendant to pass them out to customers. Then we took the money we got from selling her books to Half Price Books and bought food that we took to a homeless shelter. Today everyone else went home, but I stayed behind to take care of a few things in the morning. I went to Pizza Ranch for supper, and when I was done I bought a gift card and asked the manager to give it to the next family with kids that came in.
Jim, Could it be related to dealing with your sister’s stuff? Such a tough time, and things like that don’t make it better. Take care of yourself.
Nope, she doesn’t have a Bank of America account, either.
Got a security alert from Bank Of America, saying that my account is locked due to too many incorrect log-in attempts. I don’t have an account at Bank of America.
Day 2 in Iowa comes to a close. Another long day cleaning my sister’s house; moving, donating, and selling. One pick-up load to Goodwill, half a load to Salvation Army, other half load to Half Priced Books, and one unused-still-in-the-box over-range microwave to Habitat for Humanity. Half a day for cleaning tomorrow, then rest of the day spent preparing for and attending the memorial service.
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k to Iowa today to clean out my sister’s house and for her memorial service. I’m about 85% done cleaning up my own basement from last weekend’s flooding. The remaining 15% will have to wait until next week.
We originally were given an estimate of 10:00 PM Sunday for restoration of power. Sunday morning they bumped that up to 8:00 am Monday, and Sunday evening they bumped it again, to 10:00 am Tuesday. About 9:50 last night the lights came back on.
Which storm hit you worse, Friday or Saturday?
Saturday, no contest.
We originally were given an estimate of 10:00 PM Sunday for restoration of power. Sunday morning they bumped that up to 8:00 am Monday, and Sunday evening they bumped it again, to 10:00 am Tuesday. About 9:50 last night the lights came back on.
Birdin’, funny you should mention dulcimers. I was playing hide-n-seek with my sister’s will the other day … I clearly did not have a good grasp on her filing system … and I discovered a dulcimer in her house. I did not know that she played dulcimer, and neither did either of my other siblings.
I concede to your quicker fingers.
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I think I’ll go for a hike today.
Long day yesterday. Left Des Moines at 4:30, got home about 11:30. Stopped at Diamond Jo Casino in Iowa for supper. Pretty good buffet, but lost a few buck in the slot machines.
I’m just caching. I found the clues and 11 of the gems. I’ll probably look up caches with the 4 specific gems that I need. The last 35 will either come or they won’t.
Mowing lawn today, then back to Iowa tomorrow.
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