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Garden is failing. The weather is starting to resemble the two summers we had in a row where it was cold and wet clear into July, then it spiked up to 90 overnight, then went back to rainy and cold a month later. The garden didn't do well those two years at all, and I am having the feeling we will see a recurrence of that weather pattern, unless something with the latest eruption and ash in the atmosphere has something to do with our summer weather, where it would possibly be even colder and wetter. I don't know. In any case the corn starts are all dying back, the tomatoes are not thriving at all, and the pumpkins are not sure whether they will grow or die, they're just exactly the same as when I transplanted them two weeks ago.
Good luck at the Half Price Books in Lynnwood today: I found the book I have been looking for. Holly Lisle wrote a book called Sympathy for the Devil, and I had a copy, read it several times, loved it. I came across a second book, then a third, and wanted to reread the first one again, but after going thru my shelves several times it was nowhere to be found. Perhaps I loaned it to someone and forgot, and they forgot to get it back to me. That happens to me a lot. But the book was out of print, and I have been looking for a copy at the used bookstores. Today I had to go to Walmart for mop heads anyway and figured a trip to Trader Joes and Half Price while I was in the area was in order. At first I didn't see it on the shelves, but someone had covered it up with another book in front of it. So incredibly lucky me.
Working on probate of grama's estate. It won't be a big deal because it's just my sister and I as heirs, and there isn't much, just a few stocks to cash, but in order to cash them and file the last taxes for her estate I have to go thru probate and get officially assigned as executrix of the estate and the power to deal with things on behalf of the estate. I doenloaded a dozen forms and will fill them all out, then go in person to the court to file them and have the people there just pick out the forms they actually need. I figure if I have more forms filled out than I need I can get it done all at once, instead of not having the forms and then finding out I need a critical bit of info I don't have with me. I'm sure they get this sort of thing all the time, people dealing with probate for the first time and not going thru an attorney. It costs $230 for filing probate at the courts, and if you have an attorney it will be over a grand. Our inheritance is going to be so small as it is, we need to skip the attorney and I have to figure all this stuff out on my own. The ironic thing about estates and probate and all is usually a person only has to do this sort of thing once, and by the time you learn how to do it you'll probably never need the knowledge again.
Good luck at the Half Price Books in Lynnwood today: I found the book I have been looking for. Holly Lisle wrote a book called Sympathy for the Devil, and I had a copy, read it several times, loved it. I came across a second book, then a third, and wanted to reread the first one again, but after going thru my shelves several times it was nowhere to be found. Perhaps I loaned it to someone and forgot, and they forgot to get it back to me. That happens to me a lot. But the book was out of print, and I have been looking for a copy at the used bookstores. Today I had to go to Walmart for mop heads anyway and figured a trip to Trader Joes and Half Price while I was in the area was in order. At first I didn't see it on the shelves, but someone had covered it up with another book in front of it. So incredibly lucky me.
Working on probate of grama's estate. It won't be a big deal because it's just my sister and I as heirs, and there isn't much, just a few stocks to cash, but in order to cash them and file the last taxes for her estate I have to go thru probate and get officially assigned as executrix of the estate and the power to deal with things on behalf of the estate. I doenloaded a dozen forms and will fill them all out, then go in person to the court to file them and have the people there just pick out the forms they actually need. I figure if I have more forms filled out than I need I can get it done all at once, instead of not having the forms and then finding out I need a critical bit of info I don't have with me. I'm sure they get this sort of thing all the time, people dealing with probate for the first time and not going thru an attorney. It costs $230 for filing probate at the courts, and if you have an attorney it will be over a grand. Our inheritance is going to be so small as it is, we need to skip the attorney and I have to figure all this stuff out on my own. The ironic thing about estates and probate and all is usually a person only has to do this sort of thing once, and by the time you learn how to do it you'll probably never need the knowledge again.