General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and...part 14 :-D, 1 by meezersfive

meezersfive wrote:
Hooray, a new thread!!! Welcome nannybee, you'll enjoy us, I'm sure. Thanks for the tips about the valerian, it's supposed to warm up this week and I've got a shady spot picked out for it. Stopped at an ACE hardware store yesterday and they had a bin of seeds on sale, 10 packs for a $1. Even if less than half of them sprout, it's a bargain. Especially the ones that self seed after the first season.

Got the cleaning bug this morning, did the big bathroom and the bedroom, whew, hope that bug doesn't bite me again for a while. LOL Cat hair.....I could build a new cat out of all that fur. Now that we get a few sunny days here and there, they are blowing their coats like crazy, been going on for at least a month. I'm looking forward to bald cats!! (I can dream...)

I see everyone has sister issues. Money looms large in family relationships....when my step mother passed away, HER sister had sort of taken over and actually took her into our family attorney and had her change her will, which had left a fairly good sum to my sister and me. I still had power of attorney, which auntie had desperately tried to wrench away from me. At the same time complaining to me IN WRITING, that mom wasn't "in her right mind and didn't know what she was doing". When I visited the atty, just after she put mom in a nursing home, I asked about the will and he looked very uncomfortable and said he couldn't discuss it. Of course not....auntie had taken our names out and put in herself and her grandchildren.

I told him that I still had a valid POA, and that I was going right to the bank and withdraw every cent. He said to wait and he would talk to my step aunt. When I told my sister (who didn't know what the original will contained) she said to just forget about it. Money wasn't that important. Blah blah blah...However, in a subsequent phone call I told her what the original will contained, and boy oh boy, did she whistle a different tune!!! At any rate, auntie decided not to file the new will, and everything came out fine. But I did learn something about my sister....

Ahhh families, the dynamics are similar everywhere. At any rate, we get along with the ones we like and avoid the those who have given us good reason to not be in close contact.

Here's me and my dear old friend in Boston last week....note the matching caps which we bought separately and had a good laugh about...Thank God wrinkles don't hurt!!! See y'all later. Three loads of laundry waiting, serves me right for doing all that clean up.