June 22, 2005

It has been a long time since there has been a dated posting on this forum. I hope someone sees it and there is some follow up. I know there is a LOT going on in this season with all the gardening, family trips and visits, etc. We're busy around here too. Shad is here for the week so we are getting some much needed work done. Holly is a real worker too and she is the spearhead worker for the machine shed. There is old wood that needs to be burned, old appliances to be taken to the recyclers, old motors that a neighbors have stored there for years(no rent paid for 2 years), etc. It will look much better around here when we finish all this cleaning up.

A long needed change was made yesterday in the court room. The trustee of the farm Jack's dad left him that we are living on and derive part of our income from died years ago. We had always been under the impression that he was just the manager(please remember that Jack has had memory loss from strokes and anesthetic damage)so there has been no trustee as the will required for over 8 years. Jack had been doing everything he could to manage the farm as the dead man had given him free rein to do from the beginning, but we were having lots of problems with a tenent over some cattle pastured here. We contacted the bank that we thought was the trustee and they were in the dark because the bank president who did all that work died years ago too. We finally were led by GOD to an old file box that yielded lots of interesting old papers. Including an old court decision to relieve the bank of the trusteeship & made the neighbor who has died the trustee(not manager as we had thought). So we went to an attorney and got papers drawn up to change the trustee of the estate. The probate judge issued the decision yesterday afternoon. Now the children who will inherit the property when Jack dies are the trustees and Kyle & Holly, Jack & I will be the managers. Legal papers will be signed by everyone as to the manager issue so no one can come back later and refute our authority in the future.

The little bit of garden I got planted is doing fine. I picked about 4 quarts of lovely blackberries last evening and will pick more today. I think we will have a long harvest this year as there are thousands of little green berries on the vines. I think I need to run a soaker hose down the rows to give them some moisture since we are in a dry period right now. I'm so thankful for a good well and electricty. We often take such conveniences for granted and don't take the time to give thanks for them. I still have weeds to pull and iris from the roundup to get more permanently planted. I'll give them a raised bed to multiply in before moving them to beds. Could take 3-5 years I know.

GOD bless and keep each of you.