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Jul. 12th, 2011 10:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
treeskinIt's summer, we've been busy, just not with anything notable and post-worthy most of the time. The siding is up on most of the last side of the house, the bathroom window is fixed and all the trim redone (yay for straight windows!), the yard needs mowed but it's too damn hot.
By managed to take the laptop apart , replace the keyboard that The Boy spilled coffee on, and get it all put back together correctly. My hero! He has also replaced the factory stereo in the car with a new one that has a jack to plug in the ipod, so we can have tunes on the trip.
The garden is growing well and starting to produce, now that it's hot. Picked the first tomato and zucchini yesterday. I'm sure everything will come into harvest while we're gone, and that our neighbor will get some tasty things off of it.
I don't have as big a variety of flowers blooming right now, but what I do have are full and lush. Echinacea, queen anne's lace, black-eyed-susans, and every color of daylily. I have small patches of other things, scarlet zinnias, balloon flower, lavender, and of course those are the things The Miss demands for her morning bouquet. I gotta plant more flowers next year, so i can have some too.
The weekend's big news is that Sis and I were disowned by our father. He called her Sunday, drunk as a lord, to harangue her for our show of disloyalty and lack of filial affection. She admitted she *might* have said something rather rude before she *might* have hung up on him.
And then Crazy Aunt Kathy called her at 730 yesterday morning, because Crazy Aunt Kathy is not trainable, to tell Sis that she and her oldest daughter were now Dad's executors. (I'm sure my cousin is thrilled, she's got enough on her plate taking care of her mom.) Whatever estate Dad leaves behind (and I doubt there'll be much, he's drinking it up pretty damn fast) is to be held in trust for the grandkids. Sis told Crazy Aunt Kathy to "call me when he's dead" and hung up on her.
So, yeah. Major relief. I was so afraid he'd manage to kill himself in a car crash, and I'd have to go to some backwater in Texas and clean up his mess. And now, not my problem. Yay!!! I am fine if my kids don't inherit anything from him--freedom from his baggage is priceless.
By managed to take the laptop apart , replace the keyboard that The Boy spilled coffee on, and get it all put back together correctly. My hero! He has also replaced the factory stereo in the car with a new one that has a jack to plug in the ipod, so we can have tunes on the trip.
The garden is growing well and starting to produce, now that it's hot. Picked the first tomato and zucchini yesterday. I'm sure everything will come into harvest while we're gone, and that our neighbor will get some tasty things off of it.
I don't have as big a variety of flowers blooming right now, but what I do have are full and lush. Echinacea, queen anne's lace, black-eyed-susans, and every color of daylily. I have small patches of other things, scarlet zinnias, balloon flower, lavender, and of course those are the things The Miss demands for her morning bouquet. I gotta plant more flowers next year, so i can have some too.
The weekend's big news is that Sis and I were disowned by our father. He called her Sunday, drunk as a lord, to harangue her for our show of disloyalty and lack of filial affection. She admitted she *might* have said something rather rude before she *might* have hung up on him.
And then Crazy Aunt Kathy called her at 730 yesterday morning, because Crazy Aunt Kathy is not trainable, to tell Sis that she and her oldest daughter were now Dad's executors. (I'm sure my cousin is thrilled, she's got enough on her plate taking care of her mom.) Whatever estate Dad leaves behind (and I doubt there'll be much, he's drinking it up pretty damn fast) is to be held in trust for the grandkids. Sis told Crazy Aunt Kathy to "call me when he's dead" and hung up on her.
So, yeah. Major relief. I was so afraid he'd manage to kill himself in a car crash, and I'd have to go to some backwater in Texas and clean up his mess. And now, not my problem. Yay!!! I am fine if my kids don't inherit anything from him--freedom from his baggage is priceless.
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Date: 2011-07-12 11:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-13 12:07 am (UTC)