Mom's battle.

[Bob]

Well, I shuttled My Sis around town today, spent 5 hrs doing that ! man that gal can "shop till she drops!" HAHAHAHAHA
Got lunch out'a the deal and  enjoyied her company, and we BS'ed about everything in general
almost like the years between the last time we did such never exhisted.
seams now like all that is left to do is wait on "Paperwork", life insurance, car insurance
and Probate....
I will probably head down there again in the morning and take my chainsaw with me again and start getting some trail cut around the place for the comeing fire season.
I broke the tractor the last time I had it going, I put the bucket down and it won't come back up !... looks like it sheered a key in the shaft and the pump isn't turning on the hydrolic pump, so my top priority tomorrow is to get the tractor going first, I'll have to pull the pump off the front of the tractor and see just what happened to it....
I took 2 cats down there to the Ranch and I got to see them today, they came right up to me and wanted pets, hehehehe I guess all is forgiven for putting them in the Laundry basket/cat carrier !  HAHAHAHAHA so their still Kickin' and looking healthy, if they ever start hunting mice and rats they will realy LOVE it there !.
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I caught myself thinking Mom was in the house, like usual a few times, today...I suppose it will take a long time to get used to the fact that she is gone. I suppose thats Natural as Old habbits die hard <GRIN> but I sure do miss that O'l gal.... I guess it just wouldn't be right if I didn't !
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 After looking at that place , I have so darn much work to do I don't know where to start
(Typical Ranch life!) I guess its one of those "Do one thing a day " type things or it will never get done!...
top priority on my list of things to do is rebuild the spring... that will take months of hard work, but needs to be done very soon, as its the drinking water supply, and its not looking very sanatary any more.
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there is a great advantage to going back Home to settle in again, as I know where the water lines are laid, where the electrical lines are, and where the soft spots in the field are at ! Oddly enough allot of the stuff is still in the same place <Grin>
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I think my major concern should be removeing the fire danger stuff as the brush and debree has over grown all the paths,roads and cleared areas that used to give the place some protection form fires from all directions, now there is only one direction that looks half way clear, the rest are very brushy !... the water can wait till spring,  late spring and summer I won't be able to operate the motors out in the brush for fear of starting a fire myself, so best get with that major undertakeing as soon as possable.
...if any of you know where I can buy "personal ENERGY" from I'ed sure appreaciate a hint or two... I havn't got enough get up and go for all this work coming up! HAHAHHAHAHA
I could use about 50 gallons of High grade "Get up and go!" HAHAHAHAHA
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My Sis had the car towed in for repair and the Repair place sent the insurance co. an estimate, of over $3000.00 in repair costs, not counting any mechanical problems,
so we are waiting on word from them on what they want to do... I think its totaled
... but who knows what they will do !
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well, as they say, "thats the way it goes !...first ur money then your clothes !"
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My Sis said I need a "Butt-Shield"... and I got thinking a stainless steel Butt-shield probly would be a good device to have with this socioty... but you probly have to have a PERMIT to ware one! HAHAHAHAHHAHA
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Bob.......

[Bob]

Well finally , we got the car out of halk ... I had to go to the DMV and get the car redgistration changed into my name and then a Non opperation cert on it is the only way they would not keep dunning me for liscnses on the totaled car... sense we cept the car and did not GIVE it to a wrecking yard the people at the DMV didn't know how to handle it! but finally the gal got the boss to come over and tell her how to handle it !<GRIN>
instead of costing $17.00 it cost me $35.00... and they were going to make us come back but my Sis had the death cert in her purse as well as the accident report... so at least its now taken care of and I don't have to worry about the car any more !
.... the life insurance is being held up because My sis has to have a copy of her marrage liscnses from lewiseana... and their back logged because of the modigraw er what ever it is!
... I am thinking I will get the info from Sis and see if I can get my part comeing so I don't have to wait!....I havn't desided on that yet.
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but so far the Car insurance seams to have been a large JOKE... full coverage on the car and they will send a check for 600 or 700 bucks ... minus the 2 $100 dollar tow bills that they were supposed to pay for to get the estimates done...  and we're supposed to replace the car with that much ?  who's idea is that ?...
 All my life I've known that car insurance is a "SCAM" and this definately conferms it!
they have only paid a pitance of the hospital bill that is over $200.000  for 2 weeks in ICU
yet she had GOOD insurance ( state farm)...
and yet with all that ... car insurance is MANDANTORY ? why ? to make the insurance company rich ? because it sure don't help the victoms!
... no doubt about it we live in a weird socioty!
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Bob.......