What is wrong

This is the second time I have typed an enrty and the program will not save the entrys.  It will save just one line things.

Why wont this program save my entrys

Is anyone out there?

Cleaning 2327

My sister and I went down to 2327 again today.  My sister Kathy was too tired since she spent her night selling hogies.   Almost have one attic clean.  Went to the upper attic and there was mostly metalic things.  Guy things, they will go with our scrap metal load.   This will be quite a few loads for tha/.  All you will make on that is calorie loss intensive.Went through file cabinets. (this is file cabinet central).  Old papers of my great uncles and heaven knows what else.I am glad my sisters church is having that rummage sale.  Because a lot of it is earmarked for that.

It is amazing that a person could have so much junk.   I guess we could really have rented one of those dumpsters.  He also had a gas stove in the laundry room??????

Not much else new that is it for today...................

 

 

Tuesday

I am frustrated by all the work I (or rather, we) have to do at 2327.  I didn't know it was possible for one person to have so much neatly organized, but worthless, stuff.    Cancelled checks from 1947.  I think it is a sickness to not be able to throw things away.  To hold onto things that are totally useless, or in bad repair.  

Emily if I go second, I promise you I won't have boxes of useless junk.  I can not speak for YOU KNOW WHO.  I think the thrill must be in the acqusition, for me the thrill is in the pitching it out of my life.  The less one has the less there will be to clean.

If you don't use something in a year chances are you are not going to use it at all.

What to do with an old RV

Well, it has been almost one month since my dad died.  Seems like much longer than that.    We are still going thru his things.   I vow, to my daughter, that I hope never, ever, ever to leave a mess like this for you.  Just remember, Emily, to check my coat pockets, I still leave money in them. 

The old RV is the real pain.  Dad backed it into a pipe and smashed in the back, where thelights are.  He was going to repair it and had it all apart.  But he passed before he could repair, and I have no clue where the instruction book and the tail lights are.  It also has a leak in the brake lines.  The darm thing only has 62,00 miles on it.  But it would sell for about $1,000 to $1,500.  The cost and time would be more than the amount we generate from the sale.  I have been looking up auto donations on line and I think that is the way to go with that one.  Have to consult with my siblings on that.  I think I would like the procedes be donated to Cancer Research, since it was my moms RV and she died of cancer.  Maybe the money would help to work on a cure...................  Mom would like that, I am sure.

Today was a very nice day.  The best of the year so far. I havn't a clue how that bold printing pops off like that.  I went to order new glasses and then got some exercise walking around the mall.  I am going to restart my walking.  Hope Emily will go with me when she comes home...........................

Tomorrow will be another day at 2327 to clean up some more, soon we will be able to load the truck up with the metal things (junk) and get rid of some of that.  We havn't even started in the outdoor shed.  Gads

 

Still Cleaning Friday

It takes me about 5 minutes just to connect to the aol music.  Don't know if it is worth the time.  Sometimes I just like to sit and enjoy the silence and think.

Went to my dads house again (refered to as 2327 from now one)  My sisters and I decided that our project of the day would be the small side attic.  All junk, worn out and crumbly foam rubber.   Bags and boxes of paper bags.   And at the end of the closet were saved 1 gallon plastic milk bottles.   We squashed them up and put them in recycling.  Very little Christmas ornaments, andwooden leaves to tables long since gone.   And also rug scrap rements, they will be gone Monday night because the trash man comes the next day.  I have only to wait for a dry day so we can pjut this stuff out.

Enought waterproofed tarps made from old army tents.  All neatly piled and labeled with the size that the pieces were.  My sister wondered if they would sell at the Church rubbish sale.  I said yes, some old guy like dad would buy them.  LOL LOL LOL

 

Rainy Monday

Well, its Monday.  After being "on call", captured at the hospital, I am off today and Tuesday.  It is nice to have off days during the week.  I often womder how the people who work 9-5, M-F, ever get anything done.

Went to look at my fathers travel trailer.  I found out that someone may be interested in buying it.   These two items are worth just a few thousand dollars, with the RV being worth about $1,000 if I am lucky.   Right now my impulse is just donate it to charity and don't worry about replacing the brakes or the back panel where it was crunched.

This evening we are going to meet again to go thru "stuff."  My brother said that dad didnt believe in "wasting" anything.  But, why, would anyone save thing when their town had a recycling program.   Why save things if you are not EVER going to use them.   All it became was a giant PITA for us.

Havn'g found any money though.   I have heard of some people found thousands that their parents had in the house.  All I found were a tin of pennies.

My hairdressor said that when her husbands family decided to remodel the old family home they broke into the walls to build an addition.  In the walls they found thousands of dollars.  The bills were the old style from the 1920's.  I guess they put them there during the depression and they got forgotten or the people died and no one knew they were there.  Those old bills are redeemable at the bank.

Thats it for today.  A lot of work to do tonight.  Too bad its raining.  We can't put any cardboard boxes out in the rain.

 

 

Saturday, who know what will happen today

I am up early, I actually slept in till about 7 this morning.  That was really late for me.  I wonderthat after I retire will my body adjust  to not getting up at 5 in the morning.  I am still on the "old" computer and the "new" one is still infected.  Iguess he will work on that today.  

I am going to do housekeeping at my dads house and it is betterwhen you have some company to do this stuf.  Your siblings offer some relief from the sadness of it. At least you can laugh together.

Good Friday

I think that everyone in the world had off today but the hospital workers.  The road was devoid of traffic as I went in this morning at 05:30.  The schedule was light and we were done at 2 pm.  I was hapy to leave early and go home. 

 

I am in my daughters room typing this journal.  The Trojan virus is infecting our new computer.  It was infected on Jan 23, at 02:30.  I know for sure that it wasn't me, and my dtr had already gone back to school, so guess who that leaves........................................................

 

Enough said on that.  He downloaded the Norton Antivirus and it has isolated the virus, but doesn't seem to be able to get rid of it.  So, I downloaded 9.0 on the old computer and here I am.   I wish  were computer savy and could fix it.  But, that is just a wish.  I can't figure out how this type got switched because I didnt hit the buttons on the top.

 

I am off tomorrow and going to go to my fathers house and start pitching stuff.  I talked to a lot of people who have gone thru the same thing.  Their parents or uncles of that same generation saved EVERYTHING.  Whether they had a need for it or not.  I want to get rid of things before I die.  This will only happen if I go first.  I told my husband if he goes first there will be  the bigest pile of trash on the curb the next garbage collection day.  I think he has an anal comlex.

Well, I am working on Sunday.  I hope not to see anyone because that means they are sick on Easter and I am working too hard.

 

 

 

Tourettes synd

This is interesting to me.  I was listening to the news and a spot of sports came on.  The young guy is a pitcher and said he has Tourettes Syndrome.As I listened to him, the behavior sounded like my brother.  The constant eye blinking, involuntary limb movement and making throat noises.  He has always had that behavior since he was a little kid.  I also thought he was hyperactive when he was little.   He is in his 50's now and still does someof those things.   It is really a shame that he was born when these thing were not diagnosed.  He graduated from high school but has a lower level job.  Is it too late for diagnosis and treatment.   His insurance only pays 80% and he could not afford to pay the balance. 

I sent an email with the link to my sisters to ask their opinion.  What can be done about it if it is true?

Almost three weeks

Well, here I ait.  It has been three weeks since my fathers death.  I talked with my husband and he assured me that the right thing was done.  That being, no resusitation.  I guess he can look at it logically, and I had some magical thinking that I could have changed the course of events and it would have been fine.  He had been ailing for about a year.   And really sick since the end of February.  February 29 to be exact.  I guess I will always think of leap year as the day my father got really sick.

My siblings and I have been going thru his things.  First was his clothes, which wouldnt fit anyone.  Or really not the style for younger people.  We gave them to Goodwill.   I know some of those organizations bundle up a lot of those things and ship them overseas.   Seem strange, but I can imagine some person in a third world country wearing our fathers stuff.  

Next we started at the basement.  He never threw anything out.  It was all neatly catagorized.   There were checks dating back to 1957, honest, there  were.   Payment book stubs dating to 1949.   And every recipt and bill statement for utilities, and all the add ins you get with your bills and their evelopes.  I am glad there were 4 of us doing this.  It was really sort of funny, but also sad.

There ae nuts and bold and all kind of metal things.   He also saved things that didnt work.  My brothers are going to take them to the scrap yard and get some money. (I hope they take the stuff)

I also found a afghan that was made by my grandmother.  I kept that.  And my sister found her refrigerator art fromgrade school.  This wil take a while.   I guess if you have time you should get rid of anything that will prove embarrasing before you die.  Havn'g found that yet.