The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[TarnishedPenny]

ATL - the saddest thing about such issues is the relative triviality of the whole thing. I've seen sisters estranged over a cheap set of dishes. Hope yours settles soon and as painlessly as possible.

 

[MrPixel]

I won't go into detail BUT the ongoing family saga for March has been over an 'easement' (very long and very skinny) that the hubby's family seems to inherited i.e. surface rights and mineral rights (which is how I got a very tiny piece of when hubby died). My share is 1/32!

Sounds sort of familiar. C inherited a fractional share of two - believe it or not - helium wells in the Oklahoma panhandle. She was to inherit a corresponding share of the property, but noooooooo. Cousin Mildred poor-mouthed C's mother into ceding her share for way too little money, that the farm wasn't doing well, that droughts had made farming impossible without expensive irrigation, blah blah blah. Mildred couldn't do anything with the mineral rights, however, because of the way the gas production management was structured.

C and I visited the property without Mildred's knowledge, and it hadn't been farmed in years. They were just collecting the federal money to not cultivate in what was the heart of the Dust Bowl. The small check every six months or so claiming it was Mom's share of the crop proceeds was a huge ruse.

Our tiny share of the helium royalties amount to enough for a nice lunch every month. It's just fun to say we're invested in helium, 'cuz it's always going up, and it adjusts for inflation.

 

[NotWise]

Watered the lawn. Toured the hardware store, Fixed the raised bed. Fixed the lamp. I'm giving my back a break, then I'll prune roses--hopefully before the breeze gets much stiffer.

 

[Duleigh]

I won't go into detail BUT the ongoing family saga for March has been over an 'easement' (very long and very skinny) that the hubby's family seems to inherited i.e. surface rights and mineral rights (which is how I got a very tiny piece of when hubby died). My share is 1/32!

My grandfather had a 75 acre tree farm, five children, 15 grandchildren and no will. Talk about family issues! My cousins and I called the annual Independence day picnic & reunion "Family Fracas on the 4th" We'd invite our buddies to go camping with us and we'd bet on when it would come down to throwing punches. My great Aunt Gladys would hike back in the woods to our camp site (at 75 years old) and sit down with us underage teens and drink beer that we stole from the shindig.

It's beautiful land but I walked away from it. I didn't want the hassle. but it appears in many of my stories.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

My SIL (married to BIL) has the mother of all inheritance issues. Her grandparents were pretty wealthy, but fled Germany in 1938. There's a restitution scheme to compensate the family for everything that was confiscated by the Nazis, and this includes shares of the real estate and art the grandparents owned. Of course there's about 20 living descendants across five countries. Most of them want an interim payment, but others are holding out for a final settlement, after previously trying to disinherit adopted children and other such low tricks.

Thing is, even SIL's share of an interim payment would be about half a million, because it would be from two paintings that were sold for about 5 million quid each. But she's had to deal with her dad and grandparents dying, and now the main lawyer's dropped dead... It's a sort of fantasy for her, can't plan at all around it, but worth plugging away at, because that's a life-changing amount of money.

I have no idea who legally owns my grandparents house since their death, but it's available for any cousins to live in and there's usually a couple there, maintaining the place. Which is nice, but it doesn't smell like my grandparents any more.

 

[MrPixel]

Watered the lawn.

Mowed the back yard, which was getting out of hand. Minor miracle given how crappy I've been feeling with all this nose nonsense.

 

[ishtat]

When my paternal grandma died her affairs were pretty well ordered but 3 of her 4 daughters were very awkward.When it came to sorting out the kitchen they even went to the extent of cutting up packets of biscuits 3 ways while disgusted 4th daughter and Dad left them to it. They then went to lunch. When they returned Dad told them that the 3 little piles of goodies had been removed and fed to some bacon pigs in the farm's hog barn. One of the miscreant sisters got the point and apologised. However, the other two never spoke to Dad again, for some 20 years; that he claimed, was an un-looked for bonus.

My dad was the eldest son of an eldest son in a large family, as am I. Both he and I were named executor numerous times - it ain't no picnic.

 

[Duleigh]

Spent the afternoon brushing up chapter 8 to submit for publication but Chapter 7 has been sitting in pending for over a week. I've never had a new story stalled that long and Laurel is ignoring my DMs.

She must be on Easter vacation.

 

[NotWise]

Got the roses pruned, cleaned the big aquarium, planted fifteen nursery pots with chile, jalapeno, bell pepper and three kinds of tomato. It's still light. I have time to mow the lawn, but not the energy.

Easter dinner is a late lunch with my oldest daughter's inlaws, That usually takes most of the afternoon, so I figure I can run a slightly early schedule in the morning and maybe get the rest done before we go. If not, then meh. Don't care.

I took an ibuprofen to help my back along, and I'm done for the day. I should have some time to write a little.

 

[Duleigh]

The new hot tub has been installed and wired up. A fellow from St. George FL (it appears in my story Ex Exorcism as St. Felix) drove up and did the wiring. This thing is big! It's 4 feet deep and seats 8 very easily. When I got all the jets cleared of air and running I started fiddling with valve settings and the foot jets from four feet under the water blew into the air, it was like Anak Krakatoa 2. There's two little waterfalls and the dogs line up on the top step to drink from them.

 

[JcyPeach]

Fairly new to this site, this thread definitely has my attention. Keep the good vibes rolling

 

[MrPixel]

This thing is big! It's 4 feet deep and seats 8 very easily. When I got all the jets cleared of air and running I started fiddling with valve settings and the foot jets from four feet under the water blew into the air, it was like Anak Krakatoa 2. There's two little waterfalls and the dogs line up on the top step to drink from them.

Fancy!

 

[Duleigh]

Welcome to the Coffee Shop @JcyPeach (I'm sensing a fruit vibe with OC and JP, you may want to keep your distance from @joy_of_cooking)

This is a place where many of us hang out and keep the conversations cool. You don't have to be an Author to hang out here, but if you are, feel free to share anything of your experience. Or tell us about your garden. Or give us your weather update. We have all kinds here. Our Mentor and Texas coffeehaulic, TxRad is a professional writer (and boat builder) If you have questions about plot bunnies, or are having muse issues, or if your lawnmower won't start, this is the place to get some free advice.

And it's worth every penny.

 

[JcyPeach]

Love this. Love the vibe. Thank you for the most pleasant introduction

 

[dmallord]

Contagious
Shingles

 

[_Lynn_]

Contagious
Shingles

Get better soon.

 

[orangecurious]

big bike race on TV today.

coffee and waffles are on

 

[Seadog777]

I've started a new pot of my Barundi coffee.

Gonna be a long day of rain, rain, and more rain.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Off on an Easter break to NW Victoria - Mildura. It got to 35C today, and going down to 20 overnight.

Unfortunately, my favourite Mexican restaurant from ten years ago has gone, and there's only a Mexican version of Subway.

 

[THBGato]

Friends visiting for Easter. I've just set up the Easter egg hunt for the kids - clues in the form of rhyming couplets. Then brunch.

Happy Easter all.

 

[Duleigh]

Got kicked out of bed by my stepson's horse dog at 6:00 AM so I decided to try out the new hot tub. I watched the sun rise relaxing in the tub. Sun shining through the new leaves, songbirds singing, dog standing on the deck lapping at the water fall in the hot tub. Except for the neighbors rooster it was so peaceful, so relaxing...

Now if @Laurel would just publish my story that's been pending for 8 Days

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Contagious
Shingles

Owwy! No fun at all!

 

[Duleigh]

I was going to invite y'all over to try out the new hot tub but I don't know who had breakfast with @dmallord so I'll need to see shot records first...

 

[MrPixel]

Contagious
Shingles

Ugh. Feel good soon, DM. Pharmacist asked me the other day if I was interested in the vaccine for it. I passed, already having done the research to learn that I should figure on being sick for three days after. I may come to regret it.

I was going to invite y'all over to try out the new hot tub but I don't know who had breakfast with @dmallord so I'll need to see shot records first...

Ha. The weird thing about shingles is that the contagion risk is contact gives you chicken pox (if you hadn't already had it) and not shingles. Shingles comes later. Strange virus.

 

[Duleigh]

The weird thing about shingles is that the contagion risk is contact gives you chicken pox (if you hadn't already had it) and not shingles. Shingles comes later.

I had just about everything a kid could have, both flavors of measles, chicken pox, mumps, strep throat... and I still had to walk to school... through the snow... uphill both ways...