The dogs are on my shit list. For some reason they barked off and on all night long. I took them out at 3:00 for a short walk. They both peed but kept barking. I should have put them out in their pen but I was trying to avoid them becoming mud balls. They were still restless mid morning and I gave up and put them outside. They have lost the privilege of coming in the house tonight.
Needless to say, I didn’t get a lot of sleep last night. I wasn’t having a good night of sleep anyways and the dogs took away what little I was managing to find.
A dear friend and her best friend came over today. We had a nice time. Kathy joined us for lunch at the Grand. My soul needed a deep conversation today and this friend allowed me to vent. It was a grand day!
I finally got Max’s truck insurance cancelled. It only took five phone calls all together. Man, it shouldn’t be that hard to take care of a simple task.
Max’s death certificates arrived in my mail today. I mailed one to one of his insurance providers as they had requested. I will need another one when I mail the probate papers next week. I can’t file that paperwork until it has been 30 days since the day of death.
I have worked on the probate papers today. Tomorrow Kathy and I are going to see my attorney so he can draw up some papers for Kathy. I am going to take the probate papers with me and ask him a couple questions about them. I’m not sure of a couple of the questions what the proper response is. I don’t want to withhold information from them but I don’t want to give them information they don’t need either.
I was going to pay my income tax estimate payment for June. I looked all over for the voucher I needed. Finally decided to call my accountant and found out that they signed me up for auto pay this year. The funds will automatically be withheld on the due date. No wonder I couldn’t find the vouchers. I’m always afraid I will forget to pay them or they won’t get them on time so I am grateful it will be automatically paid and I won’t have to worry about it this year.
I didn’t make it down to city hall to check on the availability of the community building. I am a bit shy about committing to a date until I have my doctor’s appointment next week. I may have to have surgery and will have to time things in my best interest if that is the case. I may wait until after the doctor’s appointment to find a date for the Celebration of Life dinner. There is no real rush so can do it anytime.
We are leaving at 8:00 in the morning for our 10:00 attorney appointment. I need to stop and fill the car with gas so will have to leave a bit early to allow time for that. Trusting the water won’t be over the highway so I can get out of town. The prediction is it won’t cover the road. If we get more rain tonight that may change things. I still have lots of standing water in my yard. There is no place for the water to soak into by now and it will run off quickly.
If we have the energy for it we will make a Costco stop when we are done with the attorney. There is a chance that he will have us come back in the early afternoon to finalize the papers instead of having to make a second trip to KC. If that happens, we will go to lunch and then go shopping at Costco to kill the time. We shall see what happens tomorrow.
I need to talk to Tagen about something. He may have to work tomorrow and if so I will have to make another trip to town tomorrow evening so we can talk. I will take him to dinner if that is the case. He is to let me know tomorrow if he will be home when we come back through Emporia tomorrow afternoon or if I have to go back to town later in the day to meet up with him.
I am taking Ellie to the Vet on Thursday. She is overdue for her annual check and shots. Lately she has had a foul oder about her and I need to make sure she isn’t becoming diabetic. While I am in town I have a sack of books to take to the Friends of the Library for their next book sale.
Thinking it will be an early bedtime tonight. I will have to get up by 7:00 tomorrow morning to be ready to leave at 8:00. I am not in the habit of getting up that early. Trusting tonight I will be able to sleep without interruptions as I will leave the dogs outside all night.
I am ready for the sun to come back out and play. We surely needed the rain but after a couple days without the sun I get cranky. I sure couldn’t live in Washington or Oregon where they can go weeks without the sun. I broke down and turned the furnace back on as the house was cold. Can’t remember the last time I had to turn the furnace on in late May. Even Kathy was cold before I turned it on and that like never happens.
Sitting with lots of unknowns tonight. Not sure how the probate process works for sure and how long that will take, not sure if I will need surgery and if I do when I might do that, not sure what is going to happen with Tagen’s house and truck, not sure when to schedule the Celebration of Life for Max, not sure about much of anything tonight. Pema Chodron wrote a book “Living Beautifully with Uncertainly and Change”. She reminds us that everything changes and yet what we are looking for in life is certainty and that is hard to find. Learning to get comfortable in the in-between times where there is no certainty is important. I will dig that book out and read it and allow it to remind myself there is nothing wrong with uncertainty even though it feels like there is. Uncertainly feels uncomfortable in my body and I need to allow it to feel uncomfortable without fighting or resisting it.
Grateful for friends that come visit, grateful for outdoor dog pens, grateful for attorney’s that help solve some of life’s little problems.