Writing to you at 2:15 a.m. Today is Doc’s and my 30th
Wedding Anniversary. Hey, maybe
today will be a good day to transport our wedding photo album from Pomona to
the Penny Palace. We often joke
about our 60/40 rule. That usually
relates to food portions, but now it also means 30 years in HIS house, then 20
years in MY house.
The IRS allows for extensions when
people are not prepared to file their taxes on time. Can I request an extension on our Anniversary? I am not prepared for it. Let’s just plan to celebrate it with
all of you on October 13&14 when we have the Penny Palace Open House.
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This morning we had a few phone
calls to make before heading out to our meeting with a loan officer. Before we even got onto the freeway,
Doc needed to make a ‘comfort’ stop at McDonalds. I found a dirt penny in the flower bed and he found one when
exiting the building. (2 Pennies).
We found a credit union who was
willing to give us the going rate despite our loans on the rentals. The rep said to allow 30-45 minutes to
fill out the paperwork. He was superfast
at it, but it still took an hour and 45 minutes. He said we were not his average customer. No kidding! In school Average = a ‘C’ grade. I can’t imagine striving to be average. I always planned to excel and earn
‘A’s.
Doc and I had worked up an appetite
reading all the fine print and correcting the loan rep when he made clerical
errors or miscalculated things. So
we stopped for lunch at Honey’s Diner.
That was our big 30th Anniversary Celebration. Then we worked at the Pomona house for
an hour before I took my mom to the dentist. She needs three teeth pulled, three crowns, and a bridge to
hold it all together. Thousands of
dollars of work and zero way to pay for it. It made me grateful that Doc and I have dental coverage from
our jobs so that we won’t be in a similar situation as we age.
Doc and I arrived home and unpacked
some of the stuff.
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We were expecting someone to come
by the house for a delivery at 7 p.m., then Doc and I were going to have dinner
and a glass of wine. I was trying
to tidy the house a bit. Doc said
he would help out by getting that new chlorine “floaty” off the dining room
table and into operation. He
inserted the tablets then hurled the device into the pond. We both had a good laugh when I exclaimed! “Honey - that was our Anniversary
Fling!”
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By 8:30 our guest had not yet
arrived and I was getting hungry. I called her. She would be another hour yet. That did not make me too excited. When she arrived of course I had to show her around the
Penny Palace. I mentioned it was
Doc and my 30th Anniversary today. With a wistful look she shared that she and her husband
would have had their 15th Anniversary in two weeks. She was looking forward to a lifetime
with him and their three children.
Not too long ago she awoke to find him gasping next to her. A few hours later he was dead. Talk about an Attitude Adjustment!
Total: 2 Pennies
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