dmccarty
Super Star Member
What Varmint's wife did was excellent.
Unfortunately, fighting over the treasure of those who have died seems to be common.
Ticks me off to say the least. I can see heated discussions, to a point, for items that have meaning for people but fighting over "money" makes my blood boil. When my grandmother died, some distant cousin sued the estate for money! :shocked: My grandmother never had a pot to pee in and this $%^&*() came out of nowhere demanding money. My grandmother's property went to my father, aunt and uncles. It was real simple estate but this woman and her hack of a lawyer wanted to claw some money from the estate. Since my father was handling the estate of his dead mother, this was not something he needed to deal with. I have seen some heated conversations about items that have meaning and I understand those discussions. I have an aunt who maybe has forgiven me for getting my granny's rocking chair. :laughing::laughing::laughing: That chair meant, and means, a lot to me, since my grandmother owned it for years and I would sit in the chair for hours when I visited her. I am pretty sure she bought the chair at Sears close to a century ago and that chair is all original. Even the paint. The fabric appears to be silk, which is barely worn and the colors are still good. The chair folds up too and it still works. They truly do not make chairs like this anymore. I have always told my grandmother, even as a kid, I wanted that chair one day and on one of my lasts visits to her, out of the blue, she told me to take the chair so I did. My aunt was ticked but she got other mementos.
Most importantly, for whatever reason, my granny wanted me to have that chair. That chair is in my bedroom and I will sit in it from time to time to remember my granny. :thumbsup: I REALLY miss her too. Granny never had much and raised four kids on a teachers pay when teachers really were paid squat. She did not have time or money to fix fancy meals but she made some food that was simply awesome. One of those dishes was Chicken and Dumplings. Not fat, doughy yankee dumplings but flat dumplings. Not Chicken and Pastry that they make here in NC either. The "pastry" here are really noodles and I don't want Chicken and Noodles soup! :laughing::laughing::laughing: When I was in my late teens, my parents were out of town on the weekend. My granny called me up to see how I was doing and I was in the kitchen trying to make Chicken and Dumplings! :laughing::laughing::laughing: She was surprised that I was trying to cook Chicken and Dumplings and she laughed and laughed and laughed. Lordy, I can still hear her laughing. She told that story about me making C&Ds for the rest of her life. My dad and I were talking about that story this weekend and of course I told it to my kids for the upteenth time! :laughing::laughing::laughing: At least they did not give me the "Yeah, dad we have heard this story before." look or speech.
This weekend I saw that chicken thighs were on sale for 99 cents a pound and I made C&Ds for the first time in at least a decade. They were pretty danged good! Not as good as granny's of course but danged close! :licking::thumbsup: I still have one more serving of C&Ds I will eat tonight and I froze half of the chicken I bought. The next batch is going to be really good. Maybe 99% as good as granny's! :laughing::laughing::laughing:
I listen to a syndicated morning radio show that has a man and a woman as the two hosts. I think he is in his late 50's maybe 60's and she is in her 40s. Both have been married three times. They both got married young and she says she knew when she was getting married that it was a mistake but she did it anyway. The first marriages ended in divorce and they remarried. What is odd, is that it seems like they both married spouses with similar personalities and the character issues ended the second marriage for both. The two hosts have long joked how they thought three marriages sounded about right. :laughing::laughing::laughing: The man eventually married for a third time and it seems like the third time was a charm. The woman host said she would NEVER remarry but lo and behold this summer, out of the blue, she and her long time boyfriend got married.
Getting married three times does seem like a bit much, but now a days with people living so long, maybe three is not so much. Especially if one marries young and hits a few major bumps in the road of life.
Later,
Dan
