Homeless Cat -- Now Spotacus' Legacy
On 18 Dec, a very large cat showed up at our house. It was late and cold, and he looked in the door and made it clear he wanted inside. Well, since we have two cats already and he was a stranger, we...
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We visited a retirement community about an hour's drive from my house, and about 15 minutes from Sister. Mom seems to like it, enough that we'll visit again this Tuesday, and Sister will meet us there. It's affordable, albiet more expensive than she wanted to pay, and will easily hold the pieces of furniture she deems essential.
As soon as we get back to her place, I'll start consolidating all the family photos into moving boxes, which can then be stacked in a corner of the apartment's second bedroom, which will be her office and genealogy records storage. She'll be able to go through them at her leisure, providing identifications, dates and locations for me to add when I scan them into her computer, then upload to several genealogy sites. She intends to offer the physical photo to whichever family member wants it.
While I'm tracking down all the photos, she'll be responsible for clearing out her wardrobe of all the stuff she hasn't worn in more than two years, so she doesn't overfill the apartment closets. I suggested she send all her heavy winter clothes to my brother in Kansas, as that's the only place she'd need them. Would also cut down on the luggage when she goes up there. Sister thought it would be fun to just ship them, without warning Brother (yes, we have a very weird familial sense of humor).
She's overwhelmed by the idea of moving 500+ miles away into a big city, after living nearly all her life in the country. So we'll try to make it less stressful by reminding her that she doesn't have to do it alone or to make all the decisions at once. Sister suggested we find a councilor, to help her through the grief she's going to experience as such massive change occurs. From personal experience with MIL, I already know some of the things she's going to say as she lashes out at us from grief and fear of change, so it will be occasionally painful but I also know she won't mean it.
The apartment should be ready in a month, and then things will get very exciting... As we experienced with MIL, moving Mom into her new apartment and never taking her back to the old home will help her adjust to the new digs/life, and leave us to get the estate sale/auction set up, then the house sale. All she'll need to do is sign applicable papers and accept the monies.
I expect to be taking a lot of photos, so she can have them to remember all the stuff she can't fit into the new digs.
Meanwhile, on my own homestead, we have a couple more fawns hiding somewhere. WLToo says photos were taken, but I haven't seen them yet. The barn swallows appear to be nesting again. And we have one or two mockingbirds who delight in going through their entire repertoires at 0300. Sigh.
Well, Spotacus is making it clear that it's bedtime. Later, y'all.
As soon as we get back to her place, I'll start consolidating all the family photos into moving boxes, which can then be stacked in a corner of the apartment's second bedroom, which will be her office and genealogy records storage. She'll be able to go through them at her leisure, providing identifications, dates and locations for me to add when I scan them into her computer, then upload to several genealogy sites. She intends to offer the physical photo to whichever family member wants it.
While I'm tracking down all the photos, she'll be responsible for clearing out her wardrobe of all the stuff she hasn't worn in more than two years, so she doesn't overfill the apartment closets. I suggested she send all her heavy winter clothes to my brother in Kansas, as that's the only place she'd need them. Would also cut down on the luggage when she goes up there. Sister thought it would be fun to just ship them, without warning Brother (yes, we have a very weird familial sense of humor).
She's overwhelmed by the idea of moving 500+ miles away into a big city, after living nearly all her life in the country. So we'll try to make it less stressful by reminding her that she doesn't have to do it alone or to make all the decisions at once. Sister suggested we find a councilor, to help her through the grief she's going to experience as such massive change occurs. From personal experience with MIL, I already know some of the things she's going to say as she lashes out at us from grief and fear of change, so it will be occasionally painful but I also know she won't mean it.
The apartment should be ready in a month, and then things will get very exciting... As we experienced with MIL, moving Mom into her new apartment and never taking her back to the old home will help her adjust to the new digs/life, and leave us to get the estate sale/auction set up, then the house sale. All she'll need to do is sign applicable papers and accept the monies.
I expect to be taking a lot of photos, so she can have them to remember all the stuff she can't fit into the new digs.
Meanwhile, on my own homestead, we have a couple more fawns hiding somewhere. WLToo says photos were taken, but I haven't seen them yet. The barn swallows appear to be nesting again. And we have one or two mockingbirds who delight in going through their entire repertoires at 0300. Sigh.
Well, Spotacus is making it clear that it's bedtime. Later, y'all.
