Diaries

Happy Birthday to Frances. Her and Al are up here for the weekend to help with the kit stuff and to celebrate her birthday.

By 5pm yesterday afternoon there was still a considerable amount of kit stuff to be packed and put in the truck from the garage. It took most of the day to do the lab downstairs. Ben and Paul went to the hotel then met us at The Pines for dinner.

They came back this morning to finish getting everything packed up into the car and U Haul. Paul took off around noon and Ben around 12:45. Another tough time seeing that side of the garage empty and all the kit supplies gone.

There was nice maybe 1/4 to 1/2 inch of wet snow covering everything this morning. Most of it melted off a couple of hours later. We have blue skies, temperatures in the low 40’s and wind.

Today is a very hard day for me emotionally. Ben and his son Paul arrived around 11am to pack up the science kit stuff. They drove down yesterday from PA. This morning they picked up the U Haul from our local supplier and will head back tomorrow.. Frances and Al came up yesterday.

I am so very happy I found someone wanting to continue the business for Bob. I will be helping with the transition as much as I can answering questions, etc.

Mostly cloudy today with snow showers flying around off and on but not much in the way precipitation with winds at 15 to 25 mph. It is to very cold tonight with temperatures down to the teens.

I am working on getting the kit stuff organized, paper work filled out, etc. for the transfer of the business.

There was very wet snow falling this morning when Colin and I went out around 8am to get the paper. It was just enough to cover the ground and make the road slushy. The sun was shinning by the time I left here for the gym but it was blowing snow and sleet at the gym. Now the sun is out and we have our wonderful 20 to 30 mph wind gust back today and tonight with a chance of more snow flurries.

I have a long list of project to work on today including a load of laundry and inventory and paperwork on the sale of the business.

I had a 10:15 appointment this morning with the social security office in North Wilkesboro for estate stuff. They are the nearest office to Sparta. Not knowing where I was going or how long it would take me to get there I left here about 8:30. It only took about an hour which means I was down there by 9:30. I decided to go ahead and check in just in case they would take me early.

Glad I did. They called me back about 10:45. I had a very nice young man who explained all my options, etc. Thirty minutes or so later I was all finished and back on the road.

Thankfully we only had rain showers since there was a chance of some sleet/freezing stuff might fall. The day is supposed to chilly, cloudy, and rain showers.

The winds have finally subsided the their normal 10 to 15 mph today with a few gusts. It’s sunny and warm, upper 40’s making it a nice day from what we’ve had.

I did the house cleaning chores this morning then spent at least an hour on paperwork and estate stuff, paying bills, etc.

While I had Colin out playing this afternoon I rehung the bird feeder.

I had a nice evening out last night with one of the ladies who volunteers at the bookstore and a friend of hers. We drove down to Elkin for dinner at Southern On Main restaurant then walked a block up to the Reeves Theater for a a music performance by the Jeff Little Trio.

The Reeves is another one of those old 60’s style movie theaters that closed in the mid 90’s and sat empty for years until someone bought and remodeled it into a lovely music and special events venue.

Still windy today, mid 30’s, and sunny. Gusts still in the 20 to 30 mph range but will hopefully start calming down more this afternoon.