Mid week ramblings

I felt a weight lift off my shoulders after talking to the attorney yesterday. But, now I still now have to contact the investment guy back to tell him to proceed with the beneficiaries changes. Well, typically that is handled through his assistant lady, which is how I started to do that and she was like no problem, I'll get those changes typed up on a new form and get sent to your mom to sign. Then she scheduled our quarterly update with him and that's when he butted in with his false information. Usually when you call his office she is the one who answers and takes care of most things. I hate confrontation. I might just call and tell her hey, my mom and I consulted with her estate attorney and he advised us that your boss was  full of shit, I mean completely wrong, and my mom does not need to leave 50% to her stepchilren, nor do they have any rights or claims to her money. Please send her the form, as we discussed. My mom also has a small (well, in comparison to her main IRA investment account) savings account with them. I'm also going to tell her I'm transferring out all that balance to her regular bank account and tell her to close that account. It's ridiculous to pay $175 fee per year to earn $14 a year in interest. Best just to get it done and not procrastinate any more days (though the procrastinator in me just wants to wait until after dh's surgery)

I received a $50 Amazon gift card yesterday from one of the manufacturers my company does business with. We met a sales goal and this is what they sent each employee. Very nice.

It got down to 19 degrees last night. I had to turn the chickens water heater base on a couple days ago.

DH's covid test yesterday of course came back negative, so surgery is on for tomorrow. After that I'm sure we will both be relieved. Just praying this fixes his issue.

I think I mentioned our neighbors son and family and 2 dogs are visiting for 2 weeks? oh yay....yesterday the son and kids and their 2 dogs were outside playing. Of course they don't care that their dogs left their property and came over (they can get around the fence down at the edge of the bank to the river, or there is a walk through opening on each side of our main gate. Next thing we know their big (and I mean big) dog is at our back patio door barking, startling our dog. Then their little dog is up on his hind legs scratching at our patio door/window. I went outside and shooed them back to the small gate we have between our properties and just said to the dad - your dogs were scratching at our patio doors "oh, they were? sorry". And then literally 2 minutes later he had the 4 kids right out front at our 2 gates with their bikes and whatnot (2 are too little to ride themselves) using our driveway entrances (our gates are set back a ways) to turn around in. GO F'ING play in front of your house on your 4 acres of property!! Not to mention on the other side of their 4 acres is 20 acres of state land. I would never have guests with children and just let them play out in front of any of our neighbors homes. I've got enough going on this week, to not need to deal with them and their constant chaos invading our lives, too. It will be interesting to see, once they get their house built and live about 90 minutes away if their visits will be more or less. They might visit more often, but obviously won't need to stay overnight. And maybe Mr and Mrs Neighbor will visit them rather than them coming here all the time. 

I got an email last night that the landline telephone order I placed with Walmart was being canceled because it was out of stock. Well, guess I won't have one here by Friday to take to her when I visit this weekend. Oh well. I need to either find it to order someplace else or find a different similar one.

I probably won't post until after his surgery is done tomorrow, so might not be back on until Friday. We'll see how he's doing. I may find time later tomorrow to get back to my computer.