First, the photo - my one a day is of a street in Newberg.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyrielle/355533945/I worked until noon today - got everything done that I needed to. Then, with my boss's okay, I took off, because yesterday I'd gotten the paperwork needed to establish the estate account. I did that today. I haven't paid the bills yet, but I now
can, which is a vast improvement. That will likely be a task for this weekend so that they are all in the mail come Tuesday (my original intent was to have them ready for tomorrow but after running around all day, I needed down-time badly).
Highlights: arriving at the bank to open the estate account, only to discover that among the many papers I had brought, the tax id sheet wasn't one of them. (Good thing the bank in question was in Wilsonville, and thus I could easily dart home and collect the necessary paper. Sheesh.) At two of the three banks I had to deal with, people who were most apologetic about having to look up how to handle accounts of deceased persons and their representative, and how to do everything by the book. Every time, I said I didn't mind. I'd be more upset if they had to do this on such a regular basis that they knew it all by heart, and a little delay wasn't making it any harder. The girl at one bank was very flustered and called the Letters Testimentary a "letter from the lawyer" at first when calling someone for more info on what I could and couldn't do and be told. Fortunately, that was easily straightened out. Everyone was really very helpful, even if some people were a bit disoriented.
I went to a branch of one bank in Beaverton on Nimbus Avenue. I either didn't know, or had forgotten, that there was some sort of body of water back there. Not surprising - I've been down Nimbus only once before, for a bead and gem show, years ago - at least that's the only time I can recall. I usually drive past. But now I want to go back and see if there's any public parking and what the water is like viewed close (instead of observed across an office building's parking lot while driving). However, I didn't want to see it badly enough not to get out to my parents' house - and I wanted to do that before dark, so I could see the road conditions clearly.
Mail retrieved. I still need to handle forwarding it - unfortunately, the last of the three banks needed original copies of the death certificates and I had only brought one set,
and forgot about the mail until I handed them over. I'll straighten the mail delivery out next week. (In theory, I could go to my local post office tomorrow and request forwarding. Having made the mistake, in the past, of requesting forwarding from somewhere other than the post office that delivers, I think I won't do that. Perhaps it would now work properly, but this is not the circumstance in which I want to find out it didn't.)
Our neighbors / their neighbors are surely nice people. One in particular has been watching the house for me. I called him earlier this week and expressed concern about a couple outside pipes that weren't insulated well enough - Dad had been aware of them and meant to insulate them but hadn't got to it. He went over, got some insulation from the shop, and insulated them. It's not pretty but it surely seems to be sufficient to the weather and that, really, is all I care about. All the same, I made sure there was still water running a bit in the house. I don't need cracked pipes to deal with. (The hose did split. I should have drained it, but I didn't. That's my bad. At least he had unhooked the hose from the faucet, and I think only one part of its length split. But if I have to replace the hose, a big fat 'oh well'. Compared to, say, having to replace water-damaged heaven-knows-what and piping from the well to the tank in the shop, which would NOT be fun. Hoses are easy.)
The feral cats' water hasn't frozen. There's plenty of food out for them in the cold spell. It's going down slower - I think some of them have moved on. Or passed away, but I'm hoping they've moved on. There may be neighbors home all the time who also put food out, and if so, they'd have migrated that way. I refilled the bird feeders. They were conspicuously absent when I arrived. They were very NOT-absent as soon as the feeders were filled, though.
Anyway, it wasn't a very photograph-ish day. I tried to get some other shots but only a few and they didn't come out well. Mostly I was just racing around trying to get as much done as I could before the holiday weekend, so I'd be well-set to do stuff
over the holiday weekend.
And then I came home and played with the kitties and did Kakuro and read stuff online because, well, that's what I was up for. Oh, and laundry. Because tomorrow we are going to visit Uncle Jim and Aunt Betty, and I do not think I wish to appear in any of the outfits I could have constructed from what remained clean. (They involve skirts, which I am not always comfortable in, which mostly lack pockets, and which most importantly of all are lousy protection from frigid winds.) Clean laundry is a good thing.
Anyway, I sleep now. Well, soon; if I slept now, I'd fall out of this chair and probably land on some of the clutter around it and I imagine that'd hurt. I think I'll pass on that!
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