In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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I'm glad that you both had/ have the opportunity to talk to your older relatives. When I left home and got married my parents were having their personal problems and they weren't even talking to me. And shortly after we moved to LA which really put a crimp in communications! My grandma, I think, didn't expect to hear much from me. After all, SHE left her home and traveled to a whole new nation, and probably lost touch with the family SHE left behind. It was just how life went. But I regret the lost opportunity to talk with her and my folks about how things were, why they did what they did, what they thought, how they felt...
Take advantage of the time you have left with them bc once it's gone, you never get it back.
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Pity would be no more,
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Originally posted by Brenda:
That's good that your are taking the opportunity to talk to her about the way the world was when she was young. I would also suggest you write things down for your niece. This is something you can pass down to your niece.
That's a great idea. I should do that.
I've been meaning to spend more time at her place. I should make a point of it when the weather gets warmer. She's got about 5 totes full of picutres of people I don't even know from her lifetime. Things that I took great care to save when I was throwing out the hoard that had accumulated in that basement over decades with my uncle and after he passed away. I think she'd get a kick out of going through them, and I could write down things on the back of the pictures.Quote:
I learned a little about the world during the Great Depression from my dad and my mum. Maybe even a couple of things from my dad's sister too. That's another reason why I miss my dad and his brothers and sisters.
Yeah. Sorry to hear about that. I know when I was younger I didn't place any value on nostalgic things, but as I get older they've become quite a bit more meaningful as people I used to care about aren't around anymore.Quote:
Well, my brain and numbers. So it is easier for me to get someone to do it and most places e-file nowadays but print you off a copy for record keeping. I like that.
I wonder if Canada makes it easier than it is here in the States. I imagine that they do.
It's insane that with the technology available to us today that filing taxes online is 5 times the ordeal as doing them by hand and making a trip to the post office to mail them in.
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The last time my mum had a visit from one of her aunt's, I took the opportunity to write down a bunch of information from her side of the family. I still have it too.
I have a slew of old photographs and I am talking a couple that go back to the late 1800s. They were taken in Scotland and both have written on them who the people are in them but no dates, so the close as I can come is around 1899.
I'm sure she would and yes, writing down who's in the photograph and a year if she can do that would be good too.
Well, my parents were older and my aunts and uncles weren't as close as yours are around you. I knew my family was walking this continent for a long time before I got as much detail as I have.
Don't know about the easier. I've heard complaints about the government site being a pain. And these people volunteer to help others do their paper work so they know the site.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
The last time my mum had a visit from one of her aunt's, I took the opportunity to write down a bunch of information from her side of the family. I still have it too.
That's cool. The only real thing I have like that is a couple of small notebooks that my Uncle tucked away in a tacklebox for me in a place he knew I'd find it before he decided that he'd had enough of this world. It had some cool things he'd picked up while he was in the army overseas in his youth as well, and a bag of weed he never got around to smoking. I've never been able to bring myself to read them, but I still have them almost 15 years later.
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I have a slew of old photographs and I am talking a couple that go back to the late 1800s. They were taken in Scotland and both have written on them who the people are in them but no dates, so the close as I can come is around 1899.
Nice. My grandma has some really old timey photos in there too. I wonder if she'll be able to put names to the faces or if that knowledge is already lost to history. In any event, it surely will if I don't go over there and spend time with her while looking at them. I don't imagine that any of her kids will do it if they haven't already. They might not even know that those photos exist.
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I'm sure she would and yes, writing down who's in the photograph and a year if she can do that would be good too.
Yeah. That'd be great.
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Well, my parents were older and my aunts and uncles weren't as close as yours are around you. I knew my family was walking this continent for a long time before I got as much detail as I have.
Yeah. With a few exceptions we all pretty much stayed around this area. It wasn't really until my generation grew up that the family really spread out. Nobody moved out of the country yet, but it's a coast to coast thing. I hardly ever see any of my cousins anymore.
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Don't know about the easier. I've heard complaints about the government site being a pain. And these people volunteer to help others do their paper work so they know the site.
At least you have a government site. That alone has to make it easier. We're left with 3rd party for-profit outfits that constantly try to upsell you from free to whatever they charge to make it easier for you to do.
It's so funny seeing it in action for the first time. Having done my own taxes for over 20 years, even when they got quite complicated at times when I did things out of the ordinary like purchasing the house, I knew exactly what they were getting at when they were asking a million and one questions. I know exactly what things apply to me, and the only changes that ever occur to that would be in the beginning of the tax book in a section called "what's changed". If nothing has changed that pertains to me, then I do it the same as I did last year.
My aunt's taxes couldn't be any simpler. Just a W2 for wages from one job. No interest. No investments outside of a company retirement plan.
All it should take for me to file her taxes online is to put in her personal identifying information and the figures. It should be a 2 or 3 page ordeal at most. Not 80 pages to struggle through needlessly.
I think the problem is two-fold. Not only are they trying to confuse and frustrate the tax payers here, but they're also counterintuitively trying to dumb it all down to the lowest common denominator as well.
The worst part is, other than giving her more guided experience using the internet in general, she didn't really learn anything about the tax prep process that will help her in the future. We used a company that backed out of the free file this year, but allowed free filing on its own until the end of next month and then they won't have free filing for anyone after that. I won't let her pay somebody to file her simple taxes online in t
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
The last time my mum had a visit from one of her aunt's, I took the opportunity to write down a bunch of information from her side of the family. I still have it too.
That's cool. The only real thing I have like that is a couple of small notebooks that my Uncle tucked away in a tacklebox for me in a place he knew I'd find it before he decided that he'd had enough of this world. It had some cool things he'd picked up while he was in the army overseas in his youth as well, and a bag of weed he never got around to smoking. I've never been able to bring myself to read them, but I still have them almost 15 years later.Quote:
I have a slew of old photographs and I am talking a couple that go back to the late 1800s. They were taken in Scotland and both have written on them who the people are in them but no dates, so the close as I can come is around 1899.
Nice. My grandma has some really old timey photos in there too. I wonder if she'll be able to put names to the faces or if that knowledge is already lost to history. In any event, it surely will if I don't go over there and spend time with her while looking at them. I don't imagine that any of her kids will do it if they haven't already. They might not even know that those photos exist.Quote:
I'm sure she would and yes, writing down who's in the photograph and a year if she can do that would be good too.
Yeah. That'd be great.Quote:
Well, my parents were older and my aunts and uncles weren't as close as yours are around you. I knew my family was walking this continent for a long time before I got as much detail as I have.
Yeah. With a few exceptions we all pretty much stayed around this area. It wasn't really until my generation grew up that the family really spread out. Nobody moved out of the country yet, but it's a coast to coast thing. I hardly ever see any of my cousins anymore.Quote:
Don't know about the easier. I've heard complaints about the government site being a pain. And these people volunteer to help others do their paper work so they know the site.
At least you have a government site. That alone has to make it easier. We're left with 3rd party for-profit outfits that constantly try to upsell you from free to whatever they charge to make it easier for you to do.
It's so funny seeing it in action for the first time. Having done my own taxes for over 20 years, even when they got quite complicated at times when I did things out of the ordinary like purchasing the house, I knew exactly what they were getting at when they were asking a million and one questions. I know exactly what things apply to me, and the only changes that ever occur to that would be in the beginning of the tax book in a section called "what's changed". If nothing has changed that pertains to me, then I do it the same as I did last year.
My aunt's taxes couldn't be any simpler. Just a W2 for wages from one job. No interest. No investments outside of a company retirement plan.
All it should take for me to file her taxes online is to put in her personal identifying information and the figures. It should be a 2 or 3 page ordeal at most. Not 80 pages to struggle through needlessly.
I think the problem is two-fold. Not only are they trying to confuse and frustrate the tax payers here, but they're also counterintuitively trying to dumb it all down to the lowest common denominator as well.
The worst part is, other than giving her more guided experience using the internet in general, she didn't really learn anything about the tax prep process that will help her in the future. We used a company that backed out of the free file this year, but allowed free filing on its own until the end of next month and then they won't have free filing for anyone after that. I won't let her pa
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Nice day for my walk. Picking up a small shelving unit that I saw a couple of days ago to adjust another problem.
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Oh what kinda nd of unit?
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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We got the expected cool-down and drizzle yesterday early AM, but then a fast-moving unexpected storm blew thru in the evening. It got dark and gusty, and there was lightning starting northeast moving south to our southeast but none overhead. Looks like Orange County might have gotten some rain tho!
Cold weather meant soup for dinner!
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And this AM I saw TWO scrub jays picking up peanuts! They must be nesting nearby! I thought that maybe since our backdoor neighbor cut his jungle down they would have moved away, but I guess they found another suitable home!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Oh what kinda nd of unit?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
It sits on the floor and it's label says "rattan style basket storage". It has 4 baskets. It fits great into a spot I cleaned up for it. It fits cans of soup and fish along with small baking supplies like a small bottle of vanilla and baking powder, baking soda. I also put my cupcake liners in there with one basket empty for other small food stuff.
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Well, it is thinking about raining again though the sun is still struggling to break through the clouds. Have to see what the evening brings.
But I got the storage unit back and filled, dishes done and having a sit down.
Before I came back I also took "Die Hard" back to the library. Finished watching it last night and man, I didn't remember hardly anything in it. *L*
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
We got the expected cool-down and drizzle yesterday early AM, but then a fast-moving unexpected storm blew thru in the evening. It got dark and gusty, and there was lightning starting northeast moving south to our southeast but none overhead. Looks like Orange County might have gotten some rain tho!
Cold weather meant soup for dinner!
I
And this AM I saw TWO scrub jays picking up peanuts! They must be nesting nearby! I thought that maybe since our backdoor neighbor cut his jungle down they would have moved away, but I guess they found another suitable home!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Cold? Like 60 degrees?
It was actual 53 degrees here today. Melted most of the snow, but had the wind blowing so hard all day long that I was just waiting for the air raid sirens to tell us a tornado was coming.
We'll be paying for it tomorrow. Another 4 inches of snow coming our way and a few days with the highs in the 20's to follow it.
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