Re: How's your summer going? (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 14:05:58 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > I'm thinking we could go to Muir Woods w/ parents

You mean, my parents?  I suppose we could wheel around my dad in a
wheelchair....

 > and we could visit 
 > Marsha and Bruce too...
 > 
 >  > Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 16:47:47 +0000 (UTC)
 >  > From: http://www.comcast.net/~mk94901
 >  > 
 >  > Hi Noelle, 
 >  > 
 >  > Well all the termite and dry rot finally got finished on Tuesday. Now I have 
 >  > two new functioning toilets and 1.2 gal. flush to boot, new floor joists and 
 >  > several trips or vacations that will have to wait! We didn't use our 
 >  > homeowners insurance because the agent said a claim would raise our rates 
 >  > $250 for the next 5 years. The actual fumigation tenting was hard to prepare 
 >  > for and we stayed with the kids in Petaluma several days because we had to 
 >  > be out of the house and in the end the company did damage to our custom 
 >  > gutter covers that are not yet 5 years old. Waiting now for the roofing 
 >  > company to come to inspect the damages and then proceed to having the 
 >  > fumigation company pay. Unfortunately, Bruce has really had very little to 
 >  > do with this and this should have all happened without any major glitches. 
 >  > 
 >  > I've read some good books with my book club; visited with a good friend who 
 >  > is battling brain cancer and visited family because Julia (granddaughter) 
 >  > turned 17 and leaves in a couple of weeks for a year in Russia. She already 
 >  > has her GED and is taking several summer school courses for her actual 
 >  > diploma. She'll apply to college from Russia. Scary to me, but this is 
 >  > something that she really wanted to do. 
 >  > 
 >  > You guys should come over for a visit sometime before your "folks" arrive. 
 >  > We can go explore somewhere! 
 >  > 
 >  > Did the "cutting" from Dominican College take? 
 >  > 
 >  > Be good cousin Noelle and hope that special job is waiting for you. 
 >  > 
 >  > xMarsha 
 >  > 
 >  > ----- Original Message -----
 >  > 
 >  > Hi Marsha 
 >  > It's been an interesting summer. Our nephew is here and doing well at his 
 >  > internship. I started a new project at my job, but unfortunately had to 
 >  > deal with a new boss who doesn't know how to manage people, plus the work 
 >  > we do on this project turned out to be really boring to me and my 
 >  > teammates(plus not using enough of our medical coding skills). 
 >  > Yesterday was my last day. I am interviewing for another job so 
 >  > we will see how that goes! 
 >  > The in-laws are coming to visit 8/12. I'm wondering if taking them to Muir 
 >  > Woods would be a good outing. I was reading on the website they have a 
 >  > shuttle bus to take the crowds of tourists out there, but after 8/14 it 
 >  > will only run on weekends. But who knows, I may be working and not taking 
 >  > them out there on a weekday. 
 >  > I went out to visit my dad 7/4 weekend. We went through a box full of 
 >  > papers from my grandparents from 1980-81. They died in 1981 and my dad was 
 >  > the executor, so it included lots of lawyer letters,tax returns and since 
 >  > grandpa was enrolled agent he was very meticulous about keeping cleared 
 >  > checks and bills and medical bills etc. We put most of this stuff in the 
 >  > recycling bin, but of course I couldn't throw out everything. What I kept 
 >  > fits into a small box. What was 
 >  > interesting was that my grandfather's aunt Margaret had died at age 101 2 
 >  > weeks before he himself died, and he was her only descendant. So lawyers 
 >  > had to deal with 2 estates at the same time which made things more 
 >  > complicated. 
 >  > Anyhow, that's the news. 
 >  > Noelle