Not much to report. Did go see "Dear John". Personally, I liked it. However, I was the only guy there. The other 50 or so people were all women... at least, they looked like women. Didn't matter to me.
I am approaching page 800 in Don Quixote! Almost finished. Next will be "The Count of Monte Christo" (Spelling? - I'll check on it and correct if necessary)
I have been very busy attempting to move my mother from the hospital bed she now occupies into a rehab facility, which will be followed by a move to a nursing home. It has not been an easy task. I do not have contact with her for many varied reasons, and as a result, being her only living child, there are certain things that I have to do that would have been easier if she had allowed us to set everything up before she reached the stage she has with dementia.
As a result, I now have to attempt to clean out her apartment after I find out what legal authority I have to do it, if any, and it has to be completed by early March. We have gone over and emptied out the refrigerator so that the food would not spoil, and then took all the canned goods that had not passed their expiration dates to the Foodbank. While at it, my wife cleaned up the kitchen in order not to draw any undesired critters.
But, that's as far as we can go until I can get some clarification from someone on how much leeway do I have to clean it out... If I had Power of Attorney, there would not be a problem. In order to get that, it can take quite a bit of time, and I do not have it.
Warning to all parents who have any respect for their children and grandchildren... set all this up before it becomes necessary! We are going to find a lawyer to handle these things and have all this drawn up, and copies passed out to all our children in the very near future. They should not be punished because their parents were too lazy to have this completed. And believe me, it is punishment!
