[AT] Greenville OH Show

[Phil Auten]

I can sympathize with you, Farmer. I helped three of my sisters, a 
B-I-L and a niece move
my mother from the house she had liven in since 1953 back in April. 
It was a chore!
Of course, you've got twice the headaches with two houses. Hang in 
there, the end will come.

in sympathy,
Phil

At 04:30 PM 7/11/2006, you wrote:
>         I'm running late as usual... Diana and I are moving into 
> the house here on the farm
>that I grew up in and where until rapidly advancing Alzheimers 
>forced me to place my
>mother in a home, she lived. <Snip>
>Our old house is about 2,500 square feet and has waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much
>"stuff" in it... The other house is about 5,000 square feet and is 
>stacked to the rafters with
>good stuff, not so good stuff and a hell of a lot of just plain crap...
>         In trying to honor my mothers earlier wishes expressed in 
> her will even though she is
>still living (sort of) my sister in Pensacola is entitled to almost 
>all of the contents of the house.
>  She came up (at my request) and picked out what she wanted and I 
> can tell you that it could
>  probably all fit in an 8'x8'x8 box. Like me, my mother collected 
> everything... After removing
>at least 4 pickup loads of just plain trash Diana and I are still up 
>to our necks in dishes, baskets,
>several thousand books, all sorts of antiques and "STUFF"... You 
>name it and it is here in one
>  house or the other. Much of it is personal stuff with memories attached.
>         By the time we get this mess sorted out we probably won't 
> need either house because
>we will have been locked away somewhere...
>
>
>--
>"farmer"