The Sea is a Salty One

  A Thanksgiving many years ago in my Virginia home. I still miss this place, including the small galley kitchen. Giant turkey roaster. Good times. Had something of a down day today. Talked to my aunt a long time last night. Aunt have all sorts of problems, meaning she's dragging on things she needs to do on her end, like get the paperwork notarized for my mother's investment account. Since we're both on the power of attorney we both have to apply. I'll be going to the Embassy on Tuesday to get my half notarized. We're bumping up against the mandatory withdrawals you must take yearly after reaching 73 and change. She's also telling me that Mom still thinks we moved her to a cheaper place, and are stealing her money. Mom's trying to report my husband and I as some sort of illegal rapacious folks spending her money in great orgy of spending, and is trying to be sprung from her memory care unit to move home to the haunted doll castle on the fairway of hole 5 of...

  I am an old woman, not an ogress! Written on Friday the14th A week ago today we flew home. I'm still recovering from my month back home. I brought things back to the house, all the towels and bedsheets I'd purchased for the assisted living plus a pretty inexpensive comforter for my bed. My aunt tried to tempt me into purchasing an absolutely beautiful white comforter with silver pewter medallions sewn into the white linen. I loved it, then reality set in. I'm married to a guy who is so so smart but does not have one lick of common sense. I've learned I must have a pile of inexpensive comforters that can be washed. I never know when he's going to trot into the bedroom and pass out on the bed with black little goat feet. Here in Costa Rica he tends to walk around shoeless and if I'm not awake to gently remind him to wash those goat feet he'll go to bed with them like that. Besides the beautiful linen was dry clean only, something that does not exist here. I ...

 Whelp, this one seems to be summed up by the news a few hours ago when it was announced that 40 different US airports will be staffing down starting tomorrow. I'm scheduled to fly out on Sunday back to Costa Rica through one of these scaled down ports of call. One of the biggest. So far my flights are listed as ' on' but I feel no confidence that this will happen if my flights to get here are any indication. Might have to take a cruise home if flights are cancelled. I am so ready to go home, you just don't know! I've been rushing about buying furnishings for my mother's accommodations in memory care since her bed is too big. Had her assisted living apartment packed and delivered back to the house, and placed her in the new place. There's just one big problem, Bottomless Betty is livid with the move. She threatened my husband physically, all 91 pounds of her soaking wet, and has hurled angry nasty invective at both of us, insisting that the move was made on...