The Daily Rave

[iris lilies]

Here is something nice:


My Neighbor across the street died recently at age 103. He was an old bachelor carpenter, his house was built in the 50s and he and his brother lived there together for decades until the brother died Sometime ago.

Another neighbor next-door to the old bachelor carpenter, Ray, pretty much looked after him in the past decade. Ray is our age. Within a couple of weeks after the bachelor Carpenter died at age 103, Ray put up his house for sale and move to his other house at Lake of the Ozarks. He’d really been hanging around here for the past few years to keep an eye on the old guy.

Isn’t that nice? Ray is divorced. He also happens to be a relative by marriage of one of my Daffodil Society friends.

so it was great that the old guy had somebody watching out for him.


unrelated to main point: Also I learned that Ray mowed the lawn two doors down from us in the house has been vacant for many years. I do not understand why relatives hang onto these houses that are vacant.

Houses are selling like crazy on our street, in fact Ray’s on house sold for $400,000. Thatis a lot of money for Hermann, in the city, if it isn’t a Victorian bed-and-breakfast Inn. It does have a couple of acres with it though.

[Teacher Terry]

So the house in Herman sold for 400k? Your post is confusing).

[catherine]

I think the point is, it's so nice that Ray actually held on to property just so he could continue to look after the old guy. Unusual these days to be so selfless. It is a nice story.

[iris lilies]

So the house in Herman sold for 400k? Your post is confusing).

Well, my main point is Ray was watching out for the old guy.

As an aside, Ray’s house sold for $400,000. The old Carpenter guy’s house sold for something like one $175,000. Houses are selling before they hit the market on my block in Hermann.

So you can’t make sense of my rambling post? Ha ha Ha I don’t blame you. I edited to make it more readable.

[iris lilies]

Another nice thing is that the little old lady next-door, in her 90s, moved her self down to the assisted living place in town. She had been running the bingo nights there for a few years so she knows the people there and knows the place. She and her family decided she shouldn’t be living on her own, and this was soon after she put her little dog to sleep.


So these are rather nice end of life stories for the elders on my block.

[ToomuchStuff]

Here is something nice:


My Neighbor across the street died recently at age 103.

That read like, Damn that's cold.....


My old family mechanic friend, took care of an old man he knew for decades. Guys wife had died in the 50's and they had no children (if I heard correctly, wife and child died in child birth).
He lived in a house with no a/c and refused to let the mechanic put one in, and lived just shy of his 96th birthday. Developed either dementia or Alzheimers, as before it was diagnosed, he got very lost and had driven quite a ways from home, was put into a home, and they saw he had skin cancer from his elbow to his shoulder and had been hiding it. He was in the home a week and passed.
Between the house, vehicle, life insurance and hands on money, he left my friend close to a million dollars.

As to why don't they sell family homes, there are several reasons from siblings fighting, out of sight, out of mind (incompetence), etc.

[iris lilies]

That read like, Damn that's cold.....


My old family mechanic friend, took care of an old man he knew for decades. Guys wife had died in the 50's and they had no children (if I heard correctly, wife and child died in child birth).
He lived in a house with no a/c and refused to let the mechanic put one in, and lived just shy of his 96th birthday. Developed either dementia or Alzheimers, as before it was diagnosed, he got very lost and had driven quite a ways from home, was put into a home, and they saw he had skin cancer from his elbow to his shoulder and had been hiding it. He was in the home a week and passed.
Between the house, vehicle, life insurance and hands on money, he left my friend close to a million dollars.

As to why don't they sell family homes, there are several reasons from siblings fighting, out of sight, out of mind (incompetence), etc.

I don’t see anything about recognizing someone living a long life as cold, someone who is healthy until the very end, requiring only the neighbor next-door to check in on him regularly, take care of his car, and have a beer with several nights a week.

That is a life well lived.

[rosarugosa]

As an opening sentence out of context, it doesn't sound very nice, but then of course it is rather nice in its entirety.

I bought a flat of pansies today and planted them in a couple of pots in front of my house. I will likely buy many more plants in the course of the spring and summer, but there is something special about potting up those first pansies!

[Tybee]

We put our laundry line back up and am going out to hang laundry now! Love hanging laundry, love the lower electric bill.

[happystuff]

We put our laundry line back up and am going out to hang laundry now! Love hanging laundry, love the lower electric bill.

Congrats! I love hanging out my laundry as well. Especially in the morning, when I can hear the birds.