And HEY, good news from the home front!
One of my sisters had gotten tied up in court about her share of the inheritance and the contract we had for selling Dad and Mom's house was on hold until we heard from the court...
I just heard from my oldest sister who is executor of the estate that the OK had come through, she forwarded everything to our attorney and the buyer's attorney, closing may happen next week...
Sad that the house my Dad built in 1946 after he got back from the war on land he was given by his Dad, and the extra acreage he bought around it on time from his Dad (going through the papers we found the receipt "paid in full" signed by Grandma after Grandpa died 6 months after I was born in 1958) will be gone...but while rural Western New York is a good place to grow up it is NO place to LIVE now....just glad we SOLD it before the November property taxes were due
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With our share my wife and I should be pretty much debt free after paying the bills, and the DIFFERENCE I can spend on a rifle...which may be enough to deal on the Sako...And every time I shoot it I will think of Dad and Mom....
My plan is the Sako....I will see what I can get it for, then spend the winter working up loads for it...the Leupold 12x is the same scope I have on the Swift so I will be used to it, while I send the other one back to Leupold to mount an elevation target turret on it to match my Swift load....
THEN I just found out tonight I earned my bonus for my Shrink Goals which I usually get every other year, LAST time I bought my Callaway clubs with and a few milsurp pistols....
SO when I get it next March I will THEN buy a Savage or Marlin .17hmr AND my Governor for snakes and just have to sight it in with factory ammo before South Dakota in June....and maybe do some work to the house for my wife too...
It is good to get old and more or less successfully get your kids raised as close as you can to become "Good Americans" and get both of them through college, and get your bills paid as much as you can after struggling so long pinching pennies....
To FINALLY get to afford to buy some good things for once....
I just hope I can leave enough to my kids when I'm gone that they can enjoy life as much as I do now ....but not a PENNY more, LOL
