I need to make yet another trip to Kansas. The L-i-K-S is holding several boxes of things of Mom's that I volunteered to take charge of and get sold or whatever. Also, there are papers that need to be gone through, of course. There are legal issues* unresolved.

While I understand Mom's desire to try and get her things in order as quickly as possible, there are items she owned that one or more of us would have liked to have had as mementos, things that I have no idea where they are now and that I suspect the nephew who bought the trailer has already disposed of by now. I'm more than happy to take the stained glass (the R.C. and I sent 95% of it to Mom as gifts over the last fifteen years) and to take charge of the Hummels (I haven't yet figured out how to sell those, but I will) and a few other things, but I'm starting to realize that the things that might have been most important to us aren't the things that were of monetary value. (Although I'd give a lot to know what happened to Mom's wedding ring....)

A certain delicacy prevents you from claiming your parents' belongings for yourself while they're alive, no matter how eager they are to dispose of things, but afterwards, when your emotions start to settle, that's when you begin to identify which items you'd like as "keepsakes." The indecent haste of Mom's nephew to move into her trailer (almost a month before he was legally entitled to do so) prevented any of us from having the opportunity to really go through the things she'd accumulated and make sane decisions about what to keep and what to dispose of. I'm a trifle annoyed about that.

Otherwise, I'm fine. The weather is far too hot.

I had an interview on Monday but I suspect I'm not actually in line for the job (all the more so since I see they're re-advertising it this morning), and, this being a holiday week, there aren't many good postings out there right now.

And, as usual, I desperately need to do laundry.

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The biggest problem--her trailer house and the land it sits on.

I find myself a bit annoyed that the whole "sale of the house"* thing went through so quickly--before most of us kids had any idea it was happening.

At this point, the jury's still out on the legality of the sale and just who the property belongs to. Possible mortgage insurance, a deed saying "paid in full" when no money was paid, the bank's own claim to the property and their potential unwillingness to let the loan ride for the next 15 years, and other questions remain unanswered.