I got up yesterday morning to a very distressed bunny. He had made himself a little warm hole in his shavings and was laying there peacefully but now and then he would rapidly kick his legs. I have had enough bunnies to know when the end is here.
I covered him up with a towel and just let him be. Every now and then I would hear his little feet kicking, then stillness. Finally around supper time he just lay still and went off to bunnyland. I felt a lot sadder than I thought I would. I had a good year with him and he was so inoffensive and endearing.
Day before yesterday I had to go downstairs to turn the underground sprinkler system off for the guy who came to blow the lines. I hadn't been downstairs for a really really long time and I was totally shocked and appalled at how messy and dirty it was. I couldn't believe it!!!! There have been a lot of 'boys' down there doing projects and jamming and I think its shameful the state the place is in. But Monte's area, that he doesn't even use anymore, was by far the worst. As I looked around I got angry...really angry.
So I phoned poor unsuspecting Monte (he was at school) and let fly. I almost never ever get really angry with the kids and even if I do I never really yell and stamp my feet. But I did this time and I threw in a few jim dandy guilt trips for good measure. He was shocked! In retrospect it was pretty funny. So we made a plan.
I had to remind him that we are responsible for whatever our invited guests do...mess or burn the house down. Poor April can attest to that. And that we needed to write down exactly what his responsibilities in this place are and he had better keep up with them if he wants to live here blah blah blah. And typical Monte he was so contrite and cooperative.
As a result of what we laid out and planned, he was emptying the dishwasher at four in the morning this morning. He had spent most the night at the school with Levi in the darkroom and when he got home he immediately did his nightly chores...dishes and garbage. Hopefully it will last. And just in case anyone is wondering...I told him I was writing about this in this blog...hahahaha!!!! He was kinda okay with that believe it or not, not that he had much choice. My motto, "if you don't want embarrassing crap in my blog, don't do it."
You know, when I sold my condo I got the money, the whole amount minus a hold back of about fifty thousand dollars for american capital gains, on August first. It went into the bank account in Maui, which I promptly closed and asked them to send me a cashier's cheque. We showed them Spod's death cert and the will. I still have NOT got that money! First it sat for a month in the Bank of Hawaii...they didn't know how to send it here...so much emailing and discussion but they did finally mail it. We had them send it to Aryn because by the time it was being sent, I was in Paris. She and I have a joint account she can deposit it into. But no. She couldn't. The bank wanted us to have an american account. Which I don't have. Then they wanted to put a three week hold on it. Jesus H!!!! Finally, after much angst and talking and spending time, lots of time, in the bank, Aryn finally had to let them put a hold on it. So it will be at least another week before I see it and now its October. They did waive the exchange fees which gave us an extra ten thousand so I guess I can't really complain but seriously...don't ever buy property in the US. Its been the most complicated ridiculous process I have ever gone through.
I had originally planned to go down to the passport office to get a true certified duplicate of my passport. The IRS needs that to give me a tax number, for capital gains payment purposes. I spent that first night back from Paris at April's on their couch. In the morning I spent about an hour trying to find out exactly what the process was. I sort of thought you just go in, they go photo copy it and sign and seal it and away you go. Yeah right.
You have to download two forms off of their website, fill them out, pay forty five bucks by credit card and send the forms and passport to Gatineau Quebec. It takes about two weeks in all. Jeez! So I have tried and tried to download those forms but a pop up keeps popping up saying I need Adobe Flash 2 or something like that. Okay. So I download the program but when I hit install another pop up pops up and says there is malware in the disk and to not proceed. So now what? And all of this was supposed to be back to them by Oct 3. Well if they want my money they will wait. I just am not sure how to solve the problem.
Well I best go start my day. There are a lot of things to do. I am going to get a loaf of bread going first then maybe attack the garden. TTYL
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