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I'm not making a whole lot of progress on the Dad front from here at home base. I did finally go through his current mail and pay his bills. I can't decide if I should go ahead and change his billing address or depend on the post office forwarding things to me. All in all the process was pretty uneventful, although I did find what looks like a fairly significant unpaid hospital bill. It looks like he was waiting for the insurance people to act on it, so I guess that's the tack I will take too for the time being.

To date I haven't waded into the Medicare/health insurance morass. At the house his medical billing records filled a shelf space about three feet wide. Down deep I am hoping since he stopped going to doctors that the thing will spin down on its own, but somehow I don't think that's too likely.

I'm getting reports on the renovation work on the house. Everything seems to be proceeding to plan. My cousin says he thinks there's two or three more work days left, which puts it right on the schedule we'd talked about. Be nice if that comes off without problems.

We thought we might have a buyer for the car, but now it looks less likely - so I still have that to figure out. Someone suggested taking it to CARMAX. That might be the simplest overall solution, but I can't help think we'll take a big dollar hit for going that way. Not sure you get all that much value from a dealer when you come in without a trade. Still, with the insurance and the registration up at the end of the month maybe I should just look at the hit as a convenience charge and move on already.

I'm still looking for suggestions on a couple of things. I still need someone to look after the gardens once the house lists. I think I need someone to look in on the house itself periodically. Both of those sound like actual businesses, but I am striking out finding someone to fill the bill. If you know anyone/anything...

Be real nice to be able to button up the "on site" part of this gig by the 18th. Work here is approaching here making the light at the end of the tunnel really look like a fairly convincing oncoming train. Everyone has been great so far, but I don't want to overtax their good nature. Fingers crossed. Guess we'll see.