We had to get up at the ungodly hour of 6 o’clock yesterday morning because we had to be at the trust attorney’s office in Snowflake at 8. We originally formed our family trust in Florida back in 2021, but there are quite a few differences between Arizona law and Florida law. The easiest thing to do was just rewrite the whole thing.
Attorney Brendon Rogers was excellent to work with and covered quite a few bases that hadn’t been covered before, including having powers of attorney and medical powers of attorney drawn up for Terry and me to use in case one or the other is ill or injured and can’t make their own decisions, but also designating those responsibilities in succession to our daughter Tiffany, son-in-law Kenny, granddaughter Hailey, and granddaughter Destiny. He even printed out copies for each of us to have when and if they are ever needed. There was a lot more, but I don’t have space to go into all of it here. If you are in Arizona and need the services of a good trust attorney or estate planning attorney, I would highly recommend Brendon. There is a reason he’s been voted best at what he does in community polls several years running.
We don’t have many grocery shopping choices here in the White Mountains. Show Low has a Safeway and a Walmart superstore, and that’s about it. More than half the time when we go to Safeway, they don’t have the items we are looking for, even basic things like milk and cheese. I honestly don’t know how they stay in business. So when we left the lawyer’s office, we stopped at the Bashas in Taylor on our way home. I sure wish they had one of their locations in Show Low. It’s a huge store, and everything we wanted and more was in stock. It’s only 17 miles from our house, and as Terry pointed out, we used to drive farther than that to go to grocery stores when we lived in Alabama. We may make Bashas our regular shopping destination from now on.
Back at home, I took a nap in my recliner and then started writing, knocking out a little over 3,200 words. That puts me over 50,000 words in my new Tinder Street book. I’m pleased with how well it’s coming together.
It started raining while I was sleeping and continued for the rest of the day and much of the evening. We have been in such a drought that we need every drop of water we can get, and this definitely helped. I hope we get some decent snow this year, too.
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And finally, here’s a chuckle to start your day from the collection of funny signs we see in our travels and that our readers share with us.
Thought For The Day – Becoming the best version of yourself comes with a lot of goodbyes,