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Good morning everyone. Sorry for the loss of your brother OldBroad...keeping you and family in my thoughts and prayers. Enjoying WADDB, knäckebröd and donuts this morning.

Wishing you all a wonderful day.

Good Tuesday morning!

Oldbroad, I am so sorry to hear about the passing of your other brother. Large virtual hug for you.

So sorry to hear about your loss, oldbroad and I send you hugs.

I am very sorry for your loss, ob. I too send hugs and condolences.

Good morning everyone; I'm so sorry for your loss Oldbroad. Draclvr, I feel really bad for that older woman who lost her roof during the storm, she must have been terrified. Just finished making a large pot of spaghetti sauce & it's now simmering on the stove. I got out a crusty bread from the freezer to put on the table. My son is coming over for dinner & he loves spaghetti. Stay safe everyone & have a great day.

Prayers heading up for you oldbroad.

Thank you all for the condolences. We are trying to work out what happens next. The email sent by the Partner just didn't make sense. He is not able to authorize the cremation because they were not married. That part I get, but he told the funeral home that he had no contact with us nor a way to contact us, and that if somebody finds and notifies us we should not mention that we knew anything about it at all, that we should act surprised. That is why I mentioned that the email was strange enough to sound like a hoax of some kind. I don't know what his issue is. He lived with my brother for many years and I'm sure our phone number and address are around their apartment somewhere. Anyway, my brother called the funeral home and the director said he would call the Partner and tell him to call my brother. Never heard from him today though. Will see what tomorrow brings!

Man, oldbroad, that all sounds very odd indeed. Sounds like his partner is a bubble off somewhere. Hope you can get it all figured out.

Good Morning everyone. Wide Awake Double Dark Brew is ready to start the day!

Oldbroad perhaps you should call the Funeral home today and see what you can find out. It must be so stressful to have this happening while you are trying to cope with the loss of your brother...my heart goes out to you.

Wishing a peaceful hump day to everyone!

Gerry

Good morning everyone!

Knäckebröd in the Break Room while we wait for the donuts.

Sunny and warm-ish over here.
I hope you can cope with that extra stress Oldbroad. Don't know how it works over there but here when someone passes away the bank accounts get autofrozen until the formalities are sorted out. Can cause practical issuses for the survivors.

Happy Wednesday GameBoomers!

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room. Music Bingo at the Eagles tonight. Oldbroad, Big hugs. Enjoy the day and hug someone.

I hope you can get things sorted very soon, oldbroad.
(That all certainly sounds really strange.)

Hopefully, your contact at the funeral home will be able to assist 🤞

Good morning everyone. Yes OldBroad, definitely call the funeral home as they should be able to assist with notifications. Assets, bank accounts, etc should have been frozen and matters initiated for settling his estate. Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers OldBroad.

That sounds really odd about your brother's partner, ob. It sounds like there is perhaps some kind of financial motivation going on here. Hopefully things get straightened out soon.

Oldbroad, I'm so sorry to hear about all of this. It's bad enough to lose your brother, without all of the mystery and stress.

I do believe it has to do with something financially. It would be SO much easier for ALL of us if there was an actual conversation. Unfortunately, the partner is very hard of hearing and wants to communicate only through email. Originally he said he was deleting all the emails and I should also. I did get a response late last night though confirming it's the hearing problem, but unless we are both sitting at the computer at the same time and emailing everything back and forth, this could take forever. Again, I AM thinking it has to do with the financial situation somehow but I think that can all be straightened out in person. We need to actually speak. We'll see what happens.

It is getting very dark outside right now, getting ready to storm I think.

Have a good Wednesday everyone!

Good Wednesday afternoon! As it happens, we just returned from an appointment with a lawyer about our Trust. Since we have a his, hers and ours situation we set up this Trust 24 years ago. But a lot has changed in 24 years, so we wanted to open up the trust to add some of the changes. In addition to assets and their distribution, the Trust also includes health directives and a living will. Since your brother and his partner weren't married, there could definitely be some problems. And if your brother didn't have a will or make other arrangements, the partner could be completely out of the loop with anything financial. You and your brother could be his heirs, not the partner if they didn't plan for this.

Could get sticky.

Yes, that's a tough situation. We updated our wills as soon as we learned of John's illness, and I just updated mine. It's very difficult when people's intentions aren't clear. It puts a huge burden on the family. My father had an old will, not updated for decades, and my mother literally had to dig through a basement full of boxes of old paper to find it. It took her months.

I hope it gets worked out.

Good Morning everyone. Wide Awake Double Dark Brew is on and I'm enjoying my first cup!

Oldbroad I hope you get some answers soon...so sorry you are having to deal with so much while trying to cope with your brother's passing...thinking of you and praying it all gets sorted out soon.

Hope you all have a good day!

Gerry

Sounds tricky with the Oldbroad situation. I keep my fingers crossed, in the good way.

Meanwhile the sun is shining. Temperature 7 Celsius and the WADDB makes wonders.
Emergency use knäckebröd is now available in the break room.

Happy Thursday GameBoomers!

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room. Going to a funeral for the father of a friend and Eagles sister this morning. Enjoy the day and hug someone.

Good Thursday morning. It's back to being cold again. At least the wind has died down. Yesterday, 50 - 60 mph gusts were recorded. I'm sure it was that or more out here. At one point I saw a chicken tumbling along the ground when a gust caught it!

League bowling tonight.

Good afternoon all!

Did a docu-sign today and already am receiving scam/phishing emails. I also emailed the partner yesterday to try to assure him that we are not trying to make any claims on whatever my brother might have had but that he should go through the paperwork to see what's what and discuss it with my other brother at the cemetery. I didn't hear back from him. There will be no actual funeral and I don't think I will even go to the cemetery.

Yesterday's storms stayed mostly away from us even though it looked like night time at one point, and then we had snow during the night which covered the grass. Happy first day of Spring .

Good morning everyone!

Emergency kits available in the break room.

Mr Frost made a visit tonight but he is running away as soon as Mrs Sun tries to catch him. I hear we just had the spring equinox, so Mrs Sun will appear more often here on the northern hemisphere.

No wind drama here.

Happy Friday GameBoomers.