\nI have no other reason \u2013 just now \u2013 to go there, so I mailed it on Wednesday.
\nThe talk was as expected, except he asked if I could read small print. Maybe if I said no I’d get a large print version of whatever he will send to me.
\nIt is also odd that a surviving spouse or child may receive a special lump-sum death payment of $255. This payment has bedeviled congress and the SSA since the beginning.
\nThe amount of $255 was set in 1954, but with price increases since then the amount today would be $2,532.
\nI will ponder the use of my $255 as I await its arrival in my bank account.
\nI’m slowly making credit card and other changes as I figure them out.
\nA tangled web, as you know.<\/em><\/p>\n
The last line is a reference to the things that followed the death of Dot’s husband Bill over a year ago. John My long awaited phone call with a Social Security clerk came at a little after 2 pm on Monday. I sent a note to friend Dot, who visited the DeKalb County court house to get the certificate of marriage. That note follows. I had my phone call with Victor of the Yakima office of the … Continue reading “Memorial Day (long weekend)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-computer-crash","category-random-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-39t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12119"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12130,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12119\/revisions\/12130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– – – –
\nSATURDAY
\nFive of Nancy’s friends and I spent hours sorting and packaging stuff, mostly clothes, from a bedroom, including from on the queen sized bed, from closets, dressers, floor, and hanging on doors. Mid-morning Sunday two of the kind folks will be back for more of the same.
\nI’m too exhausted to write more tonight.
\nI should have spent more time over the past few weeks doing some of this, but not being in that frame of mind \u2013 and knowing help was coming, I didn’t do much.
\nA further distraction this past week was serious work on the last major project of the house remodel. Namely, concrete and joists for the deck were 95% completed. Photo #1 below. Photo #2 is the nearly finished entrance sign. This pulled the workers away from the deck; my choice.
\nHowever, the entrance structure and sign have been a goal of mine, and I wanted it to be there to greet some long-time friends.
\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/South-side-project-early-stage-5-28-2021.jpg\")
\nThe Nordic horse is a symbol of welcome (V\u00e4lkommen<\/em>, Swedish, or Velkommen<\/em>, Norwegian). This one was painted 35 years ago in Troy ID.![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Entrance-sign-5-28-2021.jpg\")
\nOn this Memorial Day (long weekend) spend a few moments remembering those who served.
\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Memorial-Day-300x177.jpg\")
\nI’ll put flags out Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n
\nfrom the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"