A Great Weekend

 Ok campers, we'll start with a little bit of humor.  You see, I had to revisit the County Clerk's office this past week.  As most of you are aware, my Sister passed in June intestate. The word means "Without having made a valid will; without a will."¹

As such, I had to go to the County Judge and get appointed as the "He who be" to handle her affairs.  One of the first things I learned is that intestate also means I am not the executor of the estate, rather I'm the administrator.  I was told it's basically the same thing.

Except it's not.

Now, one of the first things I tried to do was set up a bank account for the estate assets.  Since both She and I are USAA members, I decided to use their bank.  Mrs J. and I have only done that for 40+ years, we kinda knew what we were getting in to.  

So, I contacted them and they sent me a form to fill out and requested her Death Certificate and my letter of Testamentary, my appointment letter.  That's when the fun started.  A month or more passed and I'd heard nothing from USAA.  Of course, this is when Mrs. J got diagnosed, so I was a bit distracted.  

Finally, I got back around to that task.  Called the bank.  They said it had been sent up and gave me the login information.  It was named "Estate of Juvat's Sister" juvat executor.  I told them that was incorrect I was the Administrator and I'd told them that when I had them set it up. 

So, back to ground zero.  New Paperwork, but when I went to look at the Letter of Testamentary, I noticed it said I was executor.  Hmmm.

So, I went back to the County Clerk's office and explained what I thought was the problem.  They allowed that the didn't get many Administrators in asking for a letter, they just assumed it was Executor.  I politely asked them to redo it for me.  They said OK, but it would take a few minutes.  So I kinda wandered around the room looking at things on the wall.  

Came upon this.

The first thing I noticed was the title.  The part where it says "...declaring results of Stock Law Election...", I thought that might be interesting.  Got to the purpose of the election, and got totally hung up on "...determining whether horses, mules, jacks, jennets, cattle hogs, sheep and goats shall be permitted to run at Large in Gillespie County, Texas..."

1168 votes were FOR the proposition with 956 Against,   The proposition passed.

I'm truly sorry, but my first thought was "Heck why not let them run (for office my mind thought) most of those animals are a heckuva lot smarter than our current politicians, if it was good enough in the 1930's, why not now?"

I chuckled at the thought, which caught the attention of the clerk that had helped me earlier.  She said "No such luck, they were voting on allowing animals to range and graze without any fences."

So...just like modern politicians then?

On a lighter note, Little J, LJW and Miss B are reunited.

The astute among you may recognize a change.  Apparently, he had an accident with a razor and his much renowned beard is no more.

Miss B's Baptism about a year ago.

 

Course, Miss B didn't really recognize him at first. 

 And finally, y'all know the Austin, TX motto, right?

"Keep Austin Weird!"

On the way home we encountered an interesting sight.

Who drives a motorcycle with a Jedi Knight Yoda doll strapped behind him?  

To be honest, that's low level "weird" for Austin.  Let's not delve into that subject deeper.

But given that Little J had flown non-stop from Honk Honk to SFO then on to Austin, and it's a 14 hour time difference (Basically his day is our night and vice versa), he spent Friday night in the old 12AF HQ building, now a Hilton Hotel.  Have I mentioned that my father was the lead engineer for the project to build the HQ?  

One final photo taken Sunday after Mass at our local regular restaurant.  

All in All, a very nice weekend and a needed respite from "Things".

Peace out, y'all!

1. Merriam Webster Dictionary