'Objects In Space'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
When my parents were getting ready to move to AZ, my mother (who had done all the banking for the family for 30+ years) was told by BofA that she couldn't close the account, because only my father's signature was on file. My mother pointed out that the account was first opened in 1962, and the bank paperwork didn't have a space for her signature at the time.
Things did not go smoothly.
Timelies all!
Happy Birthday ND!
Happy Birthday, ND!
So I learned something new (or that I just forgot): the big fat check? I write it to me. Huh.
I think I'm not going to pack or do anything useful tonight.
Yeah, when I was in high school or so, I noticed that my mother had a Filene's charge card that said Mrs. [My Father's Name], which is so very not my mother, I don't even know. She told me that was all she could get at the time she opened the account, even though my father was in school and she was supporting both of them! I made her get a new card.
Somewhere, somewhen, they wouldn't put my mother on the bank account. So she just signed his name.
Back in the days when we had to deposit the paychecks manually, she always signed his name because he always forgot.
Dad's gotten more involved, but my mom is still the main household accountant.
My mother, the forger.
We just bought this: [link] Very excited! We have a fountain our realtor gave us as a house-warming present, but it has never worked right, runs on electricity, and we got tired of buying new pumps for it. This one and is solar and has a much smaller spray, so we are hoping it lasts. It's freaking hot here all summer and it's nice to offer the birdies a bath.
WARNING - a picture of a hairless chimp: [link]
Freaky. It looks like something some Hollywood effects studio came up with.
Cool, Scrappy!
My parents have a fountain. Well, ok, it is the overflow drip for the swamp cooler, but they have it strung so that it flows into a birdbath fashioned from a bike rim and a frying pan. But you really can't tell what the components were in their previous lives.
Well, ok, it is the overflow drip for the swamp cooler, but they have it strung so that it flows into a birdbath fashioned from a bike rim and a frying pan.
Okay, I totally <3 your parents, sarameg.
Scrappy, that's a gorgeous fountain. I really want one, but I have to figure out how to deal with the wind & the lack of humidity.