Oh, that's a good one for Hil!

62/63 in the house. Pumpkin is down with being completely under the covers. Loki's coat is so lush, he gets too warm covered up. Drops below 60 inside and I'll relent and turn on the heat. Because I don't have fur.

Mom's birthday today and so far they're not home yet.

So we're tight on cash till payday in a week. I was mulling over the good fortune I've had in the past, how while I don't get big miracles, someone/thing always comes through in a crisis.

I get home. There's a big envelope addressed to me from a gas and oil company in Pittsburgh.

It's a request to lease my share of the mineral rights for 70.4 acres in the coal/gas fields of Southwestern Pennsylvania. $2,000 per mineral acre (whatever that is, research ahoy!).

There are 10/11 located heirs. I don't know how many mineral acres there are in 70.4 acres.

I despise the energy companies that are raping my ancestral home. But one person out of 10/11 won't stop this. They already own a third of the rights. And even if I only have one mineral acres, $2,000 would be very useful. I have to have a grand in hand before I can get cataract surgery (thankfully a couple of years before crucial).

I don't get miracles, but the Goddess loves me.

Research has occurred. A mineral acre is roughly equivalent to a basic acre. $144,000 up for grabs. I wonder what the tax bite on $14,000 is for lease payments.

I'd best send my sister an email and see if she's gotten this and what she's done.

But dear god, I hate the frackers.

Holy windfall, Connie!

ION, my cleaning product headache/backache meds nap lasted 4 hours. Yikes. But my headache is gone, and I think I can complete my 5 tasks remnants before midnight. Go team NightCleaning!

Also, I think I am going as a Disco Owl for Halloween. My creativity and cash flow is at an ebb.

Wow, Connie, that's pretty handy money if it all works out!

Whoa Connie, that's quite a chunk of money!

I suppose it would be in the poorest of taste to reinact Kind Hearts and Coronets on all those cousins and removed cousins I haven't seen in 35 years.

I'll split it with my sister.

Yay for pennies from heaven!

I'm beginning to think I should start a blog called "Fukushima Won't Kill You (But I'm Thinking About It)."

ION, I'm thinking of crocheting myself some gloves. I just measured the circumfrance of palms of my hands, and they're 8 inches, which falls in the large category of the patterns I've been looking at. I always envied the girls with the narrow delicate hands. I've got sturdy, peasant hands.

I'm beginning to think I should start a blog called "Fukushima Won't Kill You (But I'm Thinking About It)."

I will subscribe!