1. Verdict is in - the victim of Mrs. Curley, (the deer - details here), totaled our car according to the insurance company. The damage by the deer (or Mrs. Curley's driving into the deer, if you will) is not major. The front passenger headlight is gone along with the surrounding support. The front passenger quarter is bent and dented such that the passenger door opens with difficulty. The bumper cover is slightly torn. The only critical things which need fixing are the headlight and blinker. The car (before the deer incident) is a 10-year old 4-cylinder Plymouth Voyager minvan. The AC barely works. The heat does not work. The radio and clock do not work. I pulled a melted crayon from the tape deck several years ago. The driver's seat need to be propped up by a 2X4 to avoid falling backwards, and various stains and dents decorate the interior and exterior. However this is not our primary vehicle, runs well, and has only 125K miles on it. Mrs. Curley is praying for a new car (for free). I am thinking that the check I receive can go a long way to buying the next piece of publishing equipment for Requiem Press - while still having our secondary vehicle in good running order.
2. We had not yet received our first water bill from the town - I assumed they billed quarterly because we had seen them read the meter, but we had never got any bills. However, I finally decided to call because the quarter had ended some time ago. Somehow we did not get into their system I was told. Well, one week later I received the first bill - for $17! I immediately called to find out if more bills were coming. They told me since they had made a mistake by not entering me into their system, they were not going to make us pay the old bills - "Merry Christmas". (This is not what would have happened with the water company in the city.)
3. Finally more good fortune would strike the Curley clan if some of you readers out there (if there are any) buy some of our books. (The Curley children really want a Christmas tree!)
From the small holding in Bethune ...
Oremus pro invicem!
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