ok, so mm is going flying to denver and driving 10 hours into the wilds of wyoming to hook up with the bikers for the last leg of their across america tour.......just have to be there for the finale

in more personal news, ecw and i spent a painful hour with a lawyer yesterday working out wills.......i have had a signed will for many years....but this will did not include a third child.....ecw had no signed will, because the lawyer-friend who prepared mine and his pro bono could not locate his when he came to sign it....and he never got around to coming back, and our friendship with said lawyer has since waned.......you might say that you get what you pay for.........anyway.....it is quite painful to contemplate the actions you wish taken at your death........especially when it comes to belongings.......we have furniture that came over to america from mainz......but do i designate a specific child to caretake this heirloom....oldest child???????, most interested in geneology child?????????/i have this piece because my grandmother put my name on a piece of tape and affixed it to the bottom......i may have to just rely on tape and markers for the distribution of family pieces........there are crown pieces of furniture, stephan furniture, and ernst furniture....oh my........i think the most painful part was deciding who would raise our children.......acw is beyond this...so that leaves a 16 year old and a 10 year old.........this has all been worked out with people we are close to.....but we of course hope that this is never to become public because we will live long enough to see them all reach adulthood.......i will admit to eating crow during this session.......when asked if one of our children should have a spouse and children at the time of our demise, did i want my estate to pass to the spouse should my child predecease me........gentle readers, understand that i have been in a snit for 1 full year because my sainted mother-in-law specifically excluded in-laws as heirs in her will.........inlaws that had put up with her for 20+ years ....and i ended up doing the same thing.........i have an ex-sister-in-law who i despise....and i didn't want to chance that one of my children made a similar error in judgement........we did not put in the will about burial plans....be it known that i want to be cremated, the ultimate in recycling.........and my ashes spread about in the roses.........now, having unloaded great burdens from mymind, i will go back to work...........