Well, my bank didn't listen to my begging. They aren't going to waive the fee. Fine - I've got to suck it up and learn from it. Its easy to be snarky - I made a whole $8.65 in interest in 2005 from that little savings account. I made $163.45 interest on my ING account.

Cleaned out the freezer of the bags of bones and frozen vegetables and made a big batch of turkey vegetable soup. Yummy and cleansing at the same time. Collected my two coupons for the grocery store for next Saturday.

Wished my uncle a happy new year and gave him a vague explanation of what is going down with the farm. Sister called and asked when we get distributions. Depends on how done the "done deal" was for the first piece of property - it brought in exactly 300K. In the farmhouse, most of the furniture is out, along with the stained glass and some of the carved moldings. The only pieces of furniture left are those that the rest of the family is going to take in a couple of weeks. Sister told me a little about the possible buyer - a county employee. Hopefully this will be a second house - the farmhouse is barely livable. The last two barn kittens were having a run on the second floor of her house in Milwaukee.

I collected up all the tax papers for the February to come.