2003—Moving In
Chankly01May03
No, it really0 didn’t take Woodside Homes long to erect our new abode. They broke ground on February 13, two days before my birthday. By the Comintern’s Labor Day (the First of May), this is how Chankly looked. In June, the Ralstons moved in upstairs, and we old folks accompanied our remaining possessions into the mother-in-law apartment (three bedrooms in the basement).
Ron likes to tell about his interview with the Woodside people, when they expressed concern that such a young man might find it difficult to arrange the mortgage. He just smiled and watched their reaction as he said, “Oh, don’t worry: we’re paying cash…”
With the kindly and expensive assistance of Thomas A. Mecham, Esq., of Salt Lake’s Kirton & McConkie, Attorneys at Law, we replaced our existing wills with the “Timbaloo Two Trust”—or, more accurately, incorporated new wills into it. Under its terms, in a manner modelled on the spirit of a document1 executed in Acton, Massachusetts, in 1721, by my seventh great-grandfather Jonathan Wheeler, Valerie and I left the house to Cyndi, with the understanding that she would see to our well-being in what Pappy used to call “our reclining years.”
1“Item: I give to my Son Oliver the House lot that was formally Wm Russels Deceased with the House and Barn…I also yearly oblige my two Sons Oliver & Sampson to pasture for me and their Mother yearly one Horse and three Cows and to provide me twelve loads of hay…also that my two said Sons, Oliver and Sampson provide for their Father and Mother an honerable maintainance and Fier wood & said Oliver and Sampson are obliged to make their Syder together during their Father and Mother's life and allow them four Barrels yearly...”
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