Oh my goodness. If you read my post this Sunday you will think I am copying you!! First of all, yours is way better written, fresh and salient and funny and touching all at the same time. Second, I promise, mine was already from "Pinch Me", Chapters 12, with an update, and set to be published Sunday morning, since I will not have internet. In any case, your is wonderful and brilliant. As are all your posts. And I did not realize that you also had an encounter with a 300-year-old home in the country!! Aren't you lucky to also have met amazing friends. And I am truly sorry for your loss. I get it. Truly.