Welp! It looks like Even Steven needs to recalibrate. He's usually pretty good about strewing money across my path shortly after (or shortly before) I receive a bill.
Saturday, I stopped by the mailbox on the way to town. Funny how nobody ever steals my yearly TAX BILL! Actually, that's plural. We have the house with 10 acres, the next-door 10 acres, the on-the-hill 10 acres, and several lots in assorted towns that Hick bought on the steps of the county courthouse 30 years ago, shortly after we were married, in his quest to become a land baron. Not to mention the personal property tax bill, which grows longer every year, what with our fleet of vehicles and Hick's random tractors and trailers. At least I don't have to count goats and chickens now...
Anyhoo... my scratchers yielded a decent winner, $25 on a $5 ticket. Um. Even Steven? I haven't tallied them up yet, but if it runs along the lines of last year's tax bill, you should have given that ticket a 100X multiplier to cover it. Oh, don't worry! I will definitely keep buying scratchers, just in case that big winner is coming!
Not that I'm complaining about the tax bill. It comes every year at this time. I set money aside every week in preparation, in case Even Steven lets me down. Somebody has to pay for the blacktop surface applied to our county road last week, and the side-mower chewing up the overhanging tree limbs, and the new concrete sides on the bridge that spans the river 40 feet below. And the junior college that gave me my scholarship. And the ambulance crew that took me to the hospital with my bilateral pulmonary embolisms.
The good things in life ain't free!
I'm hoping my big casino win back in July was not earmarked by Even Steven for our tax bill.
All that land you should apply for statehood.
ReplyDeleteI would want a special star on the flag, right in the middle of the current pattern!
DeleteYou are livingin easy street after that big win. Mty luck everytime I get a buck I get a bill. YOU get a bill and win a fewhundred bucks. Lucky lady. I bought one of those clear cards today. Should have spent that five on donuts.
ReplyDeleteI am living on Easy Gravel Road. I STILL haven't gotten my rightful $25 from my clear ticket winner that I mailed in, due to the gummy barcode issue. I sent it in October 17th.
DeleteEverytime I get a windfall of any amount, something comes along to diminish my worth once again.
ReplyDeleteI hate it when that happens!
DeletePerhaps you should set aside a part of that big casino win just in case you need it for the tax bill. Or maybe Hick could sell one of his lots in town. Does he really need them all? and why?
ReplyDeleteMy big jackpot been set aside since it was counted out onto my palm, taxes withheld, on the casino floor. It's gonna take an excessively rainy day before I dip into that cash. Can you imagine HICK chipping in his Storage Unit Store profits for household bills?
DeleteHick has always wanted property. He grew up in a rental house without indoor plumbing, and got a job at 14. The tax sale property was a way he could get land cheap. He sold ONE lot, because people living next to it tracked him down and made an offer. There's one in town he offered HOS to build a house on, but HOS didn't want it. Hick had thought of building a rental house, or a storage unit, but now that he's older, with a "business" to run, he has decided against it.
He also has a parcel of 4 lots (adjoining) at a lake development. All these properties were bought for the price of back taxes, which were generally under $100, since they're lots and not acreage. They cost between $5-$30 a year for property taxes. Hick likes being a land baron. Has no desire to get rid of them. He certainly doesn't NEED them!
They'll be a nice legacy to leave to the boys then.
ReplyDeleteI think those properties are earmarked for HOS and The Veteran. Genius and The Pony have been the intended owners of the on-the-hill 10 acres since we bought it. The rest will be sold and divided among the four of them.
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