January 10, 2016

It's Still A Good Feeling


     
February 1 was to be my final mortgage payment.  I have been counting the days until I would write that final check in late January.  I had visions of mailing the check and then burning the mortgage.  But the amount left was not a full payment (only a few hundred) so Chase used escrow dollars and paid off the mortgage for me.  It was paid off ahead of time-- 9 years and 2 months.

January 1, 2016

2015 Books

  
  

  
Black-Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin
  
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida
  
The Insect Farm by Stuart Prebble
  
Once We Were Brothers by Ronald Balson
  
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
  
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
  
The President's Shadow by Brad Meltzer
  
Thank You, Goodnight by Andy Abramowitz
  
The Train To Crystal City by Jan Jarboe Russell
  
A Window Opens by Elisabeth Egan

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough