Sometimes you look at a really big job as a mountain, and I had that a couple years ago when my, my mom passed away. And she had been on hospice in her home, so we were able to keep her there and we had some very wonderful caregivers that cared about her just like she was their own mother. So, it took -- it was about five months from May till October first that she was on hospice. And she would have times when she really thought she was just gonna lick it, and continue on for another 10, 15 years, but she was 99 when she died. So -- but then she would, you know then it would come back, she had congestive heart failure. So she'd have some moments when she felt pretty good.  But she had lived in the house that she had for probably 40 years. And, I was able to -- I inherited the house, so I had the job of cleaning it out. And that was a mountain because she -- being 99, she had saved really pretty much everything you can imagine. Every bill, every -- all of her insurance papers, deeds from places where -- that they owned property -- they owned, that they hadn't owned for years, that they’d sold many -- just, all kinds of tax records but tax records from 50 years ago. And her and my dad had a business and boxes of papers from 50 years ago when he had sold it. So -- or before he had sold it and just all the bookkeeping. So, it was a mountain to go through everything because I did not want to just hire somebody to do it. And it -- we went, I went through everything. So, every week I would load my car up either with a bunch of papers to recycle, or things to go to Volunteers of America to donate, or -- and then I would also -- there was a dumpster there that I would just fill my car. I would fill up that dumpster every two weeks with things that were useless that she had hung on to and it just, it really makes me like the minimalistic idea much, much more so that I don't do that to my family.

My baby cousin, the one who got my tooth when I was little, that was an interesting story. My tooth fell out. I was six. My baby cousin, who was toddling around, she was about eight months old and we went over to visit and I had lost a tooth. And my mom told me the Tooth Fairy gives children who don't have teeth, she gives them teeth. So last night I'd lost my tooth, the Tooth Fairy came, gave me money. We went to visit my baby cousin. She broke a tooth through that night. Well, that's all it took to convince me that the Tooth Fairy uses teeth and passes it on to the babies.

This is a story that I hadn’t thought about in a long, long time and -- but it popped back into my memory a few days ago and I just can’t let it go. When I was a young married person, my husband -- now ex-husband, now deceased ex-husband -- is -- he was in the Army. This is back during the days of Vietnam. He'd been drafted -- no. He had enlisted, but he enlisted because he had a high, or a low draft number. Back then they had a draft lottery and he was number four, so he would have been drafted. So anyway, he had signed up for three years in the Army. We were stationed at [name of base]. We lived across the state line in a very, very small town. And, uh, we'd gotten married. Um, I was pregnant. We adopted two kittens, Pumpkin and Pepper. Pumpkin was orange and white. Pepper was black and white. And had them, uh, our daughter was born in July. And then about a month later, so in August, we were gonna take a trip back North to see our parents and so they could see the baby and so on.  So, we're like, we weren't sure what to do with the cats. You know, we didn't have any friends down there. And, so he said that one -- he said that one of the guys in his company had a farm nearby and would be willing to take the cats. You know, farms always need cats. So, supposedly, he took these two cats and took them to the farm. And the guy was happy to get them. That whole thing, once you think about it seriously, it was just absolute bull.  First off, none of the guys in the company, you know, they were from all over the United States. There was nobody, nobody who had a farm nearby. So pretty sure what he did was he took those two kittens out and dropped them off in the woods somewhere. And me being very gullible at the time and him obviously being a very good liar, never questioned it. Even when we got back from our visit to our parents and I said, "Let's go get the kittens." And he made up, I have no idea what excuse he made up for not going to get the kittens,…

Oh, one of the things you had in there was the Batcave and that kind of is humorous. I used to have a secret hideout in my classroom, there was an actual storage room next to my classroom and I used to hide in there sometimes and people wouldn't know that it was not just a closet, and they wouldn't come in there. Was a very great place to hide and kind of a nice thing to be able to do sometimes during the day, to hide in there. And I used to keep things down there too, that were kind of, kind of funny. But I had to laugh one time because our principal came to me and he said, “I need you to hide something for me,” and I said, “Why me?” And he says, “You’ve got the room.” I said, “What do you mean?” He says, “You've got that back room,” he says, “if you put something,” he says -- there's so much stuff in there, in file cabinets and things like that. He said, “If you put one of my things that I need to hide for the summer, and you put it in a filling cabinet in a file that's mis-marked, or it's marked history maps or something like that,” he said, “no one's ever going to look in there. They're just gonna think it's your stuff that you've had because you taught for all those years.” So, I went, “Okay.”  He said “I'm trying to prevent,” he said, “I'm afraid that one of the school board members is going to go through my desk, he doesn’t like his stuff that I have on his grandson. And he said he -- I'm afraid he's going to try to take it and I need to keep it because his, his grandson's mother is going to need it so he can be registered for another school when she moves, but his grandfather is not happy and I do not want to be in part of the midst of this, so I'm going to hide the information I have in your back room.”  He said, “I'm going to put it in a file that says history maps, and I want you to give me some history maps to put over the top of it in the file so if somebody just opened it and all they would see…