End-of-Year Blessing Inventory II

This is the second grand thing that happened to me in 2015, although the happening of it took several months.

Getting My Stuff Back

For two years, my personal possessions were in the grip of an illegal "landlord lien"; my erstwhile landlady was holding everything I owned for ransom, a story the telling of which will have to wait for the conclusion of litigation. This Spring, with the help of an attorney neighbor, I was able to spring those chattels. Friends and neighbors in Lincoln gathered forces and moved everything out of the rental's garage and into a casita owned by Jerry and Cleis Jordan.

Jerry and Cleis then went through the whole pile, assessing and photographing damaged things, and disbursing particular items per my instructions.  Hundreds of photos arrived in my inbox from Jerry's iPad, including such tragedies as the entirety of my unframed artwork fused into a damp chunk of pulp by water damage.

Dan and Ellyn Medrano then hired a U-Haul van and drove that and a truck from Albuquerque to Lincoln, where they packed up everything they could and brought it back here. Obviously, there is no room for a household worth of goods and furniture in a nursing facility slot, but I was finally able to specify what bits and pieces I wanted to have with me, and let the Medranos take the job off my hands of dispersing the rest to good homes.

(Image pinched from Ellyn's Facebook page)

I got most of my watercolors back, and I got my laptop back. I last saw my old Dell Vostro 1700 in February 2012, when I was hauled off to hospital in an ambulance, expecting to be back home in a few weeks at most. I had bought it in 2008 and loved it. Fast forward to May 2015: Dan rolled the dear old Vista beast to my room in its wheeled running-away case, and I was overjoyed. It wasn't just the machine I was glad to see, but all the data on it.

So blessings on my old friends -- Jerry and Cleis Jordan, Clara Farah, Pam and Mac MacArthur, as well as cleaner Joanna Brady and her husband -- and on my new friends Dan and Ellyn Medrano, for the humongous thing they did for me this year.