Update & a New Friend

I want to go home. I miss Alex. What bothers me the most is that I need not have been in the position. When money became tight and employment seemed to be less and less a possibility, I applied to receive my pension/retirement annuity. According to the "rules," I couldn't receive it until I passed my 61st birthday, which meant that the first payment should have come now, in March.

When Louisville Gas and Electric wouldn't accept the partial payment I made and cut off my utilities, I thought that I would have the money to pay them by now. But no check came.from my pension. Last week I contacted the Pension Board of the United Church of Christ and learned that they had never received my authorization to begin the annuity payments. I had trusted another person to mail it for me, which he evidently didn't do. I have received a new set of forms from the pension boards, but that means I will not receive the first check until April.

Tomorrow I have made arrangements to visit and feed Alex. I really look forward to seeing and hugging my little furball. In the meantime, I have a new friend living in my mother's back yard. She has made a nest in the yard and I watch her from the kitchen window: