Inherit from my EX?

9/8/2023 Ok, we have been divorced since July of 1990. But as think back over the years, there were things I bought for her that meant a lot at the time. Many came as a welcome surprise from her and a big smile which she shared. The most expensive was a diamond ring I had made for her. It had a center stone about 1/2 caret, surrouned by 6 diamonds about 15 points each. Having it custom made was a little pricey but was something Billy Johnson made at Brombergs downtown Birmingham. She made have sold this but I really do not know. The other ring was another ring from Brombergs and it had a semi-precious brown store but one cut and looked like a 4 or 5 caret brown diamond. This was set in a 14 caret yellow gold ring. It too she seemed to like. One anniverary I came on a coin silver 1944 half dollar and this was her birthday. Again I went to Brombergs downtown and got a sterling silver chain with a mounting that surrounding the 1/2 dollar with Benjaman Franklin on the face. The coin was a .88 percent silver now worth about 30 dollars. That with the sterling chain, I would guess $75.00 to $100.00 bucks. This really looked good on her with solid black or green back ground. My estimates are at the 60 or 70 prices, now today maybe $250.00. Again it is only an estimate. I bought her blue plates or bookends or small states, and some autographed by the member family visiting Brombergs in Downtown or in Mountain Brook. Some of these now are collectable in a big way. Then there was the Trunk Factory in downtown Birmingham. Ah the smell of leather upon opening the front door. I got to know of the owners there and could but bags or brief cases for her with the understanding I could return them. I don't thing she returned or swapped! Thank you my casual reader and I do hope you have enjoyed my ramblings. Knutt in The Ham in Alabama, US of America.

Surprise Time for All

9/3/2023 Now is the time for all good men to come to the time of their countrymen! Who has remembered the time of these new men and time? I am now just almost 86 years old. Correctly my age is 85 years, 9 months and 3 days. Pretty close to 86 yes? I was married to my first wife for almost 28 years, October 1962 until 1990. I met my new sweetheart teaching a Bible Study at 1st Presbyterian Church in Bessemer, Alabama. My minister encouraged me to get out and enjoy this new vesture in front of you. Karen was the leader of the Bible Study group and we entered in part, in her apartment in Hoover, Alabama. It was a weekly event and I picked up two ladies in a retirement community and back each pm. This got me back into SS in a new manner and that and Church and work got me back on myself in a more upright way. Now some 5 or 6 months after my divorce was final, I called Karen for a chance to dinner and maybe a movie. Now that week, but the next week, she said yes and we had Japanese dinner and closed the resturant. I jogged and was itching to get in a couple or three miles before my evening. She walked around the Hoover park as I got my numbers in.> I fell in love with her early on in our relationship. But we both knew we had to have some approval from our extended families. I have mom and 3 uncles here in Alabama and Karen passed with flying colors. My uncle Enoch approved of her when she enjoyed some Scotch with him. Bingo. My uncle Jack talked to me in his "man cave" put a can of beer in my hand and shared his thougths. Jeff, "you had better not let this one get away". He said too "I don't know how you stayed with the bitch as long as you did". I wish he would say what his thoughts! Karen and I married 2/21/1992. Our minister said if we married a week after Saint Valentine's, he would do it for FREE. We had a reception done by the ladies of the church and then a family dinner at the Formosa, a chinese restaurant we loved by when. We had a large room decorated and the tables in a U shape. Needless to say our Northcutt and Clark extended families closed down the place. We had mom and dad Clark staying with us and we barged in about 3am after a big fauxpa by our local hotel that will go unnamed. It has now been some 32 years, happily married and still in love with each other. Now too, both retired and enjoy TV, Kindles, eating with each other with a special lunch out with a good friends resturant Cedar House in Tarrant City. We work in a hair cut and maybe a doctor visit and maybe too shopping for groceries. Fun day. Pause for now. Welcome my casual reader.