Today I got a call from my sister Eleanor, who lives in Portland, Oregon. I was not surprised to hear that Robert Schofield Guinan III had sent her Robert Schofield Guinan I’s inheritance check. We had speculated that because her check was late, that it was being cut from a differing account. We also speculated that it was going to be more than the $10,000 that I and our cousins had received.

I bet El that she’d get a check for $25,000. I lost the bet. She got a check for $100,000. You think about it, that’s a lot of money – enough to buy a could ya would ya shack.

Moving into our place

I am, of course, glad for my sister since she is very deserving of this money. She took care of my mother for many years, and my Uncle Bob, in this way, is expressing his gratitude to her. Frankly, I never knew he had it in him. Obviously, I was a poor judge of character.

I do not begrudge my sister his gesture. However, this does bring to mind a few things. First of all, it reaffirms that I am the bad sister and El is the good sister. This does not make me feel good because there are not many marks on my soul. I never got into heavy drug use, and I never panhandled. I have always had a love of animals, and I have treated the one’s I own kindly. I’ve only had one mate, and together we have worked hard to maintain our place. What more could a person do?

Our political values may have differed, but I never pushed my values on him.

You’d think that a life well lived would have upped the ante.

Undoubtedly, Uncle Bob was setting El and I up for a battle. How could this not? He gave one a big chunk of change and the other a mere pittance. Maybe he wanted us to get our knickers in a knot over this. Hard to say.

Instead, El immediately offered me and Pete half of what he sent her, which would be $50,000. I have yet to convince her that I don’t want to accept this money. She did agree that she’d think over how she’s going to spend it. Tomorrow, I will provide her with a few options. One might be to invest in Bitcoins or Twitter. Another might be to invest in cattle futures. Hillary Clinton did this – she had insider information. She put down $125,000 and ended up with a much larger sum. I have often wondered if she got to spend any time with the cattle she invested in. I would have checked them out beforehand, but most likely, Hillary would have had others do this for her.

I’d go with El to check out the cows. I know a lot about cow confirmation, more say, than Hillary did.

I keep going back to it – that large sum of $100,000. We could have paid for our place outright with it.

In my next lifetime, I’ll treat the Uncle Bobs of the world more nicely.

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