UKMET finally jumping onboard for the more southern members.

My deepest and most sincere condolences. Life is too short, there’s never enough time.

That is a lot to deal with at once, thoughts are with you.

Weren’t you considering coastal Maine at one point?

I've been checked out the past week and a half....Am I correct in my interpretation that our long overdue dud winter has come home to roost? I've watched a couple of Michael Snyder videos and that's it, but that is the sense I've been getting. My mom took a significant turn for the worse about a week and a half ago (she's been on hospice for the past 2 years off and on, the last 7 months straight after suffering another stroke). Last Saturday the Hospice team said it would be in the next week or 2. Her siblings and some of my cousins in Georgia gathered by her bedside today, and and we (my wife and kids) called and said goodbye. My cousin held the phone up to my mom's ear. My cousin said her eyes fluttered when we talked to her. Up until that point she was completely unresponsive. I guess a little later in the day she finally opened her eyes a couple of times but has been non-verbal and barely eating for over a week.. Now we wait for nature to take it's course. Last check in from hospice was Friday and they said "in the next few days." My wife has surgery next week to remove the part of her thyroid that had a tumor on it (from the cancer scare a few years ago) and then in all likelihood as soon as she is well enough to be on her own I will be heading back for the funeral.