Finally! , it was clear back on Oct. 13th that I shared our secret.
This letter arrived on Wednesday, now talk about something to be thankful
for!
After waiting for 7 days for the holding company to wire transfer the funds to
the IRA company, then filling out all the necessary paperwork and faxing it
back to them and then waiting, waiting.... until we grew impatient after
two weeks and no word, Mike called. It seemed they had questions about
something on the faxed paperwork, and yet Mike told the lady that we faxed
a cover page with his cell# in case there were any questions. She explained
that the fax comes into one dept. then was sent to her dept and the cover
sheet was not forwarded*sigh* Mike answered her question and she said
it was off to the Distribution Dept. We wait yet another week, all the while
checking with our bank to see if the funds had been transferred. Mike calls
again asking to speak to the manager of the Distribution Dept., he is
then connected to a man, who looks up our information and then relays, it
takes 5-7 day once they receive the info for the wire transfer to be made.
Mike explains that it has been that long, the man says well your transfer
should be made tonight or tomorrow, now this call took place on a Tues.
So..... to make this short, it didn't happen for yet another week.

The first day Mike had available to make the trip into the city was Tues, Nov.
17th. After going to our bank and getting a cashier's check for the pay off
amount, we then head directly for the bank. Upon arriving, we of course are
excited, we ask where we need to go to pay off our mortgage. The
receptionist says, "Just go over to the teller window, they'll take care of it for
you." Not what we expected, thinking this is a fairly major transaction, we
thought we'd go to someone's office or something. Now at the teller window,
we explain what we're doing and the teller then calls a manager over, who
then takes us to his cubicle. He needs to verify the pay off amount and get a
certification #. Now back to the teller window, she makes the transaction,
using the cert. # and we're handed a slip, like a deposit or withdrawal slip,
showing the transaction amount toward loan #____________. The teller
did say Congratulations, but....... where was the confetti and balloons,LOL!
What is a major amount of $$ to us, I'm sure is just a drop in the bucket to a
bank such as Wells Fargo Bank.
Now with a hard copy( see picture below), showing our pay off is complete,
we absolutely feel relieved.



We've blocked out specific information, for obvious reasons. Now how about a
BBQ?

We're still stuffed from yesterdays meal. I asked Mike what he wanted for breakfast this morning and he said,"Nothing I'm still full from our Thanksgiving meal." We all made a point not to over eat, but we still did to some degree. The pumpkin pie was the "straw that broke my stomach", but who can turn down homemade pumpkin pie with whipped cream topping? We had a relaxed day, filled with our daily animal chores, reading a book and even watching a football game( Dallas of course*wink*) Mike has been a Cowboy's fan, well since I've known him, and Cortney joined in the ranks a few years back. I'm not much of a T.V. person so..... I instead read my book. Well.... Cortney and I are on cleaning and re-arranging detail today and we also need to move the mama turkey and her babies to the turkey pen and then sort out some of the chickens and move to the smaller coop. Our main coop is overfull and we separate them into two flocks, making room for everyone. Have a wonderful weekend everyone!