Good morning on this foggy Thursday morning. I love a foggy morning as long as I don’t have to do a bunch of driving in it. It like the world still has its blanket pulled up under its chin. There is always a peace than comes with a foggy morning that just puts you in a whispered conversation with God. It’s extremely comforting. 

Well —- yesterday was a thing but comforting until about 8:00 pm. We decided that we had everything we needed to get our taxes done for the year. I hate doing our taxes because I find it so very frustrating. It stems from the fact that I am terrible at anything to do with numbers. But, I logged in to Turbo Tax and according to them it should only take me one hour and fifty seven minutes to complete the process. Let me say, that Turbo Tax is a good product, we’ve used it for several years. But also, regardless of their advertisements that “”you can do your tax’s for free’ —- by the time I had all of the “add-ons” and guarantees, I finished at $350.00. However, it is what it is. 

So, I started on my tax adventure determined to not let it get to me, just fill in the forms, drink my coffee and get on my merry way. Well, that two hours went by and one thing after another and soon I was in to hour four. It all circled around one simple entry. We own some property in southern Illinois that we rent out for farming. It’s a simple process. The farmer gives me a check for a certain amount to rent the ground and at the end he sends me a 1099 MISC. However, the forms kept insisting that I need a schedule C which I knew I didn’t need and did not have one. Eventually I asked Ms. Kate to come work on it because I thought I must be missing something, but she couldn’t get it to work either. All the rest of the taxes were complete but we couldn’t file until this was fixed. 

We stopped long enough to go to Sam’s Club and pick up our called in order and then came back and I started again. This time I pulled up the “Tax Expert” on the Turbo Tax site.  She called me back and we launched into the problem. I literally spent two hours on the phone and computer with her. She was tied into my forms and was trying everything she could and agreed that I didn’t not need the schedule C. To make a loooonnnnnng story short, she finally fixed it and I have no idea what she did. But the taxes are filed and Federal is already accepted. Today I’ll mail off the Illinois taxes because as a non-resident, they won’t let me e-file. Ms. Kate and I went to bed before 10:30 last night, mentally and physically exhausted, but the 2025taxes are done. 

That’s my sad tale and now I’m going to refill my coffee cup and set my self down in my recliner. I hope you have a blessed day. Peace.