In the process of building my home repair business I "adopted" a number of elderly Ladies as customers. I did their chores and never charged much for it. Enough to cover expenses and enough so they could still keep their pride, but not enough to hurt their budgets.
One of them called earlier in the week with another roof leak. I got back up here on the mountain yesterday from working in the Valley for 4 days. Called Helen this morning to make sure she was up and she told me Nancy died two weeks ago in the Valley. She never got up here this summer.
It's one thing to have the summer people sell their house, another to fix one up and have the owners decide to cash in on how their place looks, but it really sucks to have them die off. Hurts........