Our 2015 U.S. income taxes were finished this afternoon. And now tonight they are being hand carried back to the U.S. to be dropped in a mailbox tomorrow or shortly thereafter. Missionary friends are on their way back to the states and agreed to help us out.

You're probably thinking “Taxes? They were due April 15^th.” Well, yeah they were. But that's for you who live in the Land of Plenty. For those of us who live on the Dark Side of the Moon, Uncle Sam graciously gives us a two month automatic extension. So they are not actually due until June 15^th. No worries. Ours will be postmarked in plenty of time.

Annually, after taxes are done, I remind Jim that he better treat me well. His next wife sure won't know how to do his taxes for him! From data collected on our thoroughly unscientific, and very limited, random survey of American citizens, I seem to be the last person left alive who actually does taxes by hand without any outside tax consultant help, not even Turbo Tax. (Or whatever the latest might be.) I've been doing taxes for the better part of 50 years now. Obviously ours are not complicated, or I would be singing a different tune!.