I was wrong......

First off, to answer Phil's question about staying Mesa....  I would stay there until May 1st in a heartbeat....  And I could always have the mail sent to me from Kansas by one of my son's, to do the taxes....  But!!!

Loyce simply cannot be away from the grand kids that long....  I would be there in Arizona by myself....  Sooo that's why we come home...

And now I must correct something I said about the taxes....  By saying that I couldn't extend Kansas...  Sandie Dixon commented that her home state of Montana grants and extension if you have a federal extension....   So I pressed it by looking on the internet to find how Kansas can be extended.....

There is no Kansas extension form....  But like Montana, if you have a federal extension... And you pay all the money, they will honor the Federal extension...  But here comes the thing I didn't know....

On the payment form usually called a 1040V form, in Kansas there is a box down on the bottom to make an X in, that says this payment is an extension payment.....

So just to see if this really works, I marked that box with an X and sent a copy of my federal 4868 to them along with the additional amount that I owed for last year...  This is kind of a test to see what trouble comes next....   And if, like last year I need to amend again, it can be done before its sent in...

Maybe that is too technical of an explanation but I just wanted to clear the air over my previous statement that was Wrong....!

So yes, today all the extensions and estimates and so forth were mailed off....   Done for now....!  I'm certain as an accountant, I spend too much time messing with these returns.. But when you know they are prepared in error, you just have to go fix them...  A lot of times the Service doesn't even catch things, but I can't live with it....  I know, its weird, like scraping off those license stickers before putting on the new ones....

And yes I did that when I put the new truck tags on last week..... Guilty as charged....

We had really gusty winds here this morning... Liked to blow us away..  At least our bare dirt fields are wet and muddy so they won't blow up dust storms...  But as I was watching the Masters this afternoon, I hadn't noticed that the winds subsided...  But my son Ben had...

He was over here in a flash, and we off on the bikes....  But by then it was really overcast and you could smell the rain in the air...  We got in about an hour of riding, before the sprinkles turned into bigger drops....  I left his house and buzzed into the garage here just as the downpour came for real...

That turned out to be just in time to watch the play off holes of the Masters....  And it was pouring there as well....

Tonight it is to get much colder again....  As one of my neighbors said, " We've had a cold winter this spring."

Darned good thing that yard was mowed, as there isn't a dry day for the next week.....

Retired Rod