A friend of mine mentioned the other day that he never saw tumbleweeds piled against fences as he did as a child. So, when I came across this picture, I had to post it. This happens to be a home in Wyoming the day after ferocious winds ripped across the open ranges.

The last time I encountered such a sight was almost 20 years ago when I was traveling in the insurance business. I had spent the night in a motel in a small town in the Oklahoma panhandle, which is extremely flat. The wind roared all night. The next morning, tumbleweeds blocked every door, piled from sidewalk to the roof.



Did you read about this? Ohio contractor Bob Kitts, pictured above with owner Amanda Reece, was tearing the bathroom out of an 83-year-old home in 2006 when he discovered two green lock boxes suspended by wires. Depression-era bills sequestered within two envelopes with the return address of "P. Dunne, News Agency" totaled $182,000.

Now, here's the caveat! Kitt felt Reece owed him for discovering the cache. She offered 10%; he wanted 40%.
That's when things went sour. When the story broke in a Cleveland area newspaper in 2007, the 21 heirs of wealthy businessman, Patrick Dunne, who originally owned the house and had stashed the cash during the depression era of failed banks, jumped into the mix suing for the money.

However, most of the cash by this time had "mysteriously" disappeared. Reece testified in a deposition that she spent about $14,000 on a trip to Hawaii and had sold some of the rare late 1920s bills to collectors. She said about $60,000 was stolen from a shoe box in her closet but testified that she never reported the theft to police.

She also testified in court that she was near bankruptcy and the banks had recently foreclosed on one of her properties.

So, each heir will get a mere fraction of the original find, with the contractor receiving just a few thousand dollars too.

Oh, well!!
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German writer
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English actor (was married to Elizabeth Taylor)
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US writer
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