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I understand that our American friends have already had and - hopefully met their deadline for their annual taxes; that's on April 15th.
Here in Canada we have an April 30th deadline. Most years that doesn't seem long enough for me. I am quite dyslexic when it comes to numbers. I can read 3 numbers aloud to myself, and as I'm writing them down, I reverse them. So I have learned to go very slowly when I work with numbers.
I was still in elementary and high school when I saw I had this problem, so I have never every sought a job as a cashier or accountant for others. I have learned to use certain tricks to keep myself working slowly and ever so carefully when I have to do math. And I often do some calculations 3 or 4 times, even with a handy calculator. My nimble fingers do often make a wrong entry, despite going extra slow - as if pulling on the reins of a too-eager horse.
Friday evenings are my time to do my weekly book- keeping entries, and sorting my receipts, etc. I work at it slowly and cautiously. Even then, I often do the math a second and third time to see if I get the same answer.
Last week I started giving up most of my daily to-do projects and focusing on my annual summaries of columns of numbers. Towards the end of the week my columns were much longer than monthly figures for certain topics. I groaned, "Oh no! I've entered some too many times!" So I had to start all over entering each number in each column again, slowly, carefully.
Yesterday I found the official documents from the government with the numbers for what they had deposited into my account each month for OAS & CPP funds. "Whoopee! I'll use their numbers instead mine!"
I'm not done yet, but I hope in the next day or two to be able to say I've got the best I can do, and I will take my sheets to an accountant who can check my math and answers, and hopefully send it off like she did last year, electronically.
Then my biggest annual math trials will be over! Whoopee!
Do you have this much trouble with your income tax return too? I sympathize with you!!
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Unless you live in a part of the world where the seasons are all the same, you may not understand how much we here in Canada get excited when the season changes from Winter to Spring!
We are often telling others of the signs of spring we have seen just yesterday or today. We start planning our gardens or flowerbeds - we know full-well that it is still too early to get started on those gardening and yard chores.
I got excited Sunday when I saw on the weather forecast that we were going to get three days sunshine and temp- ratures that are above ZERO, before we would get a few days of snow flurries and perhaps some rain or sleet.
Hey, three days of sunshine can melt away quite a lot of snow! Once the ground is exposed, the sun will warm up the ground, and green things will start to pop up!
That means spring will speed up the melting snows and the ground will be begging for raking and working at it.
In fact it doesn't take me much imagination to think that I see the odd green leaf showing on the trees outside my window.
I have plenty of deep-cleaning and down-sizing inside my house to get to, but I also look forward to spending about half-an-hour or even a whole hour each evening, clearing the garden and getting it ready to be tilled.
My muscles are still weak from the spine fractures I had from November to January. The bone pain has cleared up but putting my muscles to work will strengthen them and I'll be able - gradually - to spend more time on my feet and doing normal things.
So.... I thank God for the arrival of Spring!!
I trust you are glad to see it too!
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Oh Friend! Despite all the evil and the huge natural disasters around the world, You and I are in a place of peace and quiet interaction.
How can that be? So many ask if God has gone missing.
Actually, Friend, I know that God is Great. I'm convinced He is very Good. He's also very Gentle, but has not lost His eternal grip on the world and every cell and grain of sand or dirt. God is still fully in charge, and answering those who call upon Him in faith.
All the signs indicate, the Bridegroom is coming to meet His Bride - any day, any hour now!
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