Oh where is my checkbook? I was positive that I had some checks around. The paper kind that you have to write using a pen. I usually take a few checks up to the yooperland in the summer in case I need to pay the moomincabin’s share of something, like road repairs, to people who do not use Venmo and probably won’t ever use Venmo. Which is okay! I have known about Venmo for a while now but have only recently acquired it, so send me money (just kidding).

Nowadays I write checks something like 2-5 times a year and two of those are to pay property taxes to Bay Mills Township in the yooperland. They have a decent informational website but they do not have an online payment system. If I were a rich, snooty “southerner” (I mean southern Michigander), I suppose I might put my snooty little nose up in the air and sniff about that. But, lemme see… I am a southern Michigander, albeit not a rich one. I am also a yooper! I *get* why Bay Mills does not have an online payment system and it is fine with me. It is a very small township, at least when you compare it to the entity that I pay my property taxes to down here on The Planet Ann Arbor. When you email the Bay Mills treasurer*, you *get* the Bay Mills treasurer, not some bot or whatever.

So I am happy to mail in my tax check a couple times a year. But. Where is my checkbook? The GG found one but I was really surprised there weren’t more around. Do I really have to order more checks? Maybe there is some high-tech way of issuing a check (from me, not via my bank) these days? (If there is, it could well be my company that provides the technology…)

Anyway, I have a check. I will write a check. And mail it. And I guess I will order more checks.

*I had to email the Bay Mills treasurer a couple years after The Commander left the building because, after a couple years of receiving tax bills here at my Planet Ann Arbor address, I did not receive one. Because I am meeeee, I knew when to expect the tax bills, so I knew I had missed one. I emailed the treasurer to try to figger out why I didn’t receive it. She didn’t know but she told me what we owed and of course I PAID IT ON TIME because we sure wouldn’t want “the state” to take property that my grandfather bought back in the early 1920s away from us, would we? It turned out that the township treasurer may be responsible for getting the bills in the mail but it is a county office that manages the address list. I paid that county office a friendly personal visit the next summer. After a transfer of the moomincabin property within the family they, for reasons I cannot fathom, changed the address on our property tax bill to my mother’s house in *town*. The house that I had sold a couple years before. After she died. Since I am not exactly sure how the address got changed from The Landfill to the Dillon House in the first place, I asked that they not change it again without contacting me.

G’night. KW

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