As I open this tale, I must inform you that I can give too much information from time to time. 
To give you a background, I am marrying a mortician in 3 days time, have bought my first house (140 yrs old) and have a full house, of animals, so to speak.  I am about to change jobs, and most likely, work for a local (yet large) trucking company and my mortician is about to open his own embalming service, too.