I told him to put the tape measure down and then I told him what he had never bothered to ask. The house is not in a will. It has been in a living trust since 2009, with his mother and me as trustees, and Corwin is not a beneficiary and never has been.
The beneficiary is a fund for the apprentices at the yard where I worked thirty nine years, because we made that decision together the year his mother was ill and he did not come. He had been told this once, at a kitchen table, and had evidently filed it away as something old people say.
