“Make hay when the sun shines” and “sow seeds when it’s raining.” The old-fashioned sayings may sound cliché, but not to one group of local real estate professionals.

In a welcoming lounge at the Meadows new Memory Care unit in the Villas, a 1930s candlestick phone stands on a writing desk, as if awaiting a call from an old friend.

For the next four weeks, 10 Questions focuses on business people involved in local nonprofit agencies.

As it should be, the grand marshals and leaders of this morning’s Napa Fourth of July Parade are our returning military men of the privately funded Pathway Home Program at the Yountville Veterans Home.  

Two things upfront: Napa was once a cow town, and Gary Larson should be illustrating this column today. A reader kindly passed along news of a business innovation outstanding in its field. Literally.

Dear Len & Rosie, I have a friend who is dying of cancer. Doctors have given her two months to live. She has no will or living trust. She has no estate, but does have furniture that is worth maybe $5,000. Can I create a videotape of her stating what she would like done with her belongings?