[Magdalen] Tiny prayer request

[Georgia DuBose]

{{{{{{{Marion}}}}}}}

Georgia+

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Marion Thompson
<marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am very happy for you!  May both your two couples decide in your favour
> and compete with each other!
>
> At my end, after a week my painter has finished the loft over the garage, in
> parlous condition after Pat, the lodger, was finally extracted.  Inside the
> house, all is chaos.  Walls of boxes of books everywhere, paintings and
> pictures stacked everywhere, bare walls because of painting and as part of
> stripping down the house for sale (May 8th listing).  It is beyond
> depressing to live in such turmoil and to have absolutely no idea how long I
> must live like this. Where will all this Stuff go?  What is the balance
> between staging for sale and my being able to live any sort of life in what
> remains?  Unlike Molly, in town, I am in a historic hamlet on a well and
> septic, no gas in town, no wifi unless you make your own connection somehow,
> etc., delightful if you are of that ilk,  but not all will be attracted to
> the unpaved road which is my street, for instance.  Until the house sells I
> must stay here, because there is no money to maintain two homes.
>
> The free snow plowing that I enjoyed over the winter has left me with two of
> the rairoad ties, used for edging the drive, in the drainage ditch downhill
> from my drive, and a large quantity of driveway gravel obliterating the
> flower bed at the end of the drive.  Mustn't grumble -- the plowing was a
> blessing , but the fall-out certainly reduces curb appeal!  The priority is
> inside the house; I don't know when I'll get outside to deal with the garden
> clean up.
>
> A younger person couldn't do it!
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
>
> On 4/20/2015 12:51 AM, Molly Wolf wrote:
>>
>> I had two couples look at my house today.  We just put the house on the
>> market in Wednesday.  Both couples loved the place and are "sleeping on"
>> their decision. A good offer, conditional only on inspection, would be very,
>> very nice.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Molly
>>
>> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no
>> other way. -- Mark Twain.
>>
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