[Magdalen] Tiny prayer request

[Molly Wolf]

Prayers that peace and order arise from all the chaos.

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Apr 21, 2015, at 12:55 AM, Georgia DuBose <gdubose at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> {{{{{{{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.
>>