[Magdalen] trying to sell my house

[Marion Thompson]

Thanks, Suzie.  You're quite right about the deeper griefs.  Boy oh boy.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 5/5/2015 9:27 PM, Suzie Buchanan wrote:
> Marion -
> You have been much in my prayers.  I grieve the loss of a house.  You carry
> so much more, and deeper, griefs through all of this craziness you face.
>
> love and blessings
> Susan
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Nightmare central up here.  The house is turned inside out and upside down
>> with the painter plastering and painting and moving about in a handyman
>> way, but with still much to do.  We extended the process by a week, but I'm
>> not confident.  This Friday is 'Coming soon' sign and next Friday 'For
>> Sale'.  Jim is coming tomorrow to help for a couple of days, especially
>> with moving some big furniture into the pod to satisfy the agent (!) but is
>> unavailable next week.
>>
>> People keep viewing the pod, now holding lots of book cases and lots of
>> stuff from the garage as a very temporary storage, whereas I know it will
>> vanish for many months or who knows how long.  So where do I keep the boxes
>> I need to keep close at hand?  And what of the mountain of boxes and
>> pictures that Jim has taken to a locked shed at his place?
>>
>> I took 11 x 1.3cu ft boxes down to the Trinity Book Sale, being mainly
>> much of my theology, not all, but much.  Dangerously close to tears as they
>> offloaded them -- complaining all the way that they weren't in 1 cu ft
>> boxes.  The main fellow did remember to thank me almost as an afterthought.
>>
>> Anyway, good luck to us all!
>>
>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>
>>
>> On 5/5/2015 8:20 PM, Judy Fleener wrote:
>>
>>> waiting fir that to happen here....Judy
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Suzie Buchanan <buchanan.suzie at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>   I'm one of the in-good-company here at the Pub who are either selling or
>>>> buying or trying to do one of those things.
>>>>
>>>> We moved from New Hampshire to Virginia late last August, and finally
>>>> today
>>>> I was able to accept an offer on the house I've been trying to sell up
>>>> there.  It really seems to help to have some snow melted away!
>>>>
>>>> I have a very definite grief about this - - I have loved my "tree house"
>>>> in
>>>> New Hampshire so much.  But I am in no financial position to be able to
>>>> afford to keep a home up there while making a home here in Virginia.  So
>>>> I
>>>> am very happy about selling this house, even while I'm very sad about it.
>>>>
>>>> So please pray - that the home inspection and buyer financing both go ok,
>>>> so we can be cleared to move to closing on July 10.
>>>>
>>>> blessings
>>>> suzie
>>>>
>>>>
>>>