[Magdalen] trying to sell my house

Marion Thompson marionwhitevale at gmail.com
Wed May 6 13:32:58 UTC 2015


Thanks, Molly.  That is my fervent prayer!  Meanwhile, it is a great 
relief to off-load here periodically and have a swing in the golden hammock.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 5/5/2015 11:28 PM, Molly Wolf wrote:
> It's hard enough to sell a house, and harder still to do a massive downsize WITH renovations, and then with all the emotional load... May you come through these murky turbulent waters into a  pool of clarity and peace.
>
> Hugs,
> Molly
>
> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain
>
>> On May 5, 2015, at 10:36 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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



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