[Magdalen] trying to sell my house

[Marion Thompson]

Wow, two nibbles so quickly!  I'm impressed!

I think I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but we have had to 
postpone the 'For Sale' sign until May 21 and go with the 'Coming Soon' 
that was put on the lawn yesterday.  The garage is amazingly empty 
compared to formerly, but still a way to go there (into the dumpster!).  
The house, too, has turned a corner.  Kevin still has the kitchen to 
tackle and half the living room.  Jim has taken more than 40 boxes to 
his locked shed along with endless framed artwork (how did so much 
accummulate?????), so the pod is way bigger than was needed.  I thought 
more big furniture would go in it, but one large hand-me-down from my 
daughter is at the curb along with the big TV it housed (no nibbles 
yet).  Only a loveseat is in it and a million bookcases and Rubbermaid 
containers.

Oy!  The grass needs cutting.

  I have moved on from the overwrought weepy days of earlier, so that is 
a positive sign.  At singing on Wednesday, we rehearsed Moses Hogan's 
'Hear my prayer' and wept through it, unable to croak out more than a 
note or two.  Its sweet simple beauty and sentiment always gets me, but 
this was way too close to home.  Like Billy Joel's ' And so it goes' 
after Jim left, it was a year before I could sing it at all.  Going to 
an Orpheus Choir concert tonight with friends and that will be a lovely 
break.

Prayers for all of us in the housing game.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 5/9/2015 10:50 AM, Molly Wolfmama wrote:
> A couple went through here this morning.  They want a Victorian house, but one that requires no work.  They don't like my basement, which has low (that is, Victorian) head space.  Victorians were shorter than we are.
>
> Good luck to them, I sez.
>
> Molly
> P.S. We have someone from Toronto coming through tomorrow.
>
> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain
>
>> On May 6, 2015, at 10:34 AM, Molly Wolfmama <lupa at kos.net> wrote:
>>
>> I'll take prayers for a house sale too, although compared to Marion's, my lot is easy.
>>
>> Molly
>>
>> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain
>>
>>> On May 6, 2015, at 9:32 AM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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