Moving house gives me sad. I’m convinced the real reason Satan prefered to “reign in hell” over serving in heaven had nothing to do with hubris: he just couldn’t face another realtor.
Robert le Pieux couldn’t stand it either. He wanted to stay put. In this detail from Jean-Paul Laurens’ famous painting of the Relocation of Robert le Pieux, we see the tenth century French monarch moaning with his wife, Berthe of Burgundy. The thought balloon is a later addition.
Me, I’m with Berthe. Someone is coming over in about an hour to take pictures of our current shack. No time to play with my little friends on the Web. Sorry to leave you in the lurch, kids, but here’s a good site for you to enjoy while I suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous Assessors: Dirty Harry’s Place is fun and opinionated and loaded with movie stills. You will thank me.
3 responses so far ↓
Janet // June 23, 2008 at 11:55 am
Better you than me, brother. Although my turn will probably come.
uphilldowndale // June 24, 2008 at 2:00 am
Good luck, it’s a stressful time.
Our aim is to leave this place ‘feet first in a box’! because it’s not where we ’stay’ it’s where we ‘belong’
HappyKlam // June 24, 2008 at 10:47 am
Yes! Yes! Why anyone moves for any reason besides war and famine is a mystery. But that’s what we’re doing. It’s what we ALL seem to do in the U.S. Every couple of months a realtor with a bullhorn stands in the street and shouts “SWITCH!” And we all swap houses.
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