Our new house is surrounded by rose bushes. They are over grown and a bit out of control. Roses are beautiful flowers, but they take much more maintenance than we are willing to provide.
I had an idea!
It was Mother’s Day weekend. Why not give them away? They would make a great gift for some gardening type mom. I listed them for FREE on Facebook Marketplace.
Right away I was flooded with responses. The first people were a couple and said they could come ASAP. I told them to bring a shovel and come on over. They arrived and started digging up bushes. They were thrilled to get them and were going to plant them around the house where they were renting. The woman who owned the property loved roses.
We learned that they were new to the area, and he was a remodeler and they worked together as a team. We told them we just bought this place and were interested in having some demo done. Larry showed them around, explaining what we wanted removed. Starting with the old, gross wall to wall carpet. He said they could do it and amazingly they could start on Monday. (That was on Saturday.)
They showed up on Monday and began work. Within a few days the carpet was removed, the master bath and the kitchen wall were demo’d. It was like magic!
They free cycled the carpet and a lot of the fixtures and took the rest to the dump. He installed a new toilet for us to use, and cleaned up the entire place. Next, we wanted the place primed with Zinsser to refresh the ceiling and cover the ugly paneled walls. They started work right away.
It felt like a small miracle!
Mind you, we were just here on a month’s vacation, never expecting to buy a home. We had no supplies or tools with us. Honestly, we were not really prepared to start the project. But, here they were ready to work and equipped with everything needed to do the work, except the paint. That was an easy fix!
The entire house has a coat of primer, the celing two coats. What a difference it makes! They did more in a week than we expected to get done in two months!
It was another case of synchronicity - a gift from the flow. And it started with us deciding to give away rose bushes!
We are feeling blessed!
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