From the Archives-Eight years later, looking back at the path of our lives with the barn still makes me smile. I've labored regularly about the sorry state of the roof over the last eight years that "La Grange Dentelle" has been part of our WE. It's hard to believe, May of 2010. I paid attention then. I'm paying attention now. The barn and this place speak to me in unconventional ways when I pay attention.
More on that another time, but for now...I'm going to be trying to put the pieces of euros together while I'm back in the states so we maybe can finally put a new roof on the barn.
You can see from some of the photos that I've added from just last week, it is becoming urgent. As Monsieur Feres said: Elle est malade, Laury!
The post that follows is the beginning of this story. As you can imagine, and when you see the photos of the roof today blended into the old post; I am hoping for a second time happy ending.
April 24, 2009-Many of my more regular readers have been interested in any new information that comes along about the beautiful, ancient, barn that is located behind the Chatette.
I fell in love with it the moment I saw it, and really felt like it should be a part of "us".
My feelings haven't changed.
But since it appears I could be paying for the New Orleans repairs from the levee breech for the rest of my life, I'm continuing my "divining" process.
(Today, this is the view I see from my armchair by the fireplace. Talk about screaming at me!)
Yesterday, Dali and I walked a very nicely wrapped package with a framed and signed photo of the barn, as a gift to the new owners.
Good thing that I had written my pitiful note in French-because no one was home and I left it against the door.
Dali and I headed back towards home down the road and along the river route, since it was warm and sunny. I dared to hope that the sun and the warmth were here to stay.
Later in the afternoon-I received a very sweet e-mail from the family saying that the photo was "superbe". As I had already been told by friends, they don't know what they are going to do with the barn, but promised that if they decide to sell it they will be sure to tell me and we will talk more then.
I'm pleased. It gives me more time for our divining process. One of the things I've been wanting to do ever since the photo of the barn turned out so beautifully, was to put a copy of it out in the barn. I don't know what got into me this morning, but I had a small frame and another copy of the photo so Dali and I went over with it.
I wandered around inside to see what might be a nice spot to rest the photo, and I think I found it. The energy is moving around over here. We're practicing our patience and hoping that there is a pas a pas here with maybe-a meant to be!
It really is that I feel the barn so strongly-as if it belongs with this place...you know Steward! We're ready for you and Eric to return and stir up our divining process a bit!
Posted by: Laury Bourgeois | June 03, 2009 at 05:26 AM
Laury there is always bewitching going on in the land of the L0T....You want the barn, you need the barn, the barn is yours.....Steward.
Posted by: Steward | June 02, 2009 at 08:57 PM
It really is "bewitching"-there's a line at the end of "If Ever I would Leave You" where it says: "How could it be in spring time, knowing how in spring I'm bewitched by you so?"...I think there's lots of springtime bewitching going on over here!
Posted by: Laury Bourgeois | April 24, 2009 at 02:49 PM
You are Melanging your very own Magic!I love the stone of this building and your photo is, indeed, superbe! I am so looking forward to feeling the energy and being bewitched by the barn.
Posted by: Evelyn Jackson | April 24, 2009 at 01:13 PM