Susan Peterson, John Ralph, Gayle Marie Ralph: I found Saint Joseph today! Almost forty years ago, your mother bought him for me while she was visiting California. I had just found my dream house, but my first house had to be sold first and it was just not selling. Aunt Chrys gave me the Saint Joseph and said if I would bury him upside down next to my house, it would sell. The day we all buried him, my husbands car was parked right opposite the plot. That evening someone came to our door and wanted to buy the car! Only a few days later, my house sold and I bought the house I live in today. When we moved to the new house, Saint Joseph was dug up and placed on the mantle. He stood withe the dirt from our old yard still on his arms. He stood there until I rented out the house to go to Yale. He was then moved to the attic of the house where he had a prominent position next to the chimney. When I returned home, he was placed on the mantel until I left for my six year circumnavigation, when he went back to his honored place in the attic to watch over the house while we were gone. Upon our return, he did not go back on the mantel. We planned to sell DOLPHIN SPIRIT, so we put him upside down in the boat. For ten years he was there, but the boat did not sell. Today, Laurie and I were on the boat going through all the spaces, making lists to ready the boat for our upcoming sail to the San Juan Islands and Vancouver. There in one of the lockers below the sole of the boat was Saint Joseph. Guess, because he was a carpenter, and not a boat builder, he could not sell our yacht. (Why he was able to sell the car, only he knows. But as I am reading this to Laurie, he just told me Saint Joseph had fallen over on his side and was no longer upside down and he wasnt really buried) This afternoon Saint Joseph went back on our mantel, a little worn, but back where he belongs.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 00:46:07 +0000
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