{"id":5548,"date":"2014-12-12T07:20:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T12:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=5548"},"modified":"2014-12-09T12:21:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T17:21:42","slug":"gardening-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/12\/12\/gardening-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardening finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"StJoseph\"I found a small statue of St. Joseph in my front garden.\u00a0 Other than a disem-housed toy chimney, it is the only garden discovery I have made that is not building materials.\u00a0 Not immediately recognizing it, and being raised with more of the mezuzah<\/a> tradition than that of the catholic saints, I had a strong inclination to put it back.\u00a0 I decided to clean it up and research first.<\/p>\n

What I found is that St. Joseph, in addition to being a patron saint for families, parents and working people, is also the patron saint for home buyers and sellers.\u00a0 Burying a small figurine of St. Joseph upside down and facing the house will help your house to sell.\u00a0 You should remember where you put him, so you can retrieve him once the selling is over and give him a good place in your new house (oops to the previous owners).\u00a0 Since we are so happy to have found our house, we’ve given him a good place in ours.<\/p>\n

The Catholic Supply Company has a few variations on the St. Joseph home selling kit<\/a>, the one pictured is the figurine found in our garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found a small statue of St. Joseph in my front garden.\u00a0 Other than a disem-housed toy chimney, it is the only garden discovery I have made that is not building materials.\u00a0 Not immediately recognizing it, and being raised with more of the mezuzah tradition than that of the catholic saints, I had a strong… Continue reading Gardening finds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[212,214],"class_list":["post-5548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-gardening","tag-the-house"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6431,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/09\/30\/st-jerome-patron-saint-of-librarians\/","url_meta":{"origin":5548,"position":0},"title":"St. Jerome: Patron Saint of Librarians","author":"leems","date":"September 30, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Today is the feast day of St. Jerome, patron saint of librarians, translators and encyclopedists.\u00a0 The Preus Library article by Jane Kemp skillfully describes his life and library: St. Jerome\u2019s personal library was considered to be the most important private collection of the period. 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