Roses and a Newel Post

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Dena snapped some pictures of the roses in our front yard. Our roses are red, pink, yellow, and orange. They add some much needed color to the gray and green of Aberdeen. The grass in the backyard is growing quickly due to all the rain.
We finally have an internet connection at home! We streamed some KRVS on Saturday. It was so nice to have a some Cajun music and DJs to listen to. If anyone has some other streaming radio stations they listen to, drop me an email with the address. I got an update from our BMW salesman. He said the car should be arriving in August, but I didn't get a date. I'm getting really excited.
We're making decent progress unpacking all our boxes. Our master bedroom is still on pause due to needing a decent amount of repair work. In the lease negotiations, the owners agreed to let us paint various rooms, but it's kind of disappointing that they left one of the rooms that we wanted to paint is such bad condition. There is literally a large hole in one of the walls. The property manager is sending someone this coming week, so maybe we'll get to paint the room next weekend? We're not in too big of a hurry, as we ordered some bedroom furniture. It'll be a couple weeks before it comes in.
If you didn't know, a newel post is the post that is at the top or bottom of a staircase. The newel post in our house in Aberdeen is not special, but it's causing a lot of special problems. Things are just different here, and for whatever reason, the newel post is 33 inches from the wall instead of 36 inches. Why does three inches matter? Well, it's the distance that would be needed to let our queen size box spring up stairs. It's also what is preventing our new bedroom furniture from going up the stairs. We just fell in love with some solid teak pieces that have marble inlays. After much discussion of possibly having our bedroom downstairs, we decided against it. Upstairs, there is a very large window that swings open to the side in the room that will be Dena's art studio. We've figured that the furniture pieces will go through the window. After a few days of talking over different options, we're pretty sure we can buy a couple of extension ladders and drag and push the pieces up the extension ladders, with a lot of help from my coworkers. It's not the most delicate option, but due to the position of the newel post at the bottom of our stairs, it's the best option we could come up with. If we had bought the house, a saws-all would have been the quickest option. :)