Couch and house

Hello,

We had a short relationship with that couch/loveseat. Leroy worked to get the handrail off the back steps only to get hung up on the middle screw on the middle brace. While I was holding the railing I looked at the doorway in front of me. Leroy had gone to fetch additional tool help. The doorway looked small. “Did you measure this door,” I wondered.

Leroy sighed and grabbed his tape measure. It was indeed too small. Our landlords were out so we discussed with them bringing it up the front stairs which are in their apartment. Leroy measured steps and turn after they had cleared them and felt it was possible. Then it was on to the doorway at the top. It seemed that it would work if the door were taken off. In the meantime they had cleared a path in the kitchen so we could get it in that way rather than carting it around to the front. Leroy went to work to take off the door, but it would not budge. Also he then measured the door into the kitchen and found it too narrow. This house is one hundred years old and not built to accommodate such big furniture as we now have.

I now declared, “I do not want this loveseat. We will return it.”

Leroy agreed. The furniture was picked up today and is no longer a part of our vision. Our lives were fine before and they are fine now.

This afternoon when we both got home from work we planted six of the poinsettias. They were the worst looking ones, but they still have quite a lot of red on them. Tomorrow we will decide where to put the last four beauties. They are just astonishing looking.

We also helped the neighbor boy (He seems like a boy, but I suppose he could be in his thirties.) who knows nothing about plants and trees to eliminate some vigorous trees taking root next to his house. We did it partly for selfish reasons because I want to enjoy the clematis and peony that they were hiding and chocking. It looks good now.

Paula