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15_the_circle) wrote2006-09-27 09:44 pm
15_the_circle) wrote2006-09-27 09:44 pm
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[not really OT from cottage renovations]
here's a theoretical question: suppose your cottage had a couch transplant. one that was overdue. way overdue. as in: you had been grateful each day that your cottage is a private residence rather than a public accommodation and therefore not subject to inspection by public health authorities who upon seeing that one ratty piece of furniture would have been certain to have shut the place down on the spot.
and then, suppose that your cottage had been refenestrated, and with a dedication coming on you had finally gotten around to replacing said disreputable couch.
here's the question: how would you dispose of the old one?
(click through these thumbnails for higher resolution images)
plan a: dismantle, bag the pieces and set them out next to your AMC Pacer for curbside pickup on the normal municipal schedule. |
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plan b: turn the job over to a teenager. |
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Where'd you get the photos?
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that was the easy part. I took both of them.
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I guess before doing Plan B, figure out how toxic the couch might be, and what the burn laws are for your area, (i.e., here, one can't burn in the city, only the county, and even then for only one month in the fall and one month in the spring.)
Oh and....
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I could not in any conscience have passed it on for reuse, not in the shape it was in.
the exercise was not completely unrewarding: the crevice behind/under cushions along the base of the back yielded $1.36 in coins (a dime, quarter, penny and one of those cheap brass dollars (not that I should speak ill of decorator coinage -- the Bureau of the Mint is a valued customer -- but when tarnished those things look as cheap as they really are)).
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If you took the Plan B photo in 2004, does that mean the couch that was burned was replaced with the couch from the Plan A photo? If so, what in the world did you do to exhaust it within two years?
Or, by design, does everything in your cottage look like the set of Samford and Son?
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> If you took the Plan B photo in 2004, does that mean the couch that was burned
> was replaced with the couch from the Plan A photo? If so, what in the world
> did you do to exhaust it within two years?
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neither the couch or the teenager in the '04 photo were mine; I just happened to be in the right place at the right time for the photo.
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> does everything in your cottage look like the set of Samford [sic] and Son?
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that depends. the renovation (of which this blog is the chronicle) has been proceeding from front to back. the front is looking raght purty now. the rest still has potential for improvement; as that potential becomes kinetic there will be more to record in this space. at least that's the plan.
as to its resemblance to the premises of Sanford & Son, I don't think I'm qualified to render that judgement. if there's a thematic inspiration for the work-in-progress part of the cottage, though, it's more likely to be the Rosebund Junk Co. from the Gasoline Alley comic strip (http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/scoop_article.asp?ai=2314&si=126).
Re: Oh and....
absolutely love that name.
whose garage is it rehearsing in? I think I need/want to be there ...
BTW that's a great hat, and outfit, in your inconpic. really suits you.
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Finding coins in the insides of sofa's is something that always makes me laugh. When we are on the hunt for change for what ever reason Pat pulls apart the sofa and always finds at least £2.00 which always makes me laugh as he is like a man possessed trying to find money inside the sofa LOL
H x