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My potato patch on sliders and ready to haul away. The love seat, which goes too, is at the right.<\/p><\/div>\n
Much to my surprise, the Salvation Army said they\u2019d be happy to take it off our hands figuring the rips are reparable and their non discriminating clientele won\u2019t have a problem with the patina I\u2019ve created from years of \u00a0head resting against the puffy arms. \u00a0The matching love seat, which is in pristine condition because I rarely have plopped my rather pronounced posterior upon it, is going too. Our daughter wants it for her basement so out it goes . I\u00a0find the name\u00a0“love seat\u201d puzzling. I don\u2019t recall anyone ever sitting there and become overwhelmed with the urge to get frisky with the person next to them.<\/p>\n
Nope..they\u2019re gone and our new big ass recliner arrives this afternoon along with a brand new sofa. (Is it sofa or couch?..checking Google..be right back) Well, now..here\u2019s the rather surprising answer:<\/p>\n
Derived from the middle French word \u2013 \u201cCouche\u201d, a couch is nothing but an armless piece of furniture that was popularly used in the Victorian period and was often addressed as the fainting couch. The couches were used in order to provide a place for the ladies wearing tight fitted corsets with restricted breathing abilities. Couches generally feature one arm or no arm at all and a tapered back. On the other hand, the term sofa is derived from an Arabic term \u2013 \u201cSuffah\u201d and is used for a description of a bench which has been covered with blankets and cushions. Sofas are known to feature two arms and a uniform back.<\/em><\/p>\n I\u2019ll be darned; didn\u2019t know that. When I was a kid, my mom always referred to our sofa as the \u201cdavenport.\u201d (Shoot..I have to Google again..just a sec.)<\/p>\n Huh. It turns out that Davenport \u00a0is the name of a series of sofas manufactured by the now-defunct A.H. Davenport Company. Due to the popularity of the furniture at the time, the name “Davenport” has become a generalized trademark and is often used as a synonym for “sofa”, especially in the Midwestern United States. Sort of like Frigidaire, Kleenex and Thermos I guess. \u00a0\u00a0When our relatives from Canada came to visit they called it a Chesterfield. I already checked. It apparently comes from the 19th<\/sup> century Earl of Chesterfield. But I digress.<\/p>\n Our new couch\/sofa\/divan\/davenport will not have to endure the Doug stress test. \u00a0No, Linda has not forbade me from using it but I have marked a new territory to occupy in the house.(And no, I didn\u2019t mark it that way)<\/p>\n Yes, NASCAR's on. .Shut up.<\/p><\/div>\n \u00a0We have recently transformed one of the kid\u2019s old bedrooms into my own personal Man-Cave complete with TV, computer, recliner and day bed. (Which works nicely at night too when the snoring gets intense) The walls are covered with photos, paintings, TV and golf memorabilia.<\/p>\n Don't laugh..Mom's quilt<\/p><\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The\u00a0bathroom is a few short steps away and I\u2019m campaigning for a small refrigerator stocked\u00a0 with brewed and distilled beverages. But Linda says \u201cno way\u201d ..that I can certainly walk to the \u201cFrigidaire\u201d in the kitchen. And she\u2019s right, of course, exercise is very important.<\/p>\n The trouble with getting this new family-room furniture is that now Linda is getting all sorts of ideas for changing things around in the house;\u00a0 replacing a few other old items that have seen better days. If you want me I’ll be hiding out in the cave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A big day at our house as I say goodbye to a dear old friend. Our\u00a0well-seasoned leather couch (or as I like to call it..my potato patch) has finally become so tattered from over use by me that Linda was embarrassed to have people come over anymore. So it\u2019s going to wherever exhausted sofas wind…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lund-at-large","category-60","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11730,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions\/11730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Yes,](\"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/files\/2012\/03\/sofa-012.jpg\" "\\"sofa")
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