bye-bye, couch

 We have had this couch for almost 17 years. My mom's friend Doreen gave it to us when we got married (used!). It's a queen sleeper sofa; the sleeper part is not too comfy but works in a pinch. When we got new furniture for Calvin's room, we moved his old bed (queen futon/couch) into the living room, and now there is just not much room for this couch, so we posted it on Craig's list and gave it away.

The thing we will most remember about it is just how EVIL it was to move. It is very, very heavy, and the sofa part tends to pop open while moving. The first time we moved it was when we moved into our apartment in Davis, CA, just after getting married. We had all of my stuff from my place in San Diego in a moving van, and this was the last thing to get unloaded, at about midnight. There was a post about 3 ft outside the apartment door plus a wall 3 ft inside the door that made moving this in almost impossible to begin with, never mind trying to move it in while tired and exhausted. Our new neighbors must have wondered at the quantity of 4-letter-words that I seem to remember spewing forth on that memorable occasion. Needless to say, neither of us were that sad to see this go.