My parents are cleaning out a storage unit so we got to take some furniture from it. We got a nice leather armchair and a matching ottoman, and we’re going to get a couch later too. The armchair is great. I’m working on a reading/writing nook in the office, and it’s perfect for it.
No sooner had I gotten it set up, when…
I’m ambivalent about the protector I put on… it’s ugly, but I can shore up the fit, which should help. More importantly it will keep the chair from getting ruined in a month. But now I never get to see most of the leather… choices, choices.
Open thread! I’m playing Return to Monkey Island, which is really fun and also good homework for the adventure game I’m working on. What are you all up to?
eclare
Very nice chair! Kitties also seem to like it.
JoyceH
I get you on the chair cover. I got a leather sofa, first time in my life, and then got a pet protector sofa cover. It’s washable, and when it’s in the wash, I think awwww, but the sofa looks so nice! But then – all the dog and cat hair and dog biscuit crumbs that wind up on the cover would be on and in the sofa. Plus – cats, claws, etc.
Actually, when I first got the sofa, I didn’t have the cover, and the animals didn’t sit on it. I draped an afghan to look nice, and they would get up on the afghan, however Small they had to make themselves. They don’t seem to want to sit directly on the cow. And I sort of got the sofa for them! I barely sit on it, mainly sit in the recliner, so it would be a beautiful sofa that nobody used, except maybe as a claw sharpener.
Major Major Major Major
@JoyceH: we had a leather couch for a while in NYC that made it two years mostly unscathed. I trust Samwise not to scratch it, but Momo is a bit of a wild child…
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Where’s Burnspbesq to tell me Caitlin Clark is overrated because she’s cute?
Elizabelle
The Mile High kitties belong on that chair. Happy little creatures. Pride of possession.
Yutsano
Aww! It was so nice of you to get your kittehs a new chair*!
*I mean…what did you think was gonna happen anyway?
Major Major Major Major
@Yutsano: I mean duh, that’s why I put on the thingie!
opiejeanne
Love that you got them a nice chair to hang out on.
I’ve sort of become insanely interested in antique and vintage sewing machines, obsessed you might say. Today I rescued a 1950s machine in a cute cabinet, a Japanese clone of a Singer 15, for $4. After WWII, Singer gave Japan the rights to the 15 to help their industry recover from the war. Ironically, some of the Japanese clones are better than the Singer originals. I picked one up today that was made in the 1950s by Brother, and badged as a Bradford. It’s a small, black lacquered marvel with almost no signs of wear but something, maybe a house rabbit, had chewed the power cord to bits, and I’m now going to attempt to replace the cord. Hopefully I won’t burn the house down. Not really, I’ll plug it into a surge protector before I try it out, because these older machines do not have on/off switches.
I won’t tell you how many I’ve acquired in the past month, but I will say that the Vintage Sewing Machine group on Facebook are a bunch of enablers. I shouldn’t ask their opinions about beige 1950s Singers, especially Slant-o-Matics. Not ever again.
BruceFromOhio
Thank you for bringing in our chair.
HumboldtBlue
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:
Aaliyah Boston is a badass and the ’22 POTY, but to diminish what Clark has done this season, particularly after tonight, with some pig-tailed nonsense like that is silly.
South Cackalacky got served, and it was because Staley didn’t have them double Clark and Caitlin sliced and diced them. USC dominated the glass, particularly the offensive rebounds, and couldn’t defend the pick and roll on the other end.
Czinano and Clark worked in tandem all game, and Clark either scored or assisted on every point the Hawkeyes scored in the 4th quarter.
That’s an all-time semifinal performance, men or women.
Major Major Major Major
@opiejeanne:
Well one should never be surprised to find superior workmanship in Japanese consumer goods.
Fun hobby!
My mom found some old briefcase typewriter for me that I need to figure out what to do with. It would go great with this random vintage desk we got for cheap on Facebook but I think we’re gonna end up putting a monitor there… oh you know what, I’ll go ahead and set it out right now.
ETA just barely doesn’t fit! Darn
NotMax
It’s not play, it’s research.
;)
Mike E
@HumboldtBlue: it’s just another grumpy quote from burnspbesq, and SC ran out of gas which isn’t anything to be ashamed of…both teams gave pretty near their all in a memorable game, as you say.
prostratedragon
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Prelude In C Sharp Minor “The Bells:”
Rachmaninoff, piano
Nat King Cole Trio
Major Major Major Major
@NotMax: now I’m reading Lovecraft for research!
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
Hewlett-Packard missed a bet by not building a limited edition laptop called Lovecraft.
;)
oatler
Watching “Cannon” on MeTV when 1974 Joan van Ark looked pretty good and Paul Brinegar’s authentic Frontier gibberish helped a post-Watergate nation come to terms with Mason Reese.
sab
My parents had a really comfortable armchair with a supertough tweedy upholstery fabric that lasted for fifty years. We called it the dog chair because so many dogs over the years had liked it as much as Dad did.
It lasstwd maybe a week in my house before a couple of the cats shredded it. I still have it, but there are tufts of stuffing coming out through holes in the fabric.
I disapprove of declawing cats but with different owner Starscream and Dobby would have been looking for a new home or the mythical farm in the country. Your protective cover is a much better idea.
LiminalOwl
@Major Major Major Major: Have you read any Ruthanna Emrys? Winter Tide is an excellent palate-cleanser after Lovecraft.
JAFD
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: Back when I was young, “cute” was restricted to females under 5’7″, taller women had to find a different adjective ;-)
Games – my copy of the new edition of Kingmaker arrived from Merrie Olde Thursday. Is heavy, at least 5 pounds of cardboard. My heraldry-buff friend is wondering if they’ve fixed the original’s erroneous coats-of-arms …
SFAW
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:
I think burnsie’s point/comment was that Clark can be “can be held in check by elite defenders.” Which she obviously was last night by SC’s defense, including Defensive POTY Boston. I mean, Clark was held to only 40-something points, including Iowa’s last 11, so she clearly was shut down by SC’s elite defense.
My problem with Clark is that she’s a Hawkeye. As the proud son of a Cyclone, well …
Of course, I’m still a little pissed that Iowa State wouldn’t hire Dan Gable as wrestling coach, so he ended up going to Iowa.
danielx
Where does one find such covers? Getting new couch and love seat delivered today and Boris will have the love seat shredded in a week if we don’t cover it.
brantl
@opiejeanne: Would you know where to look for an old treadle sewing machine? I love those!
J R in WV
Cats look great on the new (old) chair !
I’m doing OK in the hospital today, told one Dr not to even think about pulling the second chest tube until they were dead certain the lung was completely healed! The Dr who installed the new tube yesterday afternoon was great — very little pain considering they basically stabbed me in the ribs to get the drain tube in place
Another Scott
@J R in WV: Thanks for the progress report.
Feel better!
Best wishes,
Scott.
Scout211
Awww, the rivalry is still alive. LOL.
Both my parents and both my sisters and I all graduated from Iowa. We have always been a Hawkeye family, but we all moved away from Iowa decades ago.
I just wish my father was alive to see the Iowa women play for the national championship on Sunday. He loved college basketball and he especially loved the Hawkeyes.
What is really exciting this year is that no #1 will be in either the men’s or women’s finals this year. It just makes things so much fun for the fans.
Go Hawkeyes!
Scout211
@J R in WV: Best wishes for a quick recovery. I’m sorry you are going through this.
opiejeanne
@brantl: Junk stores, “antique” stores, charity shops, stores at the local dump (if your area does that) and the online shops like Offer Up, Facebook Market, Pay Nothing, eBay, Etsy. Some of them allow you to search in your area so you can avoid shipping fees.
And shipping fees! Sometimes the seller on eBay is making their profit on those rather than the item offered, so keep an eye on those if you go that route.
I have my grandmother’s 1925 treadle machine, a Damascus sold by Montgomery Ward and made by National. In the garage there’s a White treadle cabinet that someone altered the top to fit a 1950s Singer into, which could be converted back with a little work. If you want it I’d be willing to sell it for $40. I’m in western Washington. Not sure where you are. You can email me at opieunderscorejeanneatyahoodotcom.
rikyrah
that’s a nice chair and the cats look so relaxed…
Mike S
We bought a couple of leather recliners and worried about our cats doing to them what they’ve done to every chair and couch we’ve owned. The saleswoman said cats don’t tend to shred leather chairs the same way. She was right.