Close to thirty years ago, when our friends JP and Rosemary got married, her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law refinished an old wooden couch and chair for them, sewing new cushion covers in an off-white . . .
Close to thirteen years later, when JP and Rosemary were able to afford new furniture, we were moving to Lakeville. They offered us that couch and chair for the downstairs. We gladly took them . . .
It was a good five years later that we were able to afford new furniture for the downstairs. JP and Rosemary did NOT want the couch/chair back so Sam managed to creatively destroy the wooden bits - can you say "chainsaw"? But we kept the cushions.
Years of fort building and mosh pits came to end as our kids grew up. Two cushions were destroyed by knife throwing over the long winter months, leaving us with just six of the original eight.
Last Wednesday at Bible study, I asked if anyone would be interested in some couch cushions. "They made excellent forts!" Seriously, I had a brawl! Emily won. Today I dropped the cushions off at her house and before I could even leave, the first fort was being built . . .
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