And we mean quite fond.
So today when I went into his office to ask for a story about the furniture in our place, Dr. Bob decided to take a Kansas approach. I got not only one, but two stories about neat pieces of furniture.
The first is this couch, located near our main whiteboard/projector screen. It's a newer piece to the Writing Center, arriving while we were in our new space, maybe even about a year ago or so.
Lovely, isn't it? The couch is quite firm and comfy. It was first housed in Margie's (Dr. Bob's wife) childhood home in Kansas. Dr. Bob said he saw the couch for the first time in 1964 when he went to visit Margie. They eventually acquired the couch and it sat for about 10 years in Dr. Bob's basement. Then, he decided the couch needed a new home and ended up here. I asked if the fabric had ever been replaced, and he said it hadn't. The couch has done pretty well, wouldn't you say?
The other Kansas piece was the rocking chair, located near the touch screen computer close to the kitchen. Dr. Bob said this was his father's rocking chair. Also in excellent condition.
Apparently Dr. Bob's father was a "large man" and one day, when his father sat down in the chair, he split it into two:
Instead of simply getting rid of the chair, his father instead decided to fix it. Dr. Bob recounted how he went into the barn, found two strips of some sort of metal and put some screws into the strips and the chair to repair it.
Resourceful, am I right?
This has been your weekly Thursday Furniture Feature. Come back next week for another story and more pictures!
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