Oct 31, 2003: Sofa Construction!


Mysteriously appearing on T/J's lawn on Hallowe'en night..

Score! We found two pieces of sofa, right here on our property!

What do you think we should do with them?

Hmm, let's think... maybe we should put it back together and make one giant sofa!

Yeah!

This is going to take major fuel. Fuel of choice? A bowl of ice cream and Halloween Candy cookies.

The Skeptic looks on.

"Something's going on here, I just don't know what.."

Tracy and Mike wrestle the sofa halves down the stairs. It doesn't give up easily, but in the end, they prevail.

Sam inspects the situation.. yes, this will do..

Major surgery will be necessary..

the severed edges can be seen..

Tracy looks forward to her FrankenFurniture experience

"Moohoohoo hahahahaaaa.." The other sofa starts to get nervous. Hopefully nobody will notice it in its clever clean laundry disguise!

Mike the Sofa Surgeon begins to pull the fabric back together.

after lining the wood back up, the back cushions are pushed together.

Oh no! Casualty of war.. cookies are forgotten.. agony! It was discovered that the battery in the smoke detector had become loose, so the cookies were not sacrificed in vain..

The fabric on the couch is carefully zipped together by running the Saws-All in reverse

With amazing speed, Mike skillfully reconnects the strands of fabric and batting

finishing the main seam

Getting the wooden leg back together requires careful work!

turning the sofa over, Mike finishes the bottom edge

Entropy Boy gives his dad a disapproving gaze..

Now for the bottom - pieces of wire are carefully reconnected

"hey, it's actually coming together!"

Ahh, the FrankenFurniture is almost complete!

the central steel pins re-connected, the protective fabric is secured

Massaging the sofa back to life

Zipping up the back - don't sit there yet!

Ahh, almost done!

The Skeptic is satisfied!

a beautiful giant sofa now adorns the downstairs. Yay!