this old couch

Many of you have sat (sitted? why do some past tenses just sound awk?) on this loveseat. It lives in New York. However, as you may be able to see in the pic, it has deteriorated since I last covered it. I therefore decided to buy a new loveseat. Then I decided, instead, to buy leather to recover it in hopes that it would then last as long as I will. Purchased in Alabama and carried back to NYC on the plane. Three and two half hides. I then priced recovering it. $1200 bottom. I then priced recovering it in Missouri. Circa $300. Done. Well, there are the transportation costs: to date much work on the truck, including $800 worth of brakes and possibly new tires all around. Bear helped me load the thing (with its raincoat) in the truck last night, and I left at dawn this ayem. I drove an hour to Moody, Mo., across two low water bridges, past the fish ponds and the old house, up to the yellow  doublewide and the uphostering shed and there deposited the thing (FYI Hannah and Erin, Carla's husband backed the truck out for me).  She says she loves leather—and that's a good thing.