In further proof that Hudson is part of America and more like Cambridge than first glances might reveal, an old love seat has disappeared from the alley running behind our house.

Saturday, with more than a little help from our friend Chris Brown, we moved an old love seat downstairs and out to the “barn”. As we were lugging this gem down the stairs, Chris said “Let’s put it out on the street and someone will come and take it away.”

I replied, “Well, in Cambridge that would be a completely safe strategy. We once put an old metal office desk on the street only to see it scooped up by students living across from us literally within minutes. But, I am not so sure about putting old furniture on Warren St. in Hudson. I have never seen anything like that here. But, lets put it in the alley. Plenty of people go by out there.”

So, that is exactly what we did. I came back a bit later and put a sign on it, “Free”.

Later that night I went out back and saw that no one had taken us up on our “free” love seat. Then, I flashed back to a memory from our Western Ave. Cambridge days. During a move from one side of the street to the other, we left an old sofa bed on the side walk. In the middle of the night we awoke to fire engines dousing a fire set in the sofa. With that in mind, I pushed our love seat a bit closer to the edge of the alley and a bit further from our very combustible barn.

Next morning, I went out to the barn and opened the door. The only evidence of our love seat was a slightly crumbled “free”.