After years of making do, and more than a few months of threatening to just buy a hammock and sleep in the yard, we've finally bought a new mattress. Our old mattress is probably 25 years old. It's served us well, but it's been a long 25 years, and the other furniture never said, "Oh, you look so good for your age" or any other thing furniture would say if it were animated. I'm pretty sure even the leaning, saggy, 18-year-old chipboard bookcases just politely refused to make eye contact with the bed. And we slept about as well as one might expect on bedding in this condition. When Zorak would travel for work, he'd call at night and I'd ask him to tell me about the mattress. And he would, because even though he probably thought that was odd, he loves me. (By the way, Marriot does sell their mattresses to the public, just in case you're in the market - best night's sleep I've had in decades on one of those.)
So. This is huge. So huge that I must admit I'm probably just old, because a new mattress shouldn't be this exciting.
Yet it is.
And the only reason I'm not wallowing on that thing right now is because the sheets are still in the wash. Even that took some mustering to force me back up.
In other news, we finished the week strong for school, in spite of three dental visits, two hair cuts, music, and the constant need to buy more food.
We bought five new chicks, all "guaranteed to be pullets". (I am not strong on my farm knowledge, but the lady seemed to feel that answered my question, so I had to smile and nod and just trust that "pullet" does in fact mean "you'll get eggs from these if you can keep them alive long enough". Looked it up. It does. Yay!) The kids got the brooder box set up with a divider (we still have one of our older hens convalescing in there after a horrible near-death pecking by the roosters shortly before we left), and they're all enjoying the fun of raising baby chicks again.
And now that the last freeze of the year looks like it's past, it's time to start gardening! That's pretty exciting, too.
Kiss those babies, and sleep well!
~Dy
1 comment:
Yay on the mattress!
Hope that you will be able to sleep much better!!
We bought a new mattress about 10 years ago as I was waking up with back aches every day. Now I'm waking up with headaches, so it may be time for a new mattress soon.
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