An Old Story

I never blogged about it when it happened, but I will now.

Around the last time LL came to visit us, we noticed that one of the mattresses on the bed was slowly sinking lower than the other one. The VIP bought this bed over 20 years ago when he lived in Germany and it is quite ingenious. It's all wood, and comes to pieces with the effort of two people. This makes it easy to move. Instead of having one king-sized mattress, it has two extra-long twin mattresses. They are a bit hard, but we bought some nice foam mattress pads and I'm fine. The only bad thing is that we cannot get mattresses here that fit the frame. If we replace the bed, we replace the whole entire thing, and I'm not willing to give up the easily movable thing yet. Anyway, a couple of days after LL's visit, we broke the bed.

The first night, I slept on the mattress on the floor, and the VIP slept on the bed in the extra bedroom. But that wasn't very friendly and neither of us slept well. The next night we dragged both mattresses out into the living room and had a campout of sorts. That was much more fun. The next day was Saturday and we went to Home Depot for some lumber and huge bolts. For about $20 and a couple hours of finagling, we fixed the bed!

But I have to tell you, camping out on the living room floor really was fun.

Stalled

The VIP and I went to Maryland Sheep and Wool which he blogged about here and here. Since he did such a good job, I will refer you to his observations.

I bought a ball of Opal sock yarn, a secret present for a friend, and some Kollage square needles which I have already returned. I like the idea of the square needles, but the cable is floppier than wet string. Absolutely no good for Magic Loop use. The manufacturer says they are tinkering with a firmer cable so I will try them again when that comes out. The VIP bought sheep's milk cheese, which tastes nice but is very over-priced, IMHO. I had a good time, but we missed a whole building. The sharpening booth was in the same building as The Fold, so we waited until 4pm to drop off our scissors to be sharpened. He did an awesome job though. I know I have at least two more pairs of sewing scissors that need attention. I wonder if he will be at Rhinebeck?