Squirrelly Notes

A Fun Time With The Mattress

Are you curious? Or scared? No need to be. There's been a transformation of the sleeping kind.  We've been trying to get rid of this king size mattress for several months, a Simmons Beauty Rest  'Do Not Disturb Mattress' with individual coil springs inside all hooked together. It was fairly pricey. But nobody wanted it. Recently, Joe has had a sore back - he thinks from sleeping on our one-of-a-kind air bed (coleman air mattresses with a 2" Tempurpedic topper on top).  We had stopped using the Simmons mattress because it's very firm and my shoulders were aching whenever I'd sleep on my side - there just wasn't enough 'give' to it. But now that Joe doesn't like the airbed, he was ready to shop for a twin mattress for his side of the bed.

I decided to see if I could soften the shoulder area of the mattress so that I'd be comfortable on it again.  I tried separating some of the coils from each other by cutting the fabric that tied them together but it didn't seem to make any difference - I think, because the coils themselves were just too stiff. But seeing how it was made, I could see that it wouldn't be that hard to make the mattress smaller - saving us the cost of a new one.

I separated and rolled back the covering and cut through the fabric to release half the coils from the other half.

Cutting the wire framing.

Metal rings were what held it together, but thank god for zip-ties!

All the layers back in place, ready for sutures! No wait....hot glue!

Edges glued......drum roll please......

A perfectly new twin mattress (well, almost new) There's always a transformation waiting to happen.

First Time For Swiss Chard.........BLECH!!!!

It's supposed to be very healthy for you but it's like chewing on soft leather. Joe said he'd rather "take a pill".
 The rest of the dinner was sweet potato fries, corn obviously, and a black bean side dish.