To flip
This seems like a good day to change the bedding. Take all the covers off and do a quick wash and dry. And then re make the bed just like every other time. What I do need to do but have not, is to flip the mattress. A beast designed to hold two adults comfortably and thick enough that we’ve been able to rely upon it for a couple of decades. Heavy. One that would profit from being turned on a regular basis. In this case from end to end rather than from side to side. Geometry. A tessellation as they say in math class. And what I quickly realize is that the mattress is too large and heavy for it to be an easy one person job. Yes, I can probably manage the job but I might pay with a round of back pain. Commit myself to bed for a couple of afternoons. And so I hesitate. Soon, I tell myself. I will get someone else and we will make a team game out of it. In the good old days you could change a whole mattress by going and finding a Bale of hay. Not anymore. We have a huge construction with lots of wire and test you inform another stuff that I hope to never see. That would mean that the mattress was broken. Perhaps from some idiotic attempt to flip it single handed. A new mattress is expensive and it requires one of those shopping trips where you go to the city and trips from store to store trying to test out a mattress that you cannot really test. Believe me, flopping on your back and spending 5 minutes is not enough. In sharp contrast we have other beds that are designed for camping. Much smaller and much later. But I do like my bed; no stress about going there night after night. Except for that urge to flip the thing around. I will work on that idea. Beats sleeping on the floor.
