men at work

 We got a new mattress today.  Sounds simple, doesn't it?  'Not so bur far otherwise.'  We purchased this mattress, a White Dove, made in Ohio, four weeks ago, from Klopfenstein's Furniture in Leo, always a nice place to go for furniture.  A friend of mine had recommended this particular brand and when we tested the display model in the store we agreed that it had the firmness we wanted.  So we ordered it and, as I said, it was delivered today.  We had paid extra to have them haul away our old mattress and I am so glad we did.  The process began early this morning when my Wonder Spouse and I started disassembling the old mattress.  it was actually two mattresses, extra long twins pushed together to make a king size bed. Each unit had the mattress plus the platform under it and the mechanics to make the head and feet of the beds lift up.  It was a fine bed in its time (my spouse guesses 25 years ago) and extremely well built. In other words very heavy.  I must be honest, he was doing most of the heavy work here while I supervised.  After we got the old bed pulled apart and the pieces moved to the hall and sides of the bedroom we moved the frame for the new bed into position and bolted it to the headboard, which we had decided to keep.  Now we were ready.  The delivery van arrived about 11:45am.  They had told us sometime between 11 and 2 so we were pleased that they came when they did.  The two deliverymen, one large and burly and one thin and lanky and looking like he was still in high school, started by bringing in the two part platform for the new bed.  We had been told that this would come in two parts because the wooden frames would not bend and one king size platform would be impossible to get upstairs.  So many things to think about.  Happily, the platform pieces fitted perfectly on our pre-assembled frame.  Next came the king size mattress (one of the 12 inch deep ones, not very flexible at all), which took a good bit of maneuvering to get in the door and up the stairs and into the bedroom.  They made it and the mattress looked great lying on it's foundation.  Then came the removal part of the deal.  The old mattresses were easy enough to move out but the bases were each as heavy as the new mattress, maybe heavier and not at all flexible.  The men accomplished the deed though and we were happy to send them on their way with a generous tip for their extra hard work.  Now, of course, the time has come for us to test this mattress.  Good night,

w