Bed Sweet Bed

Never thought I'd miss my own bed so much, other than being away somewhere on a trip. Last night, I tried sleeping in our bed, for the first time in eight days. I still wasn't able to lay down on just one pillow........ had to prop myself up on three, so I was more or less in the same position as all those previous nights when I was sleeping in the recliner in the TV room. I wasn't coughing that much, and except for an hour or so, when my husband moved himself into the TV room, I slept through the night.

All this time I've been sick, I had forgotten about "the popcorn pillow." I thought of it last night, pulled it out of the cabinet, heated it up, and instantly, my congested chest felt a whole lot better. This little pillow was sent to us years ago by my cousins in Arizona. They had found it at a craft mall, and the year they bought it, this pillow was the "latest thing" out west.

Such a simple idea....... take a piece of cotton fabric, about 8" x 14", sew up the edges to form a pillow-shape, and before you sew the whole thing closed, you fill it with white corn kernels. White corn doesn't pop like yellow corn, but they retain the heat. With this white-corn-filled pillow, you put the whole thing into the microwave for three minutes, and out comes this wonderfully warm and cozy hot pillow, which stays hot for a good long while. And it lasts forever...... the corn kernels will keep on heating and re-heating.

So there I was last night, propped up on three bed pillows, with a hot popcorn pillow on my chest, tucked under a thick comforter. You would think we were living at the North Pole. Last night's temperature must've been in the high 80s.

We've had beautiful weather all these days that I've been sick. Gorgeous sun, blue skies, lots of birds in the yard. When the bird-feeder got empty, the birds were sitting on the branches of the crape myrtle, looking towards the windows of the breakfast room. Hey you! You on the sofa! We need birdseed out here! Think you could manage that inbetween the coughing and sneezing?