while we were at my friends’ cabin, I slept on a soft bed… I always bring a comforter and my own pillow, then just fold the comforter in half and treat it like a sleeping bag…

I realized after the first night that my back and knees didn’t hurt at all… and that kept up for the whole trip…

so, I decided to look for a topper for my mattress…

my daughter suggested I try using the thin mattress in the pullout couch… my housemate brought it upstairs and I got it onto the bed and put the sheets and covers over it…

after all that, it didn’t make a difference… so took it off and returned it to the den…

next we went looking for bed toppers…

they were rather expensive and made me wonder if I needed to replace the mattress, which is about twelve years old… when I saw my physio guy, he suggested most mattresses needed to be replaced after ten years…

so, we went shopping… in person and online… did you know that soft (or plush, to use the correct term) mattresses cost more than the 90% that are firm or medium firm😳…

we finally found a company that has been in business for over thirty years and make the mattresses right here in the city…

the person we spoke with, and bought from, was very knowledgeable and didn’t try to upsell us…

and it was ready and delivered in five days, so I could enjoy it (hopefully with happy knees and back)…

I also arranged for Mother Earth Recycling to pick up and reuse bits and pieces of the old mattress 🙂…

now I have a happy back and knees…