I have acquired a new bedstead — well, new to me. It’s a single (all the bed I need), Mission-style, built of quarter-sawn oak by a Mennonite firm. New, it would have cost close to a thousand bucks *without* a mattress, but I found it on Facebook Marketplace for two hundred. I offered another fifty bucks if the sellers would deliver, and they eagerly complied.

So now it’s time to re-home the queen-sized bed I shared with Edmund, which is much too large for me and the cats, and somewhat oversized for this modestly proportioned house. I’m not sure yet how to do it, but I’ll figure it out.