Feeling on top of the World tonight!! Move over Howard, there's a new kid on the block… ;-)
We have a new grandchild! ♡ Jacob MacFarland Schulte ♡ 5lbs, 10oz, 19.5" tall born 14 January 2016, 12:47pm Jacob is the 16th member of the Vermont tribe and the first born in Winter.
After a perfect pregnancy with not even any morning sickness, Daughter went in for her routine doc visit and her BP had skyrocketed (and stayed that way)…! In the end, Jacob was born by cesarean, 20 days before his due date.
We are so grateful to have both of them here, and together and in love! Presently we are in Maine taking care of our other two Maine grands so their mother, who is a Labor & Delivery nurse, can stay with Daughter. PhD*Son is flying home from Florida as I type.
We will meet the little guy on Friday. ♡ Hallelujah!
Huzzah! Three weeks early isn't usually a big deal. Our daughter was a month early, and had no problems with icterus, respiratory function or immature thyroid. She was a bit small, but grew fast to make up for it. How fine you could be there!
I have a question for the crafters among us. I bought an inexpensive side sleeper pillow, which is filled with supposedly poly-something-or-other beads; it is too little filling and it stinks like synthetic rubber--definitely not good to breathe all night long (I felt ill the next day). I figured I would change the filling, since the shape and size are promising, so I first thought of what I last filled a pillow with--kapok. But it seems that in the interval kapok has been largely replaced with polyester fiber filling, and has become very expensive. Can anyone compare polyester fibre filling to kapok for me? Is it as durable? Will it fill pillow as firmly? Is it stinky? It certainly is far less expensive.
Kapok, as a plant fiber degrades over time, and does, lol!, have it's own smell, as well as being subject to mildew. The polyester fiber filling comes in many grades. Hit a sewing store, and ask if you can pre-smell some of the different brands. And yes, you can pack your shell as firmly as you wish. Good luck!!
I did a little rooting around on the Internet and came across a suggestion that appealed to my parsimonious nature. As suggested, I popped over to a "Home Goods" store (recently opened nearby), went WAY into the back to the clearance section and found a variety of pillows there--many of them with decidedly ugly covers. I went through them, checking the filling materials and how they felt, and came away with two fairly large ones filled with duck feathers & down, one for $5 and the other for $6.50, a fraction of what the filling alone would cost, as far as I could tell. Maybe if I cram the filling in hard enough, it will do the trick; if not, I'm not out much. Thanks for the input, puddle.
Alan, the best pillow I have ever had is a Tempurpedic pillow. Mind you they are pricey! The next best is a Memory Foam pillow. I have trouble with feathers, as they always seem to poke through here or there, and a thick enough cover to avoid that can be stiff. What an upholsterer I know does when making pillows is take a memory foam pillow form and wrap poly-batting around it! Works great! Of course, that combo would need to be sewn into a pillow.
Feeling on top of the World tonight!! Move over Howard, there's a new kid on the block… ;-)
ReplyDeleteWe have a new grandchild!
♡ Jacob MacFarland Schulte ♡
5lbs, 10oz, 19.5" tall
born 14 January 2016, 12:47pm
Jacob is the 16th member of the Vermont tribe
and the first born in Winter.
After a perfect pregnancy with not even any morning sickness,
Daughter went in for her routine doc visit and her BP had skyrocketed (and stayed that way)…!
In the end, Jacob was born by cesarean, 20 days before his due date.
We are so grateful to have both of them here, and together and in love!
Presently we are in Maine taking care of our other two Maine grands so their mother, who is a Labor & Delivery nurse, can stay with Daughter. PhD*Son is flying home from Florida as I type.
We will meet the little guy on Friday. ♡ Hallelujah!
Huzzah! Three weeks early isn't usually a big deal. Our daughter was a month early, and had no problems with icterus, respiratory function or immature thyroid. She was a bit small, but grew fast to make up for it. How fine you could be there!
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A few little political odds and ends.--Alan
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Clinton's health-care assault on Sanders backfires [Click]
PolitiFact rules Chelsea Clinton's attack on Sanders' health plan 'mostly false' [Click]
The Nation endorses Bernie Sanders [Click]
Bernie Sanders is winning with the one group his rivals can't sway: voters
[Click] Trevor Tim, The Guardian (I think this is the best of the lot.)
I have a question for the crafters among us. I bought an inexpensive side sleeper pillow, which is filled with supposedly poly-something-or-other beads; it is too little filling and it stinks like synthetic rubber--definitely not good to breathe all night long (I felt ill the next day). I figured I would change the filling, since the shape and size are promising, so I first thought of what I last filled a pillow with--kapok. But it seems that in the interval kapok has been largely replaced with polyester fiber filling, and has become very expensive. Can anyone compare polyester fibre filling to kapok for me? Is it as durable? Will it fill pillow as firmly? Is it stinky? It certainly is far less expensive.
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Alan
Kapok, as a plant fiber degrades over time, and does, lol!, have it's own smell, as well as being subject to mildew. The polyester fiber filling comes in many grades. Hit a sewing store, and ask if you can pre-smell some of the different brands. And yes, you can pack your shell as firmly as you wish. Good luck!!
DeleteI did a little rooting around on the Internet and came across a suggestion that appealed to my parsimonious nature. As suggested, I popped over to a "Home Goods" store (recently opened nearby), went WAY into the back to the clearance section and found a variety of pillows there--many of them with decidedly ugly covers. I went through them, checking the filling materials and how they felt, and came away with two fairly large ones filled with duck feathers & down, one for $5 and the other for $6.50, a fraction of what the filling alone would cost, as far as I could tell. Maybe if I cram the filling in hard enough, it will do the trick; if not, I'm not out much. Thanks for the input, puddle.
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Alan, the best pillow I have ever had is a Tempurpedic pillow. Mind you they are pricey! The next best is a Memory Foam pillow. I have trouble with feathers, as they always seem to poke through here or there, and a thick enough cover to avoid that can be stiff. What an upholsterer I know does when making pillows is take a memory foam pillow form and wrap poly-batting around it! Works great! Of course, that combo would need to be sewn into a pillow.
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