My sleeping porch

[susandennis]

My idea was to keep the ottoman an ottoman until I wanted to sleep on it and then fold it out to the bed. But it turned out to be too fiddly. When I'm too hot to sleep, I am sure as hell too hot to be fucking with furniture.

So, I made an executive decision. For the two months of hot here, it will be set up as a bed on the terrace. I can turn off the AC and go sleep in the cool. I don't think we ever have a night too warm to sleep outside.

A long time ago, I was complaining about my hoarding and mentioned having a bunch of retired shower curtains. I remember fj popped in to ask why in the hell I would hang on to retired shower curtains. As I recall, I had a lame list of reasons. Now I have a good one. They make a perfect (and perfectly lovely) bed protector for your outside bed!! There's a lot of grime out there that is really dust. I can just periodically flap it off this coverlet. And if it gets too bad, I can wash it.

I'm quite pleased with this arrangement. It's my kind of camping adventure!!