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We recently got some new throw pillows from Bed, Bath and Beyond to accent our new living room furniture.

Here’s us waiting for the new furniture to arrive, by the way:

We had to have the old living room set taken away the night before. The only two pieces of movable seating remaining were taken from the bedroom: the rocking chair and the dog’s bed. So I stole Leo’s bed. Let’s just say I’m grateful that the delivery from Room and Board went off without a hitch the following morning.

It was probably a week or two with the new accent pillows that Conny noticed something in one of them. It’s not unusual for a down pillow to have a quill jab out occasionally, but this felt like something hard. She unzipped the pillowcase and started feeling around the pillow itself.

“Does this feel like a bone to you?” she asks me, pinching some mystery item in the pillow.

The object feels, through the material about an inch long, curved, and, well, bone-like.

The pillow itself is stitched closed, but we had to know. After carefully manipulating the item to the right spot, I got some small scissors and started opening the seam.

Sure enough. It was a small bone.

Generally, I prefer my pillows boneless. Time to double check the ingredient list:

Perhaps if something makes up less than 1% of the contents, they don’t need to list it. Otherwise it would have to say:

• 98% feathers
• 2% down
• <1% bones

and I’ll admit that doesn’t sound so good for a pillow.

We threw out the bone (I know, I should have taken a picture) and stitched up the pillow and tried to forget about it. Or at least I did. Conny, on the other hand, wanted to be really sure…

“Does this feel like a beak to you?” she asks me, pinching yet another mystery item in the pillow, which does indeed feel like a beak.

I’m not opening the pillow again.