Posted by on Jan 13, 2017 | 14 comments

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Rugs change my life.  My poor little body gets cold without something under it.

No, no, not THAT kind of change with all the hot flashes and moods and whatever else goes on and besides, how would I know, a kitty only five years old and besides again, we kitties do not get those things, I’m pretty sure, although around here lately you’d never know that we were…er…fixed kitties because a few Toms are catting around here, that’s for sure, and who knows what THEY want…

But I digress.  Mama was walking along this morning on the way to her exercise class in 8-degree weather (that’s Celsius so I guess about 45 degrees but with the VERY strong wind that we have around here called the tramontane) and was thinking how nice and cozy she was in a hood that papa gave her for Christmas that is all lined and warm and how it changes everything to have really warm things on your head in cold weather.  And then she continued thinking about all the things that made her life easier and all the nice things people had contributed to these changes and of course one was the hood, but another was her stepdaughter’s visit long ago (stepdaughter already having two babies and pregnant with the third) when mama gave over her kitchen to Nicole to prepare the babies’ food, and after fixing the food, Nicole just put everything but the kitchen sink in the dishwasher–pots, pans, dishes, glasses, sponges, you name it and let it rip.  And mama said to herself, WOW, I can do that, too. I don’t have worry about this or that in the dishwasher, just load it up any whichaway and push the button.  Changed our lives.

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This is not mama, but you get the picture.  It’s how she FEELS now that she has a head cover.

Now mama puts in the dish brush, the sponges, the big pots and pans, even papa if he needs it.  Haha, just kidding.

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DO NOT PUT YOUR DOGGY IN THE DISHWASHER!  This is not our dishwasher but it was funny.  Mama knows someone who cooked a salmon in her dishwasher when the oven broke!

Another friend taught mama about gardening with mulch and that changed her life. No work, no weeds, no trouble with pests.  Miracolo as they say in Italy.

And there are so many blogger tips from other bloggers that make life easier, at least for me, the writer.  A sort of no-rules kind of writing, which is a lot easier than following rigid requirements.

I guess the list is just too long to write about here, but it’s nice to think about people and animals and things that have changed YOUR life.

Oh, I forgot the one thing that really changed her life, and papa’s, too.

ME!

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