Kitties! What a night! I was on my mom's head, beside it, by her arm, next to her waist, on her feet, back to her neck...it was cold, though the heat was thankfully on. There were multiple power outages all through the night. Thank goodness they didn't last long-- each one. Mom has a noise machine aside from me, set on white sound. If it shuts off, which it did multiple times...she wakes instantly. Ice fell and still is falling. Usually the street in front of the house is like the Indianapolis Speedway! (such a contrast from the acres...many many (miles actually) acres, woods in back of the house. Ain't no-buddy going up and down the street. Mom remembers one of the ice storms (we get plenty of those) in which those at work caught by surprise as no one knew it was coming...trying to get home up the street who gave up trying at the bottom of my hill and literally crawled up the entire block...rested a minute across from my house and then continued crawling up the street. That is the truth. Standing in front of my house, it is so steep that you cannot see to the bottom of the street where it turns two ways. And it is only a block away.
So looking out, you see maybe half an inch of snow...but the big deal turned out to be the ice storm. Mom had an essential job that required her presence 200% every day. On days like this she told me she called where she was stationed and said, but nicely, if you want me, come and get me. Most knew where she lived, that she had a Z-28, 5.1 HO which isn't going up or down icy steep hills except involuntarily. So, they came in vehicles that can do it. It was an ordeal getting from the house, down the two measles steps and across the yard to the waiting vehicle. Took quite a while for mom to get there slipping and sliding.
Mom successfully tricked me this morning. I refused her usual medicating routine. She would do it after some delicious brushies in the bathroom each day. (while I was mono-railing on the tub edge.) I said "no". Today, while I was enjoying a time of pets and smoochies on the unmade bed...she left, and came right back in, one rubber gloved hand which she hid behind her back, pre-anointed with Methemizol, and Shazam! she nailed it...straight to the inside ear flap!
Kitties and Woofies, I have to get ready to snoopervise her...she is going to clean the tub, surround, potty and sink/vanity. and floor. Oh she said she bought the Swiffer Mop for Wood Floors. Since the kitchen floor is such a hassle for her, she ordered it. Not too bad. Her own cleaning and then buffing it by skating all over it with two towels does a superb job and it glows like the sun. This...OK. Not like "homemade" however.
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