Throwing my coin was WORK, even if I have acquired some new talents…too many tourists! They charge now but I split before they got me, haha.

Old photo of group of politicians throwing coins in the Trevi Fountain, but seemed appropriate because they might all be thinking of T’s removal, haha.

Donc, mama finally got it together after the trauma of cataract removal for papa and the myriad times that drops have to …

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NO CAT-ARACTS!

Donc, mama, you FORGOT Wednesday so thank heaven it’s wordless haha. You were putting drops in papa’s eye all day long, maybe that’s why since it was papa’s first day of “OH, WOW, I CAN SEE AND I HAVE VERY LITTLE STIGMATISM…WOW, WOW, WOW!”

You get the picture, right? So to make up for it, voilä.

Brighten your day with these quotes from Nora Ephron, whose writing mama adores.

And just a …

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I remember papa. Bon anniversaire, papa…💕

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Yay yay, papa’s eyeball is DONE and he is looking all around at thingsand saying “Wow wow”…not like a doggy, just making wowing sounds at the world.

Beautiful sun, too bright for papa’s eye today but he has cool shades for the glare. Mama is making him a birthday lunch of Asparagi Bismarck, poached eggs on sautéed as-per-grass (as a friend calls it), so delicious and tonight spaghetti …

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I am actually IN there somewhere…

Donc, yet again the internet was WEIRD, so we had to splice yesterday and today but what the heck.

Our spark is/was:

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Here’s my Art shot from Lunapic, but we can’t remember which one, as usual…just love Lunapic and try to tout their website somehow!

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Well, here we are, back with internet and warm sun and really beautiful vegetables just down the street.

Tomorrow mama and papa go to their grandkid’s soccer match but it’s a nice drive into the country and back. SO many beautiful places to go, but oh, the crowds of tourists…it’s a …

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When will mama be back to plant my her garden? We are very short on nip and I’d rather not travel with the stuff from here…garden variety is best!

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Mama:

1. I never want to forget __how I met my honey and all the years after that!!!

2. I have a recurring dream about ___a large house but all the doors are unlocked and there are threats outside and I go around locking the

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Mama, I’m taking care of the garden while you’re away…don’t worry!

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Mince, we have had NO internet since mama and papa arrived here a few days ago and so I had the problem of getting my mama’s blog out to you all and therefore there were none!

Haven’t mastered that internet thing from up here yet…

Now mama is working through her iPhone to her computer with a cord and can send out …

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Will this wind ever STOP? Who nose….?

Easter animals, by mama, but not photographed very well, if you ask me but no one did….

Bonjour – here is our news of the day:

Mama planted some beans and a beanstalk grew and she climbed it and at the top was a golden bean that will keep wind away on any planting day she wishes and grow perfect artichokes in the garden for the rest of …

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I’m havin’a ball up here, haha.

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Donc, we LOVED this article about Merlin…can you believe this little piggy?

Also, enjoy this funny saying that we should have posted yesterday:

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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

Jane Goodall

And I am acting out apathy in my photo, not BEING apathetic!

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And another one that we liked really a lot:

(Ain’t that the truth sometimes. I remember getting so excited about chasing an intruder kitty out of MY garden once that I forgot to eat the tuna mama …

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Do you think I’ll pass? Just have to figure out how to lay colored eggs!

Uh…it’s blowing a bit here.

Maybe Noah forgot it was Easter…

These bad jokes wore me out….

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Uh, could you turn that wind machine down bit. Some of us are trying to get some sleep up here!

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Well, mama found this article amazing! And uplifting, a sensation that we all need right now, mama thinks. What an incredible species!

As for winter, here in sunnny (haha) southern France, yes, yes, the sun comes out but oh this WIND!!!

Mama has …

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Well, this was a blooper in MY opinion!

1. My plans for this weekend include __planting my serpente/cucuzza squash seedling that is Sicily’s favorite and grows like a long thin bending snake and ___and picking 100 more lemons to lighten the tree.

Cucuzza squash

2. I meant it when I said I __feel that other’s opinions of me are none of my business!

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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…..and more zzzzzzzzzz…..

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Well, TOODAY is just too full of chores and unfinished business and unplanted seed and the unswept patio and the unwritten end to a Substack for mama’s blog and so many UNs that we just have to pick up our bootstraps and get started on un-doing those uns, haha.

Why boot straps, mama wonders. But mama wonders at lots of sayings and their origins. That research is un-finished, too. Oh, boy. Just imagine how …

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Do doggies go to school? Wow, we kitties don’t need that. We already know everything.

Well, of course, doggies need school…

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Well, mama found these African sayings and loved them all and so we are putting the website on this blog.

All are such good thoughts for our Monday, and one or two just might clear out the cobwebs of what we hear on the news too often right now.

Have a lovely magical …

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Haha I put in a Stomach Selfie! Just to shake things up every now and then….

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How is everyone doing?

He’s after all media now but we are pretty sure the lower court judges will put an end to that.

Crazier and crazier, this strange creature, but we WILL overcome.

You bet your boopy we will!

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Well, I was sitting but some high winds up here woke me.

Here I am, sitting pretty!

An old Lunapic and mama doesn’t remember, yet again,  the name of the effect. Mama, maybe write things down every now and then, okay?…

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