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Recovering attorney, lover of freedom and Justice. Florida escapee, part-time Italian. So tired of snark and meanness. All photos are my own. Or my husband’s. Or my mom’s. #photography #umbria #travel #wanderlust
Super happy older woman experiencing bliss.

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GottaLaff, to legal
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starts HERE.
Please remember I don’t reply while live-posting. Plz use NFL (Not For Laffy, but no hashtag) so I can ignore those replies.

1/… Bower:

Trump enters the courtroom. Before arriving, he lingered for a moment in the doorway, talking to his lawyers, Emile Bove and Todd Blanche. He had a piece of paper in his hand, which he waved around as he spoke.

Wait for it….

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@qkslvrwolf @GottaLaff Thank you for that!

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Tutti i giorni in Italia:

La mattina: "Che cavolo è questo? Che cazzo devo fare adesso?"

Ora di pranzo: "Oh, adoro vivere qui!" 🥰

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gparenti, to Bloomscrolling
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From my poor neglected garden in that has gotten no love for the past year and a half.

A mess of a garden with white-purplish daisies blooming and unkempt bushes and flowering plants in the background.
A pink and peach rose bush with two roses opening against a fence. Wooded hills in the background on the other side of the country road.
A large yellow peony close up.

gparenti, to italy
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Reason 675 why I love : Our favorite local trattoria that treats us to after dinner drinks and just leaves the bottles. And yes, their cantaloupe liqueur is heavenly.

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The view from my ironing board in . I never thought I would miss ironing so much. 😔

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We will be living in SpongeBob SquarePants' house this summer.

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@LikeItOrLumpIt It's a bidet. A square-ass bidet.

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@LikeItOrLumpIt Did you ever read Lewis Grizzard? He had a hilarious piece (or maybe it was one of his live bits) about discovering bidets when he went to Paris. He called it "The Magical French Fanny Fountain." You can find them in pretty much every Italian home.

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You've got to watch out for little old Italian ladies (she says even as she acknowledges that, technically speaking, she is now one also). I had two cut in front of me at Acqua e Sapone and another one hip checked me at the grocery store. 😂

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We are finally Perugia bound! It's a point of pride for me that I managed to pack for the two of us for six weeks in just these bags. And since we can't access anything in our house while earthquake repairs are underway (surprise!), this will have to do for the next 5 months. At Roma Termini, heading to

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I just landed in Rome for the first time as an Italian citizen. All the feels.🇮🇹

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Today is the traditional Thai New Year's, which is celebrated on April 13, but actually lasts for four days. It is celebrated with water fights. If you go out on the 13th, you can expect to be hit with water from hoses, water pistols or just bowls of water from a big drum. We were in Bangkok last year on this day and we were a little taken aback when people started squirting us at the restaurant. Now we're like "Bring it!" 🤣 Mai Khao Beach, Phuket, Thailand.

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, Son Bay Beach edition. Koh Yao Yai, Thailand.

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On days like today, I'm glad I'm a morning person. #Sunrise at Yoh Kao Kai, Thailand. #TravelPhoto #Wanderlust

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Oh, I'm going to hate it here. Koh Yao Yai, Thailand.

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When I recover some bandwidth, I'm going to have to write a story about my night in Kuala Lumpur, but for now let me just share a picture to give you a sense of the traffic around our hotel. And we were all up in that mess! In. The. Rain.

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@serpicojam I think the bar is on the 51st floor.

Rasta, to random
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In the summer, in my rural home, ladies would cover their heads, when bats swoop to catch the mosquitoes that the carbon dioxide of your body attracts.

I have an old home, the wood that bats are attracted to, like old barns, the wood is 100+ years old.

When I replaced windows, I had to go around and manually gather the bats and put them out before the new window. That was 2008. I bought a bat hotel for them. Never saw one since. One year, all our disappeared.

https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/white-nose-syndrome-killed-over-90-three-north-american-bat-species

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@Rasta That's interesting. We used to see bats sleeping behind the large wooden shutter doors on our farmhouse (we close them summer mornings to keep the house cooler). We replaced them a few years ago, but never made the connection between the bats and the old wood. They do still hang around the upstairs porch which has ancient doors and beams.

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@Rasta I'm going to have to check our barn now. Our helper built all kinds of shelving with the old shutters and doors. Maybe they found new digs. 😊

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Hoi An, Vietnam, this morning.

gparenti, to Bloomscrolling
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Monet's Garden, Giverny, France. April, 2022.

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