new tricks

They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks.  Not true.  I don't actually consider myself an old dog, but I am closing in on old.  This blog will probably end up sounding like a hint from Heloise but bear with me.  For years I was taught (probably since their invention) that the 'right' way to put a countour sheet on a bed is to start with diagonal corners.  So that's how I've been doing it for years and years.  Then, shortly after my hip surgery in June, when I was still in that don't lift and don't stretch stage, my daughter came over to help me put clean sheet on my bed.  Now she's been a grown woman, takeing care of her own home, for a good number of years so I didn't feel like I needed to give her any instructions.  I watched as she proceeded to do it 'wrong.'  No diagonals for her.  She popped the top two corners of the countour bottom sheet onto my queen size mattress, then pulled the sheet smooth and fitted it over the bottom two corners.  Huh?  I knew it was not 'the right way' but she sure made it look easy.  Sooo I've been making my bed her way ever since, and, guess what, it really is easier.  Who knows what other new tricks may be in my future?  Anyone want to try a scooter?  Just kidding.