No kidding. Where's that emoticon for doubling down on the post of the day?
It's BS that we can't learn stuff easily when we get old. I have discovered all kinds of sh^t every day as I've grown older, and realized my option is either to continue learn ways to outwit my failing faculties or else just give it up and die. The latter still seems unappealing, and so I innovate, experiment, learn what works for me now when the old ways seem too hard or become perilous.
Example: I've learned to throw the laundry down the cellar steps in a soft bag because it's easier to manage than walking a washbasket down in front of me. Still simple to carry a basket of folded laundry back up those same stairs again for some reason, so I also throw an empty washbasket down the stairs ahead of the damn bag of laundry.
All to do with subtle changes in balance and spine flexibility, I guess, even though I still do dance workouts to keep my body fit for gardening chores. Someone said how about just move the laundry facilities upstairs and I said yeah when I no longer need a sewing studio, meanwhile the washer and dryer get to sulk in the cellar where they belong.
Also I no longer get up on a stepladder to change light bulbs. Finally got one of those grabbers. The comical thing there is that before I did that, I got around to getting LED bulbs and haven't had to change a bulb in five years. So my one and only experiment there so far has been changing out a light bulb with the grabber just to prove I can do it when it proves necessary. 
