Senior Golden Sneakers
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Good morning all! Another warm day today but not awful. I think I am retaining water, makes me crazy when I jump on the scale after I've been so deligent and see a gain. But I will stay the course, as they say!
Our barred owl is back again. He isn't huge but he makes a loud hoot as he he goes from tree to tree in our little forest. We also have a friendly crow that sits on our fence gate while we have coffee on the deck. This crow comes to the gate every morning. We never feed him but there he sits. I got a rush of incite when hearing Sandys aversion to mice and spiders. We live in "spider central". Seriously! Oregon is famous for it. In wooded areas like ours, we see them literally everywhere. We also have billions of butterflies, dragonflies, slugs and salamanders. Natures bounty! It is impossible to live here in oregon and feel uncomfortable about crawly creatures.
I have always loved dolls, masks, puppets and clowns. I have a huge lifetime collection of them. They are everywhere in my house. We have a local clown group that has a funny car and they show up at every parade and community event. They are local favorites. When my kids were little I would read them their bedtime stories holding a hand puppet. I did my watercolor sketch of a clown for the doctor making a fish wear a red nose and soggy pointed hat and neck ruffle. I guess I am a weird old gal but as Popeye used to say...."I yam what I yam!"
Patsy
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Here I will try today. Been to the store (Walmart) got me a pattern to make a blouse I have been wanting. Came home and had a nice lunch of canned Glory season green bean, chilli beans. Pickle beets and season turnips greens sliced onions so good and finish it off with a Fiber one oatmeal and raisin cookie whic was really outstanding good only 120 calories And 5grams of fiber for 1 cookie ice tea finish my lunch off perfect the first time I found them be nice to keep in my purse for a snack. Will work on my blouse tomorrow.And not much else going on around here
it is cloudy but no rain so far.
See you all later
Marie0 -
Back from the dentist but it is after 3:00 so I don't think I will go to the pool today, it is not like I am not tan.
Patsy, my son lives in Portland, Oregon and I will be visiting him the week of July 4th. You did remind me of my last visit with them when we went out geocaching. We went down a trail and in the middle of the trail was this big blob and I asked my son what is was and it was a slug. I had never seen a slug especially one that big and leaving
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Copy of a letter I just sent to AARP, Microsoft, Dell and a government agency. All I had was the phone number from the caller, but it was unbelievably convincing. Dell was terrific in returning my computer to normal as the caller had disconnected all my antimalware programs! Nothing was stolen and no passwords are available on my computer! Whew! Just a warning
.....Off to birthday celebration dinner!
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I forgot to PASTE!
I just went through a harrowing experience for which I thought I was thoroughly prepared, but I was almost totally convinced this was a legitimate call. Please warn others!
I received a telephone call on 6/9/2015 at 1:44 P.M. from a man claiming to be from Dell regarding a previous problem I had with my touchpad and saying my computer was sending logs to Dell that might be showing it was being controlled by a virus. Since indeed my touchpad was causing problems, I initially thought the call might be legitimate. He asked me to turn on my Inspiron Laptop, and upon my questioning his identity, he gave me very convincing answers to every question I asked. It appeared to check out so I allowed him to use PC View to check the Windows Events Viewer log! He seemed to find hundreds of errors and alerts sent to Dell from my computer and convinced me he would reverse the damage some hacker had done when planting a virus on my computer. He then called his "superior", a woman who would clean the problem and "return my computer to my control". Boy, were they convincing! As soon as my telephone produced a busy signal, I realized I had been taken by professional hackers ( with Philippine accents, I think), and called Dell immediately. There, someone in technical immediately helped examine my software and said I had called before much damage was don. However, the hackers had turned off all my antimalware programs so they could take over my computer when they had time! I have no names and other than the telephone number on my ID, no other information about this frightening experience, but it should be publicized everywhere others can be victimized!
Buzz0 -
Anne....Laughing about your clown remarks. They really have never bothered me though I know there are people that really do not like them for one reason or another. Recently we were invited into a neighbors home along with several other neighbors. Beautiful home...but right over the fireplace mantel was 3 clown pictures. Instantly I thought what a strange thing to put up there knowing there are a lot of people that do not like CLOWNS. Of course didn't dare bring up the subject.... Any others that have issues with clowns ? Sandy apparently doesn't as I think she was looking for red noses recently. The only ones I tend to see is the lady dressed in her clown outfit blowing up balloons into animals for the kids at a restaurant. The kids seem thrilled with her artistic accomplishments..... oh to be that young again
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Diane0 -
Buzz....So sorry to hear that this has happened to you. Thank you for warning us of one of the various intrusions into our personal lives these days. Hope that they were able to resolve this for you and there are no other happenings from this one event. No one likes being a victim to this kind of crime.
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Diane, I thought all kids love clowns. My brother is a clown and all the kids love him. I have never ever heard about any of this before he was a Shiner clown. They do a lot for all kids.. I made clowns dolls for all of his group. They used them to entertain the kids. I can see some kids may be scare of them just like some are scare of Santa Clause
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Sandy – so glad you were able to spend time with dear Daisy. What a sweet doggie you have. I tried Pandora but never paid for it. Don’t you need a premium subscription or something to use it more than a few hours a week? Or maybe things have changed since way back when. Maybe I should look into that again. I have the Amazon streaming music for free as well but don’t use that often. Oh my gosh, giant slugs. Yep, that doesn’t sound like a good time as far as I’m concerned. I didn’t know you had another trip coming up!
Anne – I have problems with spiders in my basement, and flies and mosquitos in my house. They do not live to fight another day if I have anything to say about it. And of course the tick that was attached to my head recently was shown no mercy. I try to keep mice out of my house if possible! I never had a problem with clowns but over the last few years, I have found many clowns to be quite frightening.
Diane - yes, I have an issue with clowns now except the old episodes of Red Skelton when he was Freddie the Freeloader. I like those!
Patsy – I’m sorry you’re retaining water. That feels so miserable! Hoot hoot hoot. The owl sounds lovely to me. I love butterflies and dragonflies but can do without many of the other creepy crawlies. I think there are too many horror shows and movies now that have made clowns scary and creepy killers and have somewhat tarnished the happy-go-lucky reputation of clowns. Ha, I did always like Popeye and agree 100% with this I yam what I yam.
Marie – oh how lovely. I’m glad you got a pattern for your blouse. Your lunch sounds good. I had a huge salad for lunch again today. My CSA knows I love green stuff and they gave me 3 big bags of leaf lettuce this past week. I still have red kale and pak choy left from that delivery. I do love vegetables. How is Alice?
Buzz – what a rotten thing those scammers did to you. Thank goodness you took it in hand immediately and got things sorted out. I appreciate the warning. I don’t really like answering the phone these days!
Jackie – I hope your lead on a bookcase leads to a perfect purchase. I think I’m 95% decided to give up my bookcase and not try to get it moved down to my house. I guess I have a few days to decide. The trucking company who could bring it would need a call early next week.
Today was doctor day and all was pretty much well except my sinuses/allergies. It seems to be affecting my sleep habits so the doctor wants me to start taking medications again. I am of course searching for other alternatives and he did not write any prescriptions at this time. We’ll see what I can do.
Meanwhile, it’s time to work at the acreage again tomorrow. And the last word from the realtor is it will be mid-week now before we will likely get an update from the buyers (that is coming up soon). He does think as things go forward, and he thinks they will, that the closing may be pushed back a week or two. Not something I’d like to see happen but I guess better a sale and closing late rather than the whole thing flipping.
Time to finish sorting out what I’ll take along for lunch tomorrow etc. Hugs to my dear sneaker friends. Talk to you Thursday I hope.
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Buzz, that is scary. Never heard of such devils as those. My dh says if they'd spend half as much time working as they spend on scamming, they'd have more money.
Tired tonight, be back tomorrow evening
Phoebe0 -
PHOEBE, your DH and I came to the same conclusion!. When I mentioned the experience tonight at the cocktail hour (I ate nothing!) another guest said she had received a similar call regarding her Windows 8.1 program being infected. She hung up immediately since she owns a MAC!!! I also heard that sometimes they freeze your computer until you send "ransom" to them to unfreeze it! I wonder how one sends it to an unknown address! I doubt the telephone number I gave is actually traceable! Too sleepy tonight to read everyone's posts, but will try to return tomorrow! Buzz 0
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Good morning everybody, and it is morning indeed being only 5.40am. Still a bit early for my walk so I have been reading the posts. Lovely long one from LIN. I think, if I'm honest, I might feel a bit different about bugs if I had a tick attached to my head Lin, and again, I'm not enamoured with Mosquitos either. It's just a shame that everything has evolved in certain ways to live. In turn after feeding on us all they are gobbled up by the birds. Spiders don't bother me at all, but going back to clowns it's a different story. I've always felt nervous about clowns. Did I read something when small? I don't know. I like things to be above board, clear and open, and of course a clown face is hiding a persons real personality. One can't "read" a mask. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
BUZZ, we are plagued with those calls. I haven't used my computer for ages and ages. It's unplugged, so when I get those calls and if I've the time I let them rant on and on with the odd "oh really" and then finally I say "well that's most interesting that you know I've got a virus but I don't really care as the machine is not in use" and put the phone down. It wastes their time for a while. The accents appear to be East Indian. You are so right in your comment PHOEBE. Oh and I must have the dirtiest air ducts in the world, the number of people wanting to clean them!
How's the sewing coming on MARIE?
Well, off for my amble, I'll record it now whilst I'm using the iPad.
Bye, Anne.
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Hello everyone. Another glorious day here although a cold blast of northerly wind that just won't go away. This morning's walk with a friend and her puppy was literally a blast and at times we were both staggering to stay upright until we found a more sheltered route. Later I'll be checking on the puppy as it's the first time she will have been left on her own for a few hours as my friend is going to enjoy an extended lunch with people she met on a bereavement website. Then I'll be planting a few veggies at the allotment that are coming on in the greenhouse. I just hope they don't mind the cold wind!
Buzz ~ That scam has been going on a long time in the UK and still they catch people out. A friend of mine had a similar problem with a caller jamming her computer and then asking for credit card details to get it repaired and she was initially fooled into it because they mentioned the broadband package she was on and had experienced a problem with. She had to pay a local IT engineer to visit and clear the computer hard drive and start again. Someone calling himself Joe from Microsoft IT rang me a few weeks ago and said he needed to fix a problem on my computer so I just laughed and said "Oh yes, go on then Joe tell me all about it".... he hung up but I didn't so it tied his phone up for a few minutes as he couldn't get a line out again! I picked up on this idea when we've been told these scammers will also tell you someone has compromised your credit card details so you must ring your bank. They then don't hang up so when you try to ring your bank they talk to you and pretend you're through and take all your details, including passwords. Our cheerful scammers are apparently based in Nigeria so it appears to be a truly international business! My phone display shows all incoming numbers so if it's one that looks foreign or the number is withheld I don't pick up. For all that Buzz, I'm so sorry you got caught by them as it must be so upsetting but we're told by the police that are dealing with these scams no one should think themselves stupid for getting conned, it all sounds so feasible at the time. Just glad you have it sorted and can let others know.
Lin ~ I had to smile at your post about the creepy crawlies in your basement because reading on, it seems you also have clowns down there!! LOL Now there's a thought! The auction house photo of the bookcase shows it to be very long so I may struggle to fit it where I want so must remember to take a tape measure when viewing on Sunday. I'm told bookcases are out of vogue but then you'd think lots of antique ones would be on sale at auctions. Hopefully they are not being used for firewood because one day, like everything, they will come back into fashion.... look at Anne's furniture, now worth a fortune again!! They say (whoever 'they' are!) that buying and selling property is the most stressful thing to go through, more so than divorce, so if you can, go with the flow and the thought you will get there in the end.
Anne ~ I fell asleep in front of the tv last night after a day of walking, swimming, lawn mowing, walking... etc etc but will respond to your last message later today. You're up with the lark this morning which reminds me, we heard what we think were 2 cuckoos as we walked across the moors so hopefully they are breeding as a few years ago the numbers were declining rapidly because in Portugal and Spain people were setting up huge nets to catch them as they migrated from Africa for their fancy culinary dishes! They are now being educated in the importance of protecting wildlife and the environment..... even bugs. LOL
Sandy ~ Crikey, that "big blob" of yours sounds like something I'd have to bash with a spade. Slugs are the one thing I will not tolerate in my garden although I did when I had lots of frogs in my pond and a hedgehog wandering through at night but now I'm bereft of both for some reason.
Marie ~ Your food choices sound delicious and the weight loss is wonderful so I'm so pleased you have found something that suits you and has you feeling healthier.
Must get on. An early lunch, then a drive to my friend's puppy and some play in her garden!!
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Went for my amble and as usual with the old grey cells working in my head. I'm wondering, after much thought, if my dislike of clowns etc comes from watching the Punch and Judy shows on Hornsea beach as a very small child. Do you have Punch and Judy puppets over here? These consisted of a very highly coloured male puppet and his wife Judy etc. The Punch character spends the entire show first hitting his wife over the head with a huge stick, and then the policeman who comes to arrest him etc etc and finally with much cheering from the kiddies he gets eaten by a crocodile if memory serves me right. Now who on earth conceived such a violent thing for little kids? I know it goes way back to the 17th century and I THINK was imported from Italy. I remember being quite upset by all the violence and maybe that's why I keep well clear of alligators and crocodiles as well! Just a thought!
I'm not a bit surprised about your comments JACKIE on the cuckoos perilous journey over Portugal and Spain. I've had a bit of personal contact with those culinary habits much to my horror.
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Happy Wednesday!! Hot day today in the 90's. Lisa is bringing Robby to the pool after his nap, just for an hour. It will be a day where I actually go in the water if it is that hot. This afternoon a service guy is coming to clean out the hose to my dryer. The association cleaned all the roof dryer vents and have referred a service to do the inside.
It is $20, but my landlady is reimbursing me for the fee. Today is my granddaughter's 10 golden birthday. She is the daughter of Babe's son and his wife who was adopted. I haven't seen her in almost three years but she is still part of my heart. I got a reminder email that we bought her a start when she was born so I posted it on Facebook. Tonight is bingo night so a busy day.
Have a wonderful day and enjoy the sunshine.
Sandy
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Mine was mimes, and I Still don't like them. A more recent aversion to clowns has to do with some goofy program or other where the clown was the bad guy.
At the Dr office, the first of two appts today. One tomorrow. If I'm not healthy, can't blame the doctors, lol.
Hope to get my stitches out.
My aunts new apartment is small but nice. She only pays $160 per month. Her daughters and I are taking on some of her expenses, electric, phone,cable TV,newspaper. Also they bought her a nice washer and dryer. She has a woodland view from the back patio,which is shared with her neighbor. She's met some super residents already, and their knowledge is going to really help her daughter in the process of getting her health evaluated. She was tired yesterday, and I know that contributed to her behavior. She was Grumpy!, lol.
Just left Dr. Got 2 - 4 weeks of physical therapy and some injections too. Got my knee drained and cortisone injection today.
Time for lunch between appts.
Have a good day
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Thank you for the compliments on my hubby, I will pass them along. Yes he is a keeper. Some of the club members
do dress up, we try to every year and most don't. Its an English tradition to get the season started.
Yesterday was my apt. with dermatologist. I had some questions but I did get a clean bill of health on my skin for another
year. She gave me a prescription of Retinol A for some bumps I have on my face, she said it should reduce them if
I can put up with the redness for a while. So I will give it a whirl. I was considering laser, at a price to me, but will try
this first. All this is considered cosmetic and our health care will not pay for it.
Today was Yoga class and I am glad it was gentle because I didn't get much sleep last night and I was tired.
I did pick up a few things and the sale girl said I should have come tomorrow for my Senior discount, so she
suggested to keep it until tomorrow and i can get the discount. I have a hair apt in the morning so I will get to then.
It's nice living in a small town when people know you.
I think we have mice again in our garage, I started filling the bird feeder with Niger seed and it had three holes in
the bottom of the bag.
BUZZ, we get those calls all the time for computer viruses, we just play along now and then hang up. Sorry this happened
to you but they prey on older people.
SANDY - Sad for you not to babysit but happy not having to get up early. Good
luck with bingo tonight. Glad you could spend time with Daisy, she is so precious. It's also sad you can't celebrate
Babe's grandaughter's birthday, maybe one day. There is always hope. MARIE - Try Fiber One bars they are lower in calories.
PHOEBE - Why did they have to drain your knee, is that a usual procedure?
Hello to Diane, Lin, Phyllis, Patsy, Anne, Jackie(and George) Well today is cleaning the downstairs I better
get moving.
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Sorry I introduced an unpleasant topic for everyone (clowns) I live in a parallel universe. Not quite right with most of the world.
I must say that one of the most stunning evenings I have ever experienced was a performance by the circ du solei (forgive the horrible spelling). The clowns are strange and mysterious with a type of humor that is European in flavor. There are elements of mime gestures but different. I found my mouth hanging open in amazement and wonder. See it if you ever get the chance.
I was interested by the way in the recent NASA pictures of Ceres. Wow! I guess we will not be around to do real space travel but what wonders are out there for us to see? That is another idea for me to pursue for the children's clinic. Rockets and space travel! The doctor wants things beyond the usual favorites of kittens and puppies.
Foggy day here but it is to burn off by this afternoon. I will go by the bike shop to see if there is a more comfortable bike seat for my exercise bike. I feel like I have been on my horse, bareback, for hours after a short 30 minute ride. Silly I know but I want to be comfortable while I exercise. I am trying yoga with a DVD. Interesting. I really need a teacher however!
Take care dear sneakers.
Patsy
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Oh PATSY, you didn't introduce an unpleasant subject at all. You introduced a subject that allowed us to look inside ourselves and ask WHY. I think a lot of our fears stem from childhood, long forgotten but lurking just around the corner. The same with, in your case, a love of masks etc which means nothing but pleasurable memories hidden away. Heavens to Betsy, I sound like your run of the mill analyst! I was thinking about your art commission though and I don't envy you. So hard. However, you have a wonderful imagination and will come up with something remarkable for sure like the clown fish!
For mundane me I think of the childhood poem that went:
In summertime we children
Are glad that we are small.
For we can see so many things,
Grown ups can't see at all.
Therefore being not so imaginative I think I would try to get INTO the mind of a child and do sketches of little boys on haunches peering at beetles, little boys BUILDING rockets and space ships with building blocks, little girls likewise these days but also prancing in the rain with lovely umbrellas whilst their little brothers stomp in the puddles beside them as always. Staring in awe at owls through bedroom windows etc.
I know, I'M just an old fashioned gal! I'm dying to know what YOU come up with! It will be entertaining for sure! Is there an age boundary. Say 3 to 9 years?
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Just to let you guys know I am still around. I swear this small print is getting the best of me. it's not good for my bad eyes so making it short again Marie 0
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Thanks for checking in Marie. I know it is hard on your eyes. You are missed when we don't know what you are up to.
Sandy, he's a doll! Does he like the water? He seems calm.
Patsy, not a bad subject, some folks adore clowns. Id google Huntsville space and rocket center for some ideas. Also Tellus museum. Got to scoot, more tomorrow.
Shirley, my knee was swollen.
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How adorable Sandy. Robby looks so big. And at. Home in that water. Marie 0
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O dear, I ****the REPLY is going crazy om DARN!!! Hello and goodnight everyone!
Buzz0 -
Buzz if you are using a tablet, you might try to delete your history. I have to do that occasionally. It helps with fragmentation etc. patsy0
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Good. Morning dearest
sneakers. Hope this fine you all in the hippest. Mood an d having a great day. Rather warm here but dry cooking a pot of butter beans today . Jerry is going to upgrades. That will be our. Highlight of the day. Exciting huh? Too old for anything else t happen. See you all later. Marie 0 -
I hit that menacing key again and lost my post, Grrr I will start again.
Marie
- are you getting your computer fixed again, is that why you are on the IPad? I hope
you get it back if that is the case. Sorry about your eyes.
Sandy - Robby looks so cute in that cap, and he seems to love the water.
Phoebe- I see, I hope you are not in too much pain and you feel better. I know
another friend of ours is going for knee replacement at the end of the year.
Patsy I want to delete my history and I have a Tablet, how do you do it? Please
give directions, thanks
A busy morning and will continue. I just got back from the hair dresser and got a cut.
Then to Shoppers Drugmart to pick up my goods and get my discount, Yay!
Then a trip to the carpet place to look at carpet samples again and they gave us a
better quote than Home Depot. Dave used to coach baseball with the owner.
A trip to Walmart to pick some fish food since we are leaving tomorrow for our
club cruise. I got the sauerkraut made this morning in the crock pot which we
will take to the dinner on Saturday.
Now for a bike ride and then pack my bag for the weekend.
I will check in on the newsfeed for exercise. Have a good weekend!
Shirley
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Shattered after another visit to my allotment but delighted my red cabbages are planted up before expected rain as well as the sweetcorn that I put in yesterday so you see MARIE, my life is just as exciting as yours and like you and Jerry, doing things I love!!
Anne ~You forgot Mr Punch's string of sausages the crocodile was always chasing. The only profound effect it had on me was to miss real English sausages for the duration of my time in Canada!!
My dinner is ready to eat and then I'll get George out for a quick pee trip before any thunderstorm. It's not something I usually look forward to (thunder) but the garden and allotment produce need a good soaking.
Everyone enjoy the rest of your Thursday.
Jackie0 -
Foot doctor again today! I must have a permanent chair in that waiting room. John and I have date night on Friday. Will have dinner and listen to a little local jazz. So I will get my hair done on Friday. we have to do this regularly or I turn into one of those odd crazy old women who slouch around in my robe and talk to myself!
We bought 8 new little deer proof bushes to replace the sad beat up rose bushes. The roses were totally deer food. At some point we say...okay! That's it, no more trying all of these strange strategies to keep them at bay. We tore out the sad little roses and went for some less tempting plants. We'll see ......I will miss the lovely roses however. I also love seeing the deer. They are welcome to all the blackberries and elderberries and salmon berries. I even share some raspberries with them. They are beautiful and there is a regular visiting deer family. We've watched twin fawns grow up.
Patsy0 -
I use a laptop, but Florida is under siege by hackers and today when I booted up, a huge window purporting to be from Microsoft instructed me to call the number in the warning to get rid of a virus trying to take over my computer! Holy crow! It tried to prevent me from opening the Task manager, but I finally got it opened and had a problem opening applications where I found 2 programs running that I did not recognize! Finally deleted them and hope I didn't wreck everything, but we can never be too cautious any more! I was planning to attend a program on scams tomorrow, but a friend will be going through a quadruple bypass surgery and I didn't want his wife to have to wait alone in the hospital so I will drive her there and wait with her. Maybe someone will pick up the papers being distributed, I hope! Anyway, I'm so far behind schedule here, I keep wondering whatever happened to retirement! Buzz 0
