Senior Golden Sneakers
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Balmy indeed Anne!!!
I did go out to do a couple of errands. In a short time, one guy blew through a stop sign altogether but luckily as saw him coming and was able to stop completely. Later as I approached an intersection, a car turned right in front of me (right on red) but I have no idea why they just sat there and then gunned it just as I reached the intersection. Happy to be home.
Time to bag up the trash, put the cleats on my boots and slide down the driveway! Ah, what fun. Happy winter.
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linder4866 wrote: »Balmy indeed Anne!!!
I did go out to do a couple of errands. In a short time, one guy blew through a stop sign altogether but luckily as saw him coming and was able to stop completely. Later as I approached an intersection, a car turned right in front of me (right on red) but I have no idea why they just sat there and then gunned it just as I reached the intersection. Happy to be home.
Time to bag up the trash, put the cleats on my boots and slide down the driveway! Ah, what fun. Happy winter.
Lin
... And this is why I live in the South!
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I guess Shirley and I live as far south as we can in Canada. Lol.
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No longer as young as I used to be, and I sure cannot keep up with you "kids"! Got up around 6:30 so I could be certain to be on the 9:30 AM bus taking us to a morning movie showing of "Manchester by the Sea". Received a call about 9AM saying there were too few people so the bus was cancelled so no movie this week. I had already eaten breakfast and was not about to return to bed so I ended up doing too much the rest of the day, and now I'm pooped! And haven't even opened my email, whatever it turns out to be! Outlook still has a free version and I might try it, since I find slight problems with MAIL, like...how the heck do I reply to this email?
I have an awful feeling I won't get to make my own Christmas or Holiday cards this year since everytime I sit down at the computer, it is to straighten out errors the bank makes (never in MY favor), errors the Fire department makes (they seem unaware I paid my ambulance ride in full and continue to dun me!),Social Security still putting Mike's SS into the bank while forgetting to give ME what I due! Doctors charging twice for several visits insurance covered also, ...I sometimes think I'm finally mastering the whole business of bills after losing a spouse when mail brings me a mess that proves otherwise! What a crazy system! I'm afraid I'm too sleepy to concentrate on comments, but enjoyed my favorite forum and friends posts tonight! Thank you all!
Buzz
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A short walk in the village this morning then off to meet friends for a swim at the local pool. Pretty well had the place to ourselves as more diligent folk organise themselves for Christmas! After an early lunch I'm going to pack the car with collected larger items of rubbish destined for the tip including the old hoover, drop it all off and if I take George with me we can then walk across a section of moorland even though it's pretty dismal weather.
Buzz ~ It seems efficiency has gone out the window with most organisations these days, much the same in the UK. I've said it before, you shouldn't have to be lumbered with such worries but how you get that across to people on the end of a phone I have no idea.
At the pool I passed on your comments about my friend's weight loss, thanks for them! She says she certainly feels so much healthier as she can walk without hugging and puffing and has got to love the food she eats so isn't missing anything, not even glasses of wine!
Must get on because it will be dark by 4pm but at least after tomorrow the days will be getting longer again!
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Good morning all. It's absolutely beautiful outside. Turquoise sky, with streaks of pink clouds, white snow. It couldn't be prettier. AND we are promised a bit of a warm up. My cold has passed it's peak, Jill will get her long walks again, maybe minus even the despised pink coat which I'm sure she thinks is for sissies. In other words as the week progresses we hover around the freezing point with highs of 32F. Or 0 C. I fervently wish some poor souls in the rest of a troubled world were as fortunate as us.
So now I'm nearing the end of nose blowing, coughing and sneezing I will have to think about Christmas dinner buying seeing I will be inflicting my less than perfect cooking skills on my poor family. Must buy crackers to distract them. Michael brought us a rich looking Christmas fruit cake made by the monks in an Abbey in Quebec. That's a start! Mince pie baking today, maybe, and on Friday he'll bring the turkey given to him by the firm where he works to slowly defrost in the fridge.
Happy preparing,
Anne.
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Buzz you are still so young at heart. Love your sinse of humor. and Anne mince meat pie was my mom's faverite pie.0
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I made her one for our last Christmas dinner together
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That was so thoughtful MARIE, making your mom her favourite pie! I bet she really appreciated it. Hope you are keeping well after such a trying few months, love, Anne.0
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Happy holidays everyone! I am blowing off a few minutes instead of finishing up my gift wrapping...I thought I would wish everyone a happy holiday. And so the cooking begins! Pies, cranberry sauce and cranberry bread in my case. Since I am southern, we have pecan pie on Christmas. John is lamenting the fact that his recent tooth extraction and bone graft will mean no pecan pie. Too crunchy.
Did anyone see Tony Bennett on the Tonight Show? Wow! He is 90 years old and just came out with a new CD! The man is totally GOLDEN! Anyway, I am going to track this CD down and get it for our collection. There are all sorts of new interesting movies out this season. Even a musical...La La Land. It has great reviews, so that is something I will need to investigate. The newest Lee Child thriller novel is a great one in his traditional way...Jack Reacher rides again. Katie is doing her best to keep things Merry and bright. She has eaten my Christmas table centerpiece. And chewed up a METAL figurine of a reindeer. She has unwrapped and chewed on the bows on several gifts. All the gifts are now up on top of cabinets and tables. She is a fierce little lady with strange food cravings. But the Christmas season is just beginning, who knows what interesting things she can discover.
Have a great one, we are all doing our best to keep things Christmassy. Remember that funny song from grade school? "There are no flies on me, no flies at all. There may be one or two big green flies on you but no flies on me. No flies at all. And just before Christmas, I am as good as I can be!" It went something like that. I'll be singing that tune this Christmas. One of my favorites.
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Hi All,
It has been a busy weekend with company from Friday to Sunday. Lots of bed sheets to wash and towels but everyone had a great time and they went to an NFL football game on Sunday while my friend and I went shopping at the Garden Gallery. A full weekend and last night was the choir Christmas party
and it went well and I was home fairly early.
Up at 7am this morning and had my apt. at the diet clinic. The doctor was pleased with my BP readings
and my next apt. isn't until January 24th so I hope I can get on track with my diaries after Christmas. I am just going to enjoy the holiday season for now.
This week I will be getting food ready for Christmas dinner with food I can make ahead of time.
I am still dealing with my knee and waiting for my MRI apt. and Orthopedic apt. so it looks like a while for each of those. I plan on going to see my Yoga instructor on Friday, owner of the studio, and let her know how things are going and if I can come back and do some gentle yoga.
I hope everyone is getting their presents wrapped and everything else that goes with the holidays finished.
Shirley
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Used walker instead of wheelchair yesterday; ouch today! Bone on bone knees need more than determination. BIG Gala tonight with rack of lamb for those (like me) who love it! Happy hour, hors d'heuvres, lots of chatting, and dressing up! The latter doesn't appeal to me, but I'll find something in my closet. haven't really felt like being colorful, but Black with a gorgeous colorful flowing vest should cover a multitude of whatever I have too much of!
MARIE, my secret (and keep it yours, too), is I never really grew up! I sometimes worry and then decide to just let it go! SHHhhhhhh! Buzz 0 -
Good evening, well here I am behind once again. Ha. I did my allotted errands for the day after playing Mah Jongg this morning. It warmed up quite a bit today with the ice disappearing from the driveway!! So very happy about that.
Tomorrow is a long day--Tai Chi/Qigong, some coloring with the ladies at the library, a trip to my church on the other side of town to get the supplies delivered along with my year-end contribution, a stop at the grocery store, maybe the library, and the health food store. We'll see how the day goes.
Thursday is game/craft morning at the library, and then there are activities at the senior center the rest of the day. Coloring, Mah Jongg, and a reception for the outgoing director.
I sent emails to two cousins and owe a response to another one so hope to finish that this evening. She wrote a really long email to me almost a week ago and actually it is so long I haven't had the heart to tackle a response.
Buzz, I am sorry the movie outing was canceled. I am sorry for all the mix-ups that occur on billing and accounts. I seem to be prone to errors on my accounts. I was trying to research a couple of things this morning and made little progress. It takes so much time doesn't it. I hope things get straightened out soon.
Jackie, another busy day for you. So the old vacuum was left behind today? I am glad you were able to swim without a crowd! Everywhere I went today was once again flooded with people.
Anne, glad you are feeling better. Happy cooking and baking to you. My grandmother made mincemeat pie but honestly it was not a family favorite. I believe she made them because she liked them. That was unusual as she normally did things for everyone else and left her wants unspoken.
Oh and Anne, I how have several sick friends. One has strep throats and it is apparently a rare type and the doctor had a difficult time finding an appropriate antibiotic for it. Another friend has had the flu and took DAYS off work which is extremely unusual for him. He usually takes a day off and the. Just soldiers back to work. All of this makes me wonder if I should be staying home more!
Patsy, I hear Tony Bennett on our Christmas radio station quite regularly. He is just incredible. I haven't heard the new music however. Well you have quite the imp in little Katie. I hope she doesn't eat anything that will make her ill. Happy holiday preparation frenzy to you.
Shirley, your weekend sounds just lovely (as usual). Your activities just amaze me. Great result with the doctor. I hope you enjoy the next few weeks as I am certain you have additional great celebrations in store.
All my best to everyone. Hugs.
Lin
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lin you are the most thoughtful person. we have here. Hugs hugs
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Happy Solstice, Happy start to Yuletide everyone,
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Happy solstice, first day of winter and thankfully tomorrow the start of longer days.
What a cute graphic Buzz.
Good day everyone.
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A lovely day so far in spite of murky weather which began with our usual stroll across the moors. One car park was packed out and we thought the Druids must be visiting the Hurlers stones to celebrate the Solstice but no sign of anyone other than another dog walker when we reached them ourselves so imagine if they were sensible they were in the local tea house enjoying a hot drink!
Not my photo this time..... it's incredibly grey and dismal here so no one will be seeing the sun at its important point in the sky!!!
After our walk a jolly group of us met up at Scruff's house for coffee and mince pies under the Christmas tree. We all get on so well together since we worked in Adult Social Care so had lots of reminiscing to do with funny stories. I'm now home for lunch and some housework before more wrapping of presents. Candles still not made so I need to get on with that task as well before Christmas has been and gone!
Jackie
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Happy Solstice morning! A little warmer here today. Got a new food processor for my birthday. This is something I've wanted for years, but could never decide which one. Well, finally picked one. I'm looking forward to trying it out this week.
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Happy Wednesday!! I had quite a day yesterday and now I am without a car. First I went with Bryanna to court and then to the DMV. Got home in time for Babe to bring me more supplies and he gave me money for my luncheon with the girls. It was a great lunch and we then went to my friends house for a short time. Drove my other friend to her daughter's and proceeded to drive home. I missed a turn and went into a truck dock driveway to turn around and got stuck in snow. Two guys tried to help me but couldn't so I called my friend and her son came to help. He had a big truck and put something on the back of my car and pulled and never did I hear such a noise. Evidently I was stuck on some sort of metal and when pulled it did something to the bottom of my car. I did drive home but this morning I filed an insurance claim and they sent a tow truck to take it to my dealer to be fixed. I will either have to rent a car of borrow one from a relative. Merry Christmas to me. I was so worried about the car I woke up at 4:00 am and could not go back to sleep. I am going to try and take a nap now. Enjoy the rest of your day. Here is my car!!
Sandy
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Sandy - So sorry.
Just let everyone take care of YOU while the car is being fixed. 0 -
Sandy- So sorry to hear about your accident with your car. Stay safe.
Happy Winter Soltice
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Sorry Sandy. I saw your post on Facebook about being stuck but didn't think it was that serious. So so sorry. 0
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Bad luck just before Christmas Sandy. Very sorry. Anne.0
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HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE, y'all! Yippee, from now on, the days grow longer!
I'm off to sleep and never got to straighten up for my cleaning helper!
SANDY, if anyone can make something good come out of disaster, that's you! I hope everything works out for the best, and so sorry you had this auto problem!
Goodnight everyone... Buzz
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Good day. I was able to complete most of what was on my agenda yesterday. Now we'll see How today goes! Time to get started soon. Meanwhile I wanted to check in, wish everyone a great day, and add a wish that our troubles be few.
Sandy, I hope your car is fixed soon. My friend was in an accident recently. She was stopped at a stop light and someone (who I cannot believe was not impaired) tried to drive between the lanes. Both her car and the pickup trick in the other lane were damaged as the guy tried to drive between them. She is driving a rental car right now while hers is in the shop but it should be all fixed up soon.
Buzz, you post incredibly lovely graphics. I wish I knew where to find things like that!! I hope you are getting some rest. I had a sleepless spell about 2am and thought, well, okay, there's something I would like to watch at 4am and sure enough I was asleep by about 3:30 and missed the program!!
Anne, how's the cooking and baking coming along?
Time to move!!
Hugs.
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My new Birthday food processor! I've wanted a nice processor for nearly 20 years and finally made a decision on which one and ordered it. I'm looking forward to trying it out! Today is "milk" day. Hopefully, when I pick up my milk, there will be some nice farm fresh veggies available that I can slice and dice with this new machine.
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Happy Thursday! A new day always makes things better. I got a good night's sleep, talked to Babe who calmed me down and told me not to worry about any expenses, that he would pay them all. I feel better but still dumb that I didn't think to call my roadside service and none of this probably would have happened. Letting it go and moving on.
Marcella, nice birthday present, I hope you get many good memories from all the delicious food you process!!
Lin, Ford just called and because of the holiday it will be sometime next week he hopes. Insurance has to approve appraisal and that might take time. I am glad your friend didn't get hurt with the idiot who tried to go between two vehicles.
Buzz, can't change or control anything to make it different, so I will just move on and stop worrying. As angry as I am with Babe he is always there for me, so that is why it is so hard to change things.
Shirley, your graphic is beautiful.
Thank you all for your kind words as usual.
Have a great day,
Sandy
One Day at a Time
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marcella I have a big one but would like a smaller one
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and everyone else! 
