Senior Golden Sneakers
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Well, got here at a more sensible time today. Spoke to my kids on videochat very early this morning before going to bed and saw the canal in Venice where they are staying in a hotel watching gondoliers! They will call later after they arrive in Florence. They will be dining in my favorite restaurant tonight My son mentioned the book and movie "Brain on Fire" in regards to a possible explanation for my daughters seizures and edema of her brain. Something called NMDAR Encephalitis. One never knows!
Read that article from SANDY's link and it was lovely to follow. By my standards, he's just a youngster! was talking today to my 104 year old friend and her perspective is more realistic! Not one of us knows what the future brings or gets every wish they work for and towards, and I wish everyone the ability to adapt well, to the best or otherwise since over much of what happens, we have little control!
Oops, 2 phones at once, from Venice and downstairs from Judy and Gerald. Must dash!
Buzz 1 -
Had a very short night with little or no sleep. Not sure why these happen from time to time. Just happens! But it really makes for a non-productive day. It is quite sunny and a beautiful fall day. So here I am, dragging around, looking longingly at a nap.
John is busy, as usual. I will fix salmon sandwichs and a side salad for lunch. Easy peasy! Nothing too demanding or I would cut off my head while slicing a tomato.
Watched a great video on YouTube with my favorite vet, Dr. Jones. He has a channel called vets secrets. He is from Canada, Anne. He is all about wholistic veterinary practices. This was on labradoodles as a designer breed and their issues. Good to know!
Our son, Damon, is sailing today. I had a very unsatisfactory call with my very sick brother. Some days he seems remarkably fine but with a missing part, so to speak. The dementia masks his physical condition, COPD etc. sad as that is, it is a blessing. Our daughter is AWAL. I believe she is doing okay but is involved in a project. That is my family in it’s entirety. Help! I need more relatives!
Buzz and everyone of you very wise sneakers...you are so right about never really being able to control the events in our life. So why do I keep struggling to gain some sort of control over my disorganized existence? I am losing the battle.
Patsy☘️2 -
Hello. I did go to church today and stayed a bit to speak with one of our members who just lost his sister, unexpectedly, a few days ago. Anne, he is a pilot and is crazy for all things aviation related including model planes. I have never seen someone so enthusiastic for anything. Don’t be angry but I did show him the photo you posted. I forgot to write down what he said but he thought he knew the type of plane and model just from that picture. Wow! All I got was it was a seaplane given the pontoons/floats instead of normal landing gear.
I had my lunch and went back to card making. Tis the busy season and I won’t accomplish as much as I would like but I will finish some cards and I may use some purchased cards! Oh my. I have been in so much Versamark ink and fine embossing powder that my allergies are acting up. Achoo.
Anne, thanks not only for your gorgeous photo but that of your son in the glider. How did your neat and veg pie turnout? All yours or did you share?
Jackie, what cozy pets and they get along so nicely. Domestic harmony! I hope you have had a wonderful day.
Sandy, sounds like a great day. Did your team win? Enjoy sitting with the kids this week.
Buzz, I didn’t receive the threat in a phone call, it was in an email. Which I deleted, double checked all my accounts, just because, and I haven’t heard from them again. I don’t get too many phone calls on my home VOIP line. Probably because it is out of order so often given my not a,ways stellar Internet service. I hope you have a lovely evening.
Patsy, hello, I think I have missed you. Hope all is well. Ah, I see you posted and I did not see it. Life provides me few opportunities at control. 🤓
Must move along, the ink is turning into glue.
Hugs.
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This is one of our son’s doggies, Miski, at a recent visit. She is 12 years old and as our son says, she is like a furry throw pillow with eyes. She mainly sits around mentoring all activities from a safe distance. Don’t you just love those big eyes?
Patsy☘️1 -
Yes, it's a sea plane LIN. Is your friend a private plane owner or a commercial pilot? I don't know much about sea or lake planes I must confess and of course I worked in research and design of small plane turbine engines. (JT15D, PW300 etc) Big connection with Wichita and a chap there used to sing Annie Laurie on the phone to me. In England, it was Blackburn's and the Buccaneer, gorgeous little plane, then the Rolls Royce aircraft engine division and finally here, and a lot of the men had small private planes rented in hangars not too far away. Very few women at work, and most married, but I think I wasn't considered a threat because I had absolutely no interest in ever marrying again and therefore was considered one of "the boys" which meant I had the privilege of getting out, about and sometimes up. Today I content myself with watching the 1942 Lancaster lumber overhead daily from the heritage museum. It carries a few lucky passengers to view the Falls but I could never afford the trip. $1000 I believe !
One of the men at work was teaching Mark to fly his glider but we had to pay of course. The tow plane alone cost a small fortune. Jilly is telling me it's bed time, so goodnight,
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Good morning. Getting a slow start today but I have many slow starts these days.
Anne, he is a private pilot with his own plane and does a lot of flying. He is working with an eye to becoming a commercial pilot. I think for small plane charter. He hasn’t really said. I do know he has many model planes and travels to fly those at meets and rallies. So nothing and everything airplane related. The man is an encyclopedia of knowledge! Did you ever want to become a pilot?
Patsy, love the photo. Quite the Zen doggie. ❤️❤️
Must get ready to face the day. Some errands, a reflexology appointment and must read and prepare for the 3-day workshop later this week F-Sat-Sun. Need to figure out where I am going, the time to arrive, etc. I might try a test run and find this place, it would put some anxiety to rest.
Hugs my friends. ❤️❤️ Be safe.
Lin
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Good morning Sneakers. Mmm. I think what the author at 76 was trying to say was how much he admires the people who are OLDER than himself and how he's going to try and copy them. Those who have got to a great age have done so by continuing as always, not wasting time by worrying about sans teeth, sans eyes, thinning hair etc, but continuing with our art, our card making, our pets and chickens, and yes, even flying planes! for goodness sake. Still with a lively interest in rogue politics etc. Roger Bannister was a great example, there are many more. No, we don't have control over lots of things, but the ones who survive the things we can't control and live to a great age all have that spark of joy and continuing interest in common or so it seems to me. That's what I think he wants to emulate, hey, and me too!
With this in mind, and gardening and snow clearing becoming more difficult LIN has inspired me to go back to my old hobby of card making. Of course old supplies have dried out or dwindled, but no matter, both sons have said they will take me to the stores to restock. I once really enjoyed designing and creating for long suffering friends and relatives who all told me kindly they enjoyed my amateur efforts. You do this as well BUZZ which no doubt contributes to your good looks and lively mind. I must admit when I roll over on my tum to stand up in the deep bath, I have to smile thinking of all the other elderly "turtles" doing it at the same time. Now there's a thought!
A good thing about old age is no one expects me to cook thanksgiving dinner any more. Just had an invite to join Marks family on Sunday. Michael and Jilly as well. Maybe the subject of "moms future" will come up in a family discussion and I'll know what 2020 will bring!
It's Wash day, clean up day, there's life in the old grey mare yet!
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Happy Monday!
I am taking Babe and Daisy to the Vet today, Daisy needs her anal glands cleaned and Babe is buying her dog food and meds needed for her tummy. His son has a job although Babe said he was calling in to go in later today since he has a tummy ache. I just hope he is not there when I pick up Babe although I am not going in the house.
Lin, what is your workshop about? A test run sounds like a good idea.
Anne, you know an awful lot about planes, you are one smart lady.
Patsy, cute picture of your son's dog, is she a Lhasa Apso?
Good morning to Jackie and Buzz, hope you all have a great day.
Sandy
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It's good afternoon from me already as my day has drifted in a sea of inactivity. Horizontal rain, low clouds and a chill in the air didn't help me or the dogs go off in a rush this morning, in fact all 4 pets snoozed for hours while I did next to nothing other than watch the rain! Anyway finally I'm on the move and about to scrub the kitchen tiles and wash cupboard doors so that tomorrow I will feel ready to open up the pot of paint for the walls and get that job finished by lunchtime.
Anne, that's a lovely photo of Mark in the glider and funnily it's something I've always wanted to soar across the skies in. When I worked at the tv studios in Plymouth a cameraman spent many hours flying and always promised one day he would take me to the local Bodmin airfield to take me up in his..... never happened!! I'm going to add a flight to my bucket list which doesn't have much on it at the moment, in fact I've only got a visit to Saint Petersburg pencilled in!
Patsy, Miski certainly has a look of George about her, aloof and mischievous all at the same time! Have you ever watched our British Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick? A professor, and a wonderful caring vet who performs miracles every day having dedicated his life to pushing the boundaries when it comes to surgery without compromising the animal's best interests. There are clips on You Tube.
I see Sandy has posted while I'm typing so will check once I've posted this. Happy Monday Sandy.
Lin, I tended to do practice runs if I wasn't sure where I was going in my car but I've now got an app on my phone called Waze that is amazing although it does use up the battery quickly. It also takes some pretty weird detours at times but I feel I have to trust it knows what it's doing and there are probably delays on the regular route.
I see Judy and Gerald are back safely Buzz. That's great news and you'll be hearing all about their adventures.
It seems the rain has eased for a few minutes so I'll go and give the chooks their afternoon corn.
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Oh Sandy, I've just read your post and hope your visit to collect Babe goes peacefully!
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Jackie, I also use Wace for Navigation and love it! I keep a charger in my car so as not to drain my battery.0
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Thanks Sandy, you just reminded me I had a USB cable waiting in my Amazon basket to go with the charger a friend gave me! Now ordered with a pair of gardening gloves!
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I survived!! Actually his son went to work so no one was home to harass me. Daisy hardly remembers me but it was good to see her. Also the Vet was happy to see me as well as one of the girls who works there that goes out with Babe's nephew who is also a vet but at his own practice. Took Babe to Target and now home none for the worse. Life is good.1
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JACKIE, saw Judy today and will send you an email shortly!!! Am having dinner with them tonight and have booked them for Thanksgiving before anyone else can ask them! They are everyone's favorite people! They arrived exhausted and slight colds but look wonderful and she simply raved about you!!!
SANDY, good luck, sweet kind gentle friend!
PATSY, finally opened the link and loved that "mop"; also the graphic on the wall behind him. It reminds me of something my Mother treasured! What a beautiful staircase, also! You are not disorganized! Just have much going through your busy mind!
ANNE, always fascinating to read and thinking forward constantly! Yes, I will agree with you about those aging best and I love the vision of turning turtles!!! OK, 1, 2, 3 GO!
LIN, that 3 day workshop sounds terrific, and just what I might expect you to do!
Gotta run (literally) so all have a super day! Buzz
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Sunshine and showers today which has to be better than yesterday's constant rain! Walked with George and Betty on the moors then, while Sue the gardener weeded and pruned one of the flower beds, I mucked out the hen house. Just eaten crackers, cheese and a handful of home grown tomatoes for lunch so will now make the most of a sunny spell and get some of the wood off the old hen house cut up for kindling. If it should rain I've got paint and brush ready to freshen up the kitchen walls.
Sandy, Daisy won't ever forget you, it's not something dogs do. I expect she was just a bit unsure how to react seeing you. ❤
Thinking of you today Buzz and truly hoping you hear positive news from your daughter.
Time to get the wood sorted! Happy Tuesday everyone... think young thoughts and do something silly to make yourself smile! 😋
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Well I walked to the vet and back without the Bean (too far for shorty) to pick up a flea pill because she had run out of the spring package and the weather is ideal for fleas. $39 with tax for ONE pill. Yikes. Finally got it down her gullet coated in cheese and peanut butter. Don't want Hobbes the giant cat catching fleas with his lions mane! I Don't think Jill's got fleas, but better safe than sorry. We would be banned from future dinners if Hobbes got fleas! He's an indoor puss. If she did have a stray passenger the vet says it starts working in 6 hours. Golly, why do I feel itchy all of a sudden.
Think I'll copy JACKIE and have crackers, cheese and a tomato for lunch, but first a coffee to recover from the walk and Jillys gullet. Thinking young thoughts and avoiding mirrors.
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Happy Tuesday! My sitting day which always makes me tired before I even get there but once there I am fine until I get home and have a glass of wine. lol It's going to be a beautiful day so maybe we will be in the yard if not too wet from all the rain.
Anne, I think Babe gives Daisy Frontline which is given one a month and our vet said to do it every month even in the winter. It is a liquid which is put on their skin, because Daisy is so big she get half near her neck and the other half near her backend. Whatever works for each dog is good along with heartworm medicine. Daisy was cut so short I hardly recognized her.
Babe said the groomer had a death in the family and Daisy wasn't groomed for two months thus she got matted and had to be cut. It will grow but I love her longer.
Jackie, Daisy did give me one little kiss but with a lot of prompting, it almost brought me to tears but I do know Babe takes good care of her so I am fine. Because I can't exercise with this foot I have really been watching what I eat and am losing some weight. I hope it keeps up to Friday. lol
Buzz, I am glad you got the first invitation to your friends, they sound like wonderful people.
Have a great day.
Sandy
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As soon as I got started cutting up the wood it began to rain so I had to come in because the saw is electric but before I could get organised with my paintbrush out came the sun again. This time down to the area of garden I'm clearing and managed to pull up lots of brambles and stinging nettles before it began to rain again! I came in to put the kettle on, answer an email from the solicitor about the house sale then chat on Skype to my brother in Spain. He is currently sitting outside a cafe on the sea front watching the waves gently roll in and kept turning his phone round so I could see what he's looking at under a clear blue sky!!
Anne, every time I visit the vet for flea and worming tablets they have changed to a different brand! Bravecto seemed a good choice and was only needed once every 3 months but now we've changed again to something called Nexgard Spectra which apparently kills fleas, ticks and worms! It's a pill that I have to smear pate over to get George and Betty to eat but I do worry slightly that such a combination must be a bit toxic. In fact 12 hours after George had his last dose he was very nearly sick then went into the garden to chew on grass.
Sandy, when I leave George anywhere overnight he sulks when he sees me again just to make me feel bad! Cats do that all the time but I thought dogs were different. Betty is and goes berserk when she sees me!! I haven't particularly been watching what I eat so don't hold out much hope for Friday even though it's only Tuesday today... we'll see!!
I have phoned the vet to see if they have results from Hebe's biopsy but nothing in yet. She's still doing well so you wouldn't know anything was wrong which means I'm in no rush to do anything drastic whatever the result.
I must go and give the hens their afternoon corn then probably light the fire.
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Hi JACKIE and SANDY, Jillys been on Nexgard ever since we adopted her at 10 weeks old. She's fine with it, but if I give her the heartworm tablet at the same time she is lethargic and sickly. So I usually wait 2 days in between. The pills usually last, one a month, from May 1st to December 1st but I've mislaid the last of this years supply and it's so wet and warm it's perfect timing for fleas and even the Mosquitos are still floating about. I thought of buying 2 pills but the vet said one would do and go back if the warmth continues into November. I inquired about the topical instead but she said both methods enter the dogs system equally effectively so I decided to continue with the pills for this year.
She gobbled it up crushed on a spoon, covered in peanut butter and wrapped in a piece of a thin slice of cheese. This was the easiest method I've ever given her.
Hope we are done now until April next year.
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Good day. Since I no longer have a darling doggie I guess I have nothing to add to the conversation on medications for fleas, ticks, heart worms etc.
Just got home from playing Mah Jongg. I had another good morning, winning several hands. We had lots of wonderful conversation as well. Couldn’t be better. Off in a little while for coloring at the library. Later this week the library is closing for 2 weeks in preparation for the first section of remodeling. The staff is apparently working their normal hours as they pack and move materials from the affected area. I will miss the library.
Time to finish my lunch and pack my coloring project.
Hugs.
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News from DD at Sloan Kettering not what I was hoping; after 6 daysof lying there feeling miserable, they tell her she has lymphoma in her brain!..... Period! Only hope for getting rid of it is a very tough course of chemo treatments, and no guarantee she will not remain a vegetable. No, not the news I was hoping for. Off to bed, and I'm making errors all over the page!
Buzz
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Bad start to the day. Oh BUZZ, terrible news for you. I can indeed imagine how distraught you must feel!
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Buzz, very sad news indeed. Hugs and prayers❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Buzz, add my hugs and prayers, such sad news, I am so sorry. 0
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Oh dearest Buzz, I am so sorry to hear this news about your DD. We are all thinking of you and holding your hand. There are no words to express how sorry I am .
All my love,
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So sorry Buzz that you've had this dreadful news. It must have come as such a shock and all I can do is send love and big hugs.
Jackie
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It has been a very busy day doing nothing but chores. It is sunny but cool. I keep thinking of our dear Buzz, thinking of the turmoil she is enduring. Wishing I had a magic solution for her.
I have a dear ex-sister-in-law that we laughingly call my “sister-in-law once removed” we have been pals forever. She has a new great granddaughter. The young wife is so protective of the baby, she makes everyone use that hand sanitizer before holding the baby. My exSIl just fumes at this. I laughed and told her, this will pass soon enough. I remember our daughter was in a play pen in the art studio in the art dept. at college. We were very casual about things in those days. I also remember another art student nursing someone else’s baby because her friend (also a young mother) was cleaning brushes etc. when her baby wanted to be fed. I would be shocked today. I didn’t even blink an eye in those days.
Tomorrow I will try to get a flu shot. I am not recommending them. Our doc always wants us to get one. However, contrary to all the hype, they do make me feel bad for at least a week. Wish it were just silly talk but John and I both feel like we have a bad cold or a light case of flu after a shot. Just saying what I feel...
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Today has me wondering what the heck is going on at a supposedly top rated hospital. As DD was checking herself out, a result of her lumbar test arrived and there is not a single lymphoma cell found in what was removed!!! Good News? Error? Difference of opinion? How maddening. They still insist the brain has a lymphoma BUT in a different area than they found in May!!! That was when she had been given massive steroid amounts. Today she feels all up in the air as to what she actually has! Seizures are occurring so she cannot be alone, and she is looking up the results of testing on Monsanto's Round Up! I suspect most of us used it as tree roots from neighbor's yards appeared in our vegetable or flower gardens. Now it has been found to cause lymphoma!
I had not planned on fasting today, but in the end, I could find little time between phone calls received, to make any food, so I actually did not eat but I'm sure I made up for it tonight at a special "Break the Fast" buffet! Over the years of eating more selectively, I had forgotten how delicious creamed herring tidbits can be! The tables were laden with irresistible foods, and I know there were many I never even got to taste! And I did not make a second trip to the buffet tables, to which many were returning 3 and 4 times! I did say yes when someone offered to get me a blintze with blueberry sauce! I could not finish it. Perhaps I'll gain less this week???
I can barely keep my eyes open so my love and thanks to you all for your support, and I'll see you tomorrow! Buzz
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Goodness Buzz, what a nightmare emotional time for you and your DD and still few answers. I did a Google search as I'm sure you have and saw what a complex condition it is. My brother's MS was diagnosed soon after he found himself being sprayed by chemicals drifting into his garden from nearby fields and there's always been a question mark. Most of us were probably introduced to such toxic treatments back when they were the norm.
Yesterday flew by in a haze of emails, phone calls and dog walking in torrential rain but this morning I'm about to take them on the moors in sunshine, at least it is at the moment. Then a trip to the next town for a well needed hair appointment and grocery shopping. Patsy my gran always said a little bit of dirt does you good, in other words building up immunities is so Important, especially for little ones. As you say, mother will learn!
Must get on so I'll wish everyone a happy Thursday. Hopefully get back later.
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Goodness, if they saw all the muck my two got into as toddlers today's clucking hen mothers would faint. Remember that song JACKIE, "ee, you are a mucky kid, when he hears just what you did", well that was most definitely Michael!
Flu shots, never had one touch wood. Mainly because my Cousin Val had one every year, and every year she was really ill with flu. My mother refused the shots after watching her suffering niece, never had flu again after the 1957 Asian flu epidemic, and that goes for me as well. I'd never discourage others but just saying for me, no thanks. I wonder if the Asian flu caused immunity?
Well, I'd better get cleaned up before Dorio and the groceries turn up. He has a habit of rolling up earlier than expected. I don't mind but don't want to be caught in my jam jams.
So relieved for you BUZZ. What a roller coaster you are going through. Please take care of Buzz during all this turmoil.
Anne. ♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️
PS. After paying out $39 for ONE flea and tick pill yesterday at the vets, clearing out a cupboard just now, I've found the remainder for this year wedged at the very back behind all the flotsam and jetsam. Oh Anne! Oh well, our bean is definitely worth $39!0
