Senior Golden Sneakers
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Phoebe – Yes, the climb is pretty high up and I think my wife might think I’m nuts just contemplating it. Not sure I can handle the high up areas when you walk on rope. I just don’t have that balance ability. I am still not in shape for it, just yet…not sure I have seen anyone my age do it.
Patsy – Love the painting. You should set up a website to display all your work someday. Hope you post more when you get your marine series put together.
Sandy – When you mentioned Please Don’t Eat the Daisies – pictured Doris Day and David Niven & the dog! Que sera, sera (LOL) ; I tried out the recumbent bike today (along with treadmill) & will slowly increase usage. I liked it. Did I mention I am jealous of Florida? Just kidding…sounds like a great plan.
Jackie / Anne Shirley – Ernestine puts me to shame. Funny – I love seeing older people at the gym (or people with challenges working out) because it negates any excuses I might try to give myself. My goals are similar to yours. I personally would never want a bodybuilder physique etc. just a simple lean-mean-fighting machine (LOL). OK – those days and potential are long gone…walking under my own power is all I ask.
Oh well – tonight there is a final Lenten group gathering. I must say, I am not the kind to attend these gatherings on a regular basis – but I made the commitment and respect / like the husband/wife organizers very much. It really is a group of decent people.
Time to get going – have a great night. Bob
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Good day everyone. Just read through all the posts. My goodness, what a variety of pictures, videos, history lessons and more.
Hugs to everyone. Apparently this darn fatigue isn't going to loosen its grip on me for a while........take care everyone.
Lin0 -
Lin, hope you get rested. Spring fever? Pollen? Weve had record highs this year for pollen count.
Enjoying Yuma Az. About 85 degrees.
Patsy, wonderful painting, thanks for sharing.
take care all
Phoebe0 -
Almost time for bed again so thought I'd at least check in briefly. This morning I swam at the local leisure centre with friends and then did a bit of shopping before heading home for a light lunch. This afternoon my new car was returned to the dealer for a mechanical check because a couple of times when driving a warning light has come on indicating the engine overheating so I've got a little courtesy car to drive for a couple of days. Tomorrow should be a quiet day with no plans other than to continue my garden tidying. A cold night with close to freezing temperatures so winter still biting occasionally!
Anne ~ It seems to me you made a good decision to stay in Canada close to your boys and their families in what is generally a beautiful country with uncomplicated politics and lifestyle apart from "Vive le Quebec libre"!! LOL I gather history lessons in our schools today don't go further back than WWII... such a shame when there's so much more to get their teeth into.
Shirley ~ you've often commented about crossing into the US but I hadn't realised you're American, not Canadian. Was Dave the attraction that had you heading north?
No time to continue as I'm falling asleep over the laptop and George is snoring in his bed!
Nite nite!
Jackie
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SHIRLEY, I wondered that too! WAS Dave the attraction?
LIN, maybe all the trauma of the past few weeks is finally catching up with you, and your body is telling you. Spoil and coddle yourself for a while because you deserve to. I know I'm maybe out of line here with advice, so forgive me, but my youngest DIL lost both her parents in a very short time frame recently and disposing of everything (amazing what they accumulated) was just a tremendous, exhausting task for her, and she had my sons help of course, whilst you are on your own? Anyway, you are in my thoughts and I'm wishing you a quick return to your normal health, Anne.0 -
April 6 Shirley. how exciting. We are loving seeing the new pictures of our great grandson. Can hardly wait to go to Springville to see him April 6th.
Marie0 -
Today's big adventures--hours of dog walking---watching DWTS while riding the exercise bike---family nap---sorting through slides of a cruise across the Pacific in 1973
Barbie 0 -
O dear, I'll never catch up! Can't stay, as I must use my new expensive leg pump. Slow process. Have I shared that DS and his "almost wife" have gone on the Paleo diet and he is actually losing weight....and preparing his bicycles for NJ spring weather? Did BOB give me a link for DS concerning his own struggle and success? I think it might inspire DS, especially since he, too, is a splendid photographer. I told him about the beautiful photos of prepared meals and he took the website URL for consideration!
I may be way behind, but if you haven't yet seen "The Theory of Everything" ...do not miss it! Besides the incredible acting, the story of Steven Hawking's battle with ALS since the 1960s, and the fact that his brilliance and humor have survived, ( he is now 73 or 74 and with his 3rd wife!) despite having been given a 2 year life diagnosis in his late teens or early 20s! Badly constructed sentence but splendid movie and definitely NOT a tear-jerker!
Anyway, I must find time to read the past week's posts so I know what's happening.
My community started a support group today for care-givers and I already feel help is very close by! We have a psychologist and 2 social workers leading the group and so far talking of once a month. I bet the members will meet more frequently! It made me aware of recognizing certain stages and behaviors DH is going through that I did not realize were part of the dementia condition. I live in interesting times!
Again, thank you all for putting up with me, and I must tell you one of the things mentioned today was weight gain amongst caregivers, and the danger involved! So once again, I will attempt to control my habits and return to our fold! HAPPY SPRING
Buzz
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Have a wonderful birthday Barbie!! 0 -
Happy Wednesday!! I got to sleep an hour later and Lisa will be picking Robby up this morning. She had to go to court for a ticket so she has taken the day off as well as my son.
I plan on doing many errands today, such as going to Macy's, getting nails done, going to Walmart and then to bingo. I have to take advantage of these days because I hate running errands on weekends.
Have a great day!!
Sandy
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Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday Dear Barbie, happy birthday to you..............
Lin0 -
Happy Birthday BARBIE.0
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Lin, Sandy, and Jeri, thank you for the birthday greetings. I am getting to do what I want today for my birthday which includes not going out to a restaurant to eat. We're going a movie (The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) at 4:30 so we can get to bed early as usual. At my line dance class this morning we started learning a very difficult dance that left all of us with our heads spinning. We know from experience that it will be better next week. Barbie 0
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Happy Day BARBIE0
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Happy birthday Barbie!0
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A belated happy birthday, Barbie! Your birthday plans are to see one of my favorite movies. I do love that movie! We bought a copy to see whenever we need to have a really pleasant TV evening. It is my habit to watch a movie while exercising. I have even learned to count my weight lifts while watching a movie. NOT EASY!
Rainy and cold today but tomorrow is sunny and warmer! Yea! Will be a lazy bones and go to the beach.
Moved a piece of furniture yesterday and found a pile of errant Christmas tree needles. Now I can really say it is spring. It is a well known fact, it isn't spring until you have found and vacuumed every pine needle from the Christmas tree no matter how well hidden. Just saying....
Patsy0 -
Happy Birthday Barbie. I tought have done been by but see I have notSo Happy Birthday to a vey lovely lady.Marie0
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A super HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BARBIE !!! Buzz 0
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Buzz, Marie, Anne, and Patsy, thank you for the birthday wishes. It has been a great day of doing what I wanted to do. "The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" was great. There aren't many movies that I want to see, but this one was super and I'm glad we went. Jake had a small popcorn and I ate nothing at the movies. Barbie 0
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Barbie ~A belated happy birthday wish from me with apologies that I didn't check in yesterday and see it was your day. Doing what you wanted to do was an ideal way to spend your birthday and I'm glad you enjoyed the movie.
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Good morning sneakers. A cool day with a northerly wind that reminds us winter hasn't quite left us and there's still snowfall in Anne's old neck of the woods! The river was running high on our walk and George got soaked trying to dig stones out of the sand in the shallow areas, this after I'd spent some time washing his eyes and ears and grooming him generally... like a naughty child! LOL
Delighted to read a post from BUZZ and know there's support for you when needed and impressed with PATSY'S little bit of Spring clean to suck up the last of those pine needles!!
Time for me to pop into our local town for a bit of shopping and then hopefully more gardening because yesterday my plans went awry when the garage phoned to let me know a fault had been found on a sensor that was telling me my new car was overheating when it wasn't, at least I think that was the diagnosis, so back I went to collect it and hand back the courtesy car with much relief because my long legs struggled to squeeze under the steering wheel of that vehicle!
Have a lovely day whatever you all have planned. PATSY, I might just book you to pop over the pond with your vacuum cleaner to kick start my Spring clean! LOL
Jackie
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Buzz, Marie, Anne, and Patsy, thank you for the birthday wishes. It has been a great day of doing what I wanted to do. "The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" was great. There aren't many movies that I want to see, but this one was super and I'm glad we went. Jake had a small popcorn and I ate nothing at the movies. Barbie
What a wonderful day. I have been itching to see that movie. I loved the first one and adding Richard Gere cannot be a bad thing. I always wait to see movies until they are available at the library or are on Netflix. I fear this will be a looooobg wait for me!!
Lin
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Good morning sneakers, at last the snow is almost gone in my back yard and I can get out walking again, and indeed I took the old grocery cart for walkies yesterday to stock up my veggie supplies. Mind you, the only word for the road outside my drive is mucky. One of the old houses in the street was knocked down last fall, replaced with a mansion, and yesterday, in pouring rain, the workmen out digging it's drive up to lay pipes. Already, a for sale sign displayed. The one next door to me that was built on my beloved waste ground went for over a million dollars and this new one is bigger! I guess my dear little old house will suffer the same fate as time goes by, but at the moment here I am, a glass of beer amongst the champagne! One or two old timers left but our days are numbered!
You had a lovely birthday BARBIE, but I'm like LIN, I will have to wait a while to see the movie. Did you think of me JACKIE out in the woods with a patch of snow? LOL. I Bet old D's ghost was nowhere to be seen, but didn't little George have fun! Oh to be young again and in our case, splashing through water in our wellies!
BUZZ, I don't reply much, but you are in my thoughts a lot. Very, very hard being a patient caregiver.
Have a lovely day all the rest of you lovely SNEAKERS,
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It's SNOWING! Aargh! 'Nuff said!0
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Good morning! I've gotten in my mandatory 10,000 steps and will be listening in on 2 conference calls today so definitely will up that count!
Catching up on kitchen chores again---almond milk is made and a hodge-podge of ingredients is cooking away in my InstantPot so will hopefully end up with some tasty lentil soup.
Tomorrow I will meet up with a friend for some talking. She has been debating for months on selecting a retirement date. Unlike Barbie who has so many friends willing to walk, I don't seem to have anyone who's in physical condition to walk so we will mostly be sitting as she has terrible problems with her feet. It will be nice to find out what's going on in her world though---it's been a long time.
In the evening I'm going to another card making class at the library. This time we'll be making birthday cards. It should be fun as it's the same instructor as the last class when we made Valentines.
Anne - NOOOOOOOO, no more snow! I hope it's just a flurry.
Off to check email---I think I have over 300 to sort through. Argh!
See you later.
Lin
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dropping in to see what all our sneakers are doing. seems like everyone is fine.
I am doing great. nothing new. lad to read everybody post.
having pizza toniht using the gluten free English muffin love those muffins
hopin you all are having a great day
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Happy Thursday!! Not feeling great, I think I am catching Robby's cold. I am fighting it as much as I can with Tylenol, Emergen-C Immune + and Cold-Eeze. I hope tomorrow is a better day, I have no time to be sick. Robby's nose is running and he has a cough, I wish she would take him to the doctor but she is waiting to see how he is over the weekend. I didn't know I was off all next week, I though Lisa's break started on Wednesday but she assures me it is all week. This is a good thing since I am worn out.
Just wanted to check in, will try to get back tomorrow.
Sandy
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HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY BARBIE !
A rain snow mix today. I left around 10:30 am to drive to my sister's for shopping and
lunch. I hit something in the road, don't know what it was, a piece of something and was
worried about my tire but I made it there and back without road side assistance.
We had a lovely day despite the weather, she has a new boyfriend and I got the scoop on that. She bought some nice things for the baby and then we had lunch at her favorite restaurant. We both had the chicken souvlaki salad and it was delicious and coffee. She gave me my birthday gift early so it was a pleasant day.
Anne & Jackie - Yes Dave is the one who scooped me up and took me north. Going on 41 years next month. Not looking back. He will be retired on Tuesday, his last day.
BUZZ - You are a gem to all of us, and I think of you when you have to take care of Mike and what he is going through. You are a great caregiver, even though your patience may get the best of you. Its part of the process. I saw the movie with Steven Hawking and enjoyed it too. Surprised how many kids he had and wives all during his illness.
Marie - Hi and your pizza sounds delicious. Its almost dinner and I am getting hungry thinking of your pizza.
Lin - I hope you start to feel better soon. Maybe its the Spring change, or maybe you are doing too much and working too hard on your Dad's stuff. Time to take some Lin time and rejuvenate. Your card making sounds fun and just what the doctor ordered.
Barbie - How did the line dance go that was so difficult. Did everyone survive?
Shirley
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SHIRLEY, that's SO romantic. I have visions of Mounties, the Indian love call and "Rosemary" floating through my head! I arrived here in 1973 (where's the time gone!) around about your time I think. I guess we both fully qualify as Canucks now! Shall you do something special on Dave's first day of freedom next Tuesday, or just relax over a late breakfast with a leisurely look at the newspapers IF you still get them!
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Don’t know where the time goes…a feeling I think each of us has on a daily basis. Funny – as a kid, I thought I had nothing but time. LOL
Buzz – saw your note from 3/24 – the link you wanted for DS was:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10080664/lost-191-lbs-photos-success-after-999-failures/p1
I do plan to see "The Theory of Everything" at some point. Happy to hear your community started a support group for caregivers and the insight they provide.
Barbie – Happy Belated Birthday! If memory serves, you were born in 1959 so that makes you 56…never mind – I confused you with that other doll.:) I’m sure you danced up a storm. Guess I have to put "The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" on my list too.
Jackie – I can relate to the “cool day with a northerly wind that reminds us winter hasn't quite left us.” We should get 1-2 inches tonight and Saturday’s high will be 27F!!! I’m not greedy and would just like some 50 degree weather.
Lin – so you’re a Richard Gere fan? Hard to believe it has been 25 years for Pretty Woman. Years ago, I ran into Richard at the local grocery store – in the produce section of all places!
As for walking – I know what you mean. There are a lot of people that simply cannot walk much – at least not more than a few blocks. I’m looking forward to getting on a bike this spring (if it ever shows up) for the first time in years.
Anne – Glad your snow is on the way out. My wife mentions every day how she wants to get back to her walks. She doesn’t mind cold – but doesn’t exactly love 27-35F (and lower with wind chill).
Marie – That pizza sounds good! I might have to make one soon.
Sandy – I hope you get better real soon. Thank goodness you will be getting a little “time off.”
Shirley – Glad you didn’t need roadside assistance. Around here the main thing we hit is a pot hole. The city has more than a few. Congrats on the 41 years!
Anne – as for Rosemary – my father introduced me to that movie decades ago and I have seen it several times. I’m a big 30’s, 40’s movie fan. A link to the song:
https://youtu.be/1n_bUSywN94
Time to get some things done. Nite folks. Bob
Ps -- Anne - you might like this too:
https://youtu.be/weHBlCC9ahY 0
