WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2015
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Grandmaille - "get a grip and get back with program" ..... you can do it. We are here to help you.
Cynthia - glad you are feeling better. It really sucks to be sick....routines just get so thrown out the window!!
DH says he is going to get the boat out and get it ready to go. Good... he needs to go fishing!! Take his boys with him...
Well what to do today? Oh yeah... finish trimming my own lawn... Sorry Michele in NC ..I will have to come down another day. And plant my pots that sit around the firepit area.
Later everyone
Lillian in West Central Saskatchewan0 -
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Ack! Just peeing down rain outside this morning, and supposed to for the next few hours... and we really do need to get into town this morning if possible. DH has some welding stuff he needs to pick up for the ranch, and I want to see if my second book's final proof is in at the post office. About a 50-50 chance, unless it was coming through Dallas or Houston, as everything's delayed coming through there right now...
We just have to get past the first little draw... a usually dry creek bed... and we'll be fine to get off the ranch, as his ranch truck is a four-wheel drive. Which is a good thing. The caliche soil here varies from slick when wet to much like driving on snot... but he's an amazing driver, and I've learned to just clutch the oh-crap bar and shut up.
The rain is supposed to be done by noon, and we won't be back 'til after that. The water levels drop literally ten minutes after the rain stops falling from the sky, and within an hour after, the roads are almost dry. Such an amazing place to live... I marvel daily. This little dude showed up this winter... still trying to figure out what he is. Happy rest of your weekend folks, I'm going to go put a baseball cap on. The hair just goes all dandelion puffball in the rain anyway, so I don't even try anymore...
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What a beautiful photo! Thanks for sharing.
Carol/GA0 -
Hallo folks!
Lisa - did you take that photo? Very impressed!
Just woken up from a nap. Needed it. Still feel a bit light headed. The journey home took six hours and the traiins were all messed up at Waterloo because of a trackside fire. Guess what ii did? I had some sushi! ! ! ! ! ! Then I caught the first train I could find thst went anywhere nearby me and got a taxi the rest of the way.
Yesterday's trip out to Fairfax House in York was very good. We trudged there in the rain and my friend thought she had lost her purse (she later found it) , but once there we had a grest time as hardly anyone had made it and we had the place to ourselves. Each volunteer guide in every room gave us their personal attention, so we had a very sociable time. I ended up giving the guides a lecture on Georgian hygiene! ! ! :laugh:
Our last meal together went well and I had delicious halibut.
This morning I did my whole exercise routine, despite feeling a bit dizzy. I suspect it's a reaction to the alcohol I had or maybe I'm getting DH'S horrible cold. It is bothering him much more than the op site is. Poor lad!
He went out this pm for a short walk, feeling sorry for himself. I am going to drive him to cricket tomorrow.
I did some shopping this morning to restock fruit etc. Tonight I'm just heating up a chilli I froze and having it with roasted butternut squash and green veg. Don't feel like cooking.
It's good to be back in the old routine. Want to get writing again. I'm writing about a lodger we had when I was about 6. Strange woman who "adopted" our family.
Kim - you said you had some questions. You are very welcome to message me with them.
If you liked it enough to give me a good review, please do. :flowerforyou:
Off to make a cup of tea and read the paper.
Love Heather UK0 -
Not sure where to post here. Jen in my beautiful home of Santa Fe NM.
Goals for June--log, eat correctly, lose weight! It is my birthday month and not where I want to be wt wise but I have started!!0 -
Heather in the UK - I did take the photo... he was kind enough to sit still outside my office window long enough for me to snag the camera. And to you and Carol, glad you liked it!.
Lisa from West Texas0 -
starting the day late. normally i would be at the gym already, oh yeah, morning peeps-
bullwinkle has a doc appointment at 9:15 to get her thyroid meds evaluated and to see how she's doing and see if it needs to be adjusted. so i'll go there first, come home drop her off then go to the gym. it might get warm and i don't want the dogs in the car during this time of year when it will get too got for them. poor girl now has hot spots so she has a cone on so she can stop licking them. wow, i tell you, don't get old.
damnit, exermom or fancy asked me how i get my husband to go to the store with me. i don't, we just do stuff together. this morning he went to work, ALWAYS pours me a cup of coffee so i can pop it in the microwave and heat it up. has done this for me every day since we've been together. i won't get you ladies jealous but man this guy's a saint!
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oh UPDATE!! i am up to 470.00 raised for my MS Ride!!!!!!0
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Just marking my place. Have 250 posts to catch up on.Watching golf today,the Irish Open.Lots of hills,valleys etc.Unlike the carpet courses we are used to
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Good morning ladies! Sitting out in the freezing cold today for our moving sale!
Have a great day everyone!
Mary from Minnesota0 -
@pipcd34 My husband and I use the grocery store as a trail, and walk all the isles. Even the dog and cat food isle, and we don't own a pet! He is my voice of reason, and I make sure he doesn't sneak anything into the cart... So I don't buy any fluff food. He is addicted to a marble/rye bread, but only buys it once in a while.. We hold hands and kiss every couple of isles like lovers do, HAhahaha.. Ain't love grand?0
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I just started a week ago, and just saw this discussion today. I didn't have time to read it all, but want to join. This looks like a terrific crew.
I'm 63, in New Orleans, work at a sedentary job, trying to get moving.
Lisa - that is indeed a gorgeous photo. What kind of bird is that?
Sympathize with Mary; I hate cold weather. Good luck for the yard sale!
pipcd34, very cool about the MS ride. Ver' nice about the coffee. After losing 3 carafes to a fumblefingered brother-out-law, I bought a machine with a metal carafe. It's also insulated, and keeps the coffee hot for hours. Oddly enough, it has never, as far as I know, been dropped.
Lisa and cityJane, cool to meet other writers. I'm a full-time newsie; also sysop emerita at the Internet's oldest site for readers and writers (started, I believe, in '71 or '72; still going strong); also write limericks for a peculiar and quixotic website aimed at defining each meaning of every word in English in limericks.
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@pipcd34 My husband and I use the grocery store as a trail, and walk all the isles. Even the dog and cat food isle, and we don't own a pet! He is my voice of reason, and I make sure he doesn't sneak anything into the cart... So I don't buy any fluff food. He is addicted to a marble/rye bread, but only buys it once in a while.. We hold hands and kiss every couple of isles like lovers do, HAhahaha.. Ain't love grand?
that is sweet!
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well, i'm back., put the load in the dryer, hooked up the dishwasher (we have a portable one), let them out to pee, now i'm off to go workout... i'll figure it out as to what i'm gonna do when i get there. later peep-squeaks0
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JanetMMcC - welcome! it's noon and I am still freezing!
My husband got out a space heater and put it by me. I'm starting to feel a little warmer.
Mary from Minnesota0 -
Made it to yoga this am, then late breakfast with friends, then off to farmers market. Bought a mint plant and some great Baby Swiss cheese. One of the stands had baby goats!!!! Love goats!.........nope, didn't buy one. Yoga teacher came along with us and brought a friend who was visiting from Sweeden, lovely woman.
Listening to Sirius oldies station, currently Neil Sedaka, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do.
Pip..........I have friends doing an MS ride today......this one is held on the Eastern Shore of Va. When is yours?
Lisa .........Fabulous bird pic, hmmm, don't know what it is either. Will try to check in my book.
Welcome newbies!!!
FYI...............Michele (and other pool owners and sun worshipers)..........On my last visit to my surgeon I asked if he thought any sun screen brand was better than others and he said to get products with Helioplex.........Neutrogena has it. It's something that makes one of the usual sunburn fighting ingredients effective for a much longer time. He seemed pretty enthused about it.
Sunny, mid 80's......nothing new there!
yanniejannie
mid-Atlantic
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Got it!!!
Vermilion Flycatcher. Adult male.0 -
Thanks, yanniejannie!0
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Cool... thanks, YannieJannie! I had wandered around in the western tanagers until my eyes crossed, and never found him... I'm hoping he and his mate have babies nearly grown. He had taken up residence nearby, but we found him or a competitor after one of the recent storms, flat out on the driveway. This country's hard on the little guys... We get a wide assortment around the house, because when they built them 30 or 40 years back, they planted pines, pecans, apricots, figs and other trees around all the houses. Pulls birds in from miles around.
Lisa from West Texas0 -
The month is almost over, so it's time to take a look at your May goals and see how you did.....if you can't find them and don't remember them, then your first goal for June is to keep them on your fridg or desk top or something so you don't lose the June goals....then write some June goals and be ready to share them with us. I am considering waiting til some of you post your goals to get some new ideas....mine seem to have been the same every month for awhile.
Our "date" this morning was to go to Home Depot to get the necessary items so Jake can install the rain barrel....we walked a lot but didn't stop to kiss in the aisles....I think he would like that....now he is installing the rain barrel and I am trying to figure out how to time lunch so it will be ready when he comes in....I am ready to eat, but eating without him when he's working so hard would be hostile.
Welcome Janet and Jen, this is a great community and we hope you'll join in the conversation. Barbie from NW Washington 0 -
Howdy peeps! Not much going on today. We are going out to dinner with some friends later so it’s been a quiet day. DH has a bad cold so he’s been doing some yard work interspersed with sleeping.
DD#1 continues to create drama; I don’t know how someone who doesn’t live with us can disrupt our lives so much. We have put strict limits on her behavior around us, but now DD#2 needs to do the same. DD#2 blew a gasket last night and turns out #1 has been texting her nonstop for 3 days about a photo CD I wanted from the other grandma to make copies of baby pictures, but DD#1 would not call or text me to get it; instead she was throwing shrieking text fits at DD#2 including texting her constantly while DD#2 was at work and ending with demanding that she leave work to go find the BF and drag him back home. OMG. I really encouraged her to set the same boundaries with her sister but she feels sorry for her and feels like she doesn’t have anyone for support. I said it was like dealing with a drunk; that person never sees the need to make changes until he or she hits rock bottom. We’ll see.
Janet: tons of signs and advertising in the paper were what made our sales successful. We have a whole section (you probably do too) dedicated to garage sales with maps and driving directions, etc.
Mary: I use Air Optics multifocal Aqua lenses by CIBA vision. They come in different resolutions and I use high (that’s in addition to the actual correction)
Joyce: I don’t think you can be too conservative worrying about clothes for those tweens. What is in the stores is atrocious.
Heather: your vacation sounds lovely and I think you don’t need to worry about a few extra calories!
Kim: we are chatty, aren’t we???
Sharon: fingers crossed for good biopsy results
Cynthia: I had a lot of trouble with my bifocal contacts until I got the high res contacts and they are perfect.
Katla: good sleep is a good thing isn’t it?
Lillian: FROST>>>!!!!!?????
Terri: maybe a change in your exercise routine would help? I’d love to see that bowling alley. WE limited each kid to one activity and it was one at a time, so nothing overlapped. That was my sanity keeper!
Tere: can I come work with you in your shop?
Carey: hopefully that weight gain is all sodium and will disappear. Same happened to me after the graduation party and eating leftovers for three days, I was up 2 ½ pounds, but it was gone in 5 days.
Lhannon: all girls glow, right? I do like the honey dripping off the hive! Great picture!
Annr: nice to have walking buddies!
Carol: quiet but sneaky! Gotta love it and now I wonder what all he was doing during class!
Yanniejannie: do you use fresh or dried mint? I am going to have to try that!
Alison: so sweet!
Sue: keep packing away! I’m sure you are so excited!
Sondre: I can’t wait to hear how your steps are going! I have a fitbit one and love it.
Sylvia: I’m going to pretend I am your DGD and come for that fabulous food at your house!
Michele: Vince might exercise???? My DH does some but I wish he’d do more.
Joyce: I think maybe you are right about the amusement park You two take care!!
Pip: good for you on your money raised for the ride!
Annr: you two sound so cute!
Janet: welcome to the group
Well someone wrote something about spell checker changing things and that reminded me of when I was in grad school and wrote my first paper. I had a brand new computer (back in the day when pcs were a fortune…I had to take out a loan to get it) and was so proud I learned to use it and spell check. So I turn in this paper and of course I think it is the most brilliant thing ever written on holistic nursing care. When I got it back, it didn’t have a grade. The professor said “You might want to re-read this and turn it back in.” So I get home and start reading and…..everywhere I had written “holistic” the spellchecker changed it to “whole wheat” and all I did was scroll down and accept all the changes without looking! So much for my brilliant paper. Whole wheat nursing.
Ok I need to go make pictures from this silly cd so I can give it back to DD#1. Good grief. Take care, Meg from really chilly Omaha
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Checking in....and out.....Mowed this morning - planted my bedding plants in their pots. But will leave them in my greenhouse until after the full moon on June 2nd. Only planted 3 pots out of 9 so far.
Feeling kind of in a funk.....maybe I should just go for a walk with my dog... only have 7046 steps so that would give me over my 10,000.....
So later then
Lillian in West Central Saskatchewan0 -
Hey peeps, just finished working out, sipping on a iced latte b0
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Happy Saturday. Going to be a good day! Went out for lunch with my stepmom and brother yesterday. Then last evening a group of us from our CMA group went out to eat. So between Perkins and Buffalo wild wings I was over. But enjoyed the time spent with family and friends and sometimes that is the important thing. Working today and only I and one other person and we get along great, so planning a good day at work. First thing this morning I had a couple doctors having temper fits about the computers not working fast enough.
Lesley--Sending prayers and hugs for you and DD.
Sondre--Welcome, You have come to a great place for support for friendship. Come often and post. We are here for you.
Joan--I listened to a speaker at one of our CMA rally's. He talked about giving money to people on the street and his wife would get upset and tell him they are just using it for drugs or beer. Roger said that long as he gives it with a giving heart it is between them and God what happens next. So I try and remember that. DH and I try and give when we see someone. Sometimes I still wounder when I see them there day after day after day.
Joyce--I agree that girls are dressing older at younger ages. Makes me sad to see little girls all made up. I say let them be little girls. Sending hugs for you and prayers for DH.
Cynthia--moving the graves?? That seems strange and yet sad.
Allison--What great memories. Glad DFIL remembered her.
Yanniejannie--So glad to hear DD was not hurt worse. I also get upset when they make a point of letting you know they did not put the tip on the bill.
Michelle--I agree when the sale is done take down the signs. It drives me crazy to realize the sale was last week or last month. When ever we have a sale I tell DH to make a list of where he put the signs so we can go back out and pick them up.
Meg--Hope you get the pictures you want. Sending hugs for you and DD#2.
Tonight we have church so be a short night and I am back to work at 6 in the morning. Looks like the sun is shining. Have to stop at Hobby Lobby and pickup rit's purple dye. Sounds like we will be tie-dying shirts tomorrow evening.Love you ladies.
Blessings, Vicki GI NE0 -
For those of you doing garage sales: http/www.garagesales.com
Helps you advertise.
The last time we had a sale it was a bust.
Meg, sorry for all the drama with your DD. Probably all of us mothers have gone through some of that. We certainly did and do with our son.
This is my little sneak....
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Meg, is whole-wheat nursing better than white bread nursing. LOL! That story is great.
Great day here. I got up early and walked from 6 to 7, then went to Atlanta to a candidate forum. Had a great time hanging out with my Methodist peeps. Maybe it wasn't my most brilliant idea to have lunch at the Cheesecake Factory. Then home to find that DH has supper in the oven.
I intend to get a little work done sooner or later, but right now I'm enjoying the peace and quiet of my sunroom.0 -
I came home and there was a pkg for me! Kirby and I got a long sleeve wicking shirt for being one of the first 500 people to raise the $250 minimum!!!! Never did that before!!0
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How's everyone doing? Sorry I've been a bit MIA this week. Was finally feeling a bit better from a stomach virus from last week when I started with what I thought was a cold. Then was feeling worse so I thought maybe the flu. Ended up having a severe case of strep throat
And to make matters worse I gave it to DH which means the world must stop turning.....ughh men, they can be such babies.
Anyway, May has been a bit of a wash for me and any goals I have set. First visiting my parents for almost a week, then getting a stomach virus, and now strep. Here is to hoping June starts a lot better. But, 3 of my kids have birthdays this month (I know great planning...lol) and we have Fathers Day, all of which require dinners at my house prepared by yours truly. Oh well, if I'm doing the cooking at least I'll be sure there are some healthy choices here.
I got a Fitbit for Mother's Day, anyone want to add me as a friend. I can't figure out how to add people by their profile link. And so far all I use it for is counting my steps. Maybe I should actually try reading the online manual anyway here is my profile link in case you want to friend me on Fitbit: https://www.fitbit.com/user/3F77VZ
Linda (Fredericksburg, VA)0 -
tell u what peeps, i was NOT in the mood to run on an incline. days like these is when i am proud that i pushed thru it. i am surprised that i even burned that much!
today, we are going out for my 2nd free bday meal!! mexican!!
stats for the day:
rowing machine- 30min, 8384meters or 5.21mi = 191c
jog- 34.56min, 3.5incline whole time, 11.16ap, 5.1-5.6speed every other song w/6.1speed burst, 5k = 305c
jump/skip/sidestep - 20min = 201c
total cal 6970
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