WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR FEBRUARY 2016
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Miriam
Happy Birthday! :flowerforyou:
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Today I am binge-watching the final season of Downton Abbey and eating the last of the fresh produce in my house that DS won't eat while we're gone. Luckily my hands are also feeling good, so I just might finish the poncho I was hoping to wear in Reno. Almost completely packed, which is WAY out of my norm, but change is good. I probably won't be able to read much for the next 10+ days, since I need to get my work prepped for whomever will be in my spot while gone. I hope you all feel my virtual hugs while I'm gone.
Terri in Milwaukee (heading to Reno on Tuesday)
Have a great time. Let us know about it all when you get back.
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Allison and Betty ~ So glad you both had a great time at the concerts.
JKL ~ I loved seeing the waves coming in off of Lake Michigan. I had no idea a lake could produce such waves. It looked almost like the pier was under water.
Had the two grands, their mom, and her mom over for hamburgers today after church. They have been so busy, I haven't seen them since January. The burgers got grease all over...Ugh!
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Katla - Love salmon.
We have it every five days or so. Your stir fry sounds delish.
Cheri, Katla - My father was a great crocheter. He made beautiful clothes for me and my babies. One of the wonderful things he made was a cot blanket for my first baby. I handed it over to DDIL for her babies and it is currently out as a favourite snuggle blanket on the sofa in their living room. I expect they will use it for the new baby. It is cream cotton with a leaf pattern done in a four leaf star . My father was A VERY NICE MAN, the subject of my autobiography, but he sexually abused me throughout my childhood. He made ceramics that I still treasure, did life drawings and tapestry and was a very good cook, especially of patisserie. Everyone loved him, including me. I was not his only victim.
Terri - Buen viaje!
Our chilli was gorgeous. Even better, we have three more meals to freeze.
Don't you just love that. :drinker:
My cancer friend rang me this afternoon. We had a lovely long chat. She has booked herself a week's trip to Turkey in April. On her own. Good for her. As she said, what is she saving her money for? :drinker: She said I was her inspiration as I had been on solo holidays.
I have booked the last of our hotels in Spain. Two nights in Granada. I treated us to a room with a view of the Alhambra. :bigsmile: Joyce, get your Google going.
Love to all, Heather UK
PS - just heard my friend has booked us in for River Cottage Canteen on Wednesday. Do you have Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall on your TV? Nice, healthy food.
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Pip - The new fence looks lovely. Great job!
Penny - Enjoyed looking at your photos of Spitbergen.
Peach, Lillian, and Katia - I am going through the same issues with my relative who I had to move into assisted living. She left her home exactly as it was and she goes back to visit occasionally, although she now only has one neighbor left who lived there when she did. She has recently given the OK to get her house ready to put on the market, but it was not very well maintained over the last 20 years, due to the illnesses of her and her husband. Just had a big plumbing job where a pipe had totally disintegrated and part of an inside wall had to be taken out to access it and put in a replacement. I fear it may not be cost-effective to repair everything. I am planning to hire an appraiser to give his (more than) two cents' worth. Has anyone had experience with this?
Heather - Was wondering if you could please offer a recommendation on a hotel in the King's Cross area of London? I am planning a very short trip over at the end of April. I would be very appreciative of your suggestions.
I joined the Y here a couple of weeks ago to start getting more exercise into my schedule. I have been doing the yoga, Pilates, and other stretching-type exercises to start with and increasing the number of classes each week. One thing that has been very helpful so far was learning how to use a foam roller to work out tight muscles.
Hope everyone has a great week!
Kate in AL0 -
DamitJanit wrote: »Call me crazy but I love to see other people happy and succeeding .
Good Afternoon Ladies,
Cheri, your work is beautiful. I think the Temperature Afghan is such a cool idea. Do you end up with dates on it anywhere?
Words I live by:
Savor. I have to slow down and savor every bite.
and
Opportunity. Each day offers new opportunities for good health and happiness if we just look for them and choose them.
I Love you,
DJ
Myrtle Beach, SC
Some of the others doing a Temperature Afghan are marking the months with a special stitch or color. I am not doing that just one day after another. It's actually 3 rows now (that was a beginning pic) and I will post a new one soon.
Thanks for all the compliments! Have been crocheting since I was quite young. Very relaxing for me.
Enjoy the rest of your day ladies.
Cheri
in windy, sunny, warm Fairlawn, oHIo
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Belated happy birthday Miriam. I'm in a different time zone so I'm not sure whether it's still your birthday or not, but in this case, it's the thought that counts. I see your garden and immediately start thinking about how happy bees and butterflies would be there. So much variety! It's nothing like the evil monoculture of a standard lawn. Trickier to keep up, though.
Cheri, I'm tickled by the idea of a temperature afghan, of letting the weather decide how your end result will look. I can imagine looking at it years later, seeing a certain row and thinking about that cold spell back in '16. Mine might end up rather monotonous though. Our temperature is often about the same at noon and at midnight because the sun either just rolls around the sky somewhere above the horizon (in the summer), or there's no sun at all (in the winter).
Katla - You tell me to enjoy the sun while I can see the light. The day after I get back home it will be March 8, the official Sun Day, when sunrays hit the stairs of the old hospital for the first time that year (given clear weather). After that it's just a couple weeks until it's light 24/7 and will stay that way until late September. I'll get tired of the light! Still, that's part of the charm of the High North. And here, for your viewing enjoyment, is another picture of my "town", taken on warm day in early May, looking north from halfway up the valley. When this picture was taken we had already had midnight sun for about three weeks.
But here in Stockholm the sun goes up and down every single day. (Imagine that!) Lots of Stockholmers were out enjoying a sunny spring Sunday today and I had to dodge between them when I went out jogging. I usually leave my bike at my old workplace - a safe place to stash it when I'm not here - so I jogged there to pick it up. The bike should come in handy for commuting to the lecture venue this coming week. I think it's about 5 miles away but on a different subway line so I can save a lot of time by biking instead of taking public transport. And I get my exercise "free of charge". And if I'm lucky I'll hear the blackbirds!
Time for me to get my stuff organized for an early start tomorrow.
/Penny, not currently at the
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Today I am binge-watching the final season of Downton Abbey and eating the last of the fresh produce in my house that DS won't eat while we're gone. Luckily my hands are also feeling good, so I just might finish the poncho I was hoping to wear in Reno. Almost completely packed, which is WAY out of my norm, but change is good. I probably won't be able to read much for the next 10+ days, since I need to get my work prepped for whomever will be in my spot while gone. I hope you all feel my virtual hugs while I'm gone.
Terri in Milwaukee (heading to Reno on Tuesday)
Terri - have a wonderful time. The weather should be great. We will miss you a lot
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Kate in AL - Kings Cross is a very expensive area to stay in. I stayed at a Premiere Inn, St Pancras, last November and found it perfectly ok with good sound insulation, helpful staff, but not cheap. It was the newest of their chain around there, so the quietest. Look on Trip Advisor for more choices, reviews, and the best rates. Just put London, Kings Cross hotels into their search engine.
I hope you have a lovely time. :flowerforyou:
Heather UK0 -
Single ladies, tomorrow your day!! You can ask someone for marriage, totally proper.
Miriam. Happy birthday, lovely garden!
Next Sunday the end of downton, will need therapy! Love Maggie Smith, have you seen her in lady in the van?
Awards this eve, haven't seen one of the movies. Fun to see what they are wearing, or not.0 -
Thanks, Heather! I will certainly check that out.
Kate0 -
Stats for the day-
Other- Yard work 114min = 337c
Got the dog house out. Had to dismantle it, couldn't fit it thru the door0 -
We just got home from the lake, hubby was sitting on the sofa and Spot came up to him wagging his tail and holding his fabric frisbee. Hubby got up and went outside with him. AAAWWWW! How sweet! Of course the other two went along. Hubby's conversion to a Spot lover is complete.0
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Checking in... DGD is napping - she had a meltdown so ..it is off to bed!!
Updating my Food diary - tough when your DGD eats 1/4 to a 1/3 of your oatmeal and berries. But she told Grandpa she didn't want toast she wanted grandma's oatmeal and blueberries.... so added strawberries and bananas. Cleaned up the laundry room so that the wash machine repair guy doesn't get all dusty when he comes to fix it. So while I had the vacuum cleaner out thought I may as well do the whole house. DGD did the dusting . Then lunch and downstairs to do some Leslie Sansone walking DVD. I need to get 12 miles in today and tomorrow to reach my goal of 105 miles in February. DGD tried to wiggle her little bum so she got a bit exercise too.
Now I am going to pace the floor and watch the Bronze medal game of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts (curling for those that don't follow).... pacing because I need to get in my steps yet remember!!
Later everyone
Lillian in West Central Saskatchewan0 -
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DJ- Great job on getting your 10 sets of push-ups done! You are ahead of me! They do really hope show definition in your arms. They really need to get ready for weightlifting.
Mary from Minnesota0 -
Pip ~ Good job! Cute.0
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Miriam! 0 -
Miriam
Working in your beautiful yard sounds like a wonderful way to celebrate0 -
Stayed positive all day ate well and spent some time outside today. All in all a good day. No tears today first time in 6+ weeks. Maybe I am starting to turn the corner now that the cruise is over.
Glad to see so many of you seemed to have a great day too.
Anne from Wisconsin
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Barbie....our fearless leader. I know her dedication to exercising and eating healthy. Glad to have found this site and love there are others that are so welling to cheer each other on. Again looking for some encouragement and hoping this will remotivate me to get back on the healthy living and exercise trail. Finally a down on my scale this am. Just maybe walking 2 miles 3 out of 5 days has worked. Definitely needed this !! Onward we go ladies.....
Diane
Diane it's good to see you here....if you come back every day, you'll meet a lot of great women who will encourage you to keep on going on the healthy living and exercise trail.
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Pipcd34 great pic.
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Miriam – Thanks, I do cut them back each year. I have a couple of re-bloomers; one is a brown and gold that my BF gave me. Her mother had moved them from Arkansas to Japan and back, to Albany and back to Arkansas. When she died BF dug them up and put them in her yard. Had them forever! BF gave me a couple of fans and they are beautiful when they bloom. Last year none of my flowers did very well. I think they needed something. My lily flowers were not up above the leaves, were down in them on short stalks. That was a first; and, don’t know if digging them up and re-planting them will help any.
We lived in the next block from the Methodist Church growing up; parents owned the entire block. We did not go out and play when there was a funeral either. Funeral Directors marked off sidewalks anyway, so you had to cross the street to walk uptown (2 blocks). They did have a cherry tree in the corner of the lot that MS/HS BF and I would climb up into it and eat cherries until we almost puked. One summer (she was in the 7th and I was in the 6th); we made a beautiful pie for our boyfriends – only problem was we did not ‘think’ to pit them. LOL! We also decided one day to try to make some peanut brittle (using pecans) and coconut; stuck in the pan for the most part. We ended up pouring it out in the middle of the side street and watched cars drive through it. Looked like someone had puked in the middle of the road; but, it stuck to the tires like pulling taffy. We took the pot up to the mill and threw it away in the big garbage bin. Was one of my mother’s favorite; “we never saw it, Mama!” We had so much fun growing up together; were inseparable. What one did not think of, the other did.
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Cheri, your afghans are fabulous and so creative As I read about all your adventures and your daily plans, I am reminded of one of Gretchen Rubin's "secrets of adulthood" (from her amazing book, "The Happiness Project")....What's fun for other people may not be fun for you, and vice versa."
Barbie from beautiful sunny NW Washington 
My word for 2016 is "alacrity"....I will greet all experiences in my life with cheerful readiness
“The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach."-- Yutang Lin
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OK I DID have a slice of my husband chocolate cream pie....and so no dinner for me. Maybe a cup of coffee later on. I have max'ed out on my sugar, and I had a large stir-fry of a lunch. Hope everyone is doing well this Sunday. Today I:
-did my goals for next month
-clipped coupons
-finished my Susan Wiggs book...and even cried a little...Lakeshore Chronicles # 4 "Winter Lodge" I have read the Beekeeper and the second book of that. Love her style of writing!
-finished reading the Sunday paper, and clipped out a section on eating Whole Grains (the germ, the bran and the edosperm ewwww) anyway a couple of wheats that sound interesting. I will tell you more as I get into the story more.
-fixed a great lunch of a piece of teriyaki chicken that was left-over from last nights dinner, some Chinese cabbage, purple sliced onions, mushrooms.
Kind of a lazy day. Need to get my eyes checked though. When I go thru bouts of reading, its really hard to focus on TV, the world in general afterwards. Eye strain.
Watched Mother Nature give us two heavy downpours, with large hail and everything!
Take care all!
Becca
Oregon
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Hi ladies – I have not been keeping up with everyone’s posts this month, but I just read today’s posts. It’s so nice to come back and hear what is happening in everyone’s lives.
I’ve been completely swamped with work. I had actually planned to logon and catch up on a few things today, but that just did not happen. I’m hoping things calm down a bit after the 1st, but I think that may just be wishful thinking.
I am starting week 3 of my uFit program. It has been a really good program. We have had two classes with a nutritionist. She is a big proponent of the plate method of eating, focusing on eating lots of vegies, and really paying attention to eating when your body tells you that you are hungry. We also had a dietician talk to us about the results of our biometric screenings. My cholesterol, glucose, and blood pressure are all in a normal range, but my triglycerides are a little high. And, my body fat % is way over what it should be. We talked about how our food choices can help impact those numbers positively. We are also focusing on exercise and I’ve been to the gym almost every day of the program. That does take quite a time commitment but I’m hoping that I can figure out how to make this part of my daily schedule. This week is going to be another hectic week with work, activities for my daughter every night, and a couple of classes for my uFit program. I have got to figure out where in the week I am going to make time to get to the gym. I might have to become an earlier riser and get there first thing in the morning.
Miriam – Happy Birthday! Glad you got to spend some time in your garden this weekend.
Penny – Gorgeous pictures.
Not sure when I will be able to check in again. Have a great week.
Linda in IA
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Heather: You are inspiring in so many ways, but your ability to see the good parts of a complicated and flawed dad are amazing. I admire your balance and imagine it took work and effort to get to this point. :flowerforyou:
Kate in AL: We kept mom's house as it was during her lifetime. She owned it outright ant the only bills were utilities. We took her there a few times to visit while she was living in the assisted living facility. After she passed, the house was mine. I hired someone to sell the contents and many furnishings were hauled off to the dump before the sale because they smelled so bad. Once the house was empty we put it on the market and found a buyer. We sold it at a fair price for its condition, and the buyers turned mom's house into a wonderful home. Its worst drawback was that two chain smokers lived there for more than thirty years. The place reeked. The buyers fixed that problem buy painting everything with a smoke proof sealer before they began decorating and it was transformed. They got a good deal but they earned it.
Pip: I love the Bug keychain.
I've had a good day today. I took the dog for a walk in the sunshine and chatted with an old friend. Getting to be outside and absorb natural Vitamin D is a blessing to be cherished in February. Beautiful NW Oregon can be a damp place and dry days need to be savored. :bigsmile:
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison
February Resolutions :
1. Log every bite and swallow.
2. Cardio exercise at least 3 days a week. Work on flexibility and back strength.
3. Have fun every day.
4. Drink at least three glasses of water daily, preferably more!
5. Monitor sleep. Try to average 7 or more hours of sleep nightly.
Goals
1. Find a place I can learn to fall without getting hurt once my doctor says it is ok to try.
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