WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR OCTOBER 2016
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Penny: The party in the Arctic Circle sounds wonderful. I am so happy you shared because reading about it has put a smile on my face. :bigsmile:
Alison: Sending good thoughts for Homer. :flowerforyou:
Pauline: Welcome to a great group! I live in Oregon, too. We live beside the Columbia River, downstream from Portland. What part of the state do you live in? :huh:
Tammy: We welcome newcomers. Tell us about yourself. Where are you from? :flowerforyou:
I think moving the newer mattress from the guest room to our room is a success. DH is still unsure but I envision buying another just like it and sending the old mattress we were using to the dump. Our bed-frame needs to be replaced, though. We bought it in the 1970's for a waterbed. We've been using it ever since with conventional mattresses. It has drawers under it and is rather high, especially with a thick mattress on top. When I was a little girl my mom dad would tell me to climb into bed and here I am, past 60, climbing into bed again. :laugh: I don't mind but DH isn't crazy about it. :noway:
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
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Hello everyone,
I find myself looking forward to checking in with you. Quite a change in my attitude compared to the last several months. This is day 4 of my renewed journey. I feel strong, encouraged, and determined -one day at a time!
Welcome, Tammy. You're right. This is a wonderful group for encouragement and support.
Glad you are here, Pauline. This is a great place to be.
Re, love your attitude. Keep up the good work.
Penny, it sounds like the people way, way, way up north know how to have a good time. I think it would be very interesting to be with people from so many different places and cultures.
Hubby has today off so we are going to run some errands and go out for a late lunch. Looking forward to seeing teacher friends who are on fall break later in the week. I still work at the Y about 18 hours/week.(Fri.-Sat.-Sun.) It is just the right mix for me.
TN Toni
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Hi all!
The pic of me in my silly sun hat is on my phone, so you will just have my chat.
Neither of us slept too well. Too much fino and Manzanilla sherry. And too much tapas! Much against my better judgement I had some fried squidlets. Delicious, but oh that batter! Did better in another place with grilled veggies.
It was great to be sitting outside in the evening, in just a t shirt, people watching and sipping an ice cold fino.
Iberico ham to nibble. 
Lots of wandering about trying to spot the perfect place for another glass and another dish.
I've done better today with a sensible lunch of grilled bream and salads. No alcohol yet. We bought our train tickets for tomorrow, got a taxi back, (we walked there) and visited the Picasso museum. Then my lean lunch.
Afterwards we did Picasso's birthplace and another small museum. Wonderful to see his family stuff and the toys he played with. You could see the painter emerging.
Then it was the Alcazar - a Moorish fortress on a hill. Great views and tranquil gardens and a good Islamic pottery display.
Freshly squeezed orange juice was our reward, then it was back to the hotel for a nap.
We're off in a minute to walk the streets looking for a tapas place. We will limit the sherry tonight.
I am after some more fish.
Going to glam up, Love Heather, currently in Andalusia.4 -
I have nothing to report, just have to try this color thing haha
do I have any purple prose?
Betty YES!
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Penny and Heather, we need pictures. Please??????
Tammy, we are always open to new and old members that are coming back.
Mary, I am sure many of us, including me is jealous of your hair. It looks think, or at least full.
I didn't sleep well at all last night. I wanted to stay up yesterday evening even though I was loopy. I wasn't drowsy, just loopy. But I feel beat up this morning. Don't like this feeling.
I looked at my cell phone and saw I had a call from my doctor's office at 9 AM. So I called them and they had got the report of my MRI. Was totally shocked since it was last night at 5 PM. Moderate foraminal stenosis on the left and right. So they are setting up an appointment with a surgeon. That doesn't mean I will have surgery. I looked at the condition on line and surgery is used when the stenosis limits your movements and life. Although this does affect me I'm not sure if it is enough for a surgeon. I know that holding a cell phone with my right hand and using it with my left hand, since I am left handed, it sure hurts. Hurts a lot for me to bend my head down and hooking my bra. So am in limbo again.
Joyce, Indiana1 -
Joyce: I looked this up on the internet. It seems as though a good surgical outcome is quite possible if surgery is necessary. I hope you'll keep us in the loop when you have your appointment with the surgeon. You have enviable skills to draw on when it is time to make a decision. I'm sure you'll make the right choice for you. (((HUGS)))
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
"So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible and the fun."1 -
DJ-thinking of you as evacuation are being ordered for SC coast. Please be safe
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I think moving the newer mattress from the guest room to our room is a success. DH is still unsure but I envision buying another just like it and sending the old mattress we were using to the dump. Our bed-frame needs to be replaced, though. We bought it in the 1970's for a waterbed. We've been using it ever since with conventional mattresses. It has drawers under it and is rather high, especially with a thick mattress on top. When I was a little girl my mom dad would tell me to climb into bed and here I am, past 60, climbing into bed again. :laugh: I don't mind but DH isn't crazy about it. :noway:
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
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Katla - We recently moved our pillow top mattress into the guest room and put my mom's really old flat top on our bed. We are overall sleeping well. Even though the mattress is old, it was not used very much at all. Now I need an orthopedic pillow for my neck pain.
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Joyce wrote: Penny and Heather, we need pictures. Please??????
For you, Joyce, anything
See this post as a soothing ice pack to put on whatever is causing you pain at the moment. :flowerforyou:
I wrote earlier that we went out on the fjord in a little boat. So here's what that was like.
The weather is all-important for any activities in the High Arctic. If the weather isn't cooperating, you just accept it and wait for a better day. For the first few days we'd had quite a bit of wind and rain (RAIN!) and weren't certain of being able to go out on an excursion at all. We wanted to, though. The glacier at the inner end of the fjord has been very active this fall, calving every 10-15 minutes. It's over 10 miles from the village but we could hear it clearly - it sounds like thunder. A glacier calving is a majestic sight, so we wanted to see it (as did the visiting TV-teams from National Geographic and British channel 4), so we kept our fingers crossed.
Early Monday morning the sky and the fjord looked like this.
Perfect conditions! So right after breakfast we put on survival suits and hopped into a rigid inflatable boat (sort of like a Zodiac, but sturdier). Our captain, a thoroughly loveable Polish man who I would... no, who I HAVE trusted with my life on stormy waters, piloted us with a steady hand to the glacier front. The media people wanted to go ashore for more stable filming, so our captain steered toward the beach and we prepared to jump out.
As we approached land, a huge section of the glacier fell into the water. We knew we had to be quick, because the waves could wash us ashore and damage the boat. In the confusion, the journalists and I all jumped from the prow of the boat and waded the last 5 yards to land. But the waves were coming in fast and our captain had to retreat with the boat for fear of damage to the hull. My husband was still aboard - and he was the one with the flare gun and the rifle, the one responsible for protecting us from polar bears.
Luckily, there were no bears around, and a few minutes later the waves had subsided and my husband could come ashore.
Here's a view of the ice-strewn beach, the boat, the glacier, and the spectacular mountains. The glacier front is about a mile away. The ice stands about 100-150 feet above the surface of the water. The wave breaking on the shore was caused by a relatively small calving event.
We walked around on the beach for a while and the media people did their filming. One of the features of a place a glacier has just vacated is that the ground is undependable. In three steps you can move from solid but slippery ice, to hard-packed gravel, to quicksand that looks fine until you put your weight on it, and then it turns to thin liquid mud and you're in it up to your ankles (or worse). The media folks were blissfully unaware, and were dashing here and there as if they were on a picnic. My poor husband, who felt responsible for their safety, kept telling them to walk slowly and test the ground at each step. In the event, no bones were broken, but several people got extremely muddy.
Here's a picture of our landing site, taken from the plane later that day. We were at the very end of the narrow tongue of ice that sticks out from the glaciers on the left.
While the film teams were doing their thing, I just stood there entranced by the soundscape. I've already mentioned the thunder of calving glaciers. Glacier ice is full of bubbles under pressure, and when the hunks of ice floating in the fjord melt, the pressure is released with little snap-crackle-pop sounds. (You can sell glacier ice to upscale bars for a small fortune!) Then there was the whisper of the little waves and the wind. I could also hear a meltwater stream rushing down the slope below a niche glacier about a mile away. And behind it all, the endless brooding silence of the Arctic. Just thinking about it gives me goosebumps.
After an hour or so, our captain collected us and we took a turn closer to the glacier front.
Not too close, though. Glaciers are dangerous! Then we headed back to Ny-Ålesund, where lunch was available from 12 to 1 - basta. Come late and you go hungry. And boy were we hungry! Still, we had to linger on the way to admire a huge turquoise iceberg. This one was about 30 ft high above the water line, and 80 ft long. Guess why I love the Arctic...
The sad thing is that for every piece of ice that falls off, the glacier retreats. As I said earlier, it has been calving like crazy this year. The experts think that by the end of the year it will have retreated more than half a mile - in just one year.
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Dr. Katie: Our DDIL ordered the most recent mattress from Sam's Club. It was shipped via UPS directly to our front door. Getting it inside, upstairs & out of its shipping box was up to us. We tried to shop local before this and it netted us 2 garbage mattresses, so the local furniture store will not supply our next mattress. We're not members of Sam's Club so I'll ask her to order another if DH says he likes this one well enough.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon1 -
Penny, awe struck, I have no other words. Thank you.
This afternoon we rode thru cotton fields as far as the eye could see. The last two days I've been nauseous and dizzy so had hung around the motor home. It was nice to get out. It's almost 90 degrees outside, supposed to cool off to 60s by this weekend.
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Penny, Amazing, beautiful, stark...I loved your descriptions of the sounds of the Arctic.
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Penny, thank you so much for photos and description!!!
Betty1 -
Penny WOW!1
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Penny
Karen in Virginia1 -
Penny - beautiful pictures and description of your adventure!
Toni in Tennessee1 -
Penny- thank you for the pictures and the description of the adventure. I've seen glaciers in Alaska and Chile but never so close that you could hear the snap and pop. We did view caving and it was thrilling. SueBDew in TX1
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Re: You are making great choices. I'm sorry to hear about your Mom's difficulties. Meatloaf is one of my favorite foods so you can come visit me anytime!
Gloria: The Tai Chi group I go to has health recovery classes in addition to regular classes. The instructors are really good at making sure that you do the moves properly. I've even done seated sets when my knees were acting up. I did find that my balance got better. The bottom line if it hurts then don't do it. I hope you find something that works for you.
Penny: Thank you for the awesome pics and the commentary. I'm anxious now to see this for myself. It's now on my bucket list!
Janetr: You are just not having any luck at all. Hope you feel better really soon!
Katla: Glad it looks like the mattress is working
Work was like being on a rollercoaster today! Going to take some time for a nice long soak to relax.
Goals for Oct:
- Increase walking now that the hamstring has healed
- Get to Tai Chi at least once a week
Have a good evening all
Carey - Northern Alberta
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Penny- beautiful pictures! Your description of the events is amazing!
Mary from Minnesota1 -
Tracey – Problems within a family, especially when there is a lot (or some) divisiness (sp?) can be a ‘kitten’. I know, got it here. DnL#1 is so jealous of DDnL#2 and has made a ‘huge’ scene. Don’t even know, yet, if DYS and DDnL#2 are going to get to come at Thanksgiving; and, DYS has ‘always’ come home for Thanksgiving weekend, so he can hunt with DOS. IF they don’t come, I am not even sure I will go to the effort of cooking a turkey and all the trimmings. I’ll cook a ham; but, we might just go ‘out to eat’ just me and DH. I’ve forgiven DnL#1; but, it is difficult to not want to; but, if I don’t then I curse myself and DH and the rest of the family. It does not mean I have to like her or like what she does … just forgive her for what she’s done in the past.
You’re not a ‘crappy’ friend; I think at some point or the other we have all had things wew needed to get off our chests. Hang tight! Love ya!
Katla – Has your DH ever been tested for ‘sleep apnea’? It will change his life 180°. Well, I know it did for me. The first few nights I slept 10 hours; and, was a changed person. Worth a ‘go at it’.
Margaret – Love the flamingos; but, you probably know I collect flamingos. I have nearly 80 of them around the house and no 2 are alike. This time, I got a cup that keeps things warm/cold and has a flip top. Love it. Just could not find one close to where we were staying and did not want to go all over the place to get one.
Mary from Minnesota – My DMGD just had her hair dyed ‘auburn’ … it looks fabulous on her. Her hair is not ‘quite’ as long as yours; but, close. She is totally 'beautimus'! Big Blue Eyes and Auburn hair. Gorgeous!
Allie – Tape his snoring and then suggest he get tested for ‘sleep apnea’. It causes you to stop breathing and the snoring is what starts it back up. You are struggling for air. Wearing a C-pap is worth every bit of the good from it. I cannot even take a nap without putting mine on, if I expect to be well-rested afterwards.
We are now home from our long weekend vacation with my sisters. We had a ball. Unfortunately, DH had one of his 'attacks' that prevents him from peeing; without struggling to do so, groans, grunts, moans, sounds like he is passing a 'kidney stone' the size of a beach ball. Everybody tried to get him to let them take him to the ER; I told them he was not going to go; and, in 4 - 5 hours, it will pass. He's had a procedure twice (once put to sleep) the next time, (awake). THAT won't ever happen again. Now we all think he needs to change Urologists. I told him today, that 'if' he did not call someone tomorrow, I was going to do it for him. I need to see how any choices I would have, here in Albany. Won't do him much good to go 'out-of-town' ... if he needs to be 'seen' in the ER, he doesn't need to have to travel over an hour to get to another trauma center. This is getting old; I think he is afraid they will put in a catheter and it will be 'for the rest of his life' (and he'd have to learn how to do it himself). I don't think that would work well. His Dad, who also had prostate cancer; wore a catheter full time, and, his life ended insofar as going out and stuff like he enjoyed doing. I don't want that for DH. I just want them to figure out what is going on. His PSA has been nearly ZERO; so it isn't the cancer coming back. They are telling us it is scar tissue (from what?); and, have sent it off to the pathologist and it does not come back as anything to worry about.
We played 8-1-8 cards; and, I got them started on "Mexican Train Dominoes". Gee, I wish I had people around that could play it with me. I'm not much of a card player; but, I do enjoy 8-1-8. I just play it 'on the fly' and try to figure out how many or how few 'tricks' I need to make. Even DH played and he is not a 'card player'; but, he caught on pretty fast; but, sometimes we'd have to make him take back cards because he'd try to 'trump' them when he had the same suit in his hand. I really had to laugh at my DBnL ... it just was not his time to play cards and win. Just the ladies played MTD. I think I have them so hooked, they are going to go out and buy a tin of them. We were good to help one another out, putting the trains on and off our run. A few games I did not have any number coming off the doubles in the middle; we made the rule that 'if' you had 20 chips, then one or the other would either pick one up and/or give us one of theirs. I think there were times that I had 25 chips.
Going for my weigh-in tomorrow; and, I am 'sure' that it will 'show that I was on vacation'. But, what the heck; I was still a lot smaller than either of my 2 sisters. I had not seen either of them for 2 years. The last time they saw me, I weighed 199lbs (my heaviest). I hope that I did not put on 'too much'; but, it was 'vacation time' ... and I wasn't going to hold back.
We had some 'good' seafood the first night; the 2nd night we went and got pizza and brought it home. It was GOOD! The night that DH just could not go with us, we went to a very 'high-end' restaurant, with 2 waiters, linen table clothes, linen napkins, and 'high' prices ... but, with the food we got, it was outstanding! I made a carry out order for DH, which by the time we got home, was feeling much better.
Well, I'm back and ready to rock and roll!
Lenora
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stats for the day:
ride hm 2 gym- 13.57min, 13amph, 139mhr, 2.9mi = 129c
TREADMILL walk- 42min, 15.09ap, 10incl 4.0sp, 106mhr, 2.77mi = 203c
ride gym 2 dome- 7.29min, 11.4amph, 141mhr, 1.4mi = 74c
ride dome 2 hm - 21.03min, 7.4amph, 149mhr, 2.5mi = 198c
total cal 6041 -
Good evening ladies.
Thank you Penny. Your pictures and discriptions are awesome. I admire how you can transport me there.
Heather, I love hearing about your travels. Enjoy and have a sip of wine for me.
Mary, I would love to have your hair! How funny that the on,y picture of you is from the back.
Janet, thanks for sharing your travels. I sincerely hope you feel better soon.
Still on track, day 3, no sugar, no alcohol and plenty of protein and lots and lots of water.Can't fit in too much exercise but managing some. Lost a bit already. People at work Are tempting me with food and I have been successful in turning them down. A coworker insisted on giving me 1/2 of a cream filled muffin and I actually threw it away when she returned to her desk. I never throw food away.
Sending love and support to all.
Chris in MA
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Penny, when I asked for pictures I had no idea I would be getting that. WOW, breathtaking, now words to express it. From what I read in Wikipedia of what the general population is and then what the population in when tourists come in, hardly anyone at all can tolerate living there. Thank you for bringing it to us and your eloquent description of it and the glaciers. I had never heard of calving!
Joyce, Indiana0 -
Jake said that I over did it yesterday and he was right. I went to bed with extra pain and woke up with more pain...I stayed in bed after he got up and slept for two hours. When the surgeon's nurse called to check up on my she told me to take it easy and she'd check on me tomorrow. So today I didn't stay in either the chair or the recliner for more than 20 minutes and after lunch we took a nap for over two hours. I feel much better tonight.
Barbie
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chris awesome job turning away from junk food. People can be such food pushers but you did a great job pushing it away, good for you! You are gonna stay on the right track!
Penny that turquoise ice is amazing. Thank you for transporting me to a place of such exceptional and vulnerable beauty.
Oy Vey, the work drama is heating up, not sure why I get sucked into it. When I understand why, perhaps it won't have as much power over me!!!
I've got a busy day tomorrow, so I'm planning food accordingly to deal with the aftermath of a challenging meeting--don't want to overeat when i feel stressed from the tension at the meeting.
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