WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2017

Poerava14

Sarah, Marcelyn, and Kate: Awesome photos. Fun, fun and more fun! Certainly brightened my day.

Heather: My mouth is drooling looking at your croissants. :h

Kim: Way to manifest. Glad the $$$ flowing in. I just booked my trip to Bay Area. Will PM you later this week with details.

Spent alot of time this weekend doing spring cleaning. Yesterday I washed and waxed the floors. Today, I attacked the bathrooms. It was a glorious day outside, but I was too pooped afterwards to go outside and play I did talk with my good friend in Portland, a woman I have known since 3rd grade. Also had a convo with my two friends with whom I'm planning to travel to Italy. We've added Amalfi coast to the itinerary. Yay!

Just checked the calendar, and this month makes 10 months since I've had an alcoholic beverage. Wow! Went fast.

Stay well, friends. We can do this.

Rori
Colorado Foothills

March Resolutions with mid-month progress report
Water with lemon daily - A
Practice eating more slowly - C
Be lighter - C
Lower grocery bill by $150 this month - B
Call one long distance friend per week - A
Practice Reiki daily - A
Word for 2017: Attune

exermom

Things have been crazy. We get home from 3 weeks in FL, this weekend we had to go to VA to help Jess move (she has a real nice place), next weekend I'll leave on Sat. to go to VA then Jess and I will drive to PA on Sun to go dress shopping for the attendants, then I'll drive home on Mon. Not to mention that this week tomorrow we have senior bowling then ceramics in the evening, Rummikub here on Tuesday plus in the afternoon I go to the MD about my trigger finger, have to make cookies for Rummikub probably Tuesday morning, Wed. evening is ceramics, Thurs evening Newcomer bowling, Friday is a Newcomer outing to the local recycling place. I think that'll be real interesting. The next day I drive to VA, the next day Jess and I drive to PA and back to VA, the next day I drive home. Phew!

Got home and ran to WalMart so that the meats I need to make for dinners for the week can start to defrost, bought gas, made dinner and now making a chocolate banana bread for Rummikub. Hope it turns out well.

Exercised every day we were gone, walked on the treadmill one day and used the elliptical today. The plan for tomorrow is to go to the extremepump class

We were talking to the lady at Springhill Suites, and I didn't know that Canadians could only be out of the country for less than 180 days or else they lose their medical coverage. Maybe that's only Quebec, is it Canadians?

Beth - (((HUGS)))) So sorry you had to go thru all that. Get better fast

Loved all the pics especially Mia celebrating

Lenora - the Mother of the Groom is someone who'll do exactly what she wants regardless of anyone else. Yup, there is a Mars in Albany GA. Their primary product is the Combos. Vince said that he isn't aware of them having moved. Hey, Jess' birthday is the 22nd too!!! Loved how Mallory answered the priest

Welcome everyone new!

Vicki - you CAN do this

Heather - croissants look wonderful

Am I glad I made that banana chocolate bread today. One small part of it didn't bake all the way so I made another one and just baked it about an additional 15 minutes

Am thinking that for Jess' housewarming, her and colby's birthdays I'll send them one of those pots that can be a rice cooker, slow cooker, pressure cooker. I forget -- what are they called again?

Michele in NC
who thinks she got caught up

margaretturk

I have learned plumbers often do not have garbage disposals because of the problems they cause. I just have to be more careful what goes down the one we have.

Margaret

Katla49

Barbie: I know Bessie had some issues when you rescued her. How is she doing with health and confidence? I think being adopted into your home is the best luck she's ever had. :flowerforyou:

Pip: Floyd is delightful.

Becky: You're doing great. This is the race between the tortoise and the hare. Don't get down on yourself if you feel like a tortoise sometimes. You already know who wins the race.

Pip: Floyd is delightful.

Joyce: No Olympics for me. I don't think my age is a disqualifier, but I'm lacking way too many of the required skills, not to mention competitive drive. I'm getting better all the time at skills, but I want to explore trails, not enter competitions. :noway:

Lenora: The Mississippi River is the grand champion in North America. The Columbia is #4. Your family is wise to protect their property when waters rise. :flowerforyou:

Michele: My cousin & his wife became Arizona snowbirds in a planned senior resort community. They have several Canadian friends. I'm just guessing, but I'll bet their friends are sure to be in Canada the needed amount of time to protect health care benefits. My cousin returns to Oregon every summer to avoid summer heat in AZ and because Oregon usually has gorgeous summers.


Today we did our grocery shopping and rested. The neighbor who got under my skin about gardening last week stopped by and we had a good chat. We've mended fences.

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."

GloworminWA

GloworminWA

1 more page but just too tired yawn and night!

IremiaRe

YinxFed wrote: »

Greetings Lovelies,
Going to do some Spanish before heading up to bed. Trying hard to get in a minimum of 7 hours EVERY night.

LOL - Yinka - it took me a moment to get that you were trying to get 7 hours of sleep. For just a second, I was thinking you REEEEEAAAAAALLLLLYYY wanted to learn that Spanish... LOL.

Great work on the weight-loss!

Hugs!

Re in TX

IremiaRe

suebdew wrote: »

Here is my problem, must eat a soft diet for 3-4 weeks. No fresh fruit or veggies, except shredded lettuce and some melons. SueBDew in TX

Aw, Sue... Is cottage cheese acceptable? I know cheese, in general wouldn't be - but, cottage cheese is a whole different animal... No fresh veggies? They want you to keep the fiber low? hmmm. I was going to say beans and lentils - but they would be prohibited if fiber is restricted. Sorry, Sugar!

Hugs!

Re in TX

IremiaRe

Hey Wonderful Women!

Not much going on. Did better this weekend in the battle of the M&M's. It turns out, my pre-portioned ones - the ones I keep handy - are all gone. I ate most of them - DH ate the last bag. So, I am just going to hold off on portioning them out. I am too lazy to get up from the couch, slog into the kitchen, dig around under the cupboard and portion more of them out, at the moment - so that is a good thing.

But, tomorrow is another day... and it will start all too soon, so, I am off to bed, now.

Hugs for everybody!!

Re in TX

gotu52

Good morning
To answer your question DJ I have 4 x 16ft squares. This way I can do crop rotation as that is one way to cut down on disease naturally and I am an organic gardener. We grow a lot as we freeze for the winter. We always have our own carrots, green beans, garlic, herbs, tomatoes for the year and lot of other stuff up until November ish. I will send pics when everything is growing. And we snow shoe and that is a great workout, approximately 600 calories per hour. But more importantly, you can go where there are no trails, aside from the snow shoes, you don't need any special equipment and you just need to find snow and it is free. We love guessing what all the animal tracks are. My favourite places to go are where we cannot see any signs of humanity. I love the serenity of being alone in nature.

Have a great day everyone.

Sarah from Ontario

klanders30

Michelle that multi- cooker is called Instapot. The price range depends on extra functions. The 7 function Instapot has a yogurt setting--it's on Amazon for $99 but there are cheaper ones out there. What a great housewarming gift.

Rori you are in the zone woman--hitting your goals, good for you.

DD has gone back to school, so less cooking and conversation for me but it's all for the good, she is home in less than 2 months.

A full week of work ahead but I can handle it, meal plans and laundry on Sunday are the strategies that set that up. Gonna pack the gym bag and the lunch bag, so off I go.

NYKAREN

spikeyhair

Kate UK

spikeyhair

Youtube vid of burning the fallas last night, not my clip

https://youtu.be/Y3bxm-LpWs0

Not sure if you can see it

Kate

spikeyhair

Well that didn't work never mind maybe someone can tell me how to copy the link
Oh it has worked I'm so impatient
Kate

cityjaneLondon

Saw it Kate! Nuts!

Going to go out with DH today to pick up my blood pressure prescription pills. It's a drive away, then off to the shops for fish and rye bread plus stuff I can't easily get elsewhere. DH needs to get himself something to have Wednesday evening when I am up in Nottingham with DOS. He will cook for my return on Thursday pm.

Managing to keep down to the target weight I got back to after my holiday in Mexico. So glad it has stayed off. I think I have crept up half a pound, but it is do easy to put back that kind of sudden weight loss from illness. This week will need some planning as I have lunch out tomorrow, my two day trip to Nottingham (tapas bar planned) and lunch out with my brother and DSIL on Friday!! I generally go for starters or tiny fish portions, veggies and no carbs. Seems to work.

Lots of love, Heather UK xxxxxxx

YinxFed

Greetings Lovelies,

My new digital body fat calipers arrived with the post this morning. To be honest, they look rather like a small instrument of torture! It'll be good to have an accurate measure of my body fat, though!

Heather & Re - I laughed out loud when I read your remarks about my reference to 7 hours of sleep being confused with 7 hours of Spanish study And I study with Duolingo, Memrise and some online TV/Radio magazines. For French and Spanish, I also belong to some Meetup groups that come together once a month in a Worcester pub. I've only just joined those, so I'll report later on how they go when I've attended one of them.

I'm studying Dutch, French and Spanish with an aim to being certified at the highest possible level in 3 years' time (i.e. 2020). I will be incorporating some deep immersion training into each language too, so it will certainly be interesting.

I'll be interested to know how your book, Cold Earth by Anne Cleeves goes, Heather, as I need a book to propose when I host our reading group in May. We've not read a crime novel for a long time.

Becky and Paula - I admire your swimming efforts. I work out five days a week with one of Fitness Blender's YouTube videos, sometimes adding 30 minutes of yoga on to the end. But I really need to include walking more (not today, though - rain seems to be incessant).

Love love love

Yinka in Worcestershire, UK (where the memo that it's the first day of Spring seems to have gone missing!)

lhannon062709

Morning, all,

Weird weekend... but done now. Putting it behind me.

Am in the middle of putting together the chapbook for my writer's group, got the cover designs done, and we settled on Remembrance, Reflection and Rebirth as our theme. We're dedicating the book and the writing contest this year to two group members who died in the last two years since we put out a book.

In keeping with that, I have a friend who's really struggling with turning 60, as are some here, I know. In trying to figure out why age doesn't bother me, this is what I ended up with. Hope y'all enjoy it.

___________________________

Mama at 60

If I can be what she was at sixty,
I’ll be so proud.

At fifty, Mama left her abuser,
and had her first heart attack
barely twenty-four hours later.
That's when she said,
“I’m a survivor,”
and started acting like one.

She lost the weight
that weighed down those wings
I'd never known she had,
and found somewhere
in all that past a future.

She finished raising my sister,
the baby of the family,
and stood up at her wedding
in a magenta gown.
That's when I first found out
what amazing color was in her soul.
And for the next twenty years,
she made her world her own.

She welcomed her grandchildren
Into that world with her, and
Child by child, they learned to
turn to her to tell of triumphs and
tragedies, new jobs, rejections,
and new loves.

She became a woman
of joyful strength,
One who settled for nothing
less than your best truth.

Even more, she became
the rock we all circled around,
the light we were drawn to.
We all came back, each child of hers,
One by one, we would stop and stay
a week, a month, never, ever enough time
with her, and gone again,
back to our own lives.

If I can be who Mama was,
Then I’m content to see
those milestones coming.
I won’t grieve a long-gone past;
I’ll welcome the future.

If I can be Mama at sixty.

___________________________

Love y'all,
Lisa in West Texas

exermom

Did 1 segment of 10 Minute Solution Pilates DVD, held my plank for 2min 50 sec, will take the extremepump class. The plan for tomorrow is to do a Slim in Six DVD. Gotta try this one, it's one of the ones I got while in FL

Portioned out my carrots for this weekend. Vince laughs, but I can't see even putting my suitcase away since I'll be using it next weekend. Made my sandwiches and will freeze them for next weekend.

NYKaren - thanks for telling me the name. I'm going to look on Amazon and I think I'll probably send one to Jess.

Yinka - I'd love to find a place that does hydrostatic measuring of body fat. That is supposed to be the absolute most accurate with the caliphers the next accurate. Only I don't even know of any place that does hydrostatic. I would think it would be pretty expensive, tho

Michele in NC
just checking in

Peach1948

KetoneKaren

Lisa Lovely writing and lovely tribute to your mom. I had a terrific mom. Not a perfect one, just a terrific one. I wish everyone was as lucky as I am/was in that regard.

Michele I'll just wave a lot the next few days as you zip through Virginia. If you ever take a more leisurely pace, let me know and I'll meet you somewhere for lunch!

Heather Yum! to the croissants. Success!

Kate Thanks for posting the interesting photos and video. So interesting!



Work last night was a tiring. Trying to get myself geared up to go to Jazzercise, then I am back to work this afternoon. I am not sure I will make it to Jazzercise this morning. I know I should go. A nap may do me more good, as I didn't get enough sleep last night. Do any of you get a nauseated headache when you don't sleep enough? I hate that feeling.

I can't wait to get back to reading my book, "The Bootlegger's Daughter". Whoever made that suggestion, thank you. Was is Janetr or Heather? Or someone else?



Here is the latest Olivia pic:


Karen in Virginia