WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2018

ryenday

Accents and Soda Popi was born and raised in Chicago ( flat ‘A’’s) and moved to Texas as a young adult (y’all’s and reckons). Chicago had ‘soft drinks’ and Texas has Cokes. (Made me laugh the first time I heard someone say “want a Coke with that? We have Dr. Pepper and Gingerale.” )

Wendy and Barb : i probably will be quiet here for a while. Life happening.

Best wishes to all especially Machka

Rye

grandmallie

I'm home and in bed..feeling much better....had a bowl of cereal and veggie soup for lunch.watching Dirty dancing one of my favorites...

klanders30

Favorite Calf stretch: Stand on a step on the balls of my feet and drop my heels down, go back up on my tip toes and drop heels down. I do this stretch any time I'm near stairs, but absolutely first thing in the a.m.

NYKAREN

adotbaby

When I was growing up in Boston, we called soda "tonic."

okiewoman510

Thanks Trish! I hope your day gets better!

Welcome Faye!

Okie in the TX Hill Country

coastalgosgal

pipcd34 wrote: »

Remember chick-o-sticks? I mentioned how much I used to love them, guess who got me some

I just had one before I left for Oregon. When I was a little girl I thought I was eating wood, and I think my older sisters never told me different! It has a wood like look to it!
Rebecca
Crazy in Whidbey

coastalgosgal

Another productive day!
Hung pictures, the gas man came and presently our home is a comfortable 66 degrees.
Spent way too long at a bank, waiting to change our address, and order new checks. There must've been a whole 3 people in the bank. Everyone is so techno savy nowadays I guess!
Wow, robins are silly creatures! There is a robin outside that keeps trying to fly to get to my rose plant, which is inside!
Saw three deer this morning! Cute little tidy lawn service!



Well tonight I shall take a long bath!
Love ya all!
Rebecca in
Washington

coastalgosgal

Kitchen pics! Don't mind the clutter!





The drawer slide outs are awesome! I can keep lids on, and no stacking!

Rebecca
In a dream kitchen with too many drawers in
Washington

exermom

Did a downloadable spinning workout. The plan for tomorrow is to do a bosu DVD since we have a Newcomer general meeting.

Mary - to be honest, I'm not looking at the hula hoop as a weight loss tool, just a different type of exercise. Thanks about the info about bruising. There is one exercise where you have to lean on your backside but it actually is uncomfortable for me because I don't have a lot of fat there. No, I take that back, I do have a lot of fat on my butt, but not a lot on the hip bone

Terry in VT - (((crying))) Becca is right - the hardest part is actually starting. You can do this, I know you can. What foods are your downfalls? I tend to like sweets, so those honey pretzels are a good compromise for me. I just find that I have to portion them out otherwise I'd eat the whole bag. Dried fruit is also good (just the fruit, no additives)

A friend of mine came here earlier. See, her grandchild is in Miami and we don't mind letting them use the condo overnight. Well, they brought me back a 20lb bag of grapefruit. So now I'll be eating grapefruit for a while. But that's not a bad thing. As a matter of fact, the "sourness" of the grapefruit helps me with cravings. Speaking of TV's, Dianne's mother passed away and she had two televisions. They are offering one for us to use at the condo, I believe she said it was a 54" flat screen. So we'll get rid of the TV in the second bedroom and use this one. Update: another friend stopped by. She was supposed to bring a snack to the general meeting tomorrow but has to go to a funeral so she asked if I'd bring it. Not that I really care to -- I have enough to bring already. But it's really not a big deal.

Personally, I'd rather visit Whidbey Island than look at pictures (well, I can dream, huh?). Guess pictures will help me dream.

katla - I tend to like smaller, light ornaments too. Sometimes they are so hard to find. Everything is so big and heavy!

Allie - feel better fast

KJ - I'm so relieved to hear this about your period. Phew!!!!

Lisa - I can't wait for you to write all about your move. You are such a great writer

foreverhealthy - welcome back. So sorry to hear about your parents

katla - have you ever had to trim that Alberta Spruce? Is it sort of a bluish green color? I'm trying to figure out which tree we had in front of the house we used to live in. In the 12+ years we lived there, we never had to trim it, it always kept its Christmas tree shape. And it was VERY slow growing. Unfortunately, the new people there removed that tree so I can't even take a picture of it

Not sure if Vince wants to cut the grass today or not. I suspect not, but he might be wanting to wait until later in the day. Well, I think I'll go out and put down some weed killer. Update: not today, not sure why.

Lisa - thanks for that link. It doesn't look like my information was shared, either.

Faye - welcome, come back soon.

Trish - you're sure you didn't break a mirror? There HAS to be an end in sight.

Becca - what lovely deer. Your kitchen looks amazing.

Michele in NC

janetr7476

Becca, love love love the pics, thank you. My husband has put the slides on many things for me. I love them.

Janetr OKC

pipcd34

stats for the day:

bike ride hm 2 gym- 8.23min, 138mhr, 11.4amph. 1.5mi= 86c
apple watch- 68c
SKI MACHINE- 28min, 6-12incl, 15-25resist, 131mhr, 1.28mi= 188c
apple watch- 179c
other- 18.30min, 111ahr, 146mhr= 125c
apple watch- 133c
bike ride gym 2 dome- 5.54min, 126mhr, 15.1amph, 1.4mi= 57c
apple watch- 45c
Bike ride puy 2 sumn sta- 16.01min, 11.3amph, 3mi= 150c
apple watch- 125c
jog sta 2 wk, 5min, 143ahr, 155mhr, 9.27min mi, .5mi= 64c
apple watch- 54c
jog wk 2 sta- 4.23min, 9.39min mi, 153mhr, .4mi= 61c
apple watch- 56c
bike ride dome 2 hm- 19,21min, 8amph 145mhr, 2.5mi= 192c
Apple Watch- 151c

total cal 923

barbiecat

Rebecca, I am so happy for you moving into your new home. Thanks for the pictures.

kevrit

ydailey

Today is World Parkinson’s Disease Day!

I had to pick this one in honor of my dear friend Matt, who is living – and rocking out – with Parkinson’s. “World Parkinson’s Disease Day marks the birthday of Dr. J Parkinson.  On this day there are efforts made to increase the public awareness of this terrible disease, as well as all the good works put forth by the worlds organizations dedicated to eradicating this disease.”

Becca – Congratulations on getting to your new home in one piece! I know you’re probably anxious to settle in, but give yourself some time with those boxes. The new place looks gorgeous!

Michele – I’m with you, as far as I’m concerned any flavor of Gatorade is nasty. I prefer to drink unflavored Pedialyte if I really feel the need to boost my electrolytes.

Terry – Hey now… don’t beat yourself up. Just pick up and move forward! We all have setbacks now and then, and the key is how we deal with them.

Karen – Glad you enjoy your wool socks! I’m afraid I live in the wrong place to appreciate them properly!


Sorry to be so late with my post! I had a full work day and errands to run, so I’m just now getting enough time to sit down and try to catch up! I made my second failed attempt to open an estate account at the bank, so now I’m waiting for another piece of paper before I can (hopefully!) get that done.

Got to run so I can finish watching tonight’s episode of “The Voice” and then sit on the stationary bike for awhile.

Thinking of all of you who are dealing with "stuff" and wishing you comfort and lighter hearts.

-Yvonne in TX

barbiecat

Today we finally ordered all the panels, posts, and gate for our fence. Everything will be here in about two weeks. The man building the fence is happy to know how much time he has to dig holes for the posts and when he'll have to get busy on the fence.

Thank you to whoever suggested ordering fall bulbs from Brecks. I have birthday money to spend and there's nothing I need now but I really want bulbs in the fall. I ordered daffodils, crocus, and hyacinth and they'll come at the right time to plant in the fall.

Jake was feeling good enough to get out the electric lawn mower and cut the grass in our tiny back yard.

MIchele, every time I read about how long you held your plank, I think that it's time for me to go back to including a plank in my daily activity but I usually read your post at bedtime when I've already taken off my shoes. Finally today I remembered during the afternoon. I held my plank for 60 seconds. I might have been able to hold it longer but after so long, I decided to start small and increase the time gradually.

Stats for today:
*17,000 steps
*204 minutes walking Sasha and Bessie
*177 minutes riding the exercise bike

Barbie from beautiful NW Washington

coastalgosgal

My husband gives me a couple of days to get our places in order, but we are taking our time with books.


Our library room with a gas stove.
Glad you like these pics! I'm still shell shocked, and acclimating
Rebecca

fanncy0626

Rebecca- love the new home! You should enjoy decorating! Have fun!



Mary from Arizona

ccindy2018

kymarai wrote: »

Greetings!
Jenny- I hear you! I love walking, but hard to exercise. It is my goal to add this month. These ladies are awesome support!

Hi all! I would love to join you! I’m 49 is that close enough? Just starting this week and would love to be part of a support network since I can get a little distracted [CAKE] and I like to give back. I have lots of work to do 100+ lbs. but plan on going slowly so lifestyle changes stick. Please feel free to add me for an encouraging word. I’m an annoyingly cheerful person most of the time : )

drkatiebug

Becca, I love your new place. I have slide out drawers like that in my kitchen. I love them.

I’m in New Orleans visiting my sister and organizing my niece’s craft room into a nursery. I’m heading back home tomorrow.

Katla49

Thank you, for the lesson Barbara. I tried linking the Christmas Tree photo. It was a good try but I have no url because it is my own photo. I won't go through facebook because I don't like it there. I see loads of people posting photos, but I'm not talented in that area. I have to admit to being a bit stubborn about facebook, but they have problems, and I don't want to risk my privacy. I also tried inserting an image.

In the end I put a picture of Arrow up in my photo spot. I had a good time with him at the stable today. I lunged him in the arena and then went riding outside of the arena. Arrow and I were able to create a small victory. We opened the arena gate, walked though, and closed the gate without me getting out of the saddle TWO times, once to go outside and the second time to come back into the arena. This is a big achievement for the two of us. :bigsmile:

Katla in beautiful NW Oregon