WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2018

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  • csofled
    csofled Posts: 3,022 Member
    :)
  • okiewoman510
    okiewoman510 Posts: 1,313 Member
    Lisa - I love your dress!! What a gorgeous photo!!

    Okie
  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,086 Member
    Morning Ladies~
    slept like a rock ,wow I was busy yesterday.. today is the morning routine.. get Tal on the bus, walk the dogs and feed DFIL , then home and maybe laundry.. going to try and see if I need to go up and do more cleaning at Dads in Dans room. we all want this done and over with but its not that easy.
  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,412 Member
    barbiecat wrote: »
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    Before we moved to Washington, we lived on five acres in Northern California where I grew sunflowers and Jake grew vegetables and sold them at the Farmers' Market. We loved every minute of it, and now we love having almost no yard to care for.
    cityjaneLondon wrote: »
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    Heather ☓
    LisaInNCNow wrote: »
    My father-in-law gave me away at our wedding nine years ago. He was truly a lovely man.

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    Lisa in AR



    Love, Love, Love all of these photos!!! <3<3<3

    Karen in Virginia

  • spikeyhair
    spikeyhair Posts: 2,078 Member
    Lisa love your dress too

    Lovely pic Heather

    Doing 4 week KB workout again with 8kg weight and added 3x7reps using the 12kg, I skipped the 10kg because too mean to buy 2 at once. Haven't been back to the gym since our holiday but exercising at home with weights and youtube videos.

    Have a great weekend

    Kate UK <3
  • KJLaMore
    KJLaMore Posts: 2,847 Member
    Heather- Ooops! Missed your post while I was posting! Is that your new top?! You look fantastic! <3
  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,251 Member
    LOVE all the photos!
  • LisaInAR
    LisaInAR Posts: 2,020 Member
    Kelly - Love you back, love the news that you'll have Joaquin there with you this summer, and my respect for you just tripled looking at those pictures. You are stronger than I've ever thought about being. Love those pics, but they honestly make me tired just to think about trying to direct all that energy... you're a freaking saint.

    Heather - that HAS to be the top you were talking about, it suits you to a T... :smiley: You look blissfully happy.

    Am experimenting on cathedral window quilt variations today, and taking a break from that to paint... Love my solitary Fridays to just play with my own toys!

    Lisa in AR
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,191 Member
    :)Kelly, one year I had a second grade class that had twice as many boys as girls. At back to school night, when I told the parents about the boy/girl ratio, there was an audible gasp from the parents. You're right that the challenge is very different. I loved your photos.

    :) About having a garden. I loved the chapter of my life when I had a garden but now I love the new chapter. Now I plant bulbs and spread bark. It's different and fun in its own way.

    :) Today I teach my dance class...always fun and always unpredictable.

    <3 Barbie
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,692 Member
    Yes, folks that is my new top! Ain't it fun!!! I love the colours and the butterflies look hand painted on. After that picture was taken we had a dancing on deck party with the band. We danced through the gathering dusk with the lights coming on in the town. Magical. We did the conga right through the bar and kitchens. So fun.

    Now we are motoring down the coast of Denmark to Germany.

    This morning I ran 2 miles at 7 am, had breakfast, did line dancing at 9 am, listened to a wonderful lecture by a tv producer (Kate UK - Blue Peter for nearly 30 years) with some hilarious clips, then I went swimming for half an hour. Then lunch, melon and parma ham and calamari with pak choi. Stinky, runny cheese and coffee.
    Then, miracle of miracles, DH came with me to ballroom dancing lessons and we learnt waltz and Cha Cha. He is so not a dancer, but he did his very best. I'm proud of him. He was the only man there.
    Soon we are going to my favourite aerobics class together. The funny and friendly Danielle from Northern Ireland. DH has not been before.
    With the evening ballroom session I reckon I will have done around 800 calories burn today. :D Should help cope with all the stinky cheese I am eating. Heaven!

    If you see a photo I have posted with minimal text, it's because I've momentarily switched to data while we are at port. The wifi on board can't send photos.

    Much love to all, Heather UK xxxxxxx
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,692 Member
    edited June 2018
    PS - can someone explain property tax to me. And why is Rye's so expensive!!?
    We have council tax. Ours is around $3,000 a year. And ours is a big house. It covers, garbage collection, local roads, lighting, local schools, policing etc.
    Even renters have to pay it.
    Love Heather xxxxxxxxxx <3
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,692 Member
    Barbara and others - There are at least 70 solo travellers on the cruise and they are really looked after. Today they were having a special lunch. It looked like fun. No need to stay at home. :noway:

    Love Heather xxxxxxxxxx
  • csofled
    csofled Posts: 3,022 Member
    :)
  • okiewoman510
    okiewoman510 Posts: 1,313 Member
    A/C guy is here. He thinks it is just a clogged drain line. Fingers crossed, I could have a nice cool bedroom again this evening and get to move out of the guest room!

    Okie
  • 1948Peachy
    1948Peachy Posts: 1,511 Member
    Rye ~ Double digit taxes sounds awful! I sure hope it doesn't come to that here in my lifetime. :'(

    Lisa ~ Beautiful picture of you, Cory, and his dad. Sorry about his passing but hope it was a peaceful one.

    Kelly ~ Love the photos of the little guys. They look like they are having a ton of fun!

    Heather ~ Miss Bea is looking like a grown up little lady! :)

    We are waiting for the company we hired to install the missing chain link fence across our back yard. Son and family are going on vacation next week and really want us to keep their two dogs. If they have to be boarded for a week, it will cost around $600 which is way too much for their young family.

    Carol in GA
  • klanders30
    klanders30 Posts: 2,569 Member
    Heather Bea going to school, oh my where did the time go? I remember her baby pics!

    i treasure you ladies <3<3

    NYKAREN
  • okiewoman510
    okiewoman510 Posts: 1,313 Member
    Like Rye our property taxes are high. Living in TX, we don't have state income tax so they hit us with high property taxes. We have seen ours increase the maximum 3 of the 5 years we have been here. That said, our property value has also gone up nicely, about 25% if we wanted a quick sale, 30% if we wanted to take our time and have the right buyer come along.

    Okie
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,246 Member
    lilnoramitchellandre wrote: »
    Michelle – NOPE, no white wine at all. No alcohol


    Pip – We were all sitting eating lunch and people driving through the parking lot and they had to be going a minimum of 20mph. If a kid had broken away from his/her mother, he’d be dead. Good for you for cussing him out – he needed it. People just don’t think that anything is important other than where they are going and how fast they can get there. We have problems of people just breezing through red lights and I am not talking ‘trying to beat the red light by going to the yellow light’. You better look both ways before pulling out. Then they have this sign ordinance in Albany about size and placement of business signs. Now they let their landscaping grow up and you can’t see anything; or they have a list of 10 or 20 stores in a strip mall.



    Have a great weekend everybody!

    Lenora

    i agree, everyone is in a hurry
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,246 Member
    edited June 2018
    rode again to work from the gym... only 7:25am here and i am already over 900 calories burned and i still have to run 1/2 mi and ride home :#:#:#
  • KJLaMore
    KJLaMore Posts: 2,847 Member
    Heather- that can't be Bea. Is it Edie?
  • okiewoman510
    okiewoman510 Posts: 1,313 Member
    I have successfully protested our taxes in Williamson County, TX. They were raising them based on us building our shop. They had aerial photos but couldn’t get in the gate to get details. I had receipts and contracts for the work we had done and did ourselves. They ended up lowering our property value $20,000 more than I was shooting for.

    Okie in the TX Hill Country
  • janetr7476
    janetr7476 Posts: 4,001 Member
    KJLaMore wrote: »
    Heather- that can't be Bea. Is it Edie?

    I agree, Kelly. That's Edie the middle girl.

    Janetr OKC
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    (((RYE)))

    Lanette: We started out with an Oster blender, too. We used in primarily for making Margaritas & Daquiris. We still have it but haven't used it in a couple of years. I've quit alcohol and DH prefers beer. The blender is on the shelf in the garage beside the Cuisinart. :embarassed: We seem to acquire things more often than we release them. :ohwell:

    Meg: Sorry to hear about the drama with your daughters. (((HUGS)))

    Sue: Arrow is also a quarter horse gelding, and about the same age as the one you're thinking of buying. He seems to really enjoy trail riding. I've never owned a horse and don't expect to due to all the challenges with DH's health. I'm feeling very lucky that I can ride Arrow on trails that adjoin his owner's property. My trail riding friend has a mare that is moody and bratty. She followed Arrow last time we rode and was much better behaved than the time before when she was the lead horse. My experience is much more limited than yours. I bet you'll do a great job with your purchase. I hope he is biddable & turns out to have a sound mind and body. :heart:

    Rebecca: I like the advice you gave to Rye about taking life in small bites. Give Whidbey a chance to grow on you. The climate nearer the north end of the island seems a quite bit sunnier than the part at the southern end, and the hospital in the middle has a good reputation among the people I know. The main difference that I know about is that you have more daylight in summer there than Astoria, and less daylight in winter than Astoria. Our friends on Orcas Island just a bit farther north than Whidbey have become snowbirds and take their RV south for the winters. :star:

    Kim: Snow peas are an early crop around here. I planted them right after the last expected frost date. Maybe you'd have better success with an earlier planting date. :flowerforyou:

    Michele: I don't grow snow peas any more although DH & I both loved to eat them. Since he's been put on a restricted diet for irritable bowel syndrome he can't have them at all. I bet you can find seed in your local stores. They are an early crop here. :star:

    Heather: In Oregon, property taxes support our local schools, as well as the city and county for all the work they do maintaining roads, water, sewers, police, fire departments, etc. We do not have sales tax except on cigarettes, alcohol & marijuana. :noway:


    I plan to go to yoga today, and we need to go into the county offices to figure out where we will be parking for the fourth of July week. We won't be in the horse area, but they think they have a good solution for us. We've already paid, and they have hired an outside company to manage that part of business, so who knows what will happen with our money.


    Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

    You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
    C. S. Lewis
  • kevrit
    kevrit Posts: 4,301 Member
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  • Snowflake1968
    Snowflake1968 Posts: 6,945 Member
    edited June 2018
    evie1958 wrote: »
    Lisa, so sorry to hear about your father in law. Hugs to both of you.
    Heather, lovely photos, such a charming looking town.
    Tried a class at the Y this morning, core strength, truly enjoyed it! I will be going back for more!! lol I am enjoying my Y membership, glad that I decided to go there!
    Our son and daughter in law have invited us over for dinner tomorrow night. I'm hoping that we can get the air cleared and get our relationship back on an even keel. Also hoping that it will end with us being able to have our grandson at least a few times a month, really would like to get to know him!
    My eating still needs to get on track, but I'm working on it!
    Hugs to those who need them congrats to those celebrating and welcome to the newbies!
    Evelyn, Vancouver Island

    Maybe this is your son and daughter in law's way of trying to heal and move forward. I hope it goes well for you. Have they refused to let you have your grandson? I can't imagine how hurtful that would be.

    Tracey in Edmonton

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