WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2018
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Lanette: Sit-bones are part of the deal today, but the ligaments that attach the inside of my thighs are where it hurts. It is getting better as the day goes on. Thank goodness.
I love your advice to Wendy. 
Becca: My mom used to make grahram cracker cookies for me as a kid. Mostly the filling was vanilla frosting, but chocolate made it in there once in a while. It is a wonderful memory. I'm happy that you mentioned it. It is fun remembering my mom.
(((Barbie))) I hope the pain goes away soon.. (((HUGS)))
I had a lovely riding lesson today. I admit I have sore places that haven't been a problem in a long while. I hope it means that I learned to do a few things better than before. I'm not counting on it. I'm a fast learner mentally, but a slow learner with my body. :ohwell:
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
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Hugs Katla!!!!0
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My dear husband has the container open partly, so the Graham crackers get soft, and the frosting gets hard!
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klanders30 wrote: »Yes, the cool bike sculpture is on the Rhodes university campus in so Africa—very unique and cool- the minute I saw it i thought of Machka!
My mistake!
I never thought of needing jackets in S. Africa!
A lot of people don't associate snow with Australia either.
Machka in (rather snowy) Oz
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Machka: Thanks for the mask photos.I love the view from your window.
This is the view straight out that dining room window ...
This is just after we moved in, before our furniture arrived. I call the place our "tree house" because we're set quite high so that when we look out the windows, we see a lot of tree tops and beyond.
Machka in Oz
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Lanette, ditto what Katla said about your wisdom words for Wendy.
Rebecca, ditto what others esp Trucker and Katla said. Hard for Mom to sit this one out but think this is best addressed man-to-man. Maybe Meg has some suggestion for dealing with your own feelings surrounding this discovery.
Rye so angry/sad/sorry the catty comments soured what had been an enjoyable weekend. Your photo art is wondrous!
Barbie gentle (((hugs)))
Machka love your treetop views!
Welcome szantojs, let us know what you want to be called and roughly where you are.
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD.
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Hi all!
I'm fresh out of a lovely bath - a rare treat.
I feel truly scrubbed.
DH at cricket again, so I have the day to myself. I will write a couple of sentences of my memoir. We are just waiting to hear about dates for exchange of contracts, but I'm trying not to get agitated. I'm struggling with feeling a bit down, which is an understandable reaction. I wish DH were here. Not a good time to be left with my own thoughts.
I think my son and family are back from their house swap in France, so I'm hoping for a few photos.
I was going up to London on Wednesday to see my cancer friend, but she has cancelled because she is not feeling well enough.
Just exhausted. I wasn't expecting her to be bright and breezy of course, but she always feels she has to give good value. I want to see her whatever state she's in.
DH is hoping to take me out for lunch on Thursday to a pub in a local beauty spot. We both think we need to enjoy ourselves together. Our previous expeditions have been great. It's so easy just to focus on the moving debacle. There is more to life.
Katla - For me decluttering is a very positive experience. Everyone is different. If I feel overwhelmed I just start with something small, like one piece of paper or one CD. One small success leads to another and gives you courage for the bigger stuff. I am always on a drive to lead a simpler life in everything, including commitments. I hate my head to be crowded.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx6 -
Morning Ladies,
up and showered and will get the pooch out for a walk...then to feed DFIL and walk the other pups then work at 11 am1 -
Morning, afternoon, evening all...
Actually have a few moments to take a breath after all the hustle and bustle of last week. Took an entire day off yesterday and did almost nothing, work-wise, although I did trade a few phone calls with co-workers, who I'm in the process of reassuring that they will LOVE the interim CEO who starts her first official day today at the El Paso headquarters. I had the chance to speak to her over dinner Friday night, and watched her in action at the board meeting for more than four hours on Saturday, and she's impressive.
Posted up to my eggshome dot com blog this morning the strides my husband and son are making at the mountain house, which is making me very, very happy... and can't wait to see it on my return. So pleased they're stepping up without me there nipping at their heels. I know my husband could hear the stress in my voice after talking to the home insurance people on Tuesday last week. They're threatening to cancel our home insurance if certain things aren't accomplished, some of which are just silly - like a porch railing on a front porch we never use, etc. Corey's really stepped up to the plate to make sure the five things they want done are taken care of before their deadline. Love that man.
Only an hour and a half before I have to get on the road, time for a shower and getting everything back in bags before I travel to my next meeting, two hours away.
Love y'all, reading every day, with you in spirit.
Lisa in New Mexico for a couple more hours. Home is only six days away!2 -
Good Monday Morning from Sunny and cooler Ohio- Fall is in the air! Was a good weekend after a rough week. YDD never let me know about the Darke county Fair on Sunday, so we didn't go. No great loss on my part, but probably only the second time DGD has missed it in 15 years. On Saturday, my YGS had a football game at the same time as a car show we go to yearly at the local festival. I found out after the fact that my oldest DD and her family came up for the game and literally stopped for ice cream around the corner from the festival. I am still trying to process my feelings about the events this weekend with daughters......Would have loved to have seen them, but reckon I am thankful they are getting along after many years of "cat fights". The car show was relaxing and we won a trophy. On Sunday I had palnned on cleaning house, but......after cooking breakfast and cleaning kitchen went to sit on back deck and decided it needed sprayed down. Husband had called a hot tub repair guy who is coming this morning to look at my tub. I am frustrated that a less than 6 yo tub is leaking so badly. I thought when we bought it that by going with a "Hot Springs Spa" we would get 15-20 years......SMH! Cleaned the back deck off. Needs serious scrubbing but is much better! Less spiders! Moved stuffs around for easier access for repair man. Then decided to pull the few weeds popping up in the flower beds......that led to pulling out two bushes and moving two more hostas, that led to edging the last flower bed and cleaning that edge up, which led to trimming up some trees and picking up branches, then when I went to water newly planted hostas.....decided to spray off front porch, well.....that led to scrubbing front porch
I n the middle of all that I was doing laundry as well! Needless to say, I did not cook dinner. Funny thing is I wasn't really hungry. We ended up at costco to pick up a couple of things and had hot dogs for dinner, followed by meeting friends at the Dairy shed for dessert. This morning, I am enjoying the fruits of my labor and sitting on the front porch typing this. I am listening and watching two hummingbirds at my feeder and flowers. I have watched a woodpecker on my oak tree. I even got to see a hawk catch a rodent in the front yard. While my view isn't as majestic as Machka's, the country life is pretty neat. 
The house is vacuumed, kitchen cleaned, last load of laundry in dryer. Not a bad start to the week. Two more work weeks until vacation!
I have read and mentally commented on everyone's posts, but am out of time again. I love all the pictures! The pets, the children, the before/afters, and the homes. You all are so supportive and sharing! It is ashame that more women aren't like us! Rye, I don't understand the "catty" remarks women have to make. If you have a problem with me, then say something to me. I will then explain my point of view. I made bacon for breakfast yesterday for first time in months and still after cleaning kitchen had to spray odor stuff as the smell of bacon lingers and I really don't like it.
I am sending hellos to all the new ladies!
I am sending (((HUGS))) to all those in need of one!
I am sending thank yous to all of you!
I am sending encouragement to those in need!
I am sending energy to those in the middle of projects!
Have a blessed day with your best decisions!
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Wendy Agree with what others have said, short factual answers without embellishment and ask for a question to be repeated if you need to. And keep Esmerelda in your pocket for courage.
Rebecca Not sure the Pork your son is looking at online is any different than Hustler or Playboy stashed under the mattress. He's 20. It's normal.
Karen in VIrginia2 -
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Argh just dumped a post - hate that it dumps when your phone turns sideways.
Have a good day ~ jazzypdx2 -
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Hi ladies,
Weighed in this morning and up a little bit. Not surprising as I’m pretty much a couch potato.
Tried to step on my foot today as I can start to put weight on it starting Wednesday. No pain but won’t be able to walk on it as I’m not in a walking cast. Think I’ll still need the scooter when I go back to work next Monday. I was hoping I wouldn’t need it. I’m going to see if I can get away with just using a cane.
The cast is slippery so I’m going to put some of those rubber stickers you put on the bottom of tubs on the bottom of the cast. I’m so worried about falling.
Well better get up and showered. It’s quite the ordeal. I have to wrap my cast in a plastic bag then scoot onto the shower seat and shower. Everything is such a pain and I get tired easily. I think going back to work will be exhausting. Dr said it would be. I am looking forward to being able to talk with another adult. Too much time on my own.
Today is a good day to have a good day ladies.
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Hi friends. WOW. Talk about being depressed...I guess. The trip really took it out of me. By Wednesday I was better, but then Thursday went to court to support a friend who's son got sentenced for child porn. It went very badly. The prosecutor broke his agreement with the defense, and the judge was WAY biased. This is a 20 year old kid who got sent a file of "regular" porn and child porn was in it. When his attorney wanted to confer in private with him about the prosecutor's behavior and possibly withdrawing his plea, the judge said "I do not want HIM to leave my courtroom." It was a mess.
So anyway, I barely made it through Friday, then literally slept all weekend. I must have been just totally depressed or emotionally distraught, or something. But now here I am and hoping to do better.
Meg from Omaha who needs to "take care" of herself!8 -
Oh gosh! So many of us feeling down!
Let's have a group {♡☆((((HUG))))☆♡}
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx6 -
Good morning ladies!
Terry - (((HUGS))). Good idea about putting something non-slip on the bottom of your cast.
Rebecca - I see I mistakenly posted about your DH's Pork problem - fingers meant to type DS's Pork problem. Now regarding your DH's graham cracker and chocolate frosting problem, lol. At least he's able to fend for himself in the dessert department and you are not in the kitchen stirring up batches of cookies or cupcakes.
Meg - Just read your post...(((HUGS))). That's the danger of people sending files, the recipient has no control over but gets swept up in it when the investigators start looking and could really happen to anyone. Very, very sad.
Machka - that's a million dollar view right there! I can't remember - are their stairs up to your place that your DH has to navigate or is the entry on ground level?
Lanette
Smokey (for the next couple days) and soon to be hot SW WA State4 -
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Machka - that's a million dollar view right there! I can't remember - are their stairs up to your place that your DH has to navigate or is the entry on ground level?
Taken August 3, 2015 ... the only time we've had snow down to our level. And actually, we had snow right down to sea level that day.
We live halfway up a 14% grade hill. So ..............
If you come in from the upper driveway, it's relatively flat ...
If you come in from the lower driveway, it's a challenging climb ...
Machka in Oz4 -
very smoky here. Poor Jake is very sensitive to the smoke so he's staying indoors. I'm OK outside but I didn't walk the dogs for long or pull weeds for long. Barbie 5
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Good morning ladies -
I have a (caffeine withdrawal) headache so I am grumpy. Lucky for the hubs he is off working this week so he gets to miss the caffeine withdrawal process . I had been consciously adding more fat into my diet for the past couple of weeks. I have been low fat for the past 14 months, since we found out the hubs was having gall bladder problems. I haven't had any issues with eating an occasional high fat meal, but thought it was time to add back a normal amount of fat on a normal basis. Unfortunately, my body didn't agree. I started having heartburn like none I've had before. I am going on a pretty basic diet for the next week (or two, whatever it takes) to try to get back to my pre-fat adding baseline (of feeling good, not weight, it hasn't changed). I tried my diet coke yesterday morning and the burning started so out it went. I tried iced tea while we were out and about and it was also a no go (caffeine and carbonation are both generic triggers). I had plain salad last night (no yummy stuff like tomatoes, onions, red wine vinegar) and did fine. I had my fat free yogurt and apple slices this morning and am doing fine with it as well. I am hoping if I can get my system happy again then I can return to my normal diet coke or iced tea in the morning, tomatoes and onions and red wine vinegar on my salad, some cheese in my salad or on my veggie scrambles. My neighbor was quite happy because she got a bag full of fresh salad veggies that I can't eat this week.
Have a great week ladies!
Okie in the TX Hill Country6 -
Heather your decluttering has slipped into my mind. All weekend I noticed every little thing and tried to decide what was important and what wasn't. Before I could look at the house though I really needed to look at our shed because tools have made their way into my craft room since hubby's shed was too full. Yesterday I spent 4 hours organizing and rearranging. I managed to get rid of 4 boxes of stuff! I would have gotten rid of more, but hubby was watching. I don't understand why we need to keep old DVD's that have been in storage for 8 years! I'll get rid of them eventually LOL Tonight I need to finish up in the shed, then I'll be starting on my craft room.
Kylia - I had to smile at the "one task leading to another", that seems to be how my whole weekend went! I was cleaning Saturday morning, and needed a container to put grass seed in that hubby had "stored" on my porch. I went to the dollar store to buy one and ended up getting groceries, then hubby decided I should buy a BBQ I had looked at a week or so ago. Went to buy that, helped build it, then made supper. My cleaning still isn't all done...
Rebecca - I am a firm believer that telling your story helps others, but in this instance I think you telling your story to your son is not a wise decision. As a son he doesn't need to hear about your sexuality. If he's spending a lot of money that would be concerning, but truthfully it is pretty normal at this stage of life I think.
I have been trying to figure out what to do for my birthday this year. It is my 50th. I found an event in our town that is called Hoedown for Hunger. It is to raise money for the food bank and is a family friendly event. It is advertised as an Old Fashioned Country Barn Dance. So far only my daughters think it sounds interesting though. I wish I was in NB for this birthday. My closest dearest friends are there and would smile and say sure I'll do that with you, even though most of them hate country music. LOL
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Wow! took me a bit to catch up. You are all great posters! Happy Monday!
Starting my week off well - big plans for a loss this week (:
Lanette - wow read your vet story. I would be furious at the vet that did nothing. Why is he even a vet then?
Pip - love your puppy. Black lab? beautiful, but I am a lab lover.
Barbie - good luck Wednesday. Sorry to hear about the smoke. I feel bad for all that are in the fire and smoke. How helpless.
Okie - have you ever tried some probiotics? I started fermenting some foods to try and get good bacteria in me. Just a start, but reading up on it makes me want to do more.
Machka - great living quarters!
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klanders30 wrote: »Yes, the cool bike sculpture is on the Rhodes university campus in so Africa—very unique and cool- the minute I saw it i thought of Machka!
My mistake! I never thought of needing jackets in S. Africa!
A lot of people don't associate snow with Australia either.
Machka in (rather snowy) Oz
I remember skiing in the Snowy Mountains in the southeastern part of New South Wales, just fantastic. It was magical!
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Staying inside because of the smoke, I did some much needed bookkeeping paperwork with Jake pulled out his coloring. He used to do coloring to relax and hasn't done it in awhile. It was great to see him back at it. My decluttering project is scanning photos. Last year we went through all our photos and discarded many and kept many more. The scanning is a huge walk down memory lane and I can do only a bit of it at a time but even at 6 photos a day, that would be about 2,000 in a year. Barbie 4
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KetoneKaren wrote: »Wendy Agree with what others have said, short factual answers without embellishment and ask for a question to be repeated if you need to. And keep Esmerelda in your pocket for courage.
Rebecca Not sure the Pork your son is looking at online is any different than Hustler or Playboy stashed under the mattress. He's 20. It's normal.
Karen in VIrginia
While what you described sounds normal, what he is doing is paying actual money on a online viewing ladies in real time issue. Tipping them with money and they do things. At this time, he would not be able to afford a ticket to come see us at Christmas time.
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It wasn't my sexuality that was the problem Snowflake, it was my addiction to sexting on the internet that was. It was my coping mechanism choices, when I had a husband that was on death's door. Stress does amazing things, and I looked at it as finding validity in myself. Now looking back, I regret it all, and that is a guilt I live with daily.
Rebecca4
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