WOMEN AGES 50 + FOR JANUARY 2019

cityjaneLondon

Katla - our 'ecowash' on the dishwasher lasts over 3 hours. We just put it on and forget about it, sometimes at night.

Calories creeping up today, but the chilli was heavenly. Have half left to freeze. That makes me happy. I succumbed to a bit of snacking this afternoon because DH was in the other room watching his sport. :embarassed: Good, protein snacks, but too many calories. Tomorrow will be a better day.
Not exercising really throws me out. My life becomes unmanageable without it. The two pillars of my daily life, exercising and writing. Did neither today, but feel good about hosting the grandchildren.

Tracey - It's DH who can take any amount of the grandchildren, but today he was incubating a cold. I love them in small doses. I am not a natural child minder. I have learnt so much from watching DH and DDIL. I actually enjoy it a lot these days, but it's not long before I've run out of steam and want my life back. I do adore them though. And I miss them when they've gone.

New series of Vera tonight.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxx

klanders30

SophieRosieMom

Heather - Sounds like Vera is a fitting end to this weekend!

I just discovered I have access to Vera Season 9 right now through my Amazon Prime/Britbox subscription. I'm not sure I watched Season 8 so will start there tonight. Need to table Silent Witness for a while. I would much rather watch your British detective/mysteries than those made in the USA. Love the varied plots and settings.

Lanette
SW WA State

kymarai

Good Sunday everyone!

First and foremost I have a PSA- Don't trip over the cord to your carpet shampooer after you have spent two hours shampooing the carpets. I repeat do NOT trip over the cord. No I wasn't injured, but when I came back through a minute later I realized why my carpets just don't seem clean!!!! That lead to an hour of tools and high pressure water to clean out the shampooer!!!! Who would have thought a shampooer needed cleaned?!?! Now I have to wait for it to dry out to avoid any potential shocking hazard, then will reshampoo the dang carpets! I am ashamed to say it was disgusting. If I wasn't trying to watch what I spend money on, I probably would have thrown it in the dumpster and bought a new one!!!!!

I believe our snow is over for now. We got 10". I plowed the driveway before work, after work, before bed, and again this morning. We are finally seeing blacktop.

This is our front yard. The gates to the driveway are way down past the two trees on the right of the picture. It is about a quarter of a mile (402 m). This doesn't include the circle between my MIL's house and ours. It is what I walk when the weather is warm. I am NOT a cold weather person. Try to stay busy inside. Heading to shop to plow parking lot here shortly. I hope that the sun will dry it out!

I started to type last night, but then spent an hour talking with my sister. It was a good conversation!

Lisa- What a lovely thing to do! I so love your story telling. There are a couple of you ladies that are obviously writers. I am a squirrel! I have held the door open for people, but have never thought to ask if I could be of any other assistance. I will keep that in mind. You made me laugh when you talked about alone time with husband and someone else also chimed in about being chased around the house. When my nieces would come back home my brother and SIL would taunt them with "umm- you might want to change your sheets" or "oh, you might want to wipe that off before you sit there"! It was so embarrassing for the nieces, but so funny! I love your home transformation!

Machka- Congratulations! You not only accomplished it but in better time than you had thought! So impressive! I am impressed with your husband as well! He has come such a long way! Your ability to keep everything in sequence with all you do is admirable as well!

Rebecca I was channeling you the other night....I needed more protein, less fat. Thought grilled cheese, but didn't feel like making it, plus too much fat. So I thought cheese melted in tortilla shell, fast easy, no mess. But still lacked protein, add refried beans! It was so yummy! Afterwards I really wanted chocolate....fresh cut berries, a little hershey's chocolate syrup, and some whip cream. Again so good and met some food requirements as well as craving. You ladies all make me stop and think! This morning was homemade applesauce pancakes with cottage cheese layer topped with applesauce. No butter...and two eggs.

Katla The new dishwashers do take longer to run, but use less water. It can be annoying, but like Heather UK said, we just put it on, usually at night, and empty in the morning. Another thing Scrape your dishes, but don't rinse. It gives the detergent something to do besides stick to your glassware. Happy that your DH was able to accomplish this.

I know there was more, but can't think right this second. Did get the shop parking lot plowed so is ready for tomorrow.

Thank you Ladies for being the Individual, Strong, and Supportive women you are!
Hugs to all!
Prayers to those that need them!
Welcome to the new ladies!

Kylia in Snowy Ohio (another 4" forecasted for this Friday)

Katla49

Heather: I’m guessing our first dishwasher load must have been similar to your eco wash. The second load had a 1 hour cycle and the dishes were quite well cleaned. Seems like the eco wash would be great for a meal with guests so that there is more to clean. On average, it takes us a day or more to fill our dishwasher unless we have company. :flowerforyou: I was so impressed with DH. The new dishwasher was delivered to our kitchen & they hauled away the old one. The rest was up to us. DH installed the dishwasher by himself—with a little help from me. He is very skilled with mechanics & electronics. He grew up working on various home improvement and repair projects and enjoys them. His health situation has caused challenges but he works through them.

A cousin called last night and we chatted for ages. It was wonderful to talk about our lives right now, as well as a bit of family history. We even talked about other family members. :devil: Most of it was positive, but there were a few barbs toward one person or another. The barbs all went toward her siblings. Since I have none, I did quite a bit of listening. :ohwell:

Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

drkatiebug

Questions to ask yourself when decluttering:

Marie Kondo: Does it spark Joy?
Dana K White: if I were looking for this, would it even occur to me that I had one?
Katiebug: Would I clean poop off of this in order to keep it?

If the answer to any one of the three is no, then out it goes!

okiewoman510

Kylia - BEAUTIFUL!!!

Katiebug - ROFL!! If I used your question, everything would go!!

Okie in the TX Hill Country

barbiecat

Katla, We wash dishes after my 5 AM breakfast every other day. The cycle takes almost three hours and is finished in time to empty around lunch time.

Katiebug, Those are great decluttering questions.

Machka, congrats to you and your husband on your races.

Heather, I have extremely limited interest in entertaining grandchildren. A very short visit is enough for me.

We took a long nap after lunch and when we got up, Jake had a phone message from a friend who had stopped by the house to see him. I guess the friend didn't ring the doorbell and since the dogs were asleep with us, they didn't realize someone was at the door so they didn't bark.

It is beautiful and sunny here with the temps over 50 degrees. I resisted the impulse to do anything in the yard. I don't want to forget that there is a lot winter still to come in Washington.

Barbie

TerriRichardson112

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pipcd34

stats for the day:

manual treadmill- 7.25min, 132ahr, 141mhr, .5mi= 83c
arm/chin-up machine w/floor ever in btwn- 23min, 126ahr, 142mhr, 5sets of 10ea w/3 diff exercises in btwn= 200c
other- 17.52min, 116aahr, 135mhr, 5sets of 10ea w/4 diff exercises in btwn= 140c
wash/brush/dry Bullwinkle- 43min= 120c

total cal 543

noting like having hot running water outside to wash your dog

skuehn48

suebdew

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exermom

Did an hour of balance games on the Wii today. The plan for tomorrow is to hold my plank then take the extremepump class.

Rebecca – what’s up with yesterday? I opened one of those small (about 4oz) containers of applesauce and it was bad! I’ll take it back to the store. Not that I’m expecting anything.

M – how wonderful that you did that marathon!

Barbara – Genesis coupe. I’m not allowed to breathe near it….lol But that’s OK, if I need to use a vehicle (say mine’s in the shop), I use the SUV. It has Bembro brakes.

KJ - the Md says a boy. Boy, you surely have those kids walking! And they never complain about their feet giving out. “Marvin the Martian legs”…what a hoot

Bonnie in TN – I hate when one of our pets pees/poops on something. Yes, it’s usually something like vying for attention.

Speaking of dishwashers: does anyone know how to get a drinking glasses sparkly? I read in Hints to Heloise that you add vinegar to the wash, but that didn’t get it totally out. They were better, but still somewhat cloudy. I only scrape my dishes, never rinse (too lazy to be truthful)

Made the pavlova for Tues and the spinach cheese tarts.

Tracey – what I do is have meals frozen then a few days prior to the following week, I take out of the freezer meals I will have. I also make sure I buy what I need if I have to do any cooking for the following week. I usually make extra so that I can freeze it and then I don’t have to cook lots. Yes, having it written down certainly does help. I’m not opening the refrig and wondering what there is to eat.

Tried starting the stocking for Denise’s baby. I don’t like the way it looks. Maybe someone can help me. Gotta look for someone.

Michele in NC

pipcd34

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kymarai

Michele- I religiously use jet dry 8n my dishwasher. If I don't the glasses get foggy-yuck.

My brother, sil and other niece finally got to meet Aubrey for the first time! He said no fricken snow storm was keeping him from meeting his grandbaby even if he had to snow plow the entire hour to the hospital! Such a joyous day!


Kylia

Katla49

Barbie: We discovered a 1 hour setting on our new dishwasher in addition to the longest setting which is 5 hours. It is running at the 1 hour setting now. Eventually I’ll figure out my preferences. Thanks for your information.

coastalgosgal

Michele in NC, its frustrating! I expect to buy things at the store, that don't leak and haven't gone bad. I don't expect too much! Sheesh!😋
💗Rebecca

Machka9

Thanks to everyone!

If I can walk again within the week, I might even entertain the idea of a full marathon at some point!!



My husband made an interesting comment as he walked me to the bus today. There I was hobbling down some more steps when he said,

"You're going to discover just how many steps there are today. They often don't design places with disabilities in mind."

I guess this is something he has been noticing as he has started walking again since his accident!

And yes, today, of the 5 stores I went into at lunch, 4 had stairs. 2 had short flights of stairs (3 or 4 steps) to get into them, and 2 had short flights of stairs (3 or 4 steps) in the middle of the store to go from one level to another.

3 or 4 steps doesn't seem like much at all when a person is fully mobile, wbut when you're not, they're pretty daunting! And painful.


Machka in Oz

coastalgosgal

Sent this to my daughter in law that's expecting! Too cute a photo up for a baby girl!
💗Rebecca

GodMomKim

Hi Gals,

Penny – what a fascinating story!


Gosh these notes are from things you wrote days and days ago, but I’m just reading!

Pip – Happy Birthday Yogi!

Heather – yes I remember horizontal and vertical hold, and TV programing ending at midnight… I’ve never heard of wild boar chorizo, but I do love chorizo and found a vegetarian one here that is about ½ the calories and not the same, but when I am really wanting chorizo it will do the trick.

Allie – I set my heat at 60 but always do layers and fingerless gloves! You can do this.

Katla – new dishwasher – Yeah!!!

Welcome to all the newbies

I had 7 days of company – 3 sets back to back, and none of them planned more than a day or two in advance. Ugh!!! I have dreams of doing an Airbnb as my retirement job, but all the sheets and towels!! Of course the Airbnb guests would not be expecting 3 meals a day as these folks did.

I am very pleased with a decision I made, as some of you know I’m really careful with my spending, but my mattress is very uncomfortable it’s 26 years old and all the turning/flipping etc is no longer helping it, but a queen mattress is expensive for me! I saw prices from $200 - $1000 good grief! So about 6 months ago I came up with the idea of putting my camping sleeping pad under my fitted sheet – it has helped but it’s for sleeping outside so squeaks and due to the plastic it doesn’t breathe, I got a target gift card for Christmas and read all the reviews of the mattress toppers and with an online coupon, the gift card and $34 got a really nice mattress topper! I slept the last two nights like a queen. I buy only the essentials and usually get them 2nd hand, so this was a really big treat.

The business is starting this year as busy as it ended last year so that is good as January can be so slow!

I’ll be back at reading and staying in touch!



Kim from N. California