60 yrs and up
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@alteredsteve175, good to hear from you. I hope you're still chugging along! Since it sounds like you're still getting in the walks, that seems like a good sign. Sending good wishes!0
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I was similarly stunned at Disneyland to see a groundskeeper working in a flowerbed at around 50s F (10 or so C) wearing ear muffs. Here, come 50s in Spring, people here are breaking out the Bermuda shorts!
I often wear gloves in that weather. I have an issue where my hands get way colder than they should. It's why I don't canoe much in the winter. I can kayak because I can put "pogies" on my kayak paddle. I might invest in some canoe paddle pogies; they are different. They'll only work if I paddle on one side like I do for whitewater. You can't do sit-and-switch easily with pogies because it's kind of a pain to get hands inside them, especially the one on the shaft. I kind of tried to use kayak paddle pogies last year on a canoe paddle. No bueno. Gloves? Yeah. They help, but neoprene is better for keeping you warm underwater. Once wet, they still can get cold if you're topside.1 -
@mtaratoot, yeah, I tend to put on rowing pogies sooner than some of my rowing buddies. (Not at 50 F, though.) I tend to have warm hands/feet (cold heart?
), but one of the few changes of the sort I got with weight loss was that the very tip-most sections of my fingers get cold very easily now. 🤷 (Rowing pogies come in sweep and sculling sub-types, BTW.)
Some people wear gloves to row instead. In fact, some people wear "rowing gloves" all season to protect their hands from callusing/blisters, but those are mostly palms with ribbon-strip type things on the fingers, not quite like lifting or biking gloves, but more in that direction.
II can see how canoe pogies wouldn't work for sit-and-switch, nor kayak pogies work well for canoeing. I actually think sweep rowing pogies might work better for canoeing than kayak ones but still not sit-and-switch. For Fall/Winter canoeing back when I did more of that, I usually went with "chopper" gloves, the leather (often deerskin) gloves with wool liners. The wool stays warm when wet, and the leather stays pretty grippy. YMMV.
I wonder if there are Goretex or similar glove liners. I loved my Goretex socks. I do usually use neoprene now, but they're very warm, more bulky. Doesn't matter much in the rowing shells, because in club boats the shoes are usually huuuge.
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@AnnPT77
There is a Canadian company that makes canoe pogies that look like they are da-bomb. I'm trying to convince myself to get a pair. Rowing pogies would also be nice because.... rowing whitewater rafts in the winter is COLD.
Having something for the Wenonah boats would be really nice. You can pretty much have miles of river to yourself. Cold hands are a drag. I carry those iron filings & vermiculite warmers, and they work, but I don't trust them in the wet.1 -
Ya know, I’ve taken the stance that if it could potentially increase my comfort, it’s worth every penny.
That’s why I only buy a specific mat (I’ve got four in rotation and a couple of I need to start breaking in!) and I splurged and got the VersaGripp lifting gloves after @nossmf mentioned them. What a difference in comfort, grip, and wrist reinforcement!!!!! Same with shoes. I have (this is embarrassing) a whole rack of Saucony I rotate, since I walk several times a day.
If it prevents discomfort it’ll keep you active longer, and if the prevents an injury, it’s actually a savings in the long run.
Go get you some fancy pogles or whatever those things are, and enjoy them.
Back (waaaaay way back) in the day, I used to race Hobie Cats. All this water talk reminds me of my much loved O’Neill wetsuits, booties, and dry jacket. Once again, worth every penny, and potentially life saving should you flip. Even southern lakes are ice cold hypothermia hazards in March. I don’t remember any warm gloves. The glove of choice was leather with half fingers, so you could feel the “sheets” respond without getting rope burn.0 -
@springlering62
I am probably going to order some canoe paddle pogies from a Canadian company that makes heat-reflective ones.
I have them for my kayak paddle - just neoprene. I have an older pair that I retired when I found a great deal on some new ones. I bought a few pairs of those - one for myself and two for two other people who wanted them. Then I won a pair of GoreTex pogies that are probably better for sea kayaking than whitewater. Good for sun and splash, but not much warmth.
I tried to use a pair of hand warmer thingies that were designed for a scooter. They were at the thrift store. I passed them up a couple times, but then they went on 75% off so I figured I could risk a few bucks. I figured they would work on my bicycle if nothing else. Well, I forgot that my bike has a gear shift to manage as well as a mirror. They won't work for the bike. Oh well. I don't think they'll work for a canoe paddle - not waterproof and would probably fall off. We shall see....
You would be amazed at the improvements in modern wetsuits. They are way more stretchy and comfortable, and they have technology built in to reflect more heat back to the body. Some of my fellow aquarium divers use wetsuits, and we're sometimes in 48 degree water. Brrr. I will keep my drysuit.... My 5mm neoprene gloves only keep my hands somewhat warm. I had to take off one of the gloves last month to adjust something that I couldn't do with gloves on. I was actually surprised that my hands didn't feel THAT MUCH COLDER right away.1 -
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Why do biscuits have to be so darn many calories????? 🥺
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Ann needs some kind of Special Tact Award. She sure earned it on the cauliflower rice and overnight oats question.
That was a masterpiece.
Proud to know ya, ma’am.1 -
springlering62 wrote: »Diversion #1
Why do biscuits have to be so darn many calories????? 🥺
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Ann needs some kind of Special Tact Award. She sure earned it on the cauliflower rice and overnight oats question.
That was a masterpiece.
Proud to know ya, ma’am.
I was really enjoying getting back into the habit of making home-made bread. Can't do it. Same thing with biscuits! That said, I just made a batch or cornbread. I only made it because I prearranged giving some away to neighbors. It turned out really good. I hope they come home soon....
I better go find that post about oats and cauliflower. Sounds yummy. I just roasted a cauliflower and am really enjoying it.0 -
springlering62 wrote: »Diversion #1
Why do biscuits have to be so darn many calories????? 🥺
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Ann needs some kind of Special Tact Award. She sure earned it on the cauliflower rice and overnight oats question.
That was a masterpiece.
Proud to know ya, ma’am.
🤣🤣🤣 "Special tact award". Clearly, @springlering62, you've not met me in real life. 🤣🤣🤣
Some people are just scared of cooking, I think. It's odd to me when someone asks if they can do . . . whatever . . . in a recipe. With rare exceptions (safety issues, for example), I'd just try it. Truly, what's the worst that could happen? 🤣
Wanna know a secret? I think overnight oats are Just Awful. You'd have to tie me down and force feed me to get me to eat them. Bleah. Lummesome cooked oatmeal, hate the taste of raw oats.
But I'm with you on the biscuits. Too good, sadly too calorie dense for frequent over-consumption.0 -
P.S. I think my "maximum tact" moment here was some time back, when I answered someone who had a frozen pizza that was X calories per 1/3 pizza, but she had eaten 1/5. She wanted to know how many calories that was. I explained how to figure out the answer, and gave her the answer.
A week or so later, same person posted that she had a frozen pizza that was X calories per 1/3 pizza, but she had eaten 1/4, or something like that. She wanted to know how many calories that was. I explained how to figure out the answer, and gave her the answer. I think that's pretty darned tactful. 🤣
Not going to tell you what I was thinking privately inside my own head at the time, though. 😉2 -
The latest iPad update, you can use an Apple Pencil in the calculator and write those pizza questions in handwriting and it will solve it for you. The automated demo gave some really advanced examples and I caught myself thinking that the SIL, who has a doctorate in math, has been outranked by any fool (me!) with a digital pencil.
I’m making socca bread to go with grilled shrimp tonight.
I have some Greek yogurt draining in the fridge to make labneh, and I’m going to experiment with that in some “cloud bread” this afternoon, for my own entertainment, and use the rest as cream cheese spread for next week’s pancakes, and a lovely low cal blueberry cheesecake. I’ve never made or tried cloud bread. Hoping it’s not real egg’ish because I can’t stand eggs. Can’t figure out how it wouldn’t be, but it’s worth a few eggs to test out. I read you can toast the stuff. 😱
I better get my *kitten* in gear. It’s anniversary weekend at the yoga studio, so free classes (and donuts!). It’ll be packed. I have to get there early to get a wall spot so at least I’m only potentially cracking someone in the head on one side. And mat in the back row for a change. I can’t do deep forward folds or inversions til my eye doctor clears me (yet another fun side effect of travel bug) so I’m making my own modifications and don’t want to confuse anyone new.
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Pretty funny about the maths on pizza. I don't trust the calories on them anyway so would have fudged the log lower. And wow. I will have to try the IPAD calculator pencil thing. I rarely use the pencil anymore. What I would REALLY like for PCs and stuff at work would be a face or fingerprint log in. I am so tired of having SO many passwords that change every few weeks. Of course with the Apple products I have to remember to store the passwords in a locked excel file because since it automates them for you I have a tough time actually remembering what they are.... pros and cons of tech I guess.
Nice to see everyone being chatty and dropping in for updates.1 -
@SummerSkier you should have an automatic password filler-inner on Apple products. You can also go into settings, used Face ID and view/copy the actual passwords.
I really like it because it creates those wildly long random passwords and I don’t have to remember them.0 -
Yay! Pool reopened, no three week long kerfuffle like last year, and tomorrow I go to the eye doctor and hopefully get clearance to act like a child again.
Have been reeling it in for three weeks, no jumping and jostling my eyeballs, no deep forward bends, frankly, it’s been a little bit boring.
Yesterday I shaved four strokes a lap off my laps, and managed to keep it up the whole time. I don’t know what I was doing different, but it was super nice to feel like I was gliding a bit rather than flailing, lol.
I do love moving!!!!2 -
Haven't been here in several days, glad to see so many of you posting!
@AnnPT77 I saw your comment on the amount of snow in my pic, hahaha. It's been a very light snow winter where I was hiking (Alaska) and in the higher mountain elevations the winds just blow a lot of the dry powdery snow off the mountains so it is sometimes not very deep. Usually by now, the road up to that trailhead is closed for the winter, but so far the huge winter snows have not arrived there yet. And the view was definitely worth it! The wind chill and elevation we were at was the worst part of the hike, I gave up taking pics after awhile because I had to keep taking my gloves off and my fingers were turning numb! For those wondering about "snow pants", its just another term for ski pants-insulated clothes that add depth to your layers to trap warmth. And maybe look puffy like the Michelin Man
Some lower 48 states may get more snow dumped on them than areas up here, but our cold dark winters, freezing winds, last longer, until that "midnight sun" comes back and the days get longer again.
Glad everyone made it through Thanksgiving, now to avoid eating cookie dough while baking for holiday events!
@AnnPT77: Cheers to you for listening to your doctors and taking it slow and easy to recover from your injuries! It must be so good to be back in your own home, and also to have wonderful thoughtful friends that you were able to share Thanksgiving with!
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Red velvet cake. The trickiest cake on the planet. It’s either divine, or inedible. I‘ll always take the risk.
Donut Sunday. We always go up and get an apple fritter on Sunday, treat the High Anxiety Dog to a ride.
Today they had…..drum roll…..red velvet fritters. *gasp*. Yes, please!!!!!
Divine. Thank the good heavens above these are only a one time offering.
I’m eating half for breakfast and the other half with tea this afternoon.
I had to leave the gingerbread and egg nog donuts sitting in the display. Sad/not sad.1 -
PS have gone back to skim milk for coffee. Prefer the taste of oat milk, but it has zero nutritional value (🤣… donut!) and it doesn’t froth well. I do like a honking great mountain of stiff foam on my coffee.1
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Hi there, fellow sixty-ish-ites!
Nothing big happening here, cold snap (in our local terms, down to 10 F/-1 C ), few inches of snow that melts on sunnier or warmer days, usual Winter stuff.
I'm feeling gradually better, on Thursday had my follow-up with the neurosurgeon, who said my CT scan showed the brain bleed is healed enough that I'm cleared to return to normal activity, including more intense or new exercise, as long as it doesn't worsen my symptoms. (Symptoms at this point are mostly mild but variable-symptom headaches, being more easily fatigued than normal.) In my world, this is Really Good News.
A small complication is that - for me, at least - de-training happens faster at this age, and I haven't done any remotely hard workouts since November 8. I restarted workouts on November 28, with the neurosurgeon-dictated limits of keeping intensity in the "easily talk in full sentences" range. Even that was challenging at first, but within a couple of days I saw that it was helping my overall recovery, so I kept going.
I mentioned that most Winters I do the Concept 2 Holiday Challenge, some combination of 200k rowing machine or 400k stationary bike, to be completed on any schedule between US Thanksgiving (November 28 this year) and Christmas Eve. I usually do this as 6 days a week, one rest day, and in recent years alternate row and bike. I couldn't do that this year, because I can't keep heart rate low enough when rowing (uses more body parts, plus my ego interferes ). Therefore, I started off with ultra-slow biking, watching my heart rate to keep it very low, and watching visual journaling videos to keep myself distracted. (Not gonna lie, there was saddle soreness. 
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Even before adding in some higher intensity effort (including rowing) post-neurosurgeon on December 12, and even with an unplanned rest day in the mix (nausea, probably related to the injury), I'd reached 104k, past the half way point. Unless something bad happens, I think I can finish the challenge again despite bumps in the road. I'm pleased.
I did lose some weight I didn't want to lose early on while recovering (low appetite, eating and cooking both felt high effort), then was able to bump up calories to 200 or so above maintenance for a while. Now I'm backing off to close to maintenance. After Christmas, I'll plan to drop it a little, because I could stand to slowly drop 5-8ish pounds here in maintenance. It's a process, eh?
Especially after moving back home (post cat-sitting), I have to tell you how much I've appreciated you-all here and other nice folks on MFP. My real-life friends are great, but home alone in Winter weather and a bit under the weather myself, reading your posts here has been helpful enjoyment and distraction.
How is everyone else doing: Progress toward goals? Holiday joy? Holiday stress? Love to hear from you!
P.S. For the few flower-people here, a nice thing is that Oncidium Tsiku Marguerite has bloomed at my house, and Gerberara Snow Ballet is considering doing so, too 🤞. Here's the best photo I could get with my phone of Marguerite, since the blooms are tiny, maybe about the size of the end of my thumb.
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springlering62 wrote: »PS have gone back to skim milk for coffee. Prefer the taste of oat milk, but it has zero nutritional value (🤣… donut!) and it doesn’t froth well. I do like a honking great mountain of stiff foam on my coffee.
@springlering62, I think you know I'm 'team skim' all the way. I can understand preferring other flavors, but it surprises me when some people say it doesn't work for them because it has too many calories. Maybe it's just because I'm vegetarian, and the math is different for omnivores, but for me that extra milk is a nice little protein bump at modest calories, and personally I do like the taste/texture.1 -
Don’t stress, Ann. It comes back faster than you think. I didn’t have any workouts besides simply walking for 12 weeks or so. I always worry the same thing, but - and you’ve said this many many times here before- it does return.
Your orchid is stunning. We went to Keukenhof several years ago and they had a memorable orchid exhibition. Every variety you could imagine. Went back this year, and ithe orchid house was blah. Terrific letdown. Like they filled it with florists orchids at the last minute because no one was participating. I wondered if maybe the breeders and collectors had had a down period because of Covid.
There is a Saturday market in my daughter’s town that occasionally sells mind blowing varieties. We bought one as a gift for someone that were the size of a small shrub with multiple sprays of small blooms like yours. $10 each. I nearly passed out. They would have easily been ten times that here in the US. I gave her twenty bucks and told her just to buy all the woman had on GP, so I could enjoy them the few days I had left visiting.
The nicest thing about Lidl opening here was $9.99 orchids and other nice plants.
Skim and Oatmilk have similar calories. I did try plain almond milk, which is only 20/cup. It just brought nothing to the party.2 -
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@springlering62
That makes me think of Gracie Allen's Recipe for Roast Beef:
Start with one large roast and one small one.
Put the two roasts in the oven.
When the little one burns, the big one is done.1
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