60 yrs and up
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@j29t, please post a photo of your new bike when you getvit - sounds fun!
@AnnPT77 great photo, but not particularly masculine lol
I am now sitting looking at a great view on Vancouver Island, stopped at a beach park on our way to Victoria for the weekend.
It is crazy how many logs have been tossed up over the winter.
Happy to report my weight has come down from all my travels, only .5 lb up from 3 weeks ago now, however most likely it'll bounce up again this weekend - activity should be good, but food not so much 🙃😋
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@Rainbow2300, only too happy to oblige! 😊
The church is called Hallgrímskirkja, the kirkja part just means church. It is one of the tallest buildings in all if Iceland and is situated in Reykjavik. You can go up to the platform right below the bells in the bell tower - very windy up there!
Here is an inside shot, it has a very bright and airy feel.
There Is a massive pipe organ at one end, we were so fortunate that an organist was in practicing, so we got to hear it. Beautiful and stirring.
The Statue out front was a gift from the USA to commemorate the 1000th anniversary of his discovery of North America (he was the first European, and most likely landed in Newfoundland). Here is the inscription on the back.
No, that was not a typo - one thousandth anniversary!
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@BCLadybug888 your vacation photography is wonderful. Thank you for sharing. I'll post my new bike pic after I get it put together and out on the bike lanes.
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We are a household in crisis.
The gourmet doughnut shop has unexpectedly gone out of business. This is the one of Doughnut Sunday fame, purveyor of apple fritters that my other half is obsessed with, and has been for years The reason the dog jumps out of bed brighteyed and bushy tailed on Sunday mornings, assured he’s getting a RIDE.
I’ve never seen my husband this close to crying before.
it’s like being cast adrift in the universe, only with no fritters and no prospects.He always bought two, carefully cut them in half, and made them last through Wednesday.
“I guess I can eat cereal” he said with the saddest face, ever.
I can make him a Dutch baby on Sundays, and we can give the High Anxiety Dog a ride around the block to nowhere, he won’t care But I have trainer, classes at 8 am during the week and the HAD gets a mile and a half before I even go to the gym. I can’t make a Dutch baby every day. And my husband won’t touch my meal-prepped chocolate pancakes no matter how delicious I assure him they areAnybody tried making fritters or doughnuts in an air fryer? How are they a day or two later?
I’m at a complete loss. I swear there’s a quartet in the background of my life today singing “gloom, despair, excessive misery”!!!
(I just gave every over 55 an ear worm. You’re welcome. 😬)2 -
Here’s to clownin’ around, Janet! 🚴♂️😃
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@Rainbow2300 Love the yellow outfit (reflective too) and shoes. Thanks for the laugh!
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@springlering62 - I would offer those chocolate pancakes again 😉
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The pandemic was the WORST for staples in my life going out of business or being unavailable. The thing which bugs me right now is Starbucks Toffee nut syrup being no longer made. I use the sugar free vanilla but for 15 or more year the toffee nut was my morning snack. 🥹 Replacements just are not the same.
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Can I vent a little? I'm feeling like I'm back in the realm of "it's always something". (I suspect this group gets it, more than many here.)
We won't know for sure until pathology report from the biopsy comes back, but dermatologist thinks I have melanoma. She also thinks that if I do, it's likely at a very early stage, very treatable - maybe even without needing a referral to oncology. That latter would be a very good thing, of course.
Other than that, things are going fine. June is busy, since I volunteer to help teach our rowing club's learn-to-row program 4 nights a week, in addition to rowing 4 mornings a week myself with my rowing buddies. The rowing classes are two different classes, each 2 days a week, for 4 weeks.
I hope everyone else is doing well, seeing progress toward your goals!
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@AnnPT77 will be thinking of you this week and hoping for the best news… 🙏
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I was away for a few days, pleasantly surprised to see 27 comments on here. I miss our news feed. Laughing at the "friend requests" comments. I've had several too. One was persistent, tried requests 3 times, guess the first delete wasn't clear enough, hahaha. A lot of my friend requests are doctors, usually military, stuck in a foreign country. Or a captains, and even a general, also in a foreign country. Guys in boats interest me…but I have my own boat. 😆
@BCLadybug888 loved your pics of Norway and Iceland. I was just telling someone the other day that those are the next 2 places I want to visit. I've only been on one cruise, but that would be a tempting way to get an intro to both places. I have roots in Hardanger, Norway, and would love to go there. The fjords there remind me of places up here in Alaska.
@AnnPT77 will be thinking of you and hoping for a good outcome. I recently read an article about senior women and rowing, was on National Geographic site. The waters around me are too darn windswept and freezing, no good rivers, lakes too small, but sure sounds like fun. May have to incorporate into a vacation some day.
Glad to see activity here!
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Hey there ladies! You guys all sound like a lot of fun! Where are you all? I am in Orange County in So Cal.
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Hello!
I'm a long way away, Michigan, palm of the mitten, more or less.
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My place of residence is in my name!
I am 🇨🇦 in the Vancouver area of British Columbia. We just had a run of truly warm, sunny weather (highs to 80f, or tad higher - up to 30c)
But supposed to cool off as the week progresses. I got the A/C set up again in my bedroom on the weekend, which is a godsend, the whole upstairs gets cooking for sure.
Planted Brussel Sprouts for the first time, bought a 6 pack of seedlings. Also resowed some lettuce but may prove to be too warm for them. We'll see. I tried celery in a planter on my deck, and they seem happy!
We (me and my grandkids, mostly my granddaughter) are trying a few different things this year. She is a really good helper in the yard. The vegetables are our thing!
Had my 1st cataract surgery today - not what I was expecting at all, kinda traumatized and still medicated lol. On here when I'm supposed to be napping - shhh or my daughter will hear you!! 😉😁
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I’m in MA! Originally from NY. It’s been raining every weekend here! My yard needs some serious TLC but between work, the weather and then getting sick I haven’t been in the garden to prep it at all this spring. I love gardening but it looks like a weed patch…🥴 I’ll feel better soon… At the end of May, they closed down JoAnn Fabrics and Crafts for good. I worked there for almost 3 years! I like working and being busy! I’ve been looking for P/T work or maybe I’ll get sewing again. At 60+ a good p/t job can be hard to find if ya want weekends free. I tried a start up window treatment business in 2006 for a while. What are you all up to these days?
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overheard in the dressing room this morning:
“My son is getting married the first week in August. I need to lose twenty pounds for the wedding.”
I scarpered outta there as fast as I could.
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Yikes.
Unrealistic, crazy fast. Viscerally, I just don't get the "lose for X event" mindset. (Maybe it's just that I don't have a son, so no upcoming wedding? 😆) I admit, weirdo that I am, just the appearance motivation part is alien to me, but if appearance motivated, why not all the time? Just because photos?
Sign me confused. Also troubled about the desired loss rate: Too much "Biggest Loser" and similar nonsense?
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speaking of, I’ve never seen Biggest Loser, but since the only channel I can figure out how to operate is Discover, and I’ve tired of homicide and hunters of houses with no discernible source of income, I checked out “1,000 Pound Roomies” and am hooked.
The two women have such likeable personalities, and no filter about showing how weight and food affects their lives, I find myself really pulling for them, and wishing we could get Jaz, the one trying to lose, into the warm arms of MFP support to help sort her out.
I’d feel icky and voyeuristic, except that it’s so well done, and the production team really seems to try to produce a balanced and sensitive show.
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and as an aside,
It’s so darn humid here, I can’t get dry. I’ve felt damp for days and days and days, and it’s supposed to storm yet again in 18 minutes. Just took el doggo out for a walk and he balked and demanded to come back in
At least we’re only getting crashing thunderstorms daily, not the flooding and catastrophic weather many of you may be experiencing.
But I wouldn’t be surprised if mushrooms start popping out of body creases and cracks. They’re popping up everywhere else. Never seen this many mushrooms. Every size shape and color.
It’s def going to storm. The Troublesome Cat has staked out a spot scooched up against me. He abhors thunder and lightning.
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may be a PITA but he’s so darn cute.
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Anybody out there? 👋🏻
I’m getting the distinct “talking to myself vibe”.There’s been chatter on another thread about electronic scales and how accurate/inaccurate they can be with body fat, muscle mass, protein etc “measurements”, so I’ve been studying mine.
They seem extremely consistent since I got the scale/app in late 2018. Numbers have changed where and when I’d expect, and in quantities I’d expect. No random spiking up and down, no oddities in graphs.
One thing I find interesting was, my weight was at its lowest late 2020, when I realized it had gotten too low, that I’d lost muscle, and made an effort to gain some weight and muscle back.
I’m up a net 18 pounds since then, and according to the data from the scale, 10.5 of that is muscle, based on a verrrrrry slow and consistent upward graph over nearly four years.
That’s a very interesting data point, and I’m pleased with it. I figure it’s a great trend, even if not entirely accurate b
Still having afternoon storms here. Yesterday’s- complete with light hail- was off the chart, and lasted over an hour. More forecast this afternoon.
Hubs dropped me off so I didn’t have to walk to yoga. I usually do in rain, because I enjoy it, but the lightning was so aggressive and it was raining so hard I buckled and asked him for a lift. First half of yoga was no music. We just enjoyed the rain furiously drumming on the roof. Quite pleasant! And getting soaked running through the rain from car to front door of the studio was actually really energizing. 👍🏻
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I'm still out here, but I think you know that. 😉
June is really busy/tiring for me, and there's some annoying stuff in my life lately that's been a distraction, so I haven't been posting much on this thread lately.
In addition to my regular schedule of on-water rowing, etc., I'm helping with my club's learn-to-row class nights a week for 2+ hours, and doing some administrative chores for it at home as well. I'm not used to attempting that much scheduled "productivity" in retirement!
Sometimes I row twice a day if I get in a boat with class newbies, other times just help out on the dock, carry boats, or stuff myself into the coxswain seat in a quad and yell at them for a couple of hours. (No, coxswains don't shout "stroke, stroke, stroke". I've literally never heard a cox do that. 😆) It has been hot on the river, 90s F (around 33 C) and humid.
The results came back from the biopsy of my scalp. Happily, they now don't think I have melanoma, which is major goodness. They think I have some type of benign eccrine tumor. That's a tumor type that arises from sweat glands. I don't know what causes it, but if sweating contributes, I'm definitely a sweating kind of person.
Next Thursday, they're scheduled to remove the whole discolored area, and send that off to the pathology lab to confirm the biopsy results. I'm not going to be allowed to do anything vigorous for at least two weeks, or swimmy, while the top layer of two layers of staples/stitches heals. This is very annoying during prime rowing season, maybe especially so as we'll be working on integrating the class newbies into the club in July. Apparently there will also be a bulky bandage initially, too. The only good part is that it's outpatient and local anesthetics, so I can drive myself. (Medical drivers are a hassle for those of us with zero local family.)
I also had a CT scan to revisit some lung nodules first seen about a year ago, and stable at the 6 month mark. They monitor this kind of thing closely in cancer survivors. I'm hoping/assuming it'll still be stable, not cancer-related, but I should know in the next couple of weeks. There was one of those medical kerfluffles over the CT, so it got cancelled and had to be put on hold then rescheduled. It was ordered over 6 months ago, but it seems the insurance person at my doctor's office didn't get the necessary clearance, and didn't return multiple calls from the hospital when they tried to follow up. 🙄
I may've mentioned that I have sleep apnea, and no, being thin didn't resolve it, unfortunately. I use a CPAP machine every night to help keep me breathing adequately. Just for extra fun, a couple of nights ago I woke up to the machine making a sound like a European ambulance, kind of a high pitched whine, but at a different tone when I inhaled vs. exhaled. I can't sleep through that. It will take at least 2 weeks to get a new machine, and that's if my doctor's administrative person actually gets the properly worded new prescription - yes, it requires one - to the medical supplies company fairly quickly. So, at least 2 weeks of headaches and deplorable sleep, while healing from scalp surgery.
Also, my garage door spring broke, so I can't open the garage. Fortunately, the car was outside when it happened. I need to schedule a repair in amongst the other stuff, but haven't done it yet.
Yes, I'm whining. Apologies.
Other things are quite nice, though: I did a fun formal guided tour of the local university's STEM building, which is really interesting, with one of my closest friends. It was a reconstruction/expansion of a decommissioned power plant, and used "mass lumber" construction. That employs pre-fabricated layered wood panels and beams in place of concrete or steel structural materials. Mass lumber can be used in buildings up to 50 stories, though this one is well short of that. It's very cool. Looks like this:
Various fixtures and art installations in the building repurpose components salvaged from the power plant, such as the tables in foreground of this photo. The mass lumber materials have lower environmental impact and some other advantages as compared with concrete/steel construction.
Other good stuff: My venus flytrap is flowering, and so is one of my air plants. Both of those are somewhat unusual events, so interesting. I started another round of physical therapy for knee issues, and I think it's helping, though we're just starting.
That's a lot of tedious catch-up updates for you, so I'll leave it there.
I hope some of the other 60+ folks will let us know how they're doing!
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@AnnPT77 girl, you’ve got to stop thinking of head bandages as a fashion statement!
Glad it looks benign!
Maybe you should bring the 60’s blasé housewife turbans back?
Please post a photo of the air plant (no spellcheck, “airplanes” don’t bloom 🙄) flower!! I didn’t know they bloomed.
A family member had a carrion plant, which blooms once every seven years, and the name, btw, is very apropos. I’m sure neighbors thought there were bodies hidden on the property. It tickles me when newspaper articles make a BIG DEAL about the one blooming at the botanical garden. We had the…..errrrr…..pleasure of being up front and personal with one. Not recommended unless you realllllllllly like exotica, which they did.
My great great great grandma’s tiger lilies bloomed this year- eight years after being transplanted. I was floored. Had given up on them. I’m going to move them to a better location this fall. I’m suspicious, though. They sure look more modern than the tigers I remembered. I’m wondering if they got substituted somehow, since the lady who bought the old house dug them up for me at the appropriate time.
I put a circle of stones around the bulblets to warn the neighborhood yard maintenance guys to stay away. One of my neighbors caught me and told me someone had planted flowers over my “dead pet”, lololol.
I am super peeved those same guys cut my super nice oak leaf hydrangea down to the ground last fall. It’s come back but not a single blossom. Hubs is going to find a dual language sign to put by it that says “cut me again and you die”.
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@AnnPT77 I am sorry to hear of your medical difficulties, health and insurance. Hope all turns out well and you’re back to rowing soon.
My husband and I have been traveling a lot this year, to Europe a couple times and to the Caribbean another. Fortunately, we got this all in prior to an acute (new) medical problem of my husband’s, necessitating a couple emergency room trips and a medical procedure over the timeframe of a couple weeks. He is not back to baseline, so we are continuing to work on that (with difficulty).
I don’t post much, but do read the thread regularly and and hoping all is well with everyone.
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Hello and hope all are doing well. I've been good and finally got my new e-bike out and about. Buying it was an exercise in patience as the first two I ordered were scam sellers (apparently a problem on Prime.) Happily the third time was a charm. Love this bike. It has 16" wheels (good for me since I keep getting shorter.) The power assist has 3 levels and I only use assist to climb inclines so I'm peddling more and going farther than I could with my last bike. Strapped the two baskets I wove onto it and off I ride through our suburban DC area neighborhood seeing all the lovely gardens and views. Life is good.
@AnnPT77 -good thoughts for your medical procedures and full speedy recovery.
Keep on tracking y'all…
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@springlering62, below is the air plant that's flowering, since you'd asked to see a photo. I think this one is Tillandsia ionantha 'Mexico'. To me, it looks like a tiny angry knot. The plant shown is actually a cluster of plants, one of which is blooming. Sometimes one plant or several break off from the cluster, and usually thrive on. Dime in there for size, obviously.
Any of the Tillandsias I've had flower are similar blooms, kind of a cigar-shaped purple thing with yellow and white sexy parts, the white barely visible in this photo against the white (junk mail envelope) background.
When they flower, the central leaves turn red/yellow/orange-ish, then the purple flower(s) start poking out. In theory, after they bloom, the parent plant dies but produces "pups" either before or after the flowering, before dying. Pups are the little offset plants that grow off the parent. This variety seems to grow many pups from a cluster then the more mature ones flower eventually. I think this variety has flowered for me before, but I can't remember whether the plant that blossomed died, or just went back to being green (which has definitely happened with some other Tillandsia varieties I have).
Yes, one of my grey hairs got tangled up in there. 🤷
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interesting! Thanks for sharing. The first think I think is, I wonder if they’re naturally evolved for hiummingbirds.
Hair? Puhleez. Wiped out the dishwasher this morning, cleaned the filter etc etc etc
HOW does little knots of dog hair get in the dishwasher. If the dishwasher is cleaning, why don’t they wash away? So many questions!!!0 -
Reportedly, mostly pollinated by hummingbirds and moths, but some species of Tillandsia have been known to be pollinated by bees, bats, even ants. Some self-pollinate.
As you see in the photo, the stigma (white) and anthers (yellow) protrude above the petals, so lots of things could pollinate them. Since the flower is tubular, things with a long tongue may go after nectar below the stigma/anthers and do most the that work.
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yesterday I discovered puerquitos at the international grocery store. They are pig-shaped Mexican gingerbread. Thick like heavy bread, slightly sweet.
For some reason, I threw one in the toaster on “bagel” setting. Oh my sweet heavens! The toasted bits sorta caramelized. Absolutely lovely with a small dab of lemon curd. And for some reason (which I’m hoping isn’t calorie estimates on the unmarked bags being wildly off!) they are super filling and satisfying.
I’ve been undereating a bit, so I think these are just the ticket to “fill up the corners”. (Brownie points if you recognize the reference!)Now that school is out, parents and grandparents are bringing teen boys to our gym, which typically sways “senior”. It’s a delight to see a couple of generations working out together. I hope they stick around for the rest of the summer. It’s pleasant to have young blood hanging around.
And not complaining about joint pain, lol.
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