WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2019
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Heather - simply gorgeous tree. Thank you for posting this photo! Like you, I remember elms in my parents and grandparents wooded areas when I was a kid. Long gone now....
Would be neat if there are some left in the world with natural immunity to this disease that could be cloned. I'm sure botantists are looking for them.
Lanette
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✔️1. weigh in
✔️2. log all
x 4. five minutes meditation
x5. Take care of at least 3 shorter (1 pagish) writing or administrative task/bill, (union work doesn't count)
✔️✔️✔️✔️6. At least 15 min cleaning
✔️7. At least 5 min day filing
✔️8. average 1100 calories net
• Overall Feeling : ok
• Log all: yes
• Exercise : 30 min elliptical plus a little walking and cleaning
• 1100 calories net average : I think so today
•3 Short term writing/admin per week:
•cleaning : yes!
•filing: yes
Grateful :
1. AC in gym
2.colleagues and union people
3.light foods
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Well ladies, a very upset and disappointed DH emailed the hat shop this evening.
He has just got an email back from the shop to say she is going to post him the hat when it comes in for ABSOLUTELY FREE. :drinker:
Wow!
Harrison Ford, eat your heart out!
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx9 -
decent day. I took care of some important things. it's great to not have major deadline for a few days. phew. it's very hot here. 87° at 8pm. High was supposed to have been 91. Tomorrow 94, Wed 99, Thurs 97, Fri 94, then 86, 81.
now it's about 86 inside
It gets cooler late at night just before morning, goes down to about 70. I closed the window and shades all day, and will open up when it gets cooler outside than inside, maybe at about 10pm.
AC is unusual in homes in most of France. I lived in the south in an old stone house and you just shut the shutters all day, and the open up at night til some time in the morning and then shut again all day.
I have a few old flimsy summer dresses that I hardly wear-too flimsy for work. they are almost all WAY too tight. that is a real reality check. I don't know when I've last had that experience. reality check
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Heather It's only right. That poor shopwoman was bedazzled, but must make it right for your husband.1
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Heather and Lanette My childhood home in Nebraska had a yard full of beautiful stately elms which provided the most lovely shade in the summertime. By the 1980's they were all gone. Canadian and US scientists have successfully cloned trees resistant to Dutch Elm disease from trees that survived the epidemic. There are 3 or 4 commercially available cultivars. One of them is an American Elm cultivar named 'Valley Forge'. I don't remember the others, but they all have patriotic names.4
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Karen in VA - thank you for that info!!! I don't know if they do well out here in the Pacific NW but I will check. Of course I'd be 90 by the time they are stately, lol.2
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Heather - well done on your husband for pursuing the issue. Bet dollars to donuts that's something you taught him.
Meg - so glad to see you posting! The baker's cyst sounds like no fun at all, but really glad you're getting the A1C back down where it ought to be.
I used my lunch hour to mow the front yard and part of the back and side yards after our flash flood weekend here. There are still mini-rivers running down part of the back acreage, and it can't be mowed without getting the mower stuck, or cutting the ground up horribly, but it's also why Corey's garden is doing so well. He blanched, cooled and froze at least ten servings of green beans that he picked in between the rain showers, as well as put up onions and garlic to dry. We've also had new potatoes twice straight from the garden, quite yummy, and will cut some up and crisp them and add them to the taco meat for tonight's dinner. My fig tree (well, my choice of tree, I don't plant things, he does
) has baby figs all over it, and most of his other fruit trees are thriving. Hopefully everything will survive the summer.
Kinda sick of rain... as are all of us in the central U.S., I think!
My daughter keeps sending me ultrasounds over Facebook. Last one was a video of the ultrasound. I never could see those hidden images in those weird images where you have to unfocus your eyes to see them, either. I just make cooing noises and send heart emojis. I am a bad grandma.
Oh, well. I'll love it when it arrives, but hopefully it's a little less bloblike by that point.
Which reminds me, Rebecca, Athena is a cutie-patootie!
Love y'all,
Back to work,
Lisa in AR5 -
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Hubby is the blue dot 🔵 in the weather report for lightening.Raining here so bad connections.Hubby was driving home to us lightening hit near his truck then the telephone pole it hit fell missed his trailer full of equipment by a foot or two. Waiting for him to come home so I can calm his nerves! San Antonio getting a really really bad storm ⛈. The thunders scaring JR . So hoping hubby gone soon.He said the sky turned white before the strike.
Amber Tx7 -
Heather, when I was a girl in Ohio we had an immense elm I the yard if the home my parents bought in 1955. It was the focal point of much of the landscaping. Two years later it showed digns of the disease and had to be taken down. My mom was devastated. When I went back to Ohio for my 50th reunion in 2011 we drive by the home and were invited in! The front yard was now presided over by a large Ash tree and a beautiful magnolia at the corner that was one my mother had planted. It was past bloom time, but the tree had grown immense and spreading for a magnolia, and the ash shaded the Eastern side of the house nicely. I feel almost teary looking at that stately elm. The Logan elm, which was famous for Chief Logan giving an important speech beneath it, survived the disease for a number of years until it finally succumbed. I'm glad to hear of the new cloned o es! I hope th3y live long and prosper.
Julie, my reality check was a picture of me in just such a dress as you describe.
It was an intense shock, and it was 11 months ago. That was when I began to investigate weight loss surgery with a friend who had it 8 years ago, was my age, and looked and felt at least a decade younger than me. Whatever solution your wakeup leads to, all my wishes for you to be successful too go out to you.
The sun is out, so I think I'll treat myself to a little walking adventure outside. It's not quite warm enough to open the house to it, but may be by about 4 or 5pm.
Sharon Near Seattle{/b]7 -
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The above picture of me was at around my highest weight - 262.2 lbs. It has been made worse because arthritis and 8 fused discs have shrunk me from 5'8" to 5'5".
Sharon Near Seattle4 -
Lisa -
Your help is so invaluable!!! I figured when I said yes I had you in my pocket... I'll take this off the forum and put it email...
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Kim - always, my dear! Whatever you need, just ask.
Lisa2 -
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Kim: Lisa beat me to the punch by way of offering you grant-writing support. Give me a call anytime. Is there a chance the garden could increase your hours to put you at the minimum needed to get benefits?
Janetr: So sorry to hear of your latest worries. Prayers going up.
We had three days of rain, so didn't make it to the pool. I increased my time on the recumbent bike and seated exercises using the resistance band. The ankles are feeling better all the time, but the fracture on the left 5th metatarsal bone still needs more time to knit. I can clearly feel it when I am in the pool. Next x-rays will be on July 5th.
Have to say I'm totally indebted to all of you and the MFP diary for being able to maintain and even lose pounds while being so sedentary. I've lost all the extra weight I brought home from Portland, and looks like I'll end this month down about a pound. Yay!
DH had a spell of light-headedness yesterday. He came out of the kitchen to come sit in the living room, and before he could get to his chair, he knelt next to my chair, and grabbed the handrails. Then, his head started veering treacherously towards our glass coffee table. Fortunately, it's on casters, so I was able to push it out of the way, and caught him before his torso hit the area rug hard. Of course he says it was nothing.
His pulse was normal, and he wasn't sweaty, but at his age,(per Dr. Google) dizzy spells are not unusual. We already have a appointment with ENT this Thursday in connection with his hearing, so I'll be sure to ask doctor to advise if this might be related to an inner ear issue.
Stay well, friends. We can do this.
Rori
SMILING in sunny
Colorado Foothills9 -
Rori -
scary with hubby! Thank you for the offer... between you and Lisa - I have access to the Goddesses of grant writing!!! I need to get to 20 hours for 403, 30 for insurance (or maybe its the other way around) but either way I don't want more than 10-15... I love my business and make more working for myself than for them.
smiles Kim4 -
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Amber- scary for your DH. We had high winds and lightening last night. Fourth weekend in a row with bad weather. Ugh
Meg- so happy to see your post. Take care of you my friend.
Played bridge all afternoon so I am tired of sitting. Too hot and humid to walk outside.
Better get dinner ready.
SueBDew in TX3 -
SueBTexas took 2hours he’s finally home showering 🧼. The roads finally cleared for drivers too. God definitely protects no vehicle,trailer,or hubby harmed. The poles are being removed their burying the lines in that spot y our home tomorrow so no electricity to cook 9-11am. Peanut butter sandwiches 🥪 y low cal chips
No opening the fridge! So no tea!!! My poor Swallow she been extra busy couldn’t figure out why but we know now all 4eggs survived! 4 babies to feed! She's safe we let her keep a nest in our dry awning area we stay away from her area. Father bird y her are very good never lose any.
Amber Tx.
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stats for the day:
bike ride hm 2 gym- 7.23min, 12.8amph, 136mhr, 1.58mi= 72c
apple watch- 63c
ELIPTICAL- 20min, 126ahr, 134mhr, 5incl, 5resist, 1.79mi= 173c
apple watch- 153c
bike ride gym 2 dome- 5.16min, 16.9amph, 122mhr, 1.48mi= 48c
apple watch- 40c
bike ride puy 2 sumn station- 15min, 12.2amph, 141mhr,3.05mi= 134c
apple watch- 116c
jog sra 2 wrk- 5.02min, 143mhr, 9.35min mi, .52mi= 66c
apple watch- 56c
jog wrk 2 sta- 4.26min, 9.48min mi, 142mhr, .45mi= 49c
apple watch- 49c
bike ride dome 2 hm- 18.49min, 8.1amph, 143mhr, 2.52mi= 173c
apple watch- 137c
total cal 7153 -
Lisa - I don’t see ultrasound pictures well either. You’ll be great when the baby is really here! I am tired of the wet and cold here too, it’s supposed to rain everyday this week.
Heather -glad your hubby is getting the hat.
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]klanders30 wrote: »Gorgeous day on tap. Will garden and visit MIL today. Deep breath the end of the school year is imminent
Doc says I have to lower my cholesterol
so no more whole milk yogurt for me I will take a break from yogurt for a while before I experiment with lower fat or even soy substitutes.
NYKAREN
Rita - what's your daily carb target? Do you still have your daily food diary open so we can see what/how you are eating?
My carb goal right now is 38 grams for the day. Being that I’m close to my goal, I keep carbs at 10% or less of calories. I do have my log open. Feel free to take a look!
RV Rita just finished pg. 751 -
I'll be going to bed any minute so I can get up extra early to walk the dogs so we can leave the house before 6 AM to go to Seattle for Jake to see the cardiologist, have an echo-cardiogram and have his pacemaker checked. Any event that includes a ferry ride is a good event. I'll report tomorrow about what the doctor says. Barbie in NW WA 4
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Phew! Finally caught up!
I was invited to Friends of Bottomless Lakes board meeting today and 2 hrs later a member AND secretary for the group! It’s just starting out so we shall see.
RV Rita2 -
Did one segment of the 10MS Carb Burner DVD then took the extremepump class. The plan for tomorrow is to do a “You Can Do Anything for a Minute” DVD
After exercise, counted money at the church. This is the last time I do it until next April. Then bowling, then ceramics at night and then mahjongg.
Kim – if you need help with that grant just give Lisa a call!! Update, I see Lisa has already offered her help.
Barbara – I made a zucchini chocolate cake and Vince is eating it! I’m just not telling him there’s zucchini in it….lol What is the saying “if it doesn’t move and it should, use WD40, if it moves and shouldn’t then use duck tape” My antivirus keeps telling me that the Newcomer website is unsafe. Not that I care to go to it anyway.
KJ – We have wasps by the pool, I know that they’re behind the retaining wall. We did get a wasp trap, a WHY trap (wasps, hornets, and yellowjackets). The reviews did say to use applejuice as the attractant. So far, not very many wasps at all. I have seen a few go into the wall, but not lately. Is the trap working????? I certainly hope so
Better go eat breakfast before I forget like I did the other day
Went to ceramics and picked up my Linus. Here he is minus his blanket. I also picked up Sally but I don’t think her dress is as dark as the sample of the paint showed so I’m repainting her dress
Meg – you were missed! Sorry to hear about the baker’s cyst. I hope it’s not too painful for you
Heather – you certainly can’t pass up a free hat!
Rori – (((big hug)))
Michele in NC
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I know I’m about to sound like a total downer, but my sister is causing grief again. I just can’t believe the way she has treated our mom. They jointly own a home, but still owe 14 years on the mortgage. I have begged my sister to let me buy her out. She seems to think selling is the best route. I don’t know what I’m going to do with my mom. Social Security is her only income, so no respectable apartment complex will rent to her.
I was so physically ill from the mess tonight that I couldn’t go to the gym or eat supper. This is taking a huge toll on all of us.
Thanks for “listening”.
Connie in KY12 -
Connie that is why I bought the house to rent to our son. Rents are out of sight here in the Twin Cities. If they sell the home where can they find a cheaper place to live? I am on your page.4
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