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For now, at least, I suspect the welcome will still be genuine especially if equipped with a strategic button, t-shirt, or baseball cap :)
I'm sure I have grapefruit spoons! And a curved double sided grapefruit knife.... somewhere... 🤷♂️
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definitely getting this!
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That button makes me laugh, Yooly :)
I think most people people are still feeling like we are cousins? My BFF :) just went to Florida - a trip she planned months ago to visit snowbird friends. First time! And this all happens. She reports that everyone there is treating everyone very well.
Feels like we are all being thrown under the bus together. Our mutual love and respect will get us through - I have faith.3 -
Hello everyone, I am on vacation in Mexico 🇲🇽, finding it hard to keep calories down when you are at an all-inclusive! 😎
I am recording everything best I can, and the totals are very scary 😨
Hoping to get a handle on this as I'm here for another week!! A bright spot is I am doing lots of walking and my step count is over 10,000 each day so far. And some of that is walking on the beach which is much more taxing physically, gotta be worth double!
Weather is fantastic, around 26 highs and 15 lows. Fabulous sunsets. Living the life!
This is the view from our room:
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WOW! Where are you visiting?
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Oh, BC! This looks so beautiful. Look at that beach 😶
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Puerto Vallarta, really like this town, my 3rd visit - first time was a day stop on a cruise ship. Lots of Canadian expats here! Plus I prefer to be on the west coast for 2 reasons - sunsets (I am never awake at sunrise!) and a shorter plane ride, right down the coast 🙂
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Why Ms. BC - I could almost drive down there to meet up with you!
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I had to look at it on a map. It is close to you, Yooly! Wish it was close enough to me :) But at this point it would have to be close enough that I could walk :)
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Well, it's gorgeous! Love sunsets, enjoy!
In other wherabouts, enduring downpours... cats & dogs! Ought to pay off in flowers, our Cherry blossoms are popping!
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On the east coast? I do miss spring. Here in central Texas it happened in mid February. Now the temps are mainly mid 80s and little rain.
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We just had rain over the weekend in my corner - but many friends nearby had a serious ice storm. Significant damage. Power out. No cell service. Thankfully it is warming up tremendously today. Ice is melting which I hear is also causing some final tree branches to fall. Hopefully that all stops soon.
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Actually, as beautiful as the sunsets can be here, the sunsets on the west coast of BC are outstanding. And the sunrises too in the Fraser Valley. But of course, only on the days between rain events!
A few more days of this lovely place and back home where it is warming up nicely ☺️. @yakkystuff, is that where you are? Are our cherry trees coming out? Those and the magnolias make for stunning streetscapes. Quite magical.
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I'm West Coast US
Wed, drove down a cherry tree lined blvd, was nearing full bloom and stunning.
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I think the best ever springs I experienced were in South Carolina. Everything seemed to bloom at once. Magnolias, azaleas of ever color, wisteria, dogwoods, daffodils- glorious.
Here in Texas we’re hoping for rain and maybe some blooms on the prickly pear cactus 🌵.
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Yes, dogwoods popping, and asparagus in season. Sunshine evoked verdant growth. Hubby is outside whacking it back, lol
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I miss violets, tulips, lily of the valley, hyacinths, forsythia, lilacs, apple blossoms, crocuses — the sight of the earth waking up again.
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Spring here means laying in the sun like a lizard around and in the pool (which is up to a brisk 68°F/20°C) because today's high is 86°F/30°C, but it will be 56°F/13°C on Monday and Tuesday.
It also means a thiiiiiiick coat of yellowish pollen all over everything, and I do mean everything. It is the pollening.
We have a saying here "Don't like the weather? Wait 5 minutes." lol
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Last night was our final night in Mexico, and we took a boat ride to a magical place for dinner and a 'Cirque du Soleil' type show in an open air amphitheatre.
The food was very good, and we were plied with rum punch or cervezas all the way there and back! So Friday was over calories…
Then today we flew home - long, long day with an extra meal and snacking; so Saturday was way over calories…
The good news is - I got my 10,000 steps in each day, and I'm home now and looking forward to reeling it in and being in control of my food intake, plus how it is prepared. I'm going to wait for a few days to see what the scale has to say 😳!
I'm also looking forward to many of the spring flowers Yooly listed, but it's set to rain for the next week…
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Look at you! All beachy and happy. Beautiful 🤩
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Spring and lovely ladies in Mexico! So much beauty in this thread :) I've been having fun with my friend who spent a few days here on her way home from Florida. So I've have beauty everywhich way.
Spring is fighting to be here too. Should hit 42' here this afternoon 😝 But. Mostly sunny. Flowers will all be here soon and then into the heat - NOT the same kind of heat as you southerners (thank goodness) :)2 -
Hellebores are blooming! These poor blossoms have been snowed on a few times but they’re still here 😁
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Hellebores! I don’t think I’ve ever seen those outside of a garden in Seattle.
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They are ridiculously winter hardy - and tolerate shade well. Their foliage will look nicer in a month or so :)
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My plan was to wait until the second eye surgery before I seriously tackled weight loss again - but that will probably be a while so there is no time like the present :) Today I started tracking and weighing with a goal in mind.
I am so excited over the potential new vision I will have soon :)
I have my fingers crossed for monovision intraocular lenses - one eye corrected for long distance / the other for arms length distance.My eye that had the detached retina is now corrected for long distance - and it is doing great :) 20/20 vision without a problem and I can read a couple of letters in the next line down :)
The other eye doesn't really have a cataract, but the vision in the two eyes is so different now (lol, the opposite of what it has been for the past two years) that the surgeon things it reasonable for me to have surgery in that eye also - to bring the vision of the two eyes closer.I am waiting on a contact lens that will allow me to try monovision before committing to a permanent implant in my good eye. Once I have the lens I need to test this way of seeing for two weeks before they will consider surgery. If it is successful - no double vision/no vertigo/no loss of depth perception - they will book the surgery.
I don't think it will be a problem. The difference in vision between my eyes has been ridiculous for the past two years, light years beyond the difference that monovision will provide. But, my amazing surgeon is on vacation for the first three weeks of May so I expect it will be sometime near the end of May? Maybe early June?.
I saw the optician on Saturday, hoping to start the trial then, but there was a miscommunication between the surgeon and optician and me. The contact lens they had ready for me was optimized for "close" or reading vision. I'm wanting it optimized for "intermediate" or arms-length vision - computer, painting, cooking, building :)
I wore that reading distance lens for about 15 minutes and it was amazing! Although my intermediate vision was a bit fuzzy - I adapted quickly and could see distance so well and read the tiniest print on the chart with no problem :) And, contact lenses have come a long way since the last time I tried them 40 odd years ago. And so much more affordable! Last time I tried them was when toric lenses were introduced for astigmatism. A pair cost $400 (in the 80s) - and the vision wasn't great so I stuck with glasses.
The contact lens I tried this weekend was extremely comfortable, gave me amazing vision, and cost only $72 for a 6-pack!
If this all works out, my 2+ years of vision hell might end in me having better vision than I have had since I was 10 years old - WITHOUT glasses.
Serious hours-long book reading might require a pair of light readers - night driving might require glasses too. But. Wow. That is light years ahead of where I have been and where I thought I would be :)I know this was ridiculously long - but I've only met one person recently who knows what "monovision" correction is - and it seems like such an amazing option if it works - so I wanted to share what I am learning. :)
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Wow wow, amazing what is possible now... worth the wait, hang in!
Have never seen that plant. Pretty.
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My hellebore is blooming too 😍
Very interesting about the monovision option - I'm glad you told us about it as I had forgotten a coworker of mine went that route a few years ago, and loved it. It was not discussed with me when I went for my cataract consult, and since I haven't even had word of a surgery date, perhaps I'll go in and talk to the technician about it.
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Today at 4:00 I will get to try the contact lens. I'm so hoping it will be manageable. An update will follow :)
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Hey how does this monovision thing work? Won't you be closing one eye all the time?!?!?!??!!?!?!
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Didn't make much progress today. The lens was there for me - but the wrong prescription :(
From my little trial with computer glasses with one lens popped out - and last week's "reading" contact lens I'm amazing, PAV. Seems our brains "close" the info coming from the "wrong" eye.This work better on the reading front for me than on the distance.
Holding my phone in my hand I can see perfectly with both eyes wide open and nothing "weird"
Far away is a bit jiggly still. As if my eye is trying to find the right focus. But not terrible.This is supposed to take maybe 2 weeks for a brain to grow accustomed to. If it is going to. For some people the two different prescriptions can cause double vision, vertigo and unmanageable loss of depth prescription.
Fingers crossed my brain can sort it out!
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