WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2019
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We are going to get some wind & rain from Dorian's outer bands tonight & tomorrow. Yesterday we moved some items around on the deck to minimize the chances of a Fantasia scene. I picked the ripe tomatoes. We have a whole house generator. I think we're set.
I'm home from my Learning Coach job, having had another successful day. Grandson's task today was to do a Science quiz on scientific units of measurement, work through a Math unit reviewing the order of operations, and complete 2 "scavenger hunts". The scavenger hunts are a way of getting the students to navigate around the website & to become familiar with the teacher's name, phone number, email address, etc. They have to find info in the Syllabus, Handbook, Intro Video, Home Page, etc. to answer the questions. They are time-consuming, but I suppose they serve a purpose for new students. Not nearly as important for returning students in my opinion. Anyway, he hung in there with all of it. I was particularly impressed with how well he stayed focused & calm for the Math, not his favorite subject.
Did I mention that he is now an inch taller than I am?
Karen in Virginia
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Happy Thursday dear ladies.
Another HOT one here today. I am so looking forward to Fall weather and temps. I just hope we have some Fall. We went from winter cold, right to summer hot. Lots of rain.
Lisa--Happy dance for you over your grant. You have got what it takes.
RVRita--Glad that DH's surgery is done and now you can relax.
Allie--I am really sorry about Chester. They are an important part of the family and hard to say Good Bye. Great new about DFIL, I bet a lot of it is because you take the time to make sure he eats and gets what he needs.
Take care ladies, Blessings, Vicki GI NE 2 -
Amber I think you would enjoy the movie about Temple Grandin. She was autistic and went on to redesign where cattle go to meet their demise. It is a fascinating story. She had wonderful support from aunt and mother before they knew about autism. Her ways of finding ways to make her way of thinking work for her life is inspiring. That makes sense about Einstein. I feel for him and his family in trying to help their son.
There is research that is looking into gut bacteria, and the effect it has on autism.2 -
grandmallie wrote: »Chester not doing well I have a feeling the time is coming where he will be going over the rainbow bridge.. it is just so tough losing a furbaby .. you love them so much and have been part of your family for so long, we never have enough time with them do we?
I'm sorry, poor Chester. My specialty with dog rescue is bringing the neglected and abused ones home with me. I become their forever home.
My promise to them is to listen when they tell me it's their time. Their signals are pretty straight forward. It breaks my heart every time.
My pack sends Chester wet licks and a puppy pile to comfort him. ❤2 -
Margaret and Amber
Dr. Temple Grandin spoke at the Richmond Forum April 27. My friend Ann has season tickets (a scarce commodity). She said it was one of the best Forums she's ever been to. I would really like to hear Dr. Grandin speak. She is one of my heroes.
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Amber: I forgot to mention that mothballs are toxic. Keep them away from pets and other wanted animals. Smelling mothballs will send most animals packing. Eating them can result in death.
Karen in VA: Love the photo of your grandson! I hope that storm impacts in your area are minimal. :flowerforyou:
(((Allie))): Thinking of your Chester. I hope all goes gently for him and for you.
DH is currently off at his physical therapy and I’m home with our dog. DH’s challenges are tough, but he seems to be making progress. He has less pain and better mobility. As I’ve mentioned, surgery is not an option for him. Our dog has hip issues, too, and takes pain medication daily. He is still happy and willing to go out for walks. We’re counting this blessing and thankful for it. I’m the lucky one. I’m getting along very well between MFP, Women 50+, good self-care and yoga classes. The goal of having fun everyday is very helpful. :bigsmile:
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon5 -
Question ladies. I have been doing weight machines, and my 30 minutes on the treadmill 4 times a week for months now. Is it normal to still have sore muscles? I am fine Monday and Tuesday, but Wednesday and Thursday I am sore. Then recuperate Friday Saturday and Sunday. My husband has slowly increased his weight amount, but I am still getting that burning feeling on my amounts. I know guys and gals are different. I had mentioned it to my husband today, and he was surprised I am still feeling sore after all this time.
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Rebecca You may have started with too much weight which takes longer for your muscles to recover from. If you keep advancing in weights, your muscles will just continue to be sore. Give your strength training a rest for a bit.2
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Allie: Keeping you and Chester in my thoughts. May his path be smooth and gentle. 💕💖💕1
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LyndaBSS - I am in Ct too, yes he was our free dog, most expensive free dog we have had , he had 3 bladder stone operations,,, at $2.000 a pop.. my ex wasn't the best husband ,but as a pet parent and uncle to mine he is the tops..I dont think Tom is ready to let go just yet, he is taking him down for fluids under the skin tomorrow , and he also is on tramadol and antibiotics, I spent about an hour with him this morning, and he does much better in the afternoon and evenings then mornings... I told Tom I don't want to see him suffer and he knows that we are living on borrowed time...
back to work today, only worked 5 hrs and people cancelling in hygiene and he wants to see a full schedule..
one of the ladies where my DFIL is had a great idea, but it would cost money to do.. they really need someone with a handicapped accessible van to take patients at nursing homes to appointments,, if I could get one or even afford one I could really make a good amount of money doing that.1 -
Has anyone heard from Michele? I've been watching weather channel news and worry for N Carolina where she lives. Dorian seems to be headed that way. My son and DDIL are in Virginia and so is Karen. I hope all of our friends and family members remain safe. 0
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Didn't check in yesterday, spent too much time catching up today, but gosh you gals mean so very much to me!
Karen in VA, your golden memory cabin sounds a little too rustic for this fourth generation city gal. We have electricity and so hot running water (thanks to the spring fed cistern and electric pump), central heat, woodstove and lately added propane for cooking. We even have cable for internet and TV. My cell phone works great, Joe's old flip phone works for calls but not for voicemail (something about 3rd party contract didn't include old system voicemail. To get it to work he'd have to go 1 mile down to the end of our lane or 1/2 mile out to the pavement and 1 mile up the road to the ridge. Hah, like he'd do that! A/C is the natural kind, morning fog and afternoon wind, works so well there are only a few uncomfortable days due the Chetco Effect. You're right. We think it's heaven. So glad you have those memories, so wish your GS could have such an experience :} Brava for your "two option" success! Love 
the video of the bear scared away from garbage can by motion activated Halloween skeleton. Have added it to my "want to buy" list for when they next come to the stores (soon I think). But alas not found in Amazon and ack! Lost an hour down that rabbit hole 
Machka Thanks! when the fog burns off I'll try to get a pic of our ocean "peek" for you. Likewise your cabin too rough for me. Truly admire your resourcefulness as well as your fireplace baking gifts.
AZTeri how I would have loved to study Latin in HS. Signed up when a freshman but since only 8 of us wanted Latin I those in charge figured there wouldn't be enough who stayed with it for the 4 years so we got stuck with French or Spanish. I chose the less practical one, alas! Down a pound and planning a 60 mi ride? Awesome!
Julie congrats on the admin/paperwork progress. Fingers X'd for the new advisor and a better admin fit.
Annie I too had a burger last night, but kept CI barely under CO by foregoing the fries. Sometimes a girl just has to have a bite of beef ;}
Amber sending your daughter safe (and sensible!) thoughts.
Rhonda Yippee for you indeed!
Welcome Sara628588. You have discovered the antidote to job loss grief, walking eager dog for miles. Well done!
Welcome DonnaL, your goals are right on target. As for fear of failing, our Heather says "Feel the fear then just do it." Or in the words of one of the gals in the movie Pom "Look that fear right in the face and tell it to go to #%((!"
Yvonne ((hugs)) and yes, I love macadamia nuts, so don't have them in the pantry
Rita what a bad news/good news situation about your DH. Whew! Folding laundry has often been calming to me too.
Sue in WA fingers Xd for good endoscopy news.
Kim "black licorice ice cream" I love ya' honey, but eeeeuuuuwwwww!
Allie ((hugs)) for dealing with Chester's coming time. Not a great fan of the circle of life just now. Sounds like you've found a need you could fill. Do you want help drafting a business plan to take to your credit union for a loan for the handicapped accessible van, bonding, training, certification, insurance and any other needed expenses? You GO gal!
Barbie ditto what Karen in VA said. Thank YOU.
Lisa likewise Yippee for your grant making it through admin. Finger's Xd for peer review, know however it works out you'll take what you learn onto bigger and better successes. And thank YOU for what you said, from one who's been out of control food-wise and inactivity-wise for weeks.
Lanette, our deck's second coat has been stymied by its slow drying due our natural air conditioning (aka fog) sticking around way too long. We're doing other puttering: Joe replaced the bad top rails, I picked away at the laundry mountain. We hiked down to the cistern and measured the water levels and now will more strictly limit water use, no more 3 loads of laundry in a day! Glad you're aware of the detriment isolation is, and have renewed your interest in the Master Gardener's group you like!
Michele, I'll see your mushroom ice cream and raise you the garlic ice cream they had at the Gilroy Garlic Festival. Urk.
Janetr LOVE the Einstein quote and cartoon! Thank you!
Heather "every day is a bonus" True that, need to keep that gratitude attitude foremost. Va Va voom! Even before starting your new healthy ways. OWW! can you copy from online memo pad to your Word document? Can you copy text from Word to KDP?
Katla OMG for the racoon damage. Glad our under house chipmunks and squirrels got scared away by Joe's radio and light treatment. Thanks for the mothball reminder . . . will add it to my "to do" list.
OK so now its time to get up off my butt, put that load of laundry in the drier, dig up some potatoes, take Tumble for a stroll and put off that glass of red wine I'm thirsting for, for as very long as possible
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
Word for 2019: "GOOD" good attitude, good food, good times, good choices, good enough, feel good, GOOD! Word for September: grit
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It's September? ... How did that happen? I've been off the thread here for about a week ... smh ... so much to read!! So I'm not going to respond to everything I read through 20+ pages. Just "Welcome" to the new ladies, hugs to those who have had challenges, high fives to those of you with accomplishments.
I've also decided we need a "laughing/funny" button. LyndaBSS ... love your wit! Lisa ... the egg halloween costume ...
August was just a bust for me. My weight stayed the same and that's not a great thing when I still have so much to lose. On the other hand ... my weight stayed the same! Yay! It didn't increase and really it could have with the food choices I made.
September ... well, let's just say I need to do something or get off the pot.
KarenNY ... you asked if my son was in his last year. Yes, he's a senior at Lipscomb. There have been some registrar/requirement questions so he has been working to ensure that he does, indeed, graduate in May. He most definitely needs to graduate because my husband is ready to retire!
Barbie, KarenVA, Lisa ... "I cannot control what I weigh"... perfect.
Love the stories, love the photos ... love all of you ladies!
Beth near Buffalo
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Beth your son is a senior? It feels like he just started.
I’m rocking the September goals so far. Hopefully, I won’t crash and burn.
I’m down 17 lbs since January. Yay! I’m waiting until tomorrow to change my weight on here to be sure that last pound stays away.
Off to bridge. More later.
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Barbara Oregon coastie- you think that is something doable? I think it would really fill a niche...if you have any ideas please ket me know..1
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GrandMallie
Where in CT? I'm near Waterbury. ☺0 -
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Pip – even if it rains, you’ll still be there. I know you
Lanette – glad you found a solution to your itching
After the Green Room went and started weedwacking (I cut the grass yesterday). As I was doing one part, Vince called to me and I got distracted. The weedwacker got my leg. The good part is that Vince started weedwacking so I just went behind him with the broom. Found these black clumps on the sidewalk, think it’s deer poop. So I used the ice chopper and swept it into the grass.
Oh, got a call from one gal on the board of Newcomers. Get this – she thinks I’d be real good in this one position, would I like a board position? Ahhhh…no I put her off saying “I have to think about it”. Next time I’ll say “I did hospitality for many years. It somewhat tied me down. I like not being tied down. Perhaps in a few years”
Karen – do you know we moved our generator here from PA thinking that it would get icy and we’d need it. We haven’t had to use it once. Of course, if we got rid of it then we’d need it. There have been times when we could have used the snowblower, but we just shoveled.
Katla – one time we had a snake by the garage. Did I tell you all about how I HATE with a capital H snakes. We tried putting mothballs near it, didn’t faze him one tiny bit
Rebecca – you’re having DOMS – Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness. Nothing to be concerned about, we all get it
Katla – I’m here and doing fine. Thanks so much for your concern. We’re at the foothills of the mountains so we aren’t impacted at all by Dorian. As a matter of fact, some evacuees are here in Hickory! Haven’t been on for a while because we went to see Denise and PJ over the weekend. Just STARTING to get caught up
Jess just told us that in addition to having to neuter a cat she will have to spay a dog. Talk about hands-on
Here's Bashful[
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Michele in NC
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Let's try this again. Here's bashful
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☘️ Pooped and off to bed. I need to get up early tomorrow to do some prep for my Parchment Craft Group meeting after lunch.
DH has to go off tomorrow to have his skin graft checked out. He is prone to Basal Cell Carcenoma and the last one he had removed required a skin graft. Also he just got his annual bloods results back and discovered that all the aches and pains he thought were connected to his torn meniscus in his knee were caused by a deterioration in his under active thyroid. GP upped his thyroxine and he's skipping about like a spring lamb again (well, relatively speaking 😂)
We had a great time at our dance class this morning, and he still had the energy to clear up our gale blown garden after lunch. It's good to see him back on form. I had to rescue some gladioli and dahlias which had been blown over. They make a pretty display in our front hall.
DYD came for dinner tonight. We are hoping to get out for a trip on the boat on Saturday if the weather improves. The new engine makes such a difference.
Enjoy whatever remains of your Friday.
Michele: 😍 Bashful! Good to know that you are sheltered from Dorian.
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JR running around yelling I make Mess!!! Happily he’s so happy I don’t think I should stop him lol 😂.He even yelling stinky,gross,messy,y mess his favorite words lately!Daughter-Navy- They told them to evacuate for Dorian storm but left them on their own.No busses no help nothing. Luckily a guy few girls grabbed her hopped in a car driving 2hours away to a hotel or house (think one has a house that way) their going to ride it out there.
Dads church member is being released same base tonight from the hospital! The base has evacuated his brother luckily stationed same place has a car but is stuck waiting for him to be discharged pray they make it out safely!
Odessa like El Paso we got lucky no one hurt we know or family.Unless we heard wrong their all okay.Grandma y Uncle heading this way 14-24th. Better that way they need a break from the town at the moment.
Katla- the raccoon have eaten our door mat. We paid out of pocket for our roof damage y room.Biggest one has a genetic defect city is 4ft tall giant bipedal due to back issues muscular blinding monster! Tore the tiles y a hole in the roof next thing we knew the ceiling was leaking pulled all of Daughter stuff out of the room then boom behind me ! Ceiling collapsed was so exspensive. Luckily what fell wouldn’t have hurt no one falling was no wood just the popcorn ceiling to wet nasty spray attic insulation ! Hubby in a few years will be redoing it all after seeing it lol.Good news is I tossed ray bars up there killed all the mice 🐁 then we finished moving in! Yes no moth balls the guys advice scared me! Especially with a baby running about!
Rebecca- Some Women workout skip a day then workout so theirs a rest day in between.We get injured easier due to hormones or lack their of also. Periods ,ovulation,menopause hormone levels lead to injuries.
Karen- I have always thought DR.Temple was a genius a powerful wave of strength. Her story reminds me of all the patients y training it took so Mom could drive to cook with her special heart (form of retardation y schizophrenia). Mom could do stuff others couldn’t she kept a journal no one could read or understand it yet she’d turn to 5 different pages tadaaa theirs your aunts telephone number (was a number on different pages but page with a number in the middle or beginning may be someone else’s lol) .She knew everyone birthday that way was great Sunday School teacher for little ones they loved her.Wish Dr Temple could tackle others like chicken/turkey killing methods in slaughter houses .Think she could fix their issues too.
Amber Tx
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Pip – even if it rains, you’ll still be there. I know you
Lanette – glad you found a solution to your itching
After the Green Room went and started weedwacking (I cut the grass yesterday). As I was doing one part, Vince called to me and I got distracted. The weedwacker got my leg. The good part is that Vince started weedwacking so I just went behind him with the broom. Found these black clumps on the sidewalk, think it’s deer poop. So I used the ice chopper and swept it into the grass.
Oh, got a call from one gal on the board of Newcomers. Get this – she thinks I’d be real good in this one position, would I like a board position? Ahhhh…no I put her off saying “I have to think about it”. Next time I’ll say “I did hospitality for many years. It somewhat tied me down. I like not being tied down. Perhaps in a few years”
Karen – do you know we moved our generator here from PA thinking that it would get icy and we’d need it. We haven’t had to use it once. Of course, if we got rid of it then we’d need it. There have been times when we could have used the snowblower, but we just shoveled.
Katla – one time we had a snake by the garage. Did I tell you all about how I HATE with a capital H snakes. We tried putting mothballs near it, didn’t faze him one tiny bit
Rebecca – you’re having DOMS – Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness. Nothing to be concerned about, we all get it
Katla – I’m here and doing fine. Thanks so much for your concern. We’re at the foothills of the mountains so we aren’t impacted at all by Dorian. As a matter of fact, some evacuees are here in Hickory! Haven’t been on for a while because we went to see Denise and PJ over the weekend. Just STARTING to get caught up
Jess just told us that in addition to having to neuter a cat she will have to spay a dog. Talk about hands-on
Here's Bashful[
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Michele in NC
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Nice way to end work , last call of the day got ripped a new one by this very unsatisfied farthead7
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Thanks for the input ladies! On the good side, when I done with the 5-10 minutes sauna, my body is "humming". I do like that feeling! Its like a metabolism high. When we got home I sat in our recliner just being quiet. My soreness isn't painful, so I will not worry about it. I have gone thru menopause, so done with all that.
Well this Sunday is our 35th wedding anniversary, so going out somewhere. We will include son of he wishes to join us.
Everyone in the storms path, be safe!
Take care, ladies!
💖Rebecca
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KetoneKaren wrote: »Margaret and Amber
Dr. Temple Grandin spoke at the Richmond Forum April 27. My friend Ann has season tickets (a scarce commodity). She said it was one of the best Forums she's ever been to. I would really like to hear Dr. Grandin speak. She is one of my heroes.
Here is a link to her talk:
LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this interview. Wish it could be shown to all educators at the beginning of the school year.3 -
Allie-sorry to hear about Chester.
Michelle-glad y’all won’t get Dorian.Everything around here will shut down because of flooding.Roads will be impassable tomorrow,but we’ll be good.Im going to go to bed,I’m extremely tired and have to charge my phone.Prayers,hugs,love❤️and much gratitude for y’all!
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grandmallie wrote: »LyndaBSS - I am in Ct too, yes he was our free dog, most expensive free dog we have had , he had 3 bladder stone operations,,, at $2.000 a pop.. my ex wasn't the best husband ,but as a pet parent and uncle to mine he is the tops..I dont think Tom is ready to let go just yet, he is taking him down for fluids under the skin tomorrow , and he also is on tramadol and antibiotics, I spent about an hour with him this morning, and he does much better in the afternoon and evenings then mornings... I told Tom I don't want to see him suffer and he knows that we are living on borrowed time...
back to work today, only worked 5 hrs and people cancelling in hygiene and he wants to see a full schedule..
one of the ladies where my DFIL is had a great idea, but it would cost money to do.. they really need someone with a handicapped accessible van to take patients at nursing homes to appointments,, if I could get one or even afford one I could really make a good amount of money doing that.
Allie, that is an incredible idea! We had a new resident brought to our home the other day. The family couldn’t afford the ambulance charge and hired her privately to do it.3
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