WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2020
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Sharon I miss Albertsons last one near me was bought out by the HEB store chain . They had the best rolls! I also loved their cakes. Anything from their bakery was delicious!
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I too think grocery shopping is hard. I go at six in the morning when it is not so crowded. Another grocery store that is more expensive has a time for seniors first thing in the morning. I don't go to that because it is so crowded. I find it I go 9-10:30 that is a nice store to shop in. I try to keep my trips to a minimum because it is so hard to shop.2
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Lol black and blue left foot and right middle finger... just took tylenol...am really.sore..
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The stay-at-home orders seem worse here in my part of AL due to the severe weather we’re having. My area under a tornado watch. Flash flooding warnings have been ongoing since last night. This is the torrent of rain flowing behind my house 🏡6
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Alabaster- So true every area with natural disasters on top of the pandemic is truely the worst.Im surviving a heavy hit area of my state y I survived the 100yr flood of 2002 I would not want both at once! Stay safe.
Grandmallie- ouch hope you heal up fast worst injuries are where you have to use them!
JRs foot still hurts or he enjoying the cuddles time lol. Upping his shoe size if he won’t wear them that’s a sign. Their not long enough when he’s moving. I went ahead bleach/fabuloso/dish liquid mopped the floors extra good y vacuuming it can dry while we cuddle2 -
I made bagels in my air fryer using 1 cup of self rising flour and 1 cup of Plain Greek yogurt. Divide into four sections, shape them, brush with egg wash and springle with everything bagel seasoning. So yummy! This was asvertised as a weight-watchers bagel, but MFP’s recipe creater said it had 483 calories, mainly due to a cup of flour having 1600 calories! I could not believe this so I googled to find that was totally wrong. I redid my recipe by finding a different option for flour. Turns out my bagel has 181 calories. That seems much more reasonable.
This is a very easy recipe for bagels. I plan to experiment. I’m going to add cinnamon, a little coconut sugar and raisins and maybe brush a little coconut sugar as a topping after the egg wash. then I’m going to try just adding fresh blueberries and just a plain egg wash.
I think you could experiment with flavored Greek yogurts, too, but I’m going to stick with plain. I did see that you could use a gluten free flour, too.
If you are interested, you can google two-ingredient bagels.
Here are mine.
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I've always been a 50 wpm typer, and that apparently hasn't changed. Took the test: 49 wpm corrected.
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(((((Allie))))) that sounds really painful. As if you don't have enough to worry about!2
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stats for the day:
walk 2 Costco n back w/yogi- 44.39min, 111mhr, 2.02mi= 73c
Apple Watch- 213c
Zwift bike trainer- 45.12min, 15.7amph, 157mhr, 11.86mi= 488c
Apple Watch- 510c
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Typing ... back in the day I put myself through school typing term papers and then as a Kelly Girl. I remember being tested with typing skills of over 110-115 wpm. Laptop keyboards are tougher in my opinion. Not the same key/pressure feel ... wrists aren't placed right, etc. And I miss the carriage return! I tested tonight at 90 wpm, which surprised me considering how lazy I've gotten. Used to play the piano then too ... not so much anymore. Nothing sounds right when your hearing is bad.
Amber ... indeed, God and family will get you through anything!
Today was just a gray day ... literally and psychologically. I enjoyed our church service on Facebook, but then couldn't motivate myself to do anything the rest of the day This needs to change! Tomorrow I plan to get on the treadmill at least twice and hopefully three times ... not long bouts ... just enough to say I've moved. And I think I better stop baking. I was out of breath twice today with activity that should not have made an impact!
Beth
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My afternoon project was Keto Mini Cakes using almond and/or coconut flour - lemon with lemon frosting and and chocolate with peanut butter buttercream frosting. Each cake is 4 servings.
With hot weather approaching have also experimented making whipped or Dalgona coffee.
My isolation partner, Angel.
Shopping: I have complied with the local request to stay home. I have had groceries delivered from Costco twice. Deliveries are available on the same day ordered. I did order TP and paper towels through Costco 2 day delivery. It was closer to 2 weeks, but now I am set for months.
I do eat meat and have a subscription to Butcher Box. I just received an order from them and am now stocked up for a month or two, will just need fresh vegetables.
I do miss line dancing and C&W dancing. In their place I am walking and incorporating short running intervals.
My beau is not happy that I am complying so strictly to the stay home requirements, but he is not a member of my household.
I do miss the grandkids and have FaceTimed with them frequently.
Stay safe,
Cathy, Arlington, TX
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Cathy- If he’s worth it he’ll wait for you! Hubby scared for me to go out in this only been 2xs in over a month more cause his back was hurt y he thought I needed to learn the new machines they installed for checking out. I like those new ones! Less issues with them
Amber Texas3 -
I figured out how JR hurt his toe. The shoes rubbed him raw!! He grew out of his shoes again. I have 1 pair in the new size in his growing bin. Got liquid bandage 🩹 on the toe (plaster) y his new bigger shoes he wants shoes again. He can’t fit in his sz6 clothes JRs a sz7 now. We’re only newly 3yrs old. I have luckily a few clothes to grow into so to keep from going out he’ll have to make due with repeat outfits (not like anyone will see).
Suzi- You wear your pJs cut off for the summer lol 😂
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Yay! DD and I found the leak in our underground water pipes. We have been digging in a spot in our riding arena that was indicated on an old piece of paper we found in the garden shed that showed where an old water line had been capped off. Today we found the line and when we turned on the water we had a small geyser from a hole in the line. Tomorrow we will contact a plumber to get the line fixed and maybe install a new faucet in the front pasture. We know there is a waterline out there but the faucet does not work because it has not been used for so long. The horses are enjoying the front pasture this weekend so the dog has been relegated to the dog run instead of being able to run in the pasture as usual. I was supposed to go to Denver the first week in May but am cancelling and will try to go another time. I can get a travel certificate for the price of my ticket from United that is good for 24 months.
[img]https://us.v-cdn.net/5021879/uploads/editor/we/q4uin8vfxm82.jpg[/ Take care, Sue in WA[/img]9 -
Sorry goofed up the picture.
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London Paris – welcome!
Well, Jess asked if Colby could stay another week. To be honest, when he came here for Easter I thought it was just for the weekend. Then he asked if he could stay another week. I said fine. This time I talked to Vince (Jess said it was OK with him, but I think she misunderstood) and a few extra days is not a problem, but another week is probably too much. Will one week turning into two mean that two will turn into three which will turn into four??? Now Jess is mad at me, she said that Colby feels unwanted. That’s not true. I don’t know, today they went out for lunch, I didn’t even know they were gone. They went to some sort of craft beer place in Hickory. But the thing is that we didn’t even know they were gone. A “we’ll see you later” would have been nice. They’re out for a walk right now, but at least they told me that they were going for a walk. Maybe I wouldn’t feel this way if there was more communication. I know they want to be independent, but you also need to think of other people.
Tomorrow is my running around in Hickory day. I haven’t done something like this in almost a month. First, I need to go to the Salvation Army to make a donation. Then a friend’s house to leave some almond extract for her and an empty cat litter container for another friend, then another gal’s to drop off some things for her grandsons who are into Star Wars, then to see another gal who is going to give me some of the plastic utensils that you get in a restaurant (the utensil, a napkin) which I’ll take to the soup kitchen Friday. Then to another gal’s house to get some flowers, then to the only place where I can get the oat bran. Then home
M – now I understand how COVID is helping you
Made more yogurt in the IP. I’m going to a friend’s house tomorrow so I’ll give her some. She liked it the last time I gave her some. It just finished, now to let it drain.
Did a load of laundry. I took everything out of one of our storage closets and am getting rid of some things (if we haven’t used it in 12 years, we probably don’t really need it)
We’re going to get PJ a forward facing car seat for his birthday. He needs that more than he needs a toy. I’ll send one to him anyway (it was a $20 Fisher Price toy I got on sale for $8) but also the carseat, which isn’t exactly cheap.
Luci – we had to take one of our cats to the vet recently. What they do is you call them from your car, they come out and get the pet, take it inside for the doc to see then bring the pet back to you. Vince wasn’t crazy about the fact that he wasn’t there with the cat, but that’s how it is.
Hairdressers are closed here, too
Tina – you’re probably right, in many ways I DO want to do things for Jess. But then there are times when I would really like a break, but I know that her way of doing things is to go out which we’re not really into. We more like to finish up what I’ve made. 90wpm! Wow! I could only get 70. I can type and look at a person, too
Allison – ouch!!! Hope you heal real real fast
JR – hope your toe gets better soon
SuziQ – your muffins look delish
Michele NC
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JRsLateInLifeMom wrote: »
Chronic pain- I refused a morphine pump as a kid they wanted to permanently install. I learned other ways to deal had to. Pain rubs with pain reliever , Tylenol for the days I just can’t, lots of heating pads to cool ones for after the heats in long,hot tub y heated pools help it (can’t since JR tho), mind over matter approach I have to not think about it at all even tho it’s obviously throbbing y stabbingly there, lots of relaxation techniques, dark room relax with quiet as I try to think of other things,hot showers 🚿 (cold increases the pain) . Try not to do certain positions to motions,y exercise (but if it hurts I find something more low impact!), y eat right to avoid increased pain (watching salt helps with my headaches I noticed problem is lots has salt now of days). It seemed the Doctors pain management was digging me a hole is why I changed routes was right for me. I went to where nothing was helping. Now I’m used to most of the pain know what to do for each type to head it off..bad days I skip exercising if it’s my back or feels like a injury (hard to tell my chronic pain from new pain so lot of it’s thinking y deciding which it might be).
This is exactly why I want the doctors to see the mister. Neither of us wants to get to this point. Already, opioids aren't working, nerve meds don't work, muscle relaxers- nothing, naproxen- nothing. Advil works sometimes, but he's at the point he has to take very high doses for even slight relief. This is not a good thing in so many ways.
Katla - I understand why doctors don't want to see patients for regular annual exams, physicals, mammograms, etc. But for someone who is in so much pain he cannot sleep, sit, stand, lie down, work, or otherwise function, they really need to see him and help. He did a video visit and it was a waste of time. The video kept freezing, she couldn't really see his movement, obviously couldn't touch him where the pain is. He can't work and cannot even get disability because the doctors won't see him to fill out his paperwork.
Just wondering. What if someone were to walk into Urgent Care with this? Would they turn him away or just prescribe more useless meds and then send him away?
If anyone has any wonder remedies, please feel free to say so. We will try nearly anything at this point.
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Michels-I’ll let JR know you wished his toe well. Shoe rub owies are the worst!
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Tina - here in Alberta the hospitals are running ads reminding people that emergency departments are still open and that if you would go to emergency in normal circumstances for things that are not COVID related you should still go. They are finding people are not coming in soon enough and they could have been helped.3
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Beth, your advice to yourself to stop baking has morphed into my advice to myself not to start. I need to gain back about 7 pounds. I suspect more protein and more dairy will take care of that just fine. I’ve gained back two in the last week. That being said, I wonder how I could get aconvectioniven to sub for an air fryer. That two-ingredient bagel recipe sounds like the right quantity and nutrients to fit into my regimen better than the regular ones.
Cathy, is that lovely dog a Sheltie? I love blue-eyed digs, but Siberian huskies are a bit much for me! Even a Border Collie is almost too much. I’d love to have a littler dog, though.
I love hearing all of your “work-arounds”, which I guess are called “hacks” now. When I was young to “hack” something meant to take it apart, as in hacking a botched sewing project.
I know several of you quilt, but who here still sews some of their or their family’s clothing? Last era I did much of that was fifty years ago. I wish clothing was as individualistic now as it was then!
I got my Instant Pot cook book from Jeffrey, the Pressure Luck guy, and am now prowling my kitchen figuring out where I can take something out and put my pot in. I got a pressure cooker in about 1972 with Raleigh Coupons. That’ll tell you how much my ex and I smoked in those days. I quit in ‘95. Best thing I did for myself besides losing weight.
Our spring has called a bit of a halt this next week, weather-wise, and the bird influx has suddenly stopped too. It’s almost as if nature doesn’t quite know what to make of the contradictions and is waiting until we make up our collective minds - sort of like waiting for the cat to decide “in” or “out”!
Sharon, of Two Minds, Near Seattle4 -
Well, Jess asked if Colby could stay another week. To be honest, when he came here for Easter I thought it was just for the weekend. Then he asked if he could stay another week. I said fine. This time I talked to Vince (Jess said it was OK with him, but I think she misunderstood) and a few extra days is not a problem, but another week is probably too much. Will one week turning into two mean that two will turn into three which will turn into four??? Now Jess is mad at me, she said that Colby feels unwanted. That’s not true. I don’t know, today they went out for lunch, I didn’t even know they were gone. They went to some sort of craft beer place in Hickory. But the thing is that we didn’t even know they were gone. A “we’ll see you later” would have been nice. They’re out for a walk right now, but at least they told me that they were going for a walk. Maybe I wouldn’t feel this way if there was more communication. I know they want to be independent, but you also need to think of other people.
Michele NC
All 4 of you are adults ... at 36, Jess and Colby are possibly "middle aged" ... why not have a family meeting to discuss what Jess and Colby's plans are and what your concerns are?
Incidentally, 36 was my toughest birthday because I'd read somewhere that the average life expectancy of a human was 72. Then, a couple years later, someone pointed out it was older than that!
Machka in Oz5 -
Hi Gals,
Kaylia and Margaret – sending hugs and good thoughts
I’m reading but not responding much, let’s see what I can remember
Delivery – almost every place that delivers here or even for curbside pickup has a charge. That leaves me out, my budget is so tight that the $4-15 charge means I have to give up an item (s) that is equal to the charge. I’d rather have the items.
Groceries – I am growing as many veggies/herbs as I can and using them. I have been to the store 3 or 4 times since 3/15, but only once for me, I am doing the shopping for my mom and for another older woman on my street. My grocery and many of them near me have a discount/clearance area – sometimes produce with a blemish but also a can with a small dent, or something that was holiday themed and these are 30-50% off, I usually start there and then rework my list based on what I could get at a discount. I do not think that the stores near me are raising prices it’s just that almost nothing is on a special sale; so shopping feels much more expensive.
I am attaching pictures in a spoiler, I found a snake in the Camp Garden today.
Kim from N. California
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Sharon, you can bake the bagels in a regular oven. It will just take a little longer.
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Night night ladies!
💖Rebecca8 -
Sharon, Angel is a Mini Australian Shepard. She is 10 years old, I adopted her when she was 4. She I very low key and the sweetest dog. She weighs about 25 lbs.4
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trucker743 wrote: »I know several of you quilt, but who here still sews some of their or their family’s clothing? Last era I did much of that was fifty years ago. I wish clothing was as individualistic now as it was then!
Sharon, of Two Minds, Near Seattle
The last time I did anything like that was was my early teens when my grandmother tried to teach me. She tried to teach me knitting, rag rug making, clothing making, and several other things. I also took a "Home Economics" class that tried to teach me to sew ... but fortunately the other option in that class was lapidary, which I loved. I did that instead and still have some of the stones I shaped and polished up.
I also don't cook although I have figured out how to use our slow cooker ... and I do bake.
Nor do I garden, although I could if I really needed to.
Fortunately, my husband does those things. The sewing machine is his and he knows how to use it. I never did figure out how to use a sewing machine. He cooks dinner ... just one dinner for the two of us. And he gardens.
Machka in Oz
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Tina I wonder if your mister has had a sed rate to rule out Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR). I know he has a baseline pain syndrome, but his dramatic escalation of symptoms seems as if it might be something acute superimposed on top of his chronic pain condition. The sed rate is a simple blood test that takes an hour to run. Not sure about other facilities, but our urgent care can do it on site. PMR is treatable.4
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