WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2020

JRsLateInLifeMom

China shocking me now even. Surprised McDonald’s Corp hasn’t stepped in yet too!

Hubby found Eggs!!! M having hard boiled eggs tomorrow so excited with a slice of toast y jelly!!! So excited

Amber Tx

Waiting on my Tree to produce Chinese Plums just hoping the weird weather doesn’t ruin them O want a few at least! The raccoons y squirrels keep grabbing some. Last owner of the home was a hoarder but a great gardener go figure.

bwcetc

Margaret ... so sorry to hear of your loss... hugs.

Machka9

margaretturk wrote: »

Thank you for your support.

I talked to her on the phone on Monday. They were going to be doing tuck pointing on her condo unit that week. They did try to take precautions but with her lungs problems I am wondering if that might have been a contributing factor. She was watering plants on Tuesday near the windows when it happened to her.

It just makes me stop and realize how important it is to appreciate everyday!

Margaret

So sorry Margaret!

Machka9

bananasandoranges wrote: »

HOME GYM EQUIPMENT
i know this question was going around some time ago, maybe a few times. but living in 500 sq ft and having a very modestly priced new gym 5 min walk i didn't really pay attention. but since gyms probably won't open till god knows when, i was looking at acquiring one piece of equipment. at the gym i use the elliptical most often (weight bearing, decent calorie burn and no impact (impact is s problem for me due to foot issues and also knee issues). but i don't think there are small ish quality elliptical machines. That seems to leave bicycles and rowers right? Both seem to have some decent quality reasonably priced (200-400 euros) solid, folding or compact models with many hundreds of good reviews. Any recommendation between rowers and cycles? Any (not very voluminous recommendations)? I know i can do air cycling etc, but i think i'm more likely to do a machine like i actually DID do at the gym around 2x a week on average. THANKS FOR ANY TIPS.

thanks you guys

The easiest thing would be to pick up a trainer like this one, for example, and put your bicycle on it. You could go more expensive with the TACX trainers if you wanted but that's probably not necessary to start with.

https://www.decathlon.co.uk/inride-100-turbo-trainer-id_8402844.html




You could just ride or put the TV on and go with commercial intervals (ride hard during the commercials) or sign up with Zwift.

This method allows you to tuck the trainer away and ride your bicycle outside whenever you want.


M in Oz

Whidislander

Thanks ladies, I appreciate you all!
So today was a nice plate of 4 Triscut crackers, a thick slice of Tillamook pepper jack cheese (cut in fourths), opened a mini cup of avocado guacamole( to "glue" the cheese on the cracker), and a slice of fridge pickled cucumbers. It was perfect! Then for lunch l put a pat of fresh creamy Tillamook butter in my saute' pan and seared a nice fish fillet with lots of spices. I then put a lid on it until it could be shredded with a fork. I put that in two small street taco sized warm torillas, with lettuce, spinach, some of my fridge cucumbers, tomato, and a smear of avocado. It was delightful! I closed my window with a small bowl of yogurt, and some red grapefruit segments. Yummy!

This evening I made a mini thanksgiving for husband and son. Store bought turkey slices in gravy, some boiled baby potatoes, dressing, yams in a butter brown sugar glaze. Made more gravy, and opened a can of cranberry sauce. They loved it. I played chef.💖 I did cut a lone apple I needed to use up, and sliced it into the yam mixture. Putting away the leftovers I decided to make muffins out of the apple, yams leftovers. So I mixed Kodiak flapjack mix, with milk, egg, cinnamon, vanilla and the mixture. The recipe called for butter, which was in the leftovers, and a banana which I had apples and yams. It turned out really good! I sampled half of one! I will be snacking on these to start my eating window. It turned out well!

Made broth too today! Used turmeric!

💖Rebecca

Machka9

When places say they are closing to do a "deep clean", my question is ... why on earth aren't you doing that on a regular basis? 🤔

Especially hospitals! Our northern hospitals closed to do a "deep clean". Really? You're a hospital! Deep cleans should happen regularly. The local transit company informed me that they do a "deep clean" (which means they shampoo the carpet on the seats but don't clean the window ledges or floors or anything) every few months. My office does a "deep clean" about once a decade after about 90% of us were sick in 2017. My university decided to do a "deep clean" this year for the first time in ... I don't know, it's the first time they've mentioned it since I've been going there.

And what is a "deep clean" ... does it mean they vacuum around the edges and behind the furniture? Do they break out the carpet shampooers? Do they wash walls? Clean ducts???

Hopefully now places will look at ways to make it easier ...
Rip out carpets and put down hard surface flooring that can be washed and disinfected regularly.
I'd like to see the interior of buses be like a shower interior that can be hosed out every night.
Same with public toilets. Build them so they can be well sprayed with disinfectant and hosed out. Plus automatic everything so that we don't have to touch things.


I'm hoping that society will start looking at ways to clean and be clean ... and I'm hoping that might help prevent or reduce the impact of future flus, viruses, etc.


M in Oz

KetoneKaren

Rebecca I love that you are so intuitive with your substitutions - it seems as if nearly all of your adapted recipes turn out really well. Those muffin/mini-loaves look wonderful. So does the broth. I use jars like that, too. They work great for broth and gazpacho, soups, etc.

Margaret Was your sister-in-law your husbands only sibling? Were they close?

Machka It is sad when collaboration results in mediocrity rather than excellence. It happens a lot, I think. Very frustrating for the high-achieving. Maddening, to use your description.

>>>

So tired.
Going to sleep now.

Karen in Virginia

margaretturk

Karen in VA yes she was his only sibling, and they were close. In recent years they had taken trips together and he had gone down to help her when she was at low points due to her illness. She has one son who lives in Chicago too but due to COVID, and he has a small child he wasn't able to help her as much lately.

She was able to find a service for getting good quality food and she was getting well enough to do a few things in her condo. She was recently able to have her cat back. A friend had been taking care of her cat while she recovered.

I was really afraid she would have gotten COVID given her medical history she would have more than likely gotten the bad version. She died of a heart attack. I still think her lung issues played a part in her attack.

DH just got a big batch of popcorn she sent him for his birthday! That is why she had called on Monday to let us know it was coming.

Katla49

Margaret: I am so sorry for your loss.

Snowflake: I love the chance to look for something to read. Today I returned the book I’d borrowed to the book swap box so someone else can enjoy it.

TerriRichards: Thank you for posting the mask making tutorial. :bigsmile: I also thank you for your kind words about the death in our family. The loss was my daughter-in-law’s mom. She’d been fighting cancer for several years. I’m sorry if my post was confusing. :flowerforyou:

Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

bananasandoranges

@Margaretturk Margaret, i'm so sorry for your loss.

Machka9

bananasandoranges

@margaretturk i'm so sorry for your DH's sister.

@JRsLateInLifeMom Amber, What are your 10 year plans? I think i like unrising brownies: more dense and gooey and chocolatey!

@machka9 for group presentations if i teach classes of 20 or less or masters students i let students choose if the presentations/projects are individual or collective. in bachelor's classes of more than 20 i have to have collective cause there is a serious lack of time. i generally give the same grade to all the group but when there's great disparity (not rare) i give differentiated grades. when i give the option most students prefer individual projects: easier to organize and no risk of being dragged down by the nonworkers, plus just the interest in having their own project. I wonder if it's acceptable to ask your teacher if she or he will take into consideration your part in the project when deciding your overall grade. maybe who did what is opaque. in presentations it's USUALLY clear (though sometimes one student prepares work for others to read! or someone reads a part prepared by another!).
I think you are the 1st person i've heard from that hopes COVID sticks around. Though i do have some friends who prefer not traveling/going to work. I don't have a bicycle! Ha, ha for the comics.

@exermom Michele, thank you, it sounds like some adjusting going on with everyone there. it must not be easy.

@Whidislander Rebecca, those look delicious.

@Whidislander, @JRsLateInLifeMom, and others thanks for the netflix tips. i'll check some of them out. it looks like we have MANY of the same offers here but not all the same.

@bwcetc Beth Thanks for explaining your son's major. It's nice that he's having a lesson online. What makes it hard to finish his studies? I don't know if the arts is necessarily much more risky than many other fields at present. Fields are so unpredictable. Can track writing be done at a distance?

skuehn48

or have her

bananasandoranges

I'm not sure if i should go for a walk to try to get some "fresh" air and get energy back or if i should just rest, rest rest to ward of any impending unwellness.

I might not check email till monday. that's like real vacation.

not sure what today will be like.
shower, walk (or not), sit on balcony and have some applesauce and enjoy sun, do quick journal entry and sketch, maybe read. Then i don't know for the rest of the day. i'm afraid if i don't rest i might get/stay sick and if i lay around too much i won't really feel much better. Usually rather banal decisions become so serious.

Grateful:
have plenty of soap, shampoo, trashbags
continue to be paid
pleasant weather
comfy easy chair and footstool
applesauce
many supermarkets nearby

Machka9

bananasandoranges wrote: »

I think you are the 1st person i've heard from that hopes COVID sticks around. Though i do have some friends who prefer not traveling/going to work. I don't have a bicycle! Ha, ha for the comics.

Really?

I think this is great! Not the people dying part ... that's not good.

But I really like:
- working from home.
- attending university from home.
- fewer cars on the road.
- being able to go out and cycle or walk to the beach in the middle of the day.
- more exercise in general.
- more time outside.
- less boredom eating ... my weight continues to drop slowly.
- less pressure to do social things like meetings with people, talking with people, etc. My calendar cleared right up as soon as the restrictions came in ... such a relief. There are still some people who want to make zoom appointments etc. with me but I'm trying to keep those to a minimum.
- space when I do venture out for some shopping.
- no one touching me! That's the worst part of having long hair ... everyone feels compelled to touch it and touch me.
- but friendlier people. People are giving each other space, while smiling and waving at each other from a distance more often.
- not being sick ... not being congested, not having sore, itchy eyes, not having a sore throat, not sneezing all the time.
- being able to plan my own day instead of having it planned for me.
- the quiet.

After being mostly home for almost 3 weeks now, I'm finally beginning to relax without the fear that tomorrow everything will return to the way it was. Thank goodness it will be a minimum of 4 more weeks (according to our government) and perhaps even as much as 2 years depending on how things go.


And the potential:
- when the government started boosting the economy toward the end of the depression, they did so by putting people to work building roads and infrastructure. I hope that starts happening soon ... wide roads with wide, sealed shoulders for cyclists and wide, easy-access sidewalks for pedestrians
- now that we know we can work from home and attend university from home, I hope people involved in technology will develop and enhance those options. I envision a move away from big buildings for work and university and a more distributed approach.
- I hope for a shift away from big cities to smaller communities that have what we need within walking or cycling distance so that large groups of people don't have to gather in one spot.
- businesses will need to step up their game and stop being so complacent. They'll need to get up to date with technology ... people aren't interested in a business if there isn't a good website. Why would we waste our time going to a place if we don't know if the place has what we need? They'll need to clean! Especially restaurants and accommodations etc. They'll need to focus on delivery.
- now that we know being dirty is bad, hopefully there will be a big push to develop self-cleaning things, easy to clean environments, and to hire people to "deep clean".
- I hope a culture where it is socially acceptable to maintain some distance between us develops. Where it is not socially acceptable to touch people we don't know.
- I also hope for increased independence. We can indeed spend days by ourselves, doing our own thing, entertaining ourselves, making our own decisions. We can think for ourselves. We don't need to do everything in groups.
- I'm also hoping for advances in medicine. Right now scientists all over the world are working on a vaccine for a coronavirus. The common cold is a coronavirus, but not nearly as serious as COVID-19 of course. Perhaps if a vaccine for COVID-19 can be developed, we might also have a vaccine for the common cold! And often, along the way to finding a particular solution, other solutions are found "by accident".
- I'm interested to see what changes there will be to housing ... like sinks or 2-piece toilets right next to the front door so that people can wash when they come into a house.
- Maybe there will be more open air developments rather than closed in places ... in business and at home. There has been some evidence that good ventilation and/or being outside puts people at less risk of catching COVID-19. Maybe houses will have large back decks. Maybe decentralised offices (as mentioned earlier) will also have large decks or courtyard areas where people can meet, eat, work etc. and windows that open. Maybe malls will become more popular ... these are where streets are closed to motor vehicles and the "road" is left in open air but there are shops on either side.
- I'm curious about changes to fashion ... will hoop skirts come back in? great puffy sleeves? hats? veils?


These things need to become commonplace ... and more. I'm sure we can think of more along those lines we'd like to see.



Machka in Oz

cityjaneLondon

Margaret - A close sibling is a wonderful thing. So sorry for your DH at this time. I remember he has big health worries of his own, so it must be particularly hard for all of you.
It has made me remember to contact my own lovely brother. We touched base at the beginning of all this, but we are now going in to another three weeks of lockdown, so it's time for another contact. His health isn't perfect. There are two young people in the house, as well as his wife. He is normally someone who is very active helping other people through the church, so I hope he is able to stay safe.
I know it would devastate me to lose him.
HUGS to your DH and you.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

Machka9

We've never made a successful vaccine for a coronavirus before. This is why it's so difficult

https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2020-04-17/coronavirus-vaccine-ian-frazer/12146616

"For those pinning their hopes on a COVID-19 vaccine to return life to normal, an Australian expert in vaccine development has a reality check — it probably won't happen soon."

"It's hard to produce a successful vaccine if the virus isn't activating a strong immune response.

And if a vaccine elicits an immune response that misses the target cells, the result could potentially be worse than if no vaccine was given.

"One of the problems with corona vaccines in the past has been that when the immune response does cross over to where the virus-infected cells are it actually increases the pathology rather than reducing it," Professor Frazer said.

"So that immunisation with SARS corona vaccine caused, in animals, inflammation in the lungs which wouldn't otherwise have been there if the vaccine hadn't been given.""



M in Oz

trucker743

JanetO in eastern MO, yes! Do take time to see not only Seattle but the lovely Northwest! So many things to enjoy outside the cities if you are a nature-lover. We have everything from temperate rainforest (a real rarity!) to semi-desert in eastern WA and OR, and many different sorts of seacoast and beaches. There are the volcanoes - St. Helens, Rainier, Mt. Hood, Crater Lake, Mt. Shasta and Lassen! I’ve spent a goodly portion of the last 40 years exploring here when we weren’t traveling elsewhere, and haven’t come near seeing it all.

Heather, Edie’s efforts accentuate her father’s handsome face beautifully.

Amber! i too was infuriated by that news item. Children’s lives are being disrupted enough between changes in child care arrangements.

By the way, Amber, check into filing for injured (NOT innocent) spouse relief. You may be eligible to claim your share of the refund, since his prior tax debt is not yours.

Barbara AHMOD, your tale reminds me of the time I sat straight up in bed and shook my husband and told him, “The President didn’t invite us!” My tone was heartbroken, although I had no clue as to what President Johnson didn’t invite us to.

Rebecca, you look stunning and ready for spring! Love that we’ve been so fortunate with weather, but I’m afraid we’ll pay for it later! 🔥

Oh, Machka! Purrs and breaking waves! Two of my four favorite sounds! The other two are hard rain and wind sweeping through the evergreens! I must admit - a large Huntsman spider in my bedroom would totally obliterate any feelings of peace and serenity those sounds evoked.

Rita, you’re in a really tough bind right now. Are there any other residents left there at all? Just chatting from 8-10’ away helps me. I’m wondering if there’s a way to hunt for Zoom groups by theme, like overeating, Keto, depression, etc? I don’t see a way to do it but someone else might know. I’m involved with 3 different AA meetings on Zoom, so I’d think there would be other groups with eating focuses. And that chard looks absolutely mouth-watering!

SuziQ, what delicious-looking dish was that that you posted above your other post?

Luci! I love the mischievous expression on her face in the picture with the onesie that says no one sleeps until she says so!

Sophie, Rosie’s mom! I nearly aspirated my diet soda due to that meme! I wish it were shareable somehow!

Margaret, Im sorry to hear of your family’s loss. So many of us seem to be losing family members or friends, and yet not that many are COVID-19 related. I think so much stress has a great deal to do with it.

Peace to you all, and wellness, I hope. I gained back 1# of what I lost only to lose 1.2 today. I know the main key is in the protein, but I dislike feeling stuffed all the time. Any ideas on high calorie and protein foods that are low density?

Sharon Near Seattle

cityjaneLondon

Today we should gave been docking at beautiful Ålesund, the main reason I booked the cruise. It was burnt down in the early 20th century and rebuilt all in Jugendstil, or Art Noveau style. We intended to visit the museum as well as explore the streets and practice my Norwegian at lunchtime.
It would have been 5° C and cloudy.
Here is a panorama.


Nice.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

Machka9

Good ride this afternoon ... on a trainer, on my trainer bicycle, with Zwift! Plus a walk on my treadmill.




Machka in Oz