WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2020
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k about the oposum:
1st, our house was built in 1906. when we redid our bathroom downstairs he had put in a jet tub. and he put glass blocks around the outside edges of it and had in on a timer w/blue and green christmas lights so the can turn on/off in the morning and evening. years passed, lights probably burned out and we never did anything about it. well... not too long ago, i started smelling something and i was thinking maybe the toilet seat seal on the bottom was not solid due to the smell. it was starting to get a stronger. kirby decided to remove the glass blocks and the insulation he put down in there when he saw two glaring eyes, he jumped back. so i went in... i'm more of the gutsy one i guess. i got a flashlight and sure enough i saw a mom with a couple of little young ones in there. in the process of removing the glass blocks and starting to remove the insulation, i found the source of the smell. one of the babies had died and was rotting down in there, after cleaning that out we had to get the family out. so i was banging on the tub, etc, we FINALLY got them out. they don't like light so he had put one of our camping lights down there. kirby worked on putting the blocks back up and he surprised me with new lights, led lights w/a remote control. pics will follow... so there u go
the lights have various colors can fade, blink fast and slow, you get the idea7 -
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PIP ~ Love the lit up glass blocks.
You were brave to fool around with those coons. LOL 3 -
Pip, Thanks for telling the story. You were more brave than I would have been. 2
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Pip. thank you.
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And now here is a little gem by a friend of a friend with a little too much time on her hands: https://www.facebook.com/kimyoungart/videos/10219188343553865/0
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Monday ...
Work from home
One of the things I've had the opportunity to do while working from home is to delve deeper into some of the things I do to try to understand what's going on better.
Background: 8 months after my husband's accident in 2018, just when I was settling into work again and ramping up my education to try to finish sooner, one of my coworkers moved into another department and I was given most of his jobs. Fortunately, he wasn't far away and was able to run through things with me. But just about everything I've done has been reactive ... "Quick, we've got this deadline coming up ... do this".
It took a year before I felt sort of comfortable doing some of the stuff without much help.
Just before the shut down and moving home, we raced to get a large project done and were then left with a little bit of down time to work on some other things. And so I've been taking my time working through this and that and figuring out a few things.
In a couple weeks, we'll be back into the midst of another big project (they're quarterly). But hopefully I'll feel slightly more ready for it.
Exercise
I took a midday break to walk around the house (outside) with Rhody. He does the rounds now ... but takes a long time get all the way around because he's got to sniff at this, and chase that, and climb things. Nevertheless it means I get to stand and walk a little bit which is better than sitting all day!
Then I went downstairs to walk on the treadmill with my new trail shoes! I was hoping to get to the trails, but it was raining over the weekend and looked like rain today and I didn't know what kind of condition the trails would be in.
So ... on the treadmill, with Zwift:
Distance: 6.11km
Pace: 10:59/km
Moving Time: 1:07:08
Elapsed Time: 1:07:52
Calories: 200
It was raining through part of the walk in the Zwift world!
Cycling Club
I did not want to spend this evening working on cycling club stuff.
But other States are anxious to get riding again and want an announcement from the National Committee that we're opening things up. My State can't open things up. We're not allowed. But over-enthusiastic members from other States want to make a grand announcement this week. So I ended up editing their document and arguing points in it. As it stands, it is a weird document with so many phrases that have me wondering "why????"
There's a big meeting tomorrow night ... oh joy ... where we're voting on this thing and if it goes up as is my vote will be a firm "NO". And then I might hang up because I've said my piece tonight and really don't want to argue it tomorrow too!
Deep breath!
Tomorrow I've taken the day "off" to work on university stuff. I need to watch a bunch of lectures.
M in Oz
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This morning and most mornings ... especially weekday mornings ...
But now I'm headed to bed!
M in Oz
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Hotdog day again y salads. Just in a summer mood! Exercising y Crystal light tea ,Gatorade zero,y water yummy.
Amber Tx
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Well bust my bubble, my sister wanted to video chat yesterday! My middle one. So we talked, and laughed, and she took a swig of a bottle, (I hopped it was seltzer water), but anywho oo, it was positive. I flipped the view and showed her around the property. She saw my eldest, Galen so that was fun. It was most definitely a nice sweet surprise.💖
I look older than her, but heck she's kinda pickled herself! ( I know not a sweet thing to say, but sorry).
Later husband and I will make a video for Athena singing happy birthday! She's 1 yrs old today.💖
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We walked over to my sons and gave DDIL the leggings. They fit! They are a bit garish, but will be fine with the right top. Nice to see the kids at the door, though Edie always seems sad. She said she can't wait to come to our house again. We will Zoom them tomorrow for DH's quiz results.
I then applied for my 15% refund as a first time Sweaty Betty customer. Two to three days, they said.
The window cleaner left a bill which included last time. I looked it up in my bank account and I had paid him on the 18th March. I've emailed him the evidence.
Then I had an email from the woman who ran the freehold directors of where I used to live in London. It was shared freehold for 17 flats, so a lot of work. We did make her and the Treasurer an honorary payment. Anyway she told me the Treasurer had died peacefully on Saturday. Very nice woman. It was very kind of her to let me know. Bit of a blast from the past. We left there in 2009. Another life.
Making my lamb and flageolets stew today. It's cold and windy out, so very appropriate. Broccoli. Rhubarb and yogurt for dessert.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx3 -
(((SuziQ))) Frustration is one of the most horrible emotions. I hope the day improves, along with the week, month, & year. :flowerforyou:
Karen in VA: Our son told us that there is likely to be a meat shortage in our future. We plan to continue shopping the meat counters and hope to fill our freezers so that we can feed ourselves. :ohwell: I love your friend’s post of all the little plastic dinosaurs with masks on. It must have taken her ages to make all those masks. The music was also perfect. :bigsmile:
Allie: I think you will be an exceptional caregiver.
Barbie: In my experience, autocorrect has been the unreliable genie in the bottle. I don’t use it. :noway: (If I did, I couldn’t put in noway.) My husband also stays home when I shop. It is something he used to enjoy. :ohwell:
Pip: I wish you good luck with your repairs. A few years ago we had a raccoon infestation in the crawl space under our house and had to have major work down there. The crews had to clean up untold quantities of raccoon poop and the raccoons had torn down all of the insulation under the house to make nests, so that had to be replaced, too. The furnace ducts also had to be repaired or replaced as well. Our next-door neighbor had the same problem at the same time. We were very cold for months because the raccoons had torn apart our furnace ducting. The neighbors were snow-birds, so they were warm & cozy in California while the work was done. We were stuck here in the cold for the duration of the clean-up process. Luckily, our homeowner’s insurance paid the bill. Now we have heavy duty metal grates covering every air vent. They work. I put mothballs under our deck during winter months to keep critters out from under the deck, not that winter amounted to much this year.
Rebecca: Happy birthday to Athena!
I hope to get DH and the dog out for a walk in the neighborhood. Our son tells us to look forward to a meat shortage in the coming months. We are in the habit of shopping sales and will keep that up. I’m not in favor of a tofudebeast for Thanksgiving dinner. :noway: (Remember Jim Henson’s Muppet Thanksgiving?)
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
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Heather Which Sweaty Bettys did you get for your daughter-in-law? I love the garish ones. Never owned a pair, but I love looking at them.1
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Hello Ladies!
Mother's Day Weekend ... both my sons are living with me at the moment, so I received their well wishes in person. We Zoom-called my mom which was an adventure in the ludicrous. Remotely trying to explain technology to and 89 year old is not easy! I had sent Mom and iPad a couple of weeks ago, but this was the first go with a Zoom call. As a part of our virtual church service yesterday, people had sent in 15-20 second videos explaining why they loved their mom. My older son had sent in a video ... very touching.
Tonya ... yes, I am cooking for others while fasting. My guys insist on 3 meals a day! Somedays it is difficult, but most of the time I just remember that I can eat later.
Amber ... your mom's photo shows a sweet soul ...
Photos ... thank you for all the photos. I love them!
Travel/Social Distancing ... I live in NY. Today my husband received "travel information" from his employer. It was noted that if he travels out of the state or even out of our county, he is to inform human resources. If HR deems the travel unnecessary and he decides to travel anyways, it indicated he could lose pay if they decide he needs quarantined when he returns! Sigh.
Katla ... we are seeing evidence of the meat shortage in NY. I could go without meat for quite some time but I live with three very serious carnivores. Each grocery order I make, I've been trying to add protein choices. I have been limited to how much and what is available each order.
I am continually surprised by those of you who "run errands" and are out and about for whatever reason. While we are taking very seriously our need to protect my son, my husband and I would not be reacting any differently if he were not here. Saturday my son required emergency attention for acute urinary retention (he's disabled and in a wheelchair). We spoke with his primary care doctor, who told us which facility was practicing the best covid precautions and we personally took every precaution ...including sanitizing his wheelchair and every item that had entered the ambulatory care center. He is fine now.
I am still eating too much and not getting enough exercise. This week I plan to do better ... which means I need to get out of this chair!
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Karen - I would never spend that sort of money on myself, but it was for a 40th birthday present and I got 15% off.
Have to keep your DDIL happy!
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
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Thanks for the comments on my photos! Those are all with my phone. I do have a digital slr Cannon I like to get fancy with. I also like true photography. No photoshop only cropping and lighting maybe! Been a hobby of mine all my life. Got my first camera for my birthday before the New York World’s Fair in the 60’s. Whatever year that was. I think I was 10? Did do all my kids weddings, but like nature shots best!
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Caught up! I’m sitting in the car while DH is getting stuff out of the storage unit and putting stuff in. Found out my insurance gave us partial coverage for our losses. We lost about $2000 of stuff. Insurance giving us $700. Better than nothing!
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I just returned home from grocery shopping and plan to sit upstairs with DH and read. Today is cool and overcast after a week of sunshine. I have a book from Library to Go on my phone. This one is a contemporary western romance, and set in Central Oregon. I also read vampire romances. They have just the right wry humor from time to time. Don't look at me for recommendations if you want to read something more lofty.
Katla in NW Oregon4 -
Allergies hitting me hard today. My sinus headache terrible y a small throat tickle itchy eyes like glass is in them. Many of us feeling it now or soon I bet it’s the signs of Spring.So soup for supper y resting the rest of the day,
My cousin sent a care package freeze dried peaches y strawberries 1 serving each but I can break it up putting in cereal so it lasts longer.Fkavored Tunas y cans of soup. Toothpastes forJR y us (hard to find at our nearest store). Chocolates hubby will be happy for that . Chocolate covered blueberries 1 serving can eat a handful a day or let hubby enjoy it. He’ll be excited when he sees the hot sauce spicy tuna packet. Definitely the best gift to be given right now.
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Finally can see food journals of friends again but lol even tho we talk or I see their daily post it’s claiming everyone was 6days ago last log in. Is this just mine?3 I added yesterday or day before that so definitely wrong
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Amber-mine says the same thing and has for a while.1
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Heather I love those Sweaty Bettys! Did you get the same color for yourself as you did for Jessamy?1
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Did Jeanette Jenkins Core Stretch DVD. Not bad – mostly stretching. The plan for tomorrow is to do Amy Dixon and Paul Katemi’s Double Down DVD.
I stubbed my toe yesterday and now it’s black and blue. The worst thing is that I can’t exercise as much or I should say certain things I can't do. Like I know that I can’t do rear lunges. Today I couldn’t do a plank on my toes, only on my knees. But I also know that it’ll get better in a week or two. Isn’t it amazing how much longer now it takes us to heal?
Amber – your mother sounds like she was one really special lady
SuziQ – regarding going live – did you SERIOUSLY expect corporate to be logical???
Karen VA – Vince is your typical meat and potatoes man. Me? I could live on a dinner of only vegetables. I mentioned that he may have to eat a veggie burger. You should have seen the look I got! Beyond Burger and Impossible Burgers are pea flour based. Well, if he won’t eat them, then I guess he won’t eat them. Not my problem.
Pip – oh, I can SOO relate. Our first cat brought a rabbit in which went behind the dining room buffet and died. For the longest time I smelled this horrible thing. I did everything, put out candles, boiled things on top of the stove, nothing I did got rid of the smell. Then one day we moved the buffet and saw the dead rabbit. I don’t think I’ll ever forget seeing that.
Rebecca – how wonderful that your sister wanted to video chat
Dropped things off at friend’s houses then made the donation to the Salvation Army. I think this is going to be the last one for a while. Then decided to stop at Aldi on my way home. Didn’t buy much but did get some hamburger meat which I made into patties and put in the freezer. We have an old Polaris that doesn’t work and Vince put it up on Craigslist for free. So far, he’s gotten 5 people who want it. He’ll go to meet someone at Food Lion tonight and give it to him then. I may go with him just to check out their meat (things that Aldi didn’t have) and sour cream.
Amber – I see you are friends with BillyOldish. Where do you know her from?
Anne DE – how is Delaware? Oh, how I miss PJ. I texted Denise that assuming all was OK, we’d be up there Memorial Day weekend. Truthfully, part of me is a bit scared. They tend to go to the NJ shore a lot and NJ is a pretty hot spot. Just wondering how DE is doing
Came back from the Food Lion. I stopped in and got Steve’s juice (no other store carries it) and sour cream (Aldi doesn’t carry it). They don’t have the kind of spinach I’m looking for and they don’t sell a pork tenderloin which surprised me. Then again, this is just a bread-and-milk store so I really shouldn’t be surprised. I saw this really cute shirt but, unfortunately, they didn’t have a size for PJ. It said “somebody in Newton, NC loves you”. No 18 month which is probably the size he is wearing. Rebecca – what size clothing is Athenia wearing?
Michele NC
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