WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2020

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  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 3,437 Member
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    It's Saturday! <3

    Lisa - I am feeling your joy! Thanks for the resistant starch link, I'm always in the mood to read info about keeping our precious guts (and immune systems) healthy.

    Beth - this mask business has been a challenge for those of us with declining hearing and/or plugged ears from allergies who have become lip-readers. I can only imagine how tough it is for you. <3 It can be even more isolating and depressing for many seniors. :( So I'm a big fan of the "sneeze shields" at businesses. Big HUGS to you with all that's going on in your life. <3 Did your other son arrive in Nashville ok? Garbage situation? :p

    Barbie - whoever designed our kitchen never spent time in one. Choke points. 2 people can't be in it at the same time. Have maybe 2' x 3' of uncluttered/usable counter space for meal prep with cupboards hanging right down over it. Wishing you good luck with Jake's new kitchen gadget... my IP lives on a shelf in the garage so I never think to use it. :/ I'm not the only person with this complaint in our subdivision - different style houses, but same kitchen "designer".

    Barbara - so happy to hear your group activities are going again. I'm in your pocket when you are on the beach, no matter what the weather. B)

    Tracey - good luck finding some waterproof deck furniture. Cushions are great but a pain in our iffy weather.

    I re-potted/divided my prayer plant a couple weeks ago. Got 2 nice plants to re-pot plus have 4 cuttings taking root and sending out new shoots. I love this plant - it doesn't mind me over-watering it, doesn't care if I forget to pull the shade and it sits in semi-darkness. And every morning I am greeted with the leaves standing upright in the prayer position.

    Want to comment more but time to jet. Make it a super day, ladies! <3

    Lanette B)
    SW WA State
  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 9,830 Member
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    Morning Ladies
    Slept well and Alfie walked and Fed,Faith routine done and she had her breakfast.. she will nap and then after lunch I will get her in the shower and washed up..
    We sorta have a routine worked out and i will make 500.00 for the weekend plus weds and Thursday and that was 333.00 so that is an ok work week..
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,232 Member
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    Machka9 wrote: »
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    Meanwhile, today is the first day in ages that I've actually got a day off. Completely off. No work. No university!

    Machka in Oz

    I just checked and I had 6 days off uni in February and before that 5 days off uni in October. I worked most of those days, of course, so in the last year I would have had one weekend off in February and one weekend in October.

    No wonder I'm so tired.


    So far today I've slept in, had a lovely brunch with waffles and the apple jam I made, and now I'm trying to get up the energy to go for a shower ... but I just feel like going and lying down on the sofa.

    Machka in Oz

    The sofa won.

    I got up with the intent of going for a shower but the sofa lured me in with the promise of comfort. That particular sofa has been doing that to me since I got it back in the early 2000s. It's my magical sofa. One minute you can be sitting on it feeling awake and thinking about getting up and doing something ... the next you're sound asleep.

    The call of the sofa was strong and I ended up sleeping/dozing there until about 5:30 pm.


    M in Oz
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,232 Member
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    Review ... (Distances include cycling + walking + a bit of rowing)
    Mar-15 … 489.8 km (304.3 miles) = 38 hours 4 min
    Apr-15 … 491.94 km (305.6 miles) = 43 hours 6 min
    May-15 … 361.81 km (224.8 miles) = 35 hours 50 min
    Jun-15 … 569.53 km (353.9 miles) = 41 hours 53 min
    Jul-15 … 230.7 km (143.35 miles) = 32 hours 45 min
    Aug-15 … 211.3 km (131.3 miles) = 28 hours 8 min
    Sep-15 … 306.7 km (190.6 miles) = 35 hour 2 min
    Oct-15 … 441.82 km (274.5 miles) = 47 hours 43 min
    Nov-15 … 660.21 km (410.23 miles) = 60 hours 41 min
    Dec-15 … 499.91 km (282.8 miles) = 54 hours 56 min
    Jan-16 … 864.79 km (537.35 miles) = 65 hours 36 min
    Feb-16 … 470.53 km (292.4 miles) = 40 hours 39 min
    Mar-16 … 917.73 km (570.2 miles) = 66 hours 13 min
    Apr-16 … 417.83 km (259.6 miles) = 40 hours 23 min
    May-16 … 267.09 km (165.9 miles) = 36 hours 10 min
    Jun-16 … 552.1 km (343 miles) = 54 hours 48 min
    Jul-16 … 709 km (440.5 miles) = 60 hours 41 minutes
    Aug-16 … 775.9 km (482.1 miles) = 54 hours 52 minutes
    Sep-16 … 371.3 km (230.7 miles) = 32 hours 20 min
    Oct-16 … 649 km (403.3 miles) = 49 hours 46 min
    Nov-16 … 403 km (250.4 miles) = 52 hours 16 min
    Dec-16 … 511.05 km (317.55 miles) = 52 hours 2 min
    Jan-17 … 741.9 km (461.0 miles) = 70 hours 3 min
    Feb-17 … 600.5 km (373.1 miles) = 57 hours 30 min
    Mar-17 … 1113.2 km (691.7 miles) = 78 hours 25 min
    Apr-17 … 1181.9 km (734.4 miles) = 76 hours 45 min
    May-17 … 426.6 km (265.1 miles) = 39 hours 21 min
    Jun-17 … 575.7 km (357.7 miles) = 41 hours 53 min
    Jul-17 … 714 km (443.7 miles) = 52 hours 23 min
    Aug-17 … 475.8 km (295.6 miles) = 38 hours 41 min
    Sep-17 … 455.5 km (283 miles) = 41 hours 25 min
    Oct-17 … 647.1 km (402.1 miles) = 57 hours 19 min
    Nov-17 … 427.0 km (265.3 miles) = 50 hours 4 min
    Dec-17 … 553.5 km (343.9 miles) = 52 hours 12 min
    Jan-18 … 590.2 km (366.7 miles) = 57 hours 49 min
    Feb-18 … 826.9 km (513.8 miles) = 57 hours 35 min
    Mar-18 … 582.01 km (361.6 miles) = 50 hours 11 min
    Apr-18 … 176.23 km (109.5 miles) = 29 hours 47 min
    May -18 … 167.6 km (104.1 miles) = 29 hours 08 min
    June-18 … 349.9 km (217.4 miles) = 36 hours 58 minutes
    July-18 ... 324.2 km (201.5 miles) = 24 hours 26 minutes
    Aug-18 ... 210.1 km (130.6 miles) = 25 hours 59 minutes
    Sep-18 ... 261.7 km (162.6 miles) = 25 hours 11 minutes
    Oct-18 ... 230.8 km (143.4 miles) = 30 hours 15 minutes
    Nov-18 ... 216.8 km (134.7 miles) = 30 hours 3 minutes
    Dec-18 ... 285.2 km (177.2 miles) = 37 hours 49 minutes
    Jan-19 ... 241.6 km (150.1 miles) = 27 hours 2 minutes
    Feb-19 ... 175.5 km (109 miles) = 19 hours 8 minutes
    Mar-19 ... 170.3 km (105.8 miles) = 28 hours 21 minutes
    Apr-19 ... 160.3 km (99.6 miles) = 25 hours 4 minutes
    May-19 ... 164.0 km (101.9 miles) = 29 hours 10 minutes
    Jun-19 ... 246.2 km (153 miles) = 25 hours 40 minutes
    Jul-19 ... 217.3 km (135.0 miles) = 33 hours 45 minutes
    Aug-19 ... 162.5 km (100.9 miles) = 28 hours 4 minutes
    Sep-19 ... 136.0 km (84.5 miles) = 23 hours 10 minutes
    Oct-19 ... 196.5 km (122.1 miles) = 31 hours 27 minutes
    Nov-19 ... 155.5 km (96.6 miles) = 25 hours 01 minutes
    Dec-19 ... 203.7 km (126.6 miles) = 26 hours 54 minutes
    Jan-20 ... 304.4 km (189.2 miles) = 32 hours 49 minutes
    Feb-20 ... 248.6 km (154.5 miles) = 34 hours 50 minutes
    Mar-20 ... 148.3 km (92.2 miles) = 30 hours 12 minutes
    Apr-20 ... 171.9 km (106.8 miles) = 19 hours 28 minutes
    May-20 ... 183.7 km (114.1 miles) = 20 hours 49 minutes

    Monday, 1 June 2020 … 0.0 km walking + 10.8 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 0 flights of stairs
    Tuesday, 2 June 2020 … 4.5 km walking + 0.0 km cycling + 1.6 km rowing + 0 flights of stairs
    Wednesday, 3 June 2020 … 4.8 km walking + 0.0 km cycling + 1.6 km rowing + 0 flights of stairs
    Thursday, 4 June 2020 … 3.6 km walking + 0.0 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 0 flights of stairs
    Friday, 5 June 2020 … 0.0 km walking + 0.0 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 0 flights of stairs
    Saturday, 6 June 2020 … 0.5 km walking + 11.5 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 0 flights of stairs
    Sunday, 7 June 2020 … 3.6 km walking + 0.0 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 0 flights of stairs

    Monday, 8 June 2020 … 0.0 km walking + 13.6 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 0 flights of stairs
    Tuesday, 9 June 2020 … 3.1 km walking + 0.0 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 0 flights of stairs
    Wednesday, 10 June 2020 … 0.0 km walking + 0.0 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 0 flights of stairs
    Thursday, 11 June 2020 … 5.4 km walking + 0.0 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 0 flights of stairs
    Friday, 12 June 2020 … 0.0 km walking + 0.0 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 0 flights of stairs
    Saturday, 13 June 2020 … 0.0 km walking + 0.0 km cycling + 0.0 km rowing + 0 flights of stairs



    2020 Monthly June
    Walking Distance (km): 25.3
    Walking Time (min): 318.0
    Cycling Distance (km): 35.9
    Cycling Time (min): 133.0
    Flights Stairs Climbed Number: 0.0
    Flights Stairs Climbed Time (min): 0.0
    Rowing Distance (km): 3.2
    Rowing Time (min): 20.0

    Totals
    Total Distance (km): 64.4
    Total Distance (miles): 40.0
    Total Time (min): 471.0
    Total Time (hr): 7:51:00


    And now I'm finally on a break from uni!
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,232 Member
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    The exercise minutes have been dying off recently ... got to get going again now that I've got a bit of time. Hopefully I'll have more energy tomorrow.

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    M in Oz
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 16,999 Member
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    :) About Jake's desire for a Ninja Foodie. Last night we watched six videos about making tomato soup all with ingredients we don't normally buy. One included making a grilled cheese sandwich in the fryer. I told him I could go into the kitchen and fix the same thing in 20 minutes with ingredients and pans we already have in the house. In the middle of the night I started figuring out how I could rearrange some cupboards to accommodate storage out of sight. I refuse to have it on the counter. I knew we'd end up getting one and I wanted to make it as stress free for me as possible. It's hard to be a minimalist with a partner who likes "stuff".

    <3 Barbie in NW WA
  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 18,446 Member
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    Wonder if wonders! There were no queues at either the supermarket or the chemist, so I had a lightning fast visit, and was back home quick smart for lunch.

    Off out to plant up some of my summer containers before afternoon coffee with the mister.

    Lisa: I realised some time ago that we are unlikely to be able to go back to our old ways. It’s a fact of life that things change, and I am an arch adapter. I was feeling philosophical and rather introspective this morning. I’m over it now.
    Machka: I have a recliner which also seems to possess magical powers to lull me to sleep! 😂

    ☘️ Terri
  • JRsLateInLifeMom
    JRsLateInLifeMom Posts: 2,275 Member
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    Texas Hear Waves : Next Monday 96 is the high .Here’s just this morning 9am on

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    Amber Tx

    Today eat y rest still back hurts from JR. Will walk but JR making that hard too 1 mile then he starts falling down on purpose with his balance then a real fall got to give up the ghost 👻. Watching Hulu movies 🎥 y YouTube news . Might clean a few things on my bucket list
  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,411 Member
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    Barbie I'm afraid my solution would be expensive: this is what I want: :D:D:D


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  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
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    Beth near Buffalo: I’ve been cutting my own bangs since the Covid 19 mess began, but the back is simply getting longer. I can’t see it to do it and wouldn’t ever ask DH to cut for me. Our beauty shops are now allowed to be open with masks, gloves and 5 feet apart between chairs. I am happy for our beauty shop owners. They can finally get some income. :star:

    Michele: DH likes Johnsonville Original Brats and Johnsonville Beef Brats. I think he likes the originals best, but he enjoys both kinds. :flowerforyou:

    Tracey in Edmonton: Happy 33rd Anniversary!!! :heart: :star::heart:

    Heather: I haven’t had a perm since the early 1970s. I looked like Harpo Marx. I don’t plan to get another one one any time between today and the morning I wake up in Heaven. :noway:

    Karen in VA and M in OZ: I had my last pill at age 20. They did not sit well with me. DH & I had a big fight over them. He threw the pills into the toilet and I flushed them. We used barrier methods until I passed menopause. I have suggested that for my daughter. I think she had her tubes tied after #3. :star:


    I have an outing planned today to work with my horse group in a county park. We’ll be using clippers and other garden tools to clear trails. Social distancing requirements will be met. DH is not a happy camper about it.

    Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,232 Member
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    Katla49 wrote: »
    Karen in VA and M in OZ: I had my last pill at age 20. They did not sit well with me. DH & I had a big fight over them. He threw the pills into the toilet and I flushed them. We used barrier methods until I passed menopause. I have suggested that for my daughter. I think she had her tubes tied after #3. :star:

    Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

    I had my last pill in 2009 when I was diagnosed with DVT ... left leg chalk full of clots, in hospital for 2 weeks, on Warfarin for a year.

    HRT would likely help with my hot flashes etc. but I can't take it because of that.

    But in 2015 I was diagnosed with precancer of my uterus ... don't know how or if that relates to the pill.


    M in Oz
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,377 Member
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    Tracey - You can get special 'outdoor' cushions. I don't know if they would withstand a downpour, but they are designed to be shower proof at least. :)

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    I think each of us has to judge how much 'shielding to do, based on our own health status. It was my opinion, and not a popular one, at the start of all this, that most people should be allowed to carry on as normal and the vulnerable should go into hibernation. Unfortunately, most people would have found that concept hard to understand and we didn't really know enough about the virus to know who was especially vulnerable. Now we do. It's a fact that people are not very good at assessing risk. Nor has our government been very good at informing people of the risk factors. For some reason they have been shilly shallying around the word 'obese', which is one of the biggest risk factors. The 'all in the same boat' approach has kept social cohesion, but it is totally unscientific. When the chief scientific adviser tried to explain all this at the beginning of the outbreak, he was shouted down. People hated the words 'herd immunity'. But he was right. And it would have avoided the catastrophic and much greater damage caused by the economic problems. We now know who is vulnerable, so whatever the powers that be say, we have to take responsibility for our own health, like Lisa says, put on our own seat belts. I am not getting into close contact with loved ones or anyone because I am old and DH is even older and he is a man. I think I would survive, I'm not sure he would. We are not all equal. This concept has been hard to grasp for some people, but the virus is not polite, it does not try to spare people's feelings. Some of us will have to be very, very careful for a very long time. We know who we are.

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 18,446 Member
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    Heather:
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    I totally agree with everything you say. At 73 I am in the similar position, and although DH is 6 months younger than I am, he does have minor problems (pancreatic/BCMs) which may or may not be affected by COVID, so I plan to continue to avoid close contact with people for quite some time. It’s a price I am willing to pay.

    As you say, each of us should accept responsibility for making sure we do what is right for us.

    The future is never certain but we should load our own dice as much as we can in our favour, since no one else, least of all our government seems inclined to do it for us.
  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 18,446 Member
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    Tracey: Our holiday rental in Donegal last year had the sort of cushions Heather mentioned. They were covered in a kind of woven nylon, and dried very quickly if they got wet.
  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,411 Member
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    Heather
    I have to admit there is a certain appeal to the approach you suggest. Survival of the fittest, herd immunity, take responsibility for our own health...all of that seems logical & sensible. In actuality, though, Sweden's experiment hasn't proven successful. They do not have herd immunity, and in fact are a long way from achieving it. I believe the last statistics show <8% of Sweden's population is immune, not that much higher than countries with 'suppress the peak' strategies. They sacrificed so many of their elderly and vulnerable citizens for an experiment that did not work. They paid an unimaginable price. I believe we as a society should protect the elderly and vulnerable for as long as it is feasible to do so. If we don't, we are less civilized than chimpanzees, whales, dolphins, and elephants. For herd immunity to SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19), 50-70% of the population needs to be immune. I think the closest is New York City with 20%. Achieving 50-70% immunity is probably going to require an immunization. The other hope is that the virus will mutate into a less virulent strain, which will do 2 things; boost herd immunity (because fewer people who have had the virus will die), and free up society to go about their business because it will be much less lethal.
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,377 Member
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    Karen -
    The number of deaths in Sweden is at least half in nursing homes etc. That's what I mean by not protecting the vulnerable. That was terrible. They did not follow the science there.We had the same problem with at least a third of our deaths in care homes. That was utter dereliction of duty and some people are suing the government. Quite rightly. Even with Sweden's laiser faire attitude they had half the deaths per population than we did. We did not follow the science and protect the vulnerable. That's partly because we didn't know much at the beginning. Now we do. If you are fat, old, immune compromised, a smoker, diabetic etc etc etc then isolate. The government should have enabled the vulnerable to do that with furlough, stipends etc . Hindsight is a wonderful thing. :'(

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
  • kevrit
    kevrit Posts: 3,976 Member
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    Machka I absolutely agree! I’d be happy in stage 1 forever!

    RvRita
  • 1948Peachy
    1948Peachy Posts: 1,511 Member
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    Rita ~ Very nice sewing setup. I gave my Singer sewing machine to my DnL today so she can make son masks when he goes back to work in the restaurant on Monday. My machine was bought in 1970 and it still works.

    Tracey ~ Happy Anniversary

    Rebecca ~ How far away are you from Seattle? That looks like a scary place right now.

    Saw the grand kids this morning and got big hugs. So glad we can see them without too much fear as there have only been 34 deaths from the virus in their county as opposed to over 200 in mine.

    Carol in GA

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