WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2020
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🌧🌧Rainy Monday🌧🌧
Raindrops on the branches
Watching the rain
Apple jam
Machka in Oz6 -
Did a shop this morning instead of writing,
but it is getting hot this week. It was fairly civilised. I had a couple of masks with me, but didn't need to use them. I still hand sanitize the minute I get outside, plus handles etc.
My son has organized a meet up AT LAST on the beach at 4pm on Thursday. I told DH that we would buy the ice creams.
It's forecast to be very hot. I will wear my big hat.
I have a great video of my son having a go at paddleboarding for the first time and the kids all standing on the beach shouting "Stand up, Daddy!" He didn't.
Zooming at 3pm with my girlfriends, so must get a bit of rowing in first.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
These are DH's two daughters, taken at the beginning of the lockdown. The younger one on your left moved in with her sister and is still there.
And this is a photo she took on a walk in her local woods. You can see London appearing in the distance like a zombie city from a scary movie.
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🌧🌧Rainy Tuesday🌧🌧
Not as rainy as Monday! But still rainy.
300 mm (11.8 inches) of rain fell on Mt Wellington over a period of 3 days, with 175 mm of that occurring in one 24-hour period. Mt Wellington looms over Hobart.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/tas/lower-derwent/mount-wellington
Lower lying areas got less. We're at about 58 mm (2.3 inches).
And it's still raining. It's supposed to keep raining throughout Wednesday.
I've been feeling kind of blah and unmotivated, but we did get out and walked around the shops a little.
I've been advised to get button-up nightgowns and/or tops for when I have my surgery, so I picked another one up today. I don't usually wear button-up anything. I prefer pullover tops.
I also got a pair of very furry grey slippers that slip on quite easily so that I don't have to lean over to put them on. My usual slippers are boot-like or moccasin-like and require slightly more effort.
I got my husband all sorts of loose and comfy clothes when he was in hospital 2 years ago, so he's set for his surgery day after tomorrow.
Washed towels today. Will wash sheets tomorrow so that everything is all fresh and clean for him. Everything gets hung dry inside because it's way too wet outside!
And I've got the ingredients to make a few slow cooker meals for us so that my husband doesn't have to cook.
Just a bit apprehensive.
Machka in Oz5 -
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(((Allie))): This is a tough situation and you gave Sean & Jean good advice. It is good news that your SIL called palliative care.
Heather: Your DH’s daughters have great smiles. I think they were smart to move in together during the pandemic. I can imagine how lonely I might feel under lockdown by myself. It is good that they have one another. The photo of the countryside with London in the distance is charming. :flowerforyou:
Machka: I’m thinking about all that rain and your lovely beach. I hope you’re nice and dry, safely above the high tide zone.
Yesterday a neighbor criticized a shrub in our hedge that has been there well over a decade. Years ago the plant that was there drowned in a flood. We couldn’t find a match for the rest of the hedge and put in a different evergreen shrub. I did the best I could at the time. I didn’t appreciate the criticism and was not happy that DH privately agreed with her. I’m still unhappy about it. I think I’ll put him on the task of finding a replacement that is the same cultivar as the rest of the hedge and an appropriate size. :grumble:
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
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KetoneKaren wrote: »Lisa Are you finished with the glider renovation? I like the clean, neutral look in the third photo.
Yep - the wood is pressure-treated, and should go to silver after this winter. I was pleased with how it turned out--I wanted it very neutral, and not dark. It's used most in the summer, and that dark green wood soaked up heat, to the point of being uncomfortable.
I was even more pleased with my husband, who told me, "I almost gave you advice on how to get that done this weekend, but I didn't say a word, and you did it just like I would have." High praise indeed.
Although he did add, "but not with hair ties."
To explain, when I spoke to him on the phone at lunch yesterday, I told him I was drilling holes in the slats, and he said, "Oh good, you found the clamps." I told him no, I was using hair ties to cinch three slats to the old board to use the old one as a drill pattern.
He shakes his head a lot when he's around me. Wonder if he's got ear mites?
Late getting to the elliptical, but still trundling down the hall to get it done. Feeling quite virtuous.
Love y'all,
Lisa in AR7 -
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Machka: I’m thinking about all that rain and your lovely beach. I hope you’re nice and dry, safely above the high tide zone.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
We haven't been down to the beach since the rain started but I've heard waves crashing for 2 days now. There's a decent swell out there and the high winds have probably been helping it along.
And all the rivers around are in flood ... probably pouring into the bay.
If it clears at all tomorrow, I hope to walk down there.
M in Oz2 -
Love it!
One thing on my list for when I've got time is to work on my piano. I got to Grade 3 in the Royal Conservatory of Music ... which isn't a lot ... and got too busy and lost interest. But eventually I'd like to pick it up again. My mother played the piano.
But this is brilliant.
I watched it twice!
Evolution of Piano (Scott Bradlee with Tony DeSare)
https://youtu.be/8kUXqVyCnj4
Machka in Oz4 -
Had a great Zoom, although one of our number was missing. She probably just forgot as it was a different day to usual.
I was delighted that I was able to share the screen. I am using my Android tablet and there seemed to be no option for sharing the screen, it just changed from one person to another when someone spoke. So, I googled a question and found out that you have to swipe left for a shared screen. How was I supposed to know that? Anyway, it worked and I could see them all.
Salmon and asparagus tonight. Royal Jersey potatoes for DH.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx4 -
Hi everyone. sure a lot of new names. Seems like I have been gone a life time. Thanks Heather and Barbara. This virus has sure made a strange year. We were the hardest hit place in Nebraska, but things have calmed down a lot, we are still on lockdown for the most part. The hospital I work at has been really busy with the patients and testing. I have been working 45-55 hour weeks as I had 3 people quit and since we are a 24\7 dept someone has to be here. I have hired one person and they are to start July 14th and that will help a lot.
Also I have been having a problem with hives. They started on Jan 12 and kept spreading more everyday. I have been to 4 doctors and had biopsy and tests. Only thing they tell me is I have hives. They got to the point I had them all over, face and everywhere and everyday. I am finally on meds that are helping and I am having spots of breakout every couple days. So praying they just go away like they came.
And with all this my eating is out of control and I have felt so weak. Also in Jan I was told I have iron deficient anemia and my blood count was low. I had so many blood tests I told the doctor no wonder I had low blood count. So they put me on iron pills and slowly it is coming up. I still get tired quick and weak. One day at a time. I missed to all very much. Blessings, Vicki GI NE
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Hi!!!!!!!!!!! VICKI!!!!!!!!!!! :drinker:
Wow, it sounds like you've been super busy. No wonder you're tired!
I don't think you are the only one who has been lockdown eating.
Keep dropping in. Are you still getting out on the motorbike?
Much love, Heather UK xxxxxxxx2 -
Lisa - I had to laugh at your hair ties being used as a "clamp". I remember my Dad walking in on me one time when I was trying to use ribbon as a way to measure. He was appalled that I wouldn't have gone and got a measuring tape from him.
Machka - My grandmother started piano lessons around her 70th birthday. She bought herself an electric organ and took lessons for 2-3 years. My brother took an interest in it and for a couple of years they travelled together on Saturday mornings to take lessons. I know the keys, but really never had an ear for it.
Heather - I'm so happy you will be having a meet up with your family.
Katla - Did DH agree to just shut her up? I've been known to do that at times.
Allie - I'm so glad that Jean is calling for an assessment. It will be eye opening for her I'm sure.
I went to my youngest daughter's last night so she could cut and colour my hair. We followed the rules as set out for the salons that are open here and enjoyed a nice visit. My eldest daughter uses my Amazon account regularly to order things and had a couple of parcels at my house, I took them with me and she came to pick them up. So I had a visit with both of my girls last night. It was very nice but will probably be the last one for a few months again.We have more cases now than we had throughout all of this in Edmonton. Today and tomorrow all staff and residents are being tested, I think that the government has asked for this so that there is a record showing that none of us have it and then they will open up for visitors again. I am torn on this. I believe that it's needed because the isolation from family is having ill effects on the residents, but on the other hand they are safe.
Tracey in Edmonton6 -
RVRita here still. Catch up later4
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Snowflake,
DH doesn’t like the plant either. I don’t feel all that well supported. I could not find the right cultivar after the flooding & did the best I could. The rest of the hedge is boxwood. We looked and couldn’t find any at the time so we put in a different evergreen shrub.
If the homeowners association decides to make a change for all the water damaged hedges I’ll likely go along with it.
We have a know it all bully in our community.
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"Get to do"s and "chose well"sChose well: BB&B, invest 10 mins tidying Office.
Bonus: down onto the mat for mat work for the first time in a very long time, maybe even in 2020!
Get to do: Tumble to groomer; line dance class, call Pacific Vision for appointment; massage, BiMart for rx, invest 10 mins cleaning Living Room, carry over 10 mins cleaning Master Bath, Bedrooms, call PC guy about mic/speaker, practice new dances (Evergreen, Larger than Life, Here I Go Again/Mama Mia, Real Deal, Get it Right, Quarter after one, Half Past Tipsy, Senorita, Dance Monkey; next week final? Follow up call for Joe’s Dr. appointment, transplant pineapples, bean, melons, cukes; make garlic almonds for Barb and Dan; prep raised bed for carrots, parsley root, parsnips, radishes; finish weeding drive, continue weeding flower bed, mulch flowerbed; Wednesday to Coos Bay for service, WalMart, Natural Grocers and Farmers’ market; Thursday 10 am Chiro & make up BB&B, Friday 9am stove repair guy to adjust kitchen flame and assess Aunt Elsie’s stove; Freddie’s for complete series TDAP <$48, get Shingrix vaccine,
Reward: inventory seeds, plan fall cool season garden, order replenishments.
First Zooming BB&B class. This instructor’s protocol is not as strenuous as Coach Ken’s, but the circuits do raise a sweat and she’s constantly smiling and gently encouraging. Proud of myself for getting back to it.
Debby in VA, thanks! Guess my iPhone is too old, Silver linings Only apps in Settings/Privacy/Health are 2 apps I’ve installed related to my HRM.
Machka “random scrap of paper” :laugh:
Pip P00p police, really??? I thought they might want to be sure dog has no pit bull genes. Sadly some places have that prohibition.
Debbie in Napa ((hugs)) I can hear your exhaustion and pain. (((hugs held extra long)))
Carol send that spirit over here, please!
Rita great pics of wide open view. Looking forward to pics of the Mommy and Me winter headbands.
Heather Sometimes think I was a man in a prior life, but don’t tell Joe! Likewise missing NYKaren.
Katla thanks for the how-to-recycle bubble wrap reminder. Have lots of packing material clogging up closets and under beds. Hope our Village Mail shop will take it.
Allie Your text was perfect So glad Jean has taken first step.
Karen in VA Ditto what you said to Allie.
@Vickil57 Great to see you popping in! You’ve been missed.
Lisa great glider, very well done.
Ginny likewise here, always use credit card for purchases instead of debit card, due the protections. No longer carry a register, but maintain two spreadsheets, one for the checking account (so I can check against what the bank says daily) and one for all payout (for budgeting and tax purposes.)
Also missing Kylia and thinking of her family.
Chetco effect brought 80+F today, all windows and doors open. Yep there's another bug to catch and release. Asked Joe to please hang up the magnetic screen. He's reluctant, he gets tangled up in it (he's such a boy), but I whined "puhleeeeze" and he agreed. We'll see.
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
June: better than May.
daily: steps=2944 vits=21 log=22 CI<CO=19 CI<250<CO=12 Tumble & Shadow 5=6 mfp=22 clean 10 mins=9 outside=9 up hill=10
wkly: T’ai Chi or BB&B x3=7 rx=3 dance=4
mnthly: board mtg=1 grant=1 review 20for20=
bonus: AF=11 play=0 sew=1"Get to do"s and "chose well"sChose well: BB&B, invest 10 mins tidying Office.
Bonus: down onto the mat for mat work for the first time in a very long time, maybe even in 2020!
Get to do: Tumble to groomer; line dance class, call Pacific Vision for appointment; massage, BiMart for rx, invest 10 mins cleaning Living Room, carry over 10 mins cleaning Master Bath, Bedrooms, call PC guy about mic/speaker, practice new dances (Evergreen, Larger than Life, Here I Go Again/Mama Mia, Real Deal, Get it Right, Quarter after one, Half Past Tipsy, Senorita, Dance Monkey; next week final? Follow up call for Joe’s Dr. appointment, transplant pineapples, bean, melons, cukes; make garlic almonds for Barb and Dan; prep raised bed for carrots, parsley root, parsnips, radishes; finish weeding drive, continue weeding flower bed, mulch flowerbed; Wednesday to Coos Bay for service, WalMart, Natural Grocers and Farmers’ market; Thursday 10 am Chiro & make up BB&B, Friday 9am stove repair guy to adjust kitchen flame and assess Aunt Elsie’s stove; Freddie’s for complete series TDAP <$48, get Shingrix vaccine,
Reward: inventory seeds, plan fall cool season garden, order replenishments.
First Zooming BB&B class. This instructor’s protocol is not as strenuous as Coach Ken’s, but the circuits do raise a sweat and she’s constantly smiling and gently encouraging. Proud of myself for getting back to it.
Debby in VA, thanks! Guess my iPhone is too old, Silver linings Only apps in Settings/Privacy/Health are 2 apps I’ve installed related to my HRM.
Machka “random scrap of paper” :laugh:
Pip P00p police, really??? I thought they might want to be sure dog has no pit bull genes. Sadly some places have that prohibition.
Debbie in Napa ((hugs)) I can hear your exhaustion and pain. (((hugs held extra long)))
Carol send that spirit over here, please!
Rita great pics of wide open view. Looking forward to pics of the Mommy and Me winter headbands.
Heather Sometimes think I was a man in a prior life, but don’t tell Joe! Likewise missing NYKaren.
Katla thanks for the how-to-recycle bubble wrap reminder. Have lots of packing material clogging up closets and under beds. Hope our Village Mail shop will take it.
Allie Your text was perfect So glad Jean has taken first step.
Karen in VA Ditto what you said to Allie.
@Vickil57 Great to see you popping in! You’ve been missed.
Lisa great glider, very well done.
Ginny likewise here, always use credit card for purchases instead of debit card, due the protections. No longer carry a register, but maintain two spreadsheets, one for the checking account (so I can check against what the bank says daily) and one for all payout (for budgeting and tax purposes.)
Also missing Kylia and thinking of her family.
Chetco effect brought 80+F today, all windows and doors open. Yep there's another bug to catch and release. Asked Joe to please hang up the magnetic screen. He's reluctant, he gets tangled up in it (he's such a boy), but I whined "puhleeeeze" and he agreed. We'll see.
Lighter, lovelies!Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
June: better than May.
daily: steps=2944 vits=21 log=22 CI<CO=19 CI<250<CO=12 Tumble & Shadow 5=6 mfp=22 clean 10 mins=9 outside=9 up hill=10
wkly: T’ai Chi or BB&B x3=7 rx=3 dance=4
mnthly: board mtg=1 grant=1 review 20for20=
bonus: AF=11 play=0 sew=1
I know right? that's what I initially thought too. making sure the dog had no Pittie genes. then I figured out why. we pick up our dogs poop no matter where we are
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Just chatted with our avid gardening neighbor. She says she’ll look for a boxwood that will fit the spot.5
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Dog Poop DNA! That's some serious dog-poop-policing going on in that neighborhood.
Hmmmmm…wonder how the HOA handles runner's diarrhea…
Karen in Virginia just thinkin' about that...4 -
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KetoneKaren wrote: »
Although he did add, "but not with hair ties." To explain, when I spoke to him on the phone at lunch yesterday, I told him I was drilling holes in the slats, and he said, "Oh good, you found the clamps." I told him no, I was using hair ties to cinch three slats to the old board to use the old one as a drill pattern.
Love y'all,
Lisa in AR
Years ago my single girlfriends toilet flusher broke during a party, my hub went to look at it and found the curling ribbon that she had used to repair it previously had given way. He just shook his head and laughed and asked for another piece of ribbon since she didn't have a repair kit.
Okie in the TX Hill Country6 -
Machka: Your apple jam looks wonderful! :flowerforyou: My mom also played the piano, and I have hers in my living room. It doesn’t get much use, but it is a link to her and I don’t want to part with it.
Lisa: It is great that your DH praised your good work on the glider. You’ve chosen an excellent man to be your DH.
Heather: Good for you, figuring out how to zoom to everyone. I've had a couple of zoom chats with my daughter and grandchildren. It is wonderful. We tend to have facetime chats with DS and DDIL, easy because we all have iphones. Thank goodness for Zoom. Now we can talk to all of our children and grandchildren. WTG, Amazon!
A few minutes ago I had a chat with the colonoscopy doctor’s office. I’m told I’ll get another call for a covid testing appointment. I also got details regarding building number and doctor’s office location. DH will be able to drop me off and go to his nearby hotel room to wait for the procedure to be done. We are getting more concrete information. I can’t get it over with too soon. What a stress festival. :grumble:
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
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Katla - Big hugs while you go through all this stress.
Lisa - You are a marvel! Can't even imagine doing all that. Great job.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
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MFP is buggy today. Having trouble getting my food logged.1
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Awe, Katla. I would love to play your piano.💖. Maybe one of these years.👍
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Kayla, we have a know it all bully in our community too. We are only a group of 10, so his voice does get heard. Fortunately, tge other nine of us are reasonably intelligent and so still manage to get things done in spite of him. We have a "princess" too who figures everything revolves around her. They are both a pain.
Allie, I'm so glad that Jean called palliative care. Even if all that happens is they get some extra equipment to make everybody's lives a little easier, it will be a good thing.
Official wi day today, down .4 of a pound again this week, not much, but I'll take it, at least it's headed in the right direction!
Guess that's it for me for now.
Hugs to those needing them, congrats to those celebrating and welcome to the newbies!
Evelyn, Vancouver Island where its cloudy today, but quite warm5 -
Kayla, we have a know it all bully in our community too. We are only a group of 10, so his voice does get heard. Fortunately, tge other nine of us are reasonably intelligent and so still manage to get things done in spite of him. We have a "princess" too who figures everything revolves around her. They are both a pain.
Allie, I'm so glad that Jean called palliative care. Even if all that happens is they get some extra equipment to make everybody's lives a little easier, it will be a good thing.
Official wi day today, down .4 of a pound again this week, not much, but I'll take it, at least it's headed in the right direction!
Guess that's it for me for now.
Hugs to those needing them, congrats to those celebrating and welcome to the newbies!
Evelyn, Vancouver Island where its cloudy today, but quite warm
congratulations on the weight loss!! .4 is still a loss. I am hoping to start loosing again soon. Trying to figure how to get that darn scale moving again.
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Katla - I feel for you, we lived in a townhouse once that had a HOA. I even joined and was able to vote, but the bullies all banded together and outvoted anyone that wanted to make any changes to what they wanted. I would never want to live in that situation again.
I had my Covid test a few minutes ago, I am asymptomatic, but all staff and residents have been encouraged to have one so I did my part. It is unpleasant but not painful, made my eyes water a bit though.
Tracey in Edmonton
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Did the 10 Pounds Down DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do the last part of the Dressed Up Drills DVD
Katla – For a long time I’ve been taking my peanuts to the local UPS store for them to reuse them. Lately Amazon seems to be using those bubble things. But the good news is that you can pop them to get the air out and then recycle them. Like I said, we recycle A LOT. I usually only have to put out our garbage to be picked up and even after 2 weeks it’s usually only about ½ full
Vicki – Get well fast.
Karen VA – “runners diarrhea”….lol
Michele NC
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