WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2020

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sh0tzz99 wrote: »

To all you crafty people. I have a little sewing machine purchased only to do very simple tasks, such as sewing a hem. However, on the bottom side, it loops the thread MANY times. Any ideas what it’s doing or how to make it stop and work properly? The front side (that I can see when I’m sewing) looks fine. The underside is this bunched up mess. I just want to hem my very lightweight curtain panels. Do I just need to get a real sewing machine or take it somewhere? I rarely sew anything, so hate to spend the money for a solid machine.

Thanks for any advice you may have.

Tina in CA

Tina- try rethreading the whole thing(top thread and bobbin/bottom thread)- if that doesn't fix it, try changing the tension a little bit.

sh0tzz99

Evelyn and Debbie - Thanks for the advice on the sewing machine. I will see if I can figure out how to change the tension. The physical manual has disappeared and the one I found online is not clearly scanned and is hard to read. I'll dig around a bit. Much appreciated.

Tina in CA

Katla49

Evie: Thanks for your good wishes. I’ve been trying to get past this fear for many years & I have finally made it! :bigsmile: I have to admit that my knees are griping today. The ride was worth it.

SuziQ: I am so sorry about your light fixture. Does your building have an electrician or someone that they recommend? :huh:


Tina in CA: Good luck with your sewing.


Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

GodMomKim

exermom

Did a body pump workout from my tablet. Something a bit different from the body pump DVD’s that I have. The plan for tomorrow is to do Cathe Friedrich’s Afterburn DVD

Ruth UT – welcome

M – thanks for the update. You’ve certainly had a time of it!

Exercised, then stopped at WalMart since I needed more Ground Clear and this is the only WalMart that carries it. Then went to Office Depot to get bubble mailers.

Have to go to the dentist tomorrow. I have my routine cleaning then they’re going to take the impression and do whatever else they need to do for my bridge (the one that broke early on in this pandemic and I told them just to jury rig it and I’d get it later. I honestly thought they took the impression etc. then and was just going to put it in tomorrow. Evidently not, but I’ve lived this long I can live a few more weeks.

Skennelly – had you had those Oreos, chocolate bars and ice cream, you probably would have wanted to go to sleep anyway. Good for you just skipping that part and going right to sleep

Can I just squeeze Levi?

SuziQ – you are a real good friend to have your friend over

Supposed to go to the library. For some reason, I can’t seem to get Overdrive and Hoopla to play on my phone, only my tablet. That should be a pretty quick fix.

I was on a spinach/feta kick, now off it. My newest kick is meringues

Well, the pool got up to 90. Like I said, it’s getting where it’s no longer refreshing. But it sure beats sitting in the sun. Plus, I get some exercise.

Karen VA – at least the squirrels have good taste and pick out nice rocks….lol

Sharon – what a stroke of good luck!

Tina – that has happened to me. And, yes, it’s the tension

Went to the library and found out that there’s a Brevard county in NC! I have a library card from Brevard county in FL. Who knew.

Mahjongg tonight or else I would go in the pool.

Michele NC

GodMomKim

I just heard a high school friend's mom died, she wasn't healthy but caught covid in the hospital and is gone. Her daughter is heart broken she could not see her mom during the last 3 weeks of her life.

I get it, sort of.... but there needs to be a way to suit families up and let them see their loved ones..

Kim

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KetoneKaren

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bwcetc

Sara628588 wrote: »

I was supposed to go for a hearing check up today to be fitted with hearing aids.......... couldnt make myself go. What a numpte. The thought of spending money I cant afford to get things I'm sad to need just didnt seem to be my day. Trying not to comfort eat to assuage my guilt........

And a happy hello to everyone other than that

I am 58 years old, profoundly hearing impaired (only 4% of hearing remains) and I completely understand your feelings regarding hearing aides. I waited until last year to try hearing aides, but took them out a the beginning of the pandemic as none of the adjustments we had made were doing much good. In fact, I was getting significant headaches. I need to restart the process again and I'm dragging my feet. In my case, hearing aides are only a precursor to a cochlear implant ... which I am also dragging my feet on. And yet, I so desperately want to be able to hear. Silly, to avoid something that might help with that.

Beth near Buffalo

Snowflake1968

Katla - That’s an accomplishment you should be proud of.

Machka - rough time, hopefully everything heals fast!

Barbara - I hope you have a much better week this week.

Lisa - Levi sure is a sweetie!

Karen - thank you, I think she’s pretty sweet.

Barbie - my daughters friend collect all the old Pyrex that we grew up with. She has that in her china cabinet rather than China. It’s really pretty displayed and brings back memories every time I see her post she’s added a new piece.

Suzi - Thats must have given you a start to your day. I hope your friend gets the break she needs. We have talked at work about what we should do in certain situations and we have decided that in some instances helping mental health is worth the risk as long as everyone involved has been being cautious. Of course, we are not in the same number category as you in Florida.

Tina - I am not a seamstress or anything, but I believe that is a tension issue on your thread. I may be wrong though.

Sharon - I just love your story about the trades. You can feel the pride in your written words. Have you followed any of the Mike Rowe Works articles? He is fighting hard to get young people involved in trades. Most of my family is or has been in trades and I think it’s smart.

Kim - I think that is one of the saddest parts about this whole pandemic. Dying alone with no family. Family not being there and in a lot of cases here in Canada not able to attend funerals or have them. It’s terrible.

Karen - view from my window, that dog is funny.

Had an interesting day today, I’ll see how it plays out but it seems they may be trying to change their tune about vacation time that was agreed upon when I hired. I’m not very happy about it right now.
I was told 3 weeks paid holidays, I even asked how it was accrued and if I had to wait one year and was told that it didn’t matter I had 3 weeks as of April 1, my one year anniversary was June 20. Now they are saying the time is there but maybe not the money. This is the problem when the person making the rules doesn’t remember things from one day to the next. It’s also why Ill be asking for everything in writing now. I do have the 3 weeks in writing so I hope they follow through.

I want to go for a walk tonight but there are some very black clouds out there and tremendous wind. Maybe I’ll have a bath instead.

Tracey in Edmonton

exermom

Kim – I’m so sorry to hear this. Yes, that is one of the worst parts of this whole pandemic thing

Mahjongg tonight. Had a fairly decent night

Michele NC

pipcd34

stats for the day:

Bike ride home 2 dome- 12.28min, 128mhr, 12.4amph, 2.58mi= 75c
Apple Watch- 76c
Bike ride puy 2 sumn sta- 15.08min, 14.3amph, 152mhr, 3.60mi= 160c
apple watch - 158c
bike ride wrk 2 sumn sta- 2.47min, 10.8amph, 126mhr, .5mi= 26c
Apple Watch- 24c
Bike ride dome 2 hm- 17.34min, 8.8amph, 149mhr, 2.56mi= 172c
apple watch- 141c

total cal 433

Machka9

My sense of smell/taste has been inadequate for ages ... decades. I actually don't remember having much of a sense of smell/taste.

I became aware of a lack of smell/taste in my early 20s when friends were talking about the coke vs. pepsi taste tests. I laughed at those taste tests because of course there is no difference between the dark soft drinks. They all taste slightly sweet and not sharp like the lemon lime ones.

My friends were surprised and tried to convince me of subtle differences that just didn't exist for me.

I eat mainly by texture because there isn't much of a flavour difference between things.

Then yesterday my husband brought me a coffee. My coffees are infused with vanilla. I couldn't taste the vanilla because vanilla has no taste (I've never understood why someone would choose the white ice cream with absolutely no flavour to it) but the vanilla in coffee makes it slightly less bitter. Nevertheless yesterday he set the coffee beside me to cool and I caught the scent of vanilla beans or if you were to open the vanilla extract and take a good sniff (those are about the only places where I've been able to pick up the smell of vanilla before).

Later I was in the lounge room and Rhody was playing with his cat grass on the coffee table and it was like being hit in the face with a freshly mown hay field. I also picked up the scent of the soil and I think the water in the tray underneath might be slighty mildewy.

I was a good 4 feet away when this happened. Previously I would have had to have my nose right in the grass to get any sort of smell.

These things have been amazing to me!

Who knew stuff had a scent!

It has been almost overwhelming at times ... like the grass one. After enjoying the smell for a few moments I did wonder how you turn the volume down when you need a break.

Machka in Oz

Sara628588

cityjaneLondon wrote: »

Margaret - My son, who has real greyhounds cannot let them off the leash unless it us a fully enclosed, protected space. If they see anything moving, they are off in chase. At the speed of lightening.

We have a lovely (lazy as anything) grey - he too can only be walked to lead, and if we let him off in an enclosed field he runs like crazy for about 5 minutes then wants to go home! Haha.

KetoneKaren wrote: »

Sara It is hard to spend a ton of money on something you don't want. How much is your hearing loss impacting your life?
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I was coping OK and didnt think my hearing was too bad, maybe a little loss but was OK ish....... but when people started wearing masks that was me done, and I realised how little I could hear! I went and had a test and I have 30% hearing loss But the hearing aids they are suggesting cost over £1,000 and I simply cant afford that, so I keep putting it off. My job - I work in mental health so I listen to people! haha.

Sara628588

bwcetc wrote: »

I am 58 years old, profoundly hearing impaired (only 4% of hearing remains) and I completely understand your feelings regarding hearing aides. I waited until last year to try hearing aides, but took them out a the beginning of the pandemic as none of the adjustments we had made were doing much good. In fact, I was getting significant headaches. I need to restart the process again and I'm dragging my feet. In my case, hearing aides are only a precursor to a cochlear implant ... which I am also dragging my feet on. And yet, I so desperately want to be able to hear. Silly, to avoid something that might help with that.

Beth near Buffalo

Its crazy isnt it the things we do! I was the same when I has to start wearing glasses, bought them then never wore them. How we take these for granted at times! I cant be without my glasses now. Lets hope that both you and I get the determination to get what we need to make things better

bwcetc

Sara ... I only read lips, so the masks have been my undoing. I downloaded an app called “MyEar.” It uses voice recognition to transcribe others speaking. It’s not perfect but has been helpful. I’ve also been able to use it up next to the computer for zoom calls and live feed video. It’s for iPhone only though.

Whidislander

She walks!💖. I haven't seen this cutie since she was 4 months old!😢😢💖💖
💖Rebecca

Snowflake1968

Machka - there sure are smells that need the volume turned down. It’s great you can smell though.

Rebecca - so sweet! I thought of you today when I heard on the radio that tomorrow (Tuesday) is national nude day.
My local radio station is having people call/text in if they have ever been caught in the nude.

Tracey in Edmonton

Snowflake1968

Beth - I’ve noticed our residents that need to see our lips are really suffering. We can’t take the mask off to assist at all.

Katla49

Kim: I am so sorry for your high school friend’s loss. I wonder why she was unable to see her mom during her illness. Were they trying to protect your friend from getting the disease? I agree that family members should be able to “suit up” to prevent getting the disease and still stand by with their loved one if the danger is not too high. I don’t know whether that is actually possible. I wonder whether linked TV’s could provide a connection. I can’t imagine abandoning my husband or another family member. It would be heart breaking.

Sara628588 & Beth: DH has some hearing loss but not at a scary level so far. His dad had hearing problems for many years. DH has tried hearing aides in the past but stopped using them. He seems to be doing okay for now without them, although he talks about getting new ones. I hope you two will both find a satisfactory balance. DH, too.

Machka: So happy that you’re posting again! It sounds like you’re rediscovering smells and scents that have been missing for a while. I hope you continue to enjoy them. :star;

Rebecca: The photos of your baby granddaughter and her daddy are priceless.


Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon