WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2020
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The management company has come and gpne. Managed to do all the things in my list. I even plugged in the Asian Lego city lights in son's room like he instructed me to do. He is proud of it!
The gal is going to put in a bid for getting the house cleaned and painted. She used to live here so its interesting to hear all the stories this home has gone thru. They have sent a bid for the driveway to be fixed. The fact that the tree roots have cracked the cement and I have told them about my fall, hopefully helped push that job thru. Its rally a liability issue since the broken cement pieces move when you step on them, and our Chevy Spark spins its tires sometimes!I
💖Rebecca
Love this saying.💖7 -
Ok so took Taliah to the beach... i can only handle a couple of hours...
Happy Birthday to Katla and Evelyn .many happy returns of the day...
PIP- So happy for you and Kirby !!!!
Waiting on an amazon order and Tracy to pick up Tal.. and then ill go to bed.2 -
Carol GA
I sure hope the EMT will help you
Katie
I’m so sorry about your friend
Yvonne
how appropriate this day is for Rita! I agree with you totally on the depth of the water affecting the temp. It’s definitely warmer at the steps than in the deep end. When I went to the dentist the other day, they were only letting a certain amount of people in the office at a time (so that there weren’t many in the waiting room), of course you had to wear a mask when you went in, they took my temp before showing me to the room. When the gal was cleaning my teeth, she had this Plexiglas shield between her and me. I guess that’s about the only differences.
I kept saying “Oh, I don’t need a dishwasher”. When we remodeled the kitchen in our first house, Vince talked me into getting one. When we bought our second home the first thing out of my mouth was “but it doesn’t have a dishwasher”
Tomorrow I’ll stop at the house of a friend and drop off cat litter containers for her. I know she won’t be home but that’s OK, then I’ll go to the Salvation Army and on my way home I’ll stop at Aldi.
Katie
oh no, I’m so sorry to hear this
Michele NC
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Katla: 🎉🥳Happy Birthday🎂🎉0
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Katie,so sorry to heart about your dear friend..
Ok it took me awhile but made the bed.... got a mattress topper and new sheets and pillows.. oh i am in love.. here is hoping i have a good nights sleep..1 -
Katie: How sad to lose 2 friends. Deepest Sympathy!0
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Margaret: It sounds like your son’s small kitchen is effective and you have a good system.
Dr. Katie: I am so sorry for the loss of your dear friend, and for the loss of more good people to Covid-19.
Terri: Thanks for your birthday wishes. I had a wonderful day and facetime/zoom calls from all of my kids and a regular call from my best friend forever since 7th grade. Her call was a huge and welcome surprise. She was maid of honor at our wedding 50 years ago. :bigsmile:
I am happy to have a built-in dishwasher. We have plenty of cabinet space. Our current dishwasher is #3 for this home. When we married, our first dishwasher was a portable from Sears. It was a wedding gift from my parents who figured it might save the marriage.
It worked! This is our fourth home and here we are, 50 years later and still married. Yep, Golden Anniversary, March 20, 2020! We had hoped to celebrate with our adult children and grandchildren on the site and anniversary date of our wedding, but Covid intervened. Maybe we can celebrate as we hoped next year.
This has been a day of running errands for me. I’m home now and happy to be here. :bigsmile:
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
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Rebecca Thanks that is what I figured after I searched the profile area to no avail.
Faye
Columbia River
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Faye: Where do you live on the Columbia River? :huh:0
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KATLA The second is a peak on Snoqualime pass.
Faye
On the bank
of the river
where the
mighty
sturgeon
still swim
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Katla, Faye is your neighbor down the street dontchaknow!😁0
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Experimenting
Faye
OR/WA
On the bank of the river where the
mighty prehistoric sturgeon still swim0 -
Whidislander wrote: »Katla, Faye is your neighbor down the street dontchaknow!😁
Down the river from Katla I am guessing.
Faye
OR/WA
On the bank of the river where the
mighty prehistoric sturgeon still swim
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More on bottle bills- British Columbia, Canada also has a bottle bill. I don’t know about other Canadian Provinces.
I’m way behind, over 300 posts and I lost my streak. I was at 895 days 6 days ago. I’m so sorry I forgot to log in, but had a great trip.
I know that New Brunswick and Alberta do have a bottle bill, I know Manitoba does not.
I think PEI doesn’t allow any plastic bottles only glass.
Tracey in Edmonton3 -
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dellafayefox wrote: »How do you get a signature that shows at the bottom on every post automatically?
I know there's supposed to be a feature that does it automatically, and I've tried, but I've never gotten it to work.
And now I can't find it. I'll look some more.
Ah, it was the Ticker ... but I don't think it happens automatically.
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drkatiebug wrote: »Thank you all for the condolences and hugs. Banging my head against a wall in grief. In talking to another friend about Mary, she informed me that another mutual friend had died of COVID-19. This has not been a good day. So far I have managed to not eat my emotions. Now, RIP Helen!
So sorry.
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Kelly - I recommended a CBD cream to a friend for her husband who suffers from RA in his hands. She said he put some on and within a few hours was able to move his hands like he hadn’t in years.
Machka - if I could do anything I wanted for a career I think I would go into some kind of counselling/ therapist helping young men and women late teens early 20’s.
Tracey2 -
Google Maps - there have been stories of people following their GPS blindly and ending up stranded. In New Brunswick a young nurse was moving from Quebec to start a new job, her GPS took her down an old logging road. She was stranded for 4 days before being found.
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I am odd in that I actually enjoy cleaning to some degree. When I have something on my mind I find cleaning gives me good thinking time. I like having no one around when I do it. As for daily cleaning I do most of it, but it’s just hubby and I so it doesn’t take long.
Tracey1 -
Karen in VA, Okie, Heather, SuziQ, Lisa, Michele, Barbie, Carol in GA, Allie, and Machka, many thanks for the birthday wishes! Didn't do anything special, having family over for dinner Saturday as DIL's b-day is next week. Have been trying to order from a trattoria in town that I have a gift card for, turns out that they aren't open Mon or Tues and although I read their website as saying take out orders could be ordered 7 days a week it turns out that's not right, so I shall phone tomorrow. They have family size meals that I can pick up cold and then just heat up on Saturday. I ended up emailing them, and was very relieved to find out that no tragedy had befallen them!
Viv, so sorry to hear that your loved ones are not doing well.
Heather, glad hubby is feeling better, too bad he won't just sit to pee, seems like such an easy solution....
Lisa, I hope your guys get/got the darn fence posts set! Good idea inching the temp up in the house gradually.
Pip! CONGRATULATIONS!!! That's a lovely view, your ride into work, but you are a brave woman! I do not have the courage to be riding that close to traffic for that length of time!
Faye, thanks for the info on vertigo! I had no idea! Also sorry to hear that you have had such a time with it.
Michele, Dennis's mask! LOL
Annie, hang in there, it will come! Our muscles need to be gently and gradually built up, but it will happen!
Katie, I'm so sorry to hear of the passing of your friends Mary and Helen.
Katla, hope your backside feels better soon!
Tracey, so glad you had a good time camping!
Dishwashers, love mine and will not be without one ever again! Yes, it takes us a few days to fill it, but that's okay!
GPS, well, more specifically, google maps.... I was working for a housecleaning company and so printed directions were very necessary, especially for the first time that I went to a house. Most of the time it was okay, but the directions at the end of the day when I was headed for home, had me turning left across two lanes of traffic and then somehow magically floating over the traffic island that separates from the oncoming traffic.... I have no idea how google thought that was going to be managed, and the stupidest part is, that's the way the road always was! The traffic island was not a new addition! I would just shake my head...
That's it for me for today.
Congrats to those celebrating, hugs for those needing them and welcome to the newbies!
Evelyn, Vancouver Island where the wind is cooling things off nicely!
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Beth - I was raised by a Stay at home Mom and my grandparents lived right beside us. My Grandmother was a teacher who retired from teaching the year I was born. My role models did all the housework and took care of the men. I thought this was what it was supposed to be like. For the first 7 years of our marriage I waited on my husband hand and foot, didn’t expect anything of him. At the seven year mark we went through a very bad spell, in figuring it out I realized I really resented that I had to do it all. In fairness, he was a long haul truck driver so was rarely home for more than a couple days at a time. Since then he offers regularly to do things and most importantly I actually know it’s not my responsibility and will tell him so if I’m feeling taken advantage of.
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Evelyn and Katla - Happy birthday to you both.
Pip - sorry about Boots and congratulations on your last day of work!
Heather - what a scare with DH! So glad he wasn’t seriously injured.
My Dad passed out from coughing and had to give up driving 3 months before he passed when he had a coughing spell on a turn close to their house and went off the road. He hit the guide line that holds power poles in place and it put a hole in the gas tank. He had to walk more than a mile to get home and my Brother had to go rescue the car.
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stats for the day:
retirement day
LAST bike ride home 2 work- 53.59min, 153mhr, 14.9amph, 13.38mi= 561c
apple watch- 526c
LAST Bike ride Work 2 hm- phone broke, couldn't access strata for info,13.47mi.= 600c est.
apple watch- 524c
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on my way riding home, my phone fell. I killed it... ughhhh, great way to celebrate my retirement day.. spending all this time w/apple support, it died... !!
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dellafayefox wrote: »HEATHER I was a volunteer in the Northwest Hearing and Balance Research center for several years and knew Dr. John Epley and Dr. Owen Black very well ( a patient with both) and I was the first to try many of their new machines. I also hosted an online vestibular support group for a few years. Anyway, tell your husband to SIT DOWN! Next fall may dislodge the crystals but may also open a perilymph fistula and on a good day, he can sit on the pot with assistance. Vertigo from positional vertigo (inner ear crystals) is fun compared to a fistula which is difficult to heal or full-blown endolymphatic hydrops which is hard to control, even for the most dedicated. I have suffered all 3 and doing great now but I can never fly, be in a boat or ship, or even travel far by auto. Even after years of balance exercises and therapy, I still cannot walk a straight line. Trauma to the neck and head can sure cause serious inner ear problems.
My husband had a workplace accident in March 2018 which resulted in a severe traumatic brain injury. He has made a "remarkable recovery" (to quote the doctors). Their initial predictions were that he'd live out his days in fully-assisted living in a nursing home. Instead he is living at home and quite independent.
However, one of the many effects the injury had on him is BPPV. He sees a physiotherapist trained in the Epley manouver and other related things and we've been advised NOT to use a Youtube video to try to do it ourselves, but rather to have a professional (like this physiotherapist) work with him. The reason for that is because the professionals know what to look for (in the eyes, the way the eyes react) and the Epley manouver isn't always the right one for him ... or sometimes he needs to have a series of different manouvers ... or other times he needs to have it done several times.
And they've also come to the conclusion that he will likely continue to have some vertigo for the rest of his life just because of the brain injury.
Other effects of his brain injury include double vision, eye nerve palsy, and other vision issues, weak left leg & foot, and weak right arm, each of which can have an effect on balance. Plus he has had a number of seizures - one grand mal and several absence seizures.
So he has trouble with stairs, light and dark shading on the footpath, walking at night, and has quite a lot of difficulty bending over to pick something up.
But I found it interesting that you knew Dr. John Epley and Dr. Owen Black very well!!
Machka in Oz1 -
(((Kay)))
Rebecca: I love the Paul Coello Quotation: "Un-becoming everything that isn’t really me is a great explanation of what I try to accomplish." This is a work in progress.
Allie: Thanks for the birthday wishes.
Dellafayefox aka Faye OR/WA: We also live on the river with the mighty sturgeon. Most of the sturgeon near us are in the channel between Sauvie Island and Hwy 30. We live below Sauvie Island, beside the Columbia River.
Evie: Thanks for your good wishes. They must be helping. I’m not quite a s sore as I was. :flowerforyou:
I had loads of ideas of things I should do today but I didn’t have as much energy as I thought. I went shopping for vitamins and came home. I’ve been pretty well tired most of the day and hope to get a good night’s sleep tonight.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
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Katla just tell everyone you live in HalloweenTown.💖🎃1
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