WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2020

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  • Whidislander
    Whidislander Posts: 3,820 Member
    dlfk202000 wrote: »
    peaches from a neighbor this morning, simmering and soon to be jam this afternoon.
    Big one is plain peach- no sugar or anything added and the smaller is peach/pineapple/ginger- The house smells AMAZING!!!!
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    Debbie
    Napa Valley,CA

    Do you add pectin?
  • dlfk202000
    dlfk202000 Posts: 3,203 Member
    Whidislander wrote: »
    dlfk202000 wrote: »
    peaches from a neighbor this morning, simmering and soon to be jam this afternoon.
    Big one is plain peach- no sugar or anything added and the smaller is peach/pineapple/ginger- The house smells AMAZING!!!!
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    Debbie
    Napa Valley,CA

    Do you add pectin?

    no, nothing added at all. I did add 2 T of honey to sweeten it just a tiny bit- nothing else. The nectarine jam I made from our nectarines was so sweet that it needed nothing at all- no sugar, no pectin, nothing- it was so good.

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  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,211 Member
    :) My big yarn order came today and I happily continuing to knit my blanket for Project Linus. I am fussy about brand, weight, and color of yarn so it pleases me to have found a place where I can order exactly what I want.

    :) I have given some zucchini away but have eaten most of it myself.

    <3 Barbie in NW WA
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    Barbie: Congrats on your yarn order! I’d love to learn more about project Linus. 🌈
  • Anniesquats100
    Anniesquats100 Posts: 3,297 Member
    My ex had a spinning wheel, so many of my projects were with handspun yarn. We used to buy fleece and dye it. I still have quite the yarn stash, mostly in amounts too small for a sweater. My parents keep the house too warm to wear wool so I hardly wear any anymore.

    Annie in Delaware
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,631 Member
    Snowflake1968 wrote: »
    Machka - happy Anniversary to your parents.

    Lisa and Machka - Love the adult meme and comments. I wish I was a kid again sometimes.

    Tracey in Edmonton

    Thanks!

    And my favourite decade was my 30s. Fun, exciting, freeing, adventurous ... :smiley:

    My 40s weren't too bad either.

    My 50s started well with a great first year. :neutral:


    There's been a bit of talk about motivation. What motivated us to lose weight?

    For me, it was this blue jacket. We had purchased these cycling jackets at a decent price but it must have been an end of season half-off sale or something. When I had gained enough I couldn't wear that jacket, I thought I'd just buy another one in a larger size, only then the price was much higher.

    I figured I could save up the money ... or lose weight. So I lost weight.

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    Machka in Oz
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    edited August 2020
    Tracey : Enjoy your time off from work and the chance to spend time with your grands. Sounds like a rare treat. :star:

    Machka : You look wonderful on your bike. I love the blue jacket. :bigsmile:


    On motivation to lose weight—My decision to lose weight was caused by a horseback riding injury during a riding lesson several years ago. My teacher back then had me posting at a trot in the same direction for an hour long lesson. I went home in pain and ended up going to an orthopedic doctor. He said surgery was not an option & advised me to work on strengthening my leg. This was a permanent injury. Exercising and losing weight were my best options. He prescribed specific leg exercises and I did them daily. I also knew I needed to lose weight. I was more than forty pounds heavier then, maybe a bit more. Luckily, I stumbled into MFP just when I needed to change my eating habits and take off excess weight. I started taking yoga classes along with counting calories. Here I am, several years later. I'm lighter & stronger, with a permanently damaged left knee. I ride horses whenever I get the chance, and I don’t post at a trot. As soon as this Covid mess goes away, I'll be back in yoga classes, too.

    Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,725 Member
    Tracey - I just want to clarify, :D they didn't sneak the biscuits, they openly defied an order not to take any more, as they had already had one each. It was their father who told them not to take any more as they are Johnny's special coffee break biscuits! :p They would not have done it if their mum was there, nor, probably, if they were alone with us. I think they were enjoying defying their poor, tired, frazzled father! And everyone was tired and hot and going home for bath and bed. They had warnings and countdown from 5, but carried on. Edie put the biscuit back whenever heard she had lost her tv privileges, but her father told her she had to eat it now because she had touched it. :p So it was more a battle of wills and disobedience. :laugh:
    Hot, long summer! Three children for six weeks in a record heatwave!
    Next week the au pair arrives from Spain, so they are quarantining with her for a while and will get her a test before they go out mixing again.
    Phew! Normally we would be able to help out . ........

    MY DDIL is on Woman's Hour this morning! :D (long running BBC radio programme) She was preparing yesterday, so didn't come over. I will listen.

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,105 Member
    morning ladies~
    I was real tired yesterday.. as i didnt sleep well the night before.. so I was asleep by 6:30 last night and I slept until 1:30 and have been up since then... I am feeling great .. my house is a mess which I tend to get around to cleaning...and Tom and Elena will be taking Alfie for the weekend this weekend...Tomorrow is Toms 68th birthday
    and Elena will take him out for dinner, I didnt want to infringe on his birthday weekend but they are low key and will spend time mostly home..
    My brother wants me to come up to the cottage , so I am going until monday morning, and will come and pick up both the boys..
    I have 2 loads of laundry in the wash and now in dryer and will pack a bag for a couple days. will stop at the Walmart in Seabrook on the way to the cottage and pick up a few things
    Jean will be up there and so will my nephew who i dont really get to spend time with so that will be nice.
    I really haven't gone anywhere this summer and Sean doesn't want Alfie up there because he is young and likes to bark and has to be kept on a leash outside... Buddy is more low key and will follow Sean anywhere and doesn't take off. Shane has a rotty named Kona who he will bring with him.. I feel bad not bringing Alfie but I dont want any hurt feelings..and Tom and Elena love him,
  • auntiebk
    auntiebk Posts: 2,616 Member
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  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,725 Member
    Addendum - Max was not part of the biscuit ruckus. He is deducted computer time when he is naughty, so he chooses his battles. :p

    Love Heather UK

    My daughter in law is talking any moment now on the radio about conflict resolution!!!! If she had been here the biscuit situation would not have got out of hand!!! :laugh:
  • wizzywig
    wizzywig Posts: 1,246 Member
    edited August 2020
    Still catching up :(

    I strained my back yesterday exercising! :o Who knew you had to be fit to exercise :D It's my own fault, I should have started with a lower weight for the lifting (to strengthen my back ironically) thankfully I didn't do too many lifts, but I can hardly move this morning. Need to keep moving - slowly.

    Seems a lot of you are already thinking about Christmas and the talented amongst you are crafting away with gift ideas. Can't seem to get my head around Christmas yet though.

    Hopefully the weather will stay fine this evening (thunderstorms have been predicted around the country) as I'm meeting up with friends to celebrate one of their birthdays. Joan has kindly offered her garden for the event and we'll have nibbles, wine and cake - seems we have a few birthdays in July/August this will be the third birthday, good job I like cake :) I'll have a small slice as I don't want to undo all my good work - it's taken me ages to lose a few pounds and it is oh so easy to put them back on.

    Love to all <3
    Viv UK

  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,725 Member
    edited August 2020
    The broadcaster got her name wrong in the beginning, but she got some good points over. She still doesn't sound entirely relaxed, but I would be petrified if it were me with millions listening! If any of you want to listen, Karen ? then it's on the bbc app SOUNDS, Woman's Hour, 14th Aug, about half an hour in. There are other speakers talking about conflict in the work place as well. Tracey ?

    I tried twice to get on Woman's Hour about my memoir, but no luck, so I am hideously envious. I hope I hide it well around her. >:)

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
  • kymarai
    kymarai Posts: 3,702 Member
    Happy Friday!

    Husband has temporary crown in. While that was happening, I came home to put Sara in, did my dishes, and relaxed a few minutes. Picked him up at dentist and back to work I went. SIL left the minute we got back-😞 can't change it, trying not to stress it. It is an action that hurts moral for three of us. After work started laundry, dinner, cleaned up kitchen again. Husband has been trying to get security cameras up on the outside of our house since his mother died. The person doing it has been too busy. DH said we needed to just get something for while we are gone. I spent over an hour looking them up. I found something not too expensive that I think would work. His comment....I need to ask B...grumble. I closed the computer and went to bed.

    I love the crafts and grandkid stories! I think I am going to dig out a cross stitch to take on vacation. I take my color books, magazines, and kindle.

    Welcome to the new ladies! This is a wonderful supportive group of ladies of all backgrounds, ages, and experiences. Check in often and you get to know us better.

    My weight loss incentive- pictures. From 155 to 135 was when I saw rounder face in photos. I thought I looked good at 135, then saw a picture from our honeymoon and went -OH NO! It hasn't been fast as I tend to plateau lots, but each time it breaks is awesome! My goal is 115 and I am bouncing between 115-117. At times I get lazy and dont log.....that doesn't work for me. I need to think before eating and logging helps that. I was 98 lbs when I met my husband in 1994. I was a waitress and working two full time jobs. The weight started creeping on when I started working at his shop. If I would exercise the weight might move better.......in the meantime just watching CICO has worked.

    Love you ladies! Have a day of the best choices you can make at the moment!

    ❤
    Kylia in Ohio
  • LisaInAR
    LisaInAR Posts: 2,020 Member
    Morning, afternoon and evening, all...

    The thunder is rumble bumbling outside... I do love the rain, particularly when I'm not out in it! :) Corey's off to work, I've got laundry washing... and any time I start feeling as if I am doing drudgery by doing laundry yet again, I remember my mother scrubbing on a washboard much like this one:

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    She was so pleased when she got a wringer washer much like this one that my father found on some scrap heap and rewired:

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    But if you weren't careful when it was running and touched any metal surface, the electric shock would knock you right across the room. Eventually, it went on the scrap heap as well.

    Shortly after the washer gave up the ghost, my father started making Mama go to work with him, but when he realized she wouldn't have time to do the laundry AND cook AND clean AND work for him, he allowed her to take the umpty-ump loads of laundry for a family of six (by that time) to the laundromat on weekends.

    If I'd been her I would have put some arsenic in his morning coffee. He always thought she was trying to kill him anyway.

    She's on my mind as her birthday is this week--she would have been 94. She divorced him when she was 51, and lived the final 20 years of her life on her own... completely, gloriously, wonderfully alone, but with visits from her kids and grandkids in serial fashion.

    :)

    The parent anniversaries and the talk of grandkids brought all this up for me this morning. Thank you for that!

    Later y'all,
    Love,
    Lisa
  • Faetta
    Faetta Posts: 1,059 Member
    TerriRichardson112 wrote: »
    I choose to be an adult quite often, but love being a bit of a brat from time to time 😈

    I saw this during this morning's scan and thought I had written this yesterday. Then I saw Terri posted it. Terri your new haircut is as sassy as they get, but I cannot imagine you being a brat.
  • Faetta
    Faetta Posts: 1,059 Member
    Beth It is just insane all these conflicting mask rules. Cloth masks do hold moisture and germs, but that would hurt the wearer and no one else. Did they require latex gloves? That is way more important in a hospital than a mask.
  • Faetta
    Faetta Posts: 1,059 Member
    edited August 2020
    Lisa The early years of my off-grid living I used a washboard and a galvanized double tub and hand wringer. I finally upgraded to a gas-powered washer with a wringer. I think about that wringer every time I get a mammogram. Eventually, it was spring water, indoor plumbing, line electricity, and matching washer and dryer. My laundry and water system in the 70's. I am using the spoiler link because as you can see I was an entitled spoiled brat that pampered myself during those years.
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  • kymarai
    kymarai Posts: 3,702 Member
    Happy Birthday, Carol!
  • Faetta
    Faetta Posts: 1,059 Member
    edited August 2020
    Heather Weather I went to bed last evening after reading the heat advisory alert for the next few days. over 100. I stepped out on my patio sports workout bikini-clad and was met with 50-degree air. A few Tai Chi moves and I finished my workout indoors. Time to unfold my sports leggings and unhanger my sports jacket. I don't see it getting 100 today but who knows anymore. 50-degree variance, crazy! I call it Heather weather because it is the hot weather Heather has and the cool weather she begs for. I get it all in one day. From Artic parka to Caribbean bikini all in one day.

    Faye wardrobe confused
    near the Columbia Gorge
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,211 Member
    Katla49 wrote: »
    Barbie: Congrats on your yarn order! I’d love to learn more about project Linus. 🌈

    :) I checked the internet and there is a chapter of Project Linus in the Portland/Vancouver area. If they are anything like the one here, they will have many creative ways that blankets can be dropped off. They accept knitted, crocheted, quilted, and fleece blankets. The website gives information about sizes and what materials to use.

    projectlinusoregon.org/index.html
  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,412 Member
    A little birdie told me that today is Carol’s birthday!!!

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    Love,

    Karen in Virginia

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  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,412 Member
    Heather I would love to hear your eloquent daughter-in-law - if the recording is available to me now, I will find it!!! Lovely.

    K

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  • LisaInAR
    LisaInAR Posts: 2,020 Member
    To Carol on her 72nd birthday...

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    And many more!
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,211 Member
    :)laundry
    I remember my mother talking about hanging laundry on the line in Massachusetts in the winter and having it freeze solid.
    As an adult, I have lived all but a short time in coastal climates where the fog, drizzle, rain, and cool temperatures made hanging clothes on the line to dry, nearly impossible.

    :)Faye, we have weird weather here, too, but not as weird as yours. The furnace comes on in the morning to heat the house and the cooler comes on in the afternoon and evening to cool it down.

    <3 Barbie in NW WA
  • csofled
    csofled Posts: 3,022 Member
    edited August 2020
    🙂💚💛🤗

    Carol

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
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  • Faetta
    Faetta Posts: 1,059 Member
    HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAROL!!! Wow 72 and still a babe. I hope I can say the same in 2 years. I hope your day is great and good health and fortune come your way.

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