WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2020

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  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 3,643 Member
    cityjaneLondon wrote: »
    I haven't had a dryer for years. I hang my washing up in the utility room on a wooden airer on a pulley. I finish it off by laying it over the chairs in the dining room to air. Not elegant, but cheap! :D

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

    Heather - how long does it take towels and bedspreads/quilts to dry?

    Lanette B)
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    Lanette: Are you planning to grow some Aronia berry plants in your garden? If you try it, I'll certainly be interested in your results & opinions. Learning about something new is exciting even though I don't have land space available to try growing them. I'm happy enough with my three blueberry bushes. This year they've been producing a lot of berries and keeping me busy picking them. :star:

    Katla in beautiful NW Oregon
  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 3,643 Member
    Katla49 wrote: »
    Lanette: Are you planning to grow some Aronia berry plants in your garden? If you try it, I'll certainly be interested in your results & opinions. Learning about something new is exciting even though I don't have land space available to try growing them. I'm happy enough with my three blueberry bushes. This year they've been producing a lot of berries and keeping me busy picking them. :star:

    Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

    Katla, - we are just going to stick with the volunteer bush we have. I've been picking and putting them in the freezer and have well over half a pound already, still plenty on the bush which should ripen quickly with our hot coming days.

    I hope to end up with a pound of them. They are quite small, and I've read just 25 per day gives a great boost of antioxidants, so I should have enough to last for a long time.

    I'm afraid my gardening helper can't do much anymore like dig holes to plant bushes. I'm lucky in that I have a friend who brought me a giant pail of blueberries from her garden and I'll reciprocate with tomatoes and apples in a few weeks.

    Glad your blueberry bushes are doing well!! Nothing like them <3

    Lanette B)
  • dlfk202000
    dlfk202000 Posts: 3,181 Member
    Katla49 wrote: »
    Lanette: You made me curious. What are Aronia berries? I haven’t heard of them before. Enquiring minds—(mine for sure) are curious. :huh:

    Heather: What an amazing piece of clothes washing equipment. It looks functional. I am curious about the mangle. I don’t think I’ve seen one. Is it like a big wringer, but with heat? :star:

    Debbie in Napa Valley: I’m sorry to hear that you had rolling blackouts last night. You must be exhausted. :heart:

    Allie: Happy you found a quiet place to get some needed rest. :heart:



    We’ve made the grocery rounds this morning, already. Now we’re at home and it is 85F, with predictions of 100F by 4pm this afternoon. We have morning sun & a functional air conditioner. By this afternoon we should be in the shade. There is already a nice breeze. We did our shopping early to avoid afternoon heat & crowds. Both grocery stores in town have early morning hours for seniors. It helps!!! :bigsmile:

    Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

    Thanks-
    For now I am doing good- not tired at all. We went shopping got some amazing deals on some filet mignon, 4lbs for $26.(usually 15per pound), mushrooms- one pound for .99 which is an amazing deal. Will make a big salad with home grown tomatoes,cucumbers and peppers in it. Will eat what ever I want and not worry about calories- it is 4:30PM and I have only eating 50cal so far. DH will have rice with his, most likely son and his girlfriend will too. I would bake me a potato but used the last of them for potato salad yesterday to go with our BLT's.(had bread for the first time and was not impressed with it- I will pick up some really good bread for next time- now that the tomatoes are coming on and that is my favorite sandwich, I don't want to waste calories on just so-so bread. Husband liked it.
    Time to get dinner going- getting hungry now.

    This blackout was just a few hours- not that big of a deal to me - cooled down by taking a cold shower.
    Last October when we had all the fires, we were without power for about a week- I was
    sheltered in place up at the church camp. Was supposed to be there to clean for two days- a week up there with no power/cell service/etc and not knowing how close the fires were, if my parents place was ok(it got within 1000 FEET of their home- warped the roof of the greenhouses) . A few hours is no big thing after that. It will happen again- they already let us know-

    Debbie

  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,240 Member
    Uuuuu
  • Katla49
    Katla49 Posts: 10,385 Member
    B)
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,188 Member
    <3
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,240 Member
    Stats for the day-

    Zwift bike trainer- 1hr 18min 56sec, 11amph, 161mhr, technical issues, 14.53mi= 1066c
    Apple Watch- didn’t record right

    Total cal 1066
  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,513 Member
    My scale came today so I started the sourdough. Sure hope it comes out OK

    Than finished all the x-stitching on the picture I’m making. Still have to do the shading and the outlining. But I did find a frame that I think it will fit into.

    Faye – one thing you have to say for Rea, she has some good recipes if you need something rich for a gift. Otherwise, some things I wonder if you can make substitutions. OK, it won’t taste the same. But I many times wonder if you can use, say, milk instead of all the cream or a lower cal piece of meat. Do you really need all that pasta, can you substitute shirataki noodles? I honestly don’t know. But most of her recipes are good, just not very diet friendly. I just wish there was a cooking show for lower cal foods and substitutions.

    Looks like my next project will be another good cleaning.

    Michele NC
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,583 Member
    SophieRosieMom wrote: »
    cityjaneLondon wrote: »
    I haven't had a dryer for years. I hang my washing up in the utility room on a wooden airer on a pulley. I finish it off by laying it over the chairs in the dining room to air. Not elegant, but cheap! :D

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

    Heather - how long does it take towels and bedspreads/quilts to dry?

    Lanette B)

    I also hang dry everything, including towels and sheets (haven't used bedspreads in decades!).

    If possible, wash them before noon, hang them outside for several hours, and then bring them in to finish them in front of the split system ... and then fold and put away the next day.

    If it is a particularly rainy winter, I just hang them on a drying rack in front of the split system. They're usually done by the next day.


    Machka in Oz
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,240 Member
    Wwwww
  • csofled
    csofled Posts: 3,022 Member
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  • kymarai
    kymarai Posts: 3,702 Member
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  • GodMomKim
    GodMomKim Posts: 3,703 Member
    B) just to page 50
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,583 Member
    edited August 2020
    Weekend Exercise

    Saturday -- walked to watch a field hockey game (see p. 59)


    Sunday -- rainy so exercised indoors.

    Rowing - 5 minutes

    Walking on Zwift
    Distance: 5.61km
    Moving Time: 1:02:59
    Elapsed Time: 1:03:43 
    Pace: 11:14/km

    Zwift Image of "me"
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    Machka in Oz
  • Faetta
    Faetta Posts: 1,059 Member
    edited August 2020
    SuzieQ Part of my phobia about destroyed clothes is I was attacked when I was 6 by a large dog and my pants got all ripped up before my dad shot it. I wasn't hurt physically, but emotionally I still have scars. I was attacked again in my young 20's and the dog tore my jeans bad and I still have scars on my legs and one arm that I put up as it jumped for my throat. Luckily the owner came out at that time and yelled and the dog immediately sat. Something about torn denim that makes me cringe. I did and still do like cutoff jean shorts with a frayed edge, but I always stitch about 1/4 " above the cut so I can control the fray and clip it to make a nice fuzzy edge. I hate big strings hanging down and uneven fray and worse cut so short the pockets are hanging down. One of my friend's grandaughters was wearing shorts like that and I said, "Damn girl that dog did some serious damage." I had to explain my statement to the puzzled girl. She was proud she had paid $60 for those Goodwill rejects.

    Faye
    PWN
  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,082 Member
    Morning ladies
    Slept wonderful and having my tea. And enjoying sitting with my SIL and nephew and brother
  • LisaInAR
    LisaInAR Posts: 2,020 Member
    Allie,
    So pleased your weekend has finally settled down into being able to enjoy your family rather than avoid them.

    On the subject of families, my daughter is still POed and not communicating with me or her dad because I said "no" to running up to Kansas to stay with her kids the first two weeks of September while her husband's on temporary duty elsewhere. My husband and I talked about it last night, that there are life lessons people have to learn at some point - and one of them is that there won't always be someone to bail you out of the consequences of your decisions. It's possible that learning to say, "No, you need to clean up your own mess," is the last of my baptisms into parenthood. Ah well...

    Heather,
    Hope you both are feeling better soon!

    Not a lot on for today. The washer is nearly done, and I need to get that out on the clothesline, but may give my body a break from exercise today - I've not taken a break for ten days straight, and my knees kept me awake last night aching.

    Onward, ladies,
    Love y'all,
    Lisa in AR
  • SuziQ113
    SuziQ113 Posts: 1,520 Member
    dellafayefox wrote: »
    SuzieQ Part of my phobia about destroyed clothes is I was attacked when I was 6 by a large dog and my pants got all ripped up before my dad shot it. I wasn't hurt physically, but emotionally I still have scars. I was attacked again in my young 20's and the dog tore my jeans bad and I still have scars on my legs and one arm that I put up as it jumped for my throat. Luckily the owner came out at that time and yelled and the dog immediately sat. Something about torn denim that makes me cringe. I did and still do like cutoff jean shorts with a frayed edge, but I always stitch about 1/4 " above the cut so I can control the fray and clip it to make a nice fuzzy edge. I hate big strings hanging down and uneven fray and worse cut so short the pockets are hanging down. One of my friend's grandaughters was wearing shorts like that and I said, "Damn girl that dog did some serious damage." I had to explain my statement to the puzzled girl. She was proud she had paid $60 for those Goodwill rejects.


    I was attacked by a dog too. No emotional scars. My mother's boyfriend's dog. It was a known bitter. Everyone was freaking out while the dog was attacking me. TG I was standing. I was wearing shorts and he got me on the thigh. I grabbed his collar, beat his nose and he finally let go. I took him to the basement and locked him up. Still have scar on my leg. Of course had to get a Tetnus shot and take hug antibiotics for a week just in case.

    Not afraid or have bad feelings about dogs. It was an Australian Shepard and should have been on a farm doing what it was supposed to be doing. Sheeparding sheep. There are only bad owners not bad dogs.
  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,082 Member
    Heather- hope you and Johnny feel better,nothing worse than feeling off...
    So wish i could stay another day .but duty calls the other caregiver has a drs appt so i will cover tomorrow.. so hence i have to go home today.. ill be back up for labor day weekend and thats ok with me..
    Lisa - totally understand about not bailing out the kids .. your job is done ,they are raised ..they have to learn to not depend on grandma and grandpa all the time.. especially in the military im sure they can find someone to watch them..
  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 3,643 Member
    Good Sunday morning ladies! <3

    It's a wonderful cool 55 degrees out right now.

    My little 4 1/2 yr old 7" Fire tablet is starting to act wonky. Drops WiFi and sometimes the charging cable doesn't engage. Told DH it might be time to get a new one but the best prices would probably be on Black Friday.

    Just for giggles I checked Amazon yesterday.... lo and behold they are having a "school special" so ordered an 8" which should be here today.

    I must say, out of all the $$ we've spent on electronics, these Fire tablets (also have a 10" one purchased last year - Black Friday special! which DH commandeers) have been the best value ever for our purposes.

    Suzi-Q & Faye - when I was a kid I was bitten by a border collie - he just wanted to play, but got me on the neck and a nip on the face. My dad freaked and kept him chained the rest of his life, and I still feel bad about that. :( Many years later I was bitten by one of our beagles who decided to get in a fight over a treat, I was trying to break them up. Within a day, I had a raging infection in my hand and the doc put me on antibiotics right away.

    DH is up to watch the dogs, I need to get out and do some chores in the garden before the oven door opens, lol.

    Keep cool/warm as the case may be!

    Lanette B)
    Sunny SW WA State
  • csofled
    csofled Posts: 3,022 Member
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  • Faetta
    Faetta Posts: 1,059 Member
    Lanette That is bad being attacked by your own dogs. Enjoy your morning in the garden. We are headed for 100 today. I best get my walk in early. Somehow hurt my back helping my friend "do her farming" yesterday. Her four dogs got in a real fight for no apparent reason. She got bite breaking them up. I stayed up on her patio table until she got the instigator caged. Once behind the heavy wire, I made faces at the little mutt and called him a cat turd eater. My favorite dogs are Komondor.

    Faye
    USA
  • 1948Peachy
    1948Peachy Posts: 1,511 Member
    :)
  • Faetta
    Faetta Posts: 1,059 Member
    SuzieQ YES!!! I argue with dog owners all the time that have work dogs for pets. I would love to have a Komondor and let my hair grow long and fix in dreadlocks to match the pups, but they belong with sheep from birth to death. I used to go to working dog contest all the time. Growing up, the neighbor boys raised Border Collies for cattle dogs. I loved watching them work, but when they snuck up from behind and damaged the back of my new boots, I was incensed. I started wearing spurs when around them. I double-dog dared them to rush me from behind then. I had a back kick like a kangaroo.

    My favorite was watching the Komondors on the mountain pastures near Stanley, Idaho. They would spot a coyote a 100 yards out and take off and catch them. When sheared they look like a greyhound. All that hair especially around the face protects them. A coyote or wolf just gets a mouth full of hair. They have been clocked at 70 MPH. They are very gentle with children, but shepherds don't allow them to become pets.

    I am a bit fearful of some dogs and I do agree that many dogs need to be in the correct setting. Bird dogs should not be made into pets IMO. Much too hyper and tend to be crotch sniffers which I don't like.

    Faye
    USA
  • Faetta
    Faetta Posts: 1,059 Member
    Lisa Way to go, strong mom! Too many senior moms with middle-aged kids making bad decisions and expecting mom to bail them out. My mom told me that if I got myself in a mess, I better figure out how to get out of it and make it right with those affected and God. She wouldn't let me drown, but I would be spitting up water and gasping for breath while she beat my back like a dirty rug, if I was so irresponsible to get in over my head and forgot how to swim.
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,240 Member
    Katla49 wrote: »
    Lanette: Gardening is so rewarding. I have a tiny amount of space, but feel happy and have fun with the things I am able to grow. Beans haven’t done so well, but the blueberries are abundant this year. My blueberries need to be pruned this fall when they are dormant. :flowerforyou:

    Debbie: It sounds like you did a good job shopping and will have the things you need to make meals you love. Blackouts are often scary. I hope you stay safe and comfortable. :star:

    Pip: I’m sorry that your apple watch didn’t record correctly. 1066 calories in a workout is impressive from my pov. Do you need to visit an apple genius to get the watch fixed? :huh:

    Michele: I hope your sourdough does just what you want and is a big success. I was impressed by what I saw when I googled Bob's Red Mill. :star:


    I am ready for rest. I’ve taken care of my little garden as well as I can and had a good dinner thanks to DH volunteering to cook. I'm grateful he did the cooking today. :heart:

    Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

    Nah, I’m more bummed about the Zwift trainer and the technical issues. I’m pretty sure I would ave had a faster amph and would have finished the ride in a shorter time

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