WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR OCTOBER 2021
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Snowflake1968 wrote: »Beth - how nice to receive flowers. It’s funny, I was a teenager when they were doing away with paper bags and bringing in plastic. My Grandfather was adamant that it was a terrible decision. I can’t remember all of his reasonings but #1 was that paper breaks down and could be disposed of without affecting the environment and plastic would never be good for it. His other reason was that it was putting affecting a whole industry. Forests don’t grow without cutting, thinning and planting again. He would be laughing about the changes being made now.
Yes, and there are always off-cuts, sawdust, etc. Bags aren't made from good quality trees.
My husband was very pleased that our groceries are now delivered in paper bags. He can shred them, like he does with all the paper products we want to dispose of, and use them as mulch. Shredding the paper means we don't have much rubbish. Both our recyclables and regular rubbish go out every other week.Snowflake1968 wrote: »We sold one ornament yesterday. This market is just getting started, I’ll continue with it as it doesn’t affect my time at all except for a few minutes every Saturday morning. I can do it from the comfort of my new chair. I don’t have to lug everything to a market, sit there all day and then not have a sale.
Tracey in Edmonton
Is the online market available all week or just one day?
M in Oz0 -
Barbara - I always use the website on my phone, accessed via Google as my browser.
I use the Choose file option. I don't have the app.
Now to go slowly to my book.
Love Heather UK xxxxxx0 -
cityjaneLondon wrote: »Barbara - I always use the website on my phone, accessed via Google as my browser.
I use the Choose file option. I don't have the app.
Now to go slowly to my book.
Love Heather UK xxxxxx
Ah, I see. I use the app.0 -
I don't use the app because it had too many shortcomings. I use the actual website so I was able to post this photo of Bernie 3 -
Bin strike over! We hope.
The council are voting on an agreed deal with the union tomorrow. Thank goodness. It was getting really difficult.
Final edits went well this morning. I keep remembering things to put in. Very nearly there.
Happy with my work.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx2 -
M We can either shred our paper bags and put into our own compost pile or there is a special bin at our leaf compost site that take kitchen scraps and brown paper products. I did they food scraps for a time but then I had trouble with insects. In our bin I put banana peels, coffee grounds, egg shells, and some veggie scraps and some brown paper. The rest of the bags, toilet rolls, and egg cartons I take to the composite site.
It was a busy week with having friends over for one last eat out outside. Son's house is perfect for this. He has a great deck right off the kitchen facing the south side. I have an outside umbrella if the sun is too intense. My friend and I stayed outside until the shade from pine tree next to deck shaded the deck. Then sat in sun room in front of house. I set up my portal massage cushions in this room too. She calls the house my spa house. She also like how I rearranged the bedroom. It appears twice as big. Watching Sell this House for ideas. I am starting to put away things in getting ready to paint Kitchen. It is amazing how much roomier it appears by just clearing spaces.
I cleared the kitchen desk first. I look at it to inspire me to continue clearing. DH will set things down on it because there is a space. I quickly move whatever it is and explain no extra stuff zone. He is quick to complain about all my stuff yet turns a blind eye to his own piles.0 -
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Margaret ~ I feel for you concerning you DH's stuff taking up space. At this time, our dining room and living room are completely covered in my DH's stuff. I just try to not look at it when I pass through.
Question: Does anyone but me not like all the "pumpkin" things that are so much in the news this time of the year?
I grew up on sweet potato pies and not anything pumpkin. Did decorate them when my son was small.
Carol in GA3 -
Had a lovely long conversation with my friend this afternoon. I made her laugh a lot, which is the best medicine for pain. :laugh:
Cleaner has gone. House quiet. DH listening to music in his study.
Breathe. Ahhhhh.
Heather UK xxxxxxxx1 -
Well i slept until 8 eastern time i think im recovered from last night.. had a great time..
Im so glad that i didnt have to fly out today.and was smart enough to take an extra day before flying home..
Going to run errands with my cousin Bridget2 -
Heather – Good news that the Bin Strike is over!!! On the subject of cleaners, we fired ours. They were charging more than ever and doing shoddy work. Our next door neighbor also fired them for the same reason. :grumble:
Snowflake – We bought durable plastic bags for grocery shopping and use them over and over again. I love trees and hate to see them wasted to create paper bags. It is true that paper bags can be composted. Durable plastic bags from purchased at the grocery store can be reused and recycled. I don’t know whether there is a right or wrong choice between them. :flowerforyou:
I am enjoying the sight of two river otters who are fishing in full view of our windows. They’re putting a smile on my face.
My doctor has approved physical therapy for my damaged knee. YAY! I still plan to go to yoga regularly. We will be travelling to VA in November, so both PT and yoga will be on hold until we come home.
Katla
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I am now able to post a picture!! Thank you ladies for all of your help! I cannot post a picture using the app on my android. I had to do what Heather suggested and use the Google website instead of the app! So below is a picture of me and my daughter and one of her horses that I have been helping care for.
Mary from Minnesota/Arizona 14 -
Hooray Mary!!!!!!!!
Love Heather UK xxxxxx 1 -
Mary great picture and congrats for persisting until you got a solution and could post a picture 0
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Thanks! It worked! Now I just have to remember my password!! It is the app on my phone that doesn't work. Thanks again for everybody's help!! Mary from Minnesota/Arizona 0
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Well we are just going to leave now ,got here around 8:30 this morning everyone still sleeping.. Deitra,Britney and there spouses and kids are gone so its super quiet..but got hugs from all of those little ones all of the adorable..
Aunt Shirley is enjoying some time out on the from porch with my cousins wife Sheila and ,We will be back in a few hrs
Oh my word riding with my cousin is such a hoot.. we are stopping at hotel to pick up Sarahs wedding dress,then have to drop off linens and a few other errands im get a few laughs3 -
Heard and saw a large flock of geese flying overhead this morning while I was out feeding horses and goats. Funny thing is they were headed north. I would have expected them to be headed south this time of year.
Beth - be careful. I find it really hard to judge percentage of weight bearing except when I am in the water.
Mary - Good picture!
Everyone take care, Sue in WA
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Mary - Google will remember your password. If you ask it to.
I have all my passwords on an app. Notes, I think it's called. I have also used it for notes and ideas for my blurb etc. It carries over when I change phones.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx1 -
Mary ~ You and your daughter could be twins!
Carol in GA1 -
Worked then the landscape guy was here so I didn’t go to bowling. He left around 1 so I was able to get in a walk.
Tracey – I remember reading a book called “101 Ways to Save the Earth” and I was amazed at how many of the things they recommended my grandmother did!
M – that delivery charge of $19.95 a month for me would definitely NOT be worth it. I only use the delivery from them once every few months. I usually need certain foods during the week or for the next week and most times it doesn’t come close to $35. So it would not be worth it for me. At 1.88 per delivery, I’d have to have an order delivered once/week. It’s worth it more for me to just go to the store for the few items I need. I don’t know how I’d feel about a lockdown such as yours. From what you are telling us, it just seems to me that the government is running your life. Prison for not adhering????? I think that’s a bit radical. I’d like to be treated like an adult who can think, not need someone to think for me.
Julie – I very seldom wear a mask right now. Maybe it’s because when I had to wear a mask, my throat would get so dry that I would drink. Even tho I don’t have to wear it, maybe my body is just so used to my drinking that that’s the reason. PJ was 2 in May. Congrats on the bath! I’m sure that feels really great.
The landscaper took out all the large bushes. Boy, it really looks different. He’s going to have another guy come and grind down a few of the stumps so he can plant. Then another guy is going to come here to talk about plants. I was assured that the plants would be in this year. I mentioned that we put up the “fence” for Halloween and it stays up until Christmas, so they’re going to do the seeding in March.
Heather – my girlfriend in Switzerland has to use a trash compactor. Do you? Great news that the strike is over
Mary – lovely picture
Allie – your happiness just abounds in your posts
Ceramics tonight.
Michele NC
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Carol ... I am not a pumpkin fan ... Fall is about apples for me.
Mary ... I agree with Carol. You and your daughter could be twins!
Don't seem to have done any damage to the broken leg by accidentally hopping on it. I am slowly getting the hang of putting a little weight on it. Only "walking" on carpeted area. Figure that at least lessens the impact if I come down too hard.
Found more recent photos of my deceased son on his iPad this weekend. They are "live" shots so there's a little bit of movement with them. They are close ups and looks as if he could pop out of the screen. They are making me cry but I can't stop looking at them.
Beth near Buffalo9 -
Beth - It truly is amazing that we have so many records of our loved ones these days. I have lots of videos, but, because I take them, my relatives will have fewer of me. I find a video expresses so much more of a person. I have a very treasured one of my friend Ros. It's hard to watch, I miss her so, but it brings her alive.
Sometimes it's good to indulge ourselves in our grief. We need to.
Love to you.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx2 -
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still here.
RvRita3 -
Stats for the day-
Walk w/family- 1hr 41min 10sec, 84elev, 3.01ap, 82ahr, 97mhr, 5.11mi= 476c
Strava app = 616c
Walk to gym- 11.43min, .51mi= 46c
Strava app = 63c
Treadmill jog- 1hr 6min 52sec, 1st 3mi at 5.5sp, on chorus up to 5.7sp, on next 4mi, up to 5.7sp and on chorus up to 5.9sp, last 1/2mi, from 5.9-6.1sp, 10.15min mi, 154ahr, 180mhr, 7.5mi= 754c
Walk gym to home- 13.35min, .64mi= 56c
Strava app = 77c
Total 1332. Increased miles by 1-1/2 so ran 7.5mi0 -
Just some of the tomatoes we picked yesterday. I picked a bunch more on Saturday while mom napped. Thankful for a friend who came out yesterday to help pick. Still so much left on the plants that will rot because of the rain.
Worked so much yesterday that mom and I forgot to eat- didn't eat anything(had tea in the morning) until I cooked dinner for the three of us yesterday evening. Roasted chicken, baked potatoes, green salad, fresh picked broccoli.
Made what was supposed to be salsa with part of the first tomatoes I picked but because I used the cherry tomatoes, it is too sweet the way it is. My friend tried it and said it would be great marinara sauce. I will add some meat to it and try that and the other I will try to add some vinegar and more jalapenos to get it more like salsa. LOTS of work and so disappointing. Mom came in yesterday and said she knew it would be sweet because of the tomatoes I used but didn't say anything the whole day it was cooking. She can't eat tomatoes(or a bunch of other things now on her anti-inflamitory diet). She also had me cook it then told me yesterday that when she made it she didn't cook it first before canning. I had told her I wanted to do it fresh when I got there Friday but she talked me out of it. Now she feels bad for misleading me so going to make a batch for me.
Now to get caught up on reading here-7 pages to read plus get things done around here. It was so nice not having to get up really early to be home for the daycare girl- I just had to be back in town by noon.(got home at 11:15 then unloaded. Got to the school right on time.
Debbie
Napa Valley,Ca
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Snowflake1968 wrote: »A few of our ornaments. We do have a FB page with pictures of a lot of our work. Prices are on them for the virtual market tomorrow. I’m not trying to sell them here. 🙂
I LOVE the ornaments- the button ones are so totally cute- Thanks for sharing them0 -
Did Gilad’s Step and Tone DVD then went for my walk. It seems that now that I don’t do a lot of formal exercise, it doesn’t take as long for my heartrate to go up and it takes longer for it to come down. I guess in the end that isn’t such a terrible thing.
Work tomorrow. The guy to do the landscaping is supposed to be here. So vince will be here when he gets here and I’ll come home later. Depending how long it takes him will depend if I go to bowling or not. I do want to be here while he’s here. Hope he does the front yard so that we can start on the Halloween decorations.
Allie – yes, you’re going to be happily exhausted. Have a great time!
Kylia – what is it with kids today? When we were at Denise’s last, she made a pizza then took some for her and Pete upstairs. Vince and I sat there wondering what we were going to do for dinner. Then we realized we needed to go out. It’s not like we know very many places up there, either. She never said “would you like some” or anything, just took her pizza and PJ upstairs. We didn’t even get to say good night to him. Pete said he thought there was some for us. Two pieces for two adults????? So I understand your frustration! Denise has never been here since PJ was born. Not once. We’ll invite her this year, saying that maybe she’ll come here since we couldn’t go up there in Sept.. But I’m sure she won’t come
barbie – there was only one time when I couldn’t use my own bag. That was at the start of this pandemic. For the last year or so, I haven’t had any problem using my own bag. Either I will bag my groceries or a store employee will.
Cut the “weeds” today. So far I’ve logged over 10,000 steps. A friend of ours is having an open house for her new place and we will go. Personally, I don’t think I’d do something like this. I’m going to take her a loaf of sourdough bread. Her husband passed away this past December. But to me, having an open house looks like you’re saying that you want a gift. Well, if she doesn’t have a problem, neither do I
A while ago I bought what I thought was an entire sheet set at the Salvation Army. Well, I opened it today and it was just the top sheet. That’s frustrating when someone donates something and misleads you. At least I had the sheet set I got for $11 so we’re going to use that. I'm redonating the sheet but with a note that it contains only the top sheet.
Beth – it used to be that if your order was over $35, WalMart would deliver it for free. Now they changed it. You have to purchase their WalMart + which is $19.95 per month. There is no way I’m going to make it worth it. Or you could pay $98 annually. I tell you, the WalMart around here is getting pretty expensive (for WalMart)
Rebecca – can you fill your own bags?
Went to the open house. It was nice. Now making a loaf of sourdough bread. I’m thinking that the temp for the oven showed what I put in not what it was at. So to make the bread look decent and to be sure it baked, I’m adding extra time. I’ll probably keep that loaf for us.
Michele NC
Only at the area where you scan them as well. If we have a few items its no problem, we scan them, but cart full you let them bag them.
Rebecca0 -
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD, its the custom for all commissary baggers to get tips, because there's signs that say they work for tips only. Some give $5, and I am sure some give even more. The baggers at the commissary in California would slap their hand and say, "give me more", when we gave them $1 or $2 tip. They were really rude, and when colors would play, law dictated that you stop and face the flag. They would be chatting with their friends, or pushing someone's cart out, completely oblivious. I would yell at them, " Stop" then make the motion hand over heart.
Rebecca
Whidbey
WA1
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