WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2022
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Just back to keep abreast.
Rebecca: 🥰 Your new writing space.
Barbie: I am a great supporter of Atomic Habits. Most of my current daily practices were developed from tiny habits over time.
Flea: I so understand you desire to disconnect from your niece. We have one niece that we no longer socialise with because of her frequent duplicitous behaviour. She has alienated almost everyone in the family.
Allie: You are an angel to all your friends and relatives. It’s a pity that some of them don’t seem to appreciate you and what you do for them.
Had a minor touch of the blues yesterday, but managed to kick them into touch. The earlier sunrise this morning helped enormously.
My prolapse has been giving me some concern this week. I need to do some intensive work on my pelvic floor exercises to see if I can resolve the problem.I did get a small snack attack this morning but I adjusted my planned menu, and stayed under maintenance. Hopefully no great damage done.
I can empathise so much with all those caring for ill/aging relatives. We are now the elders in our family, and are trying to stay as fit and healthy as possible, so that we aren’t too much of a burden to our girls and their families. It’s one of the reasons that I am trying to clear out the clutter.
Miele failte to our new girls. Jump in when you want to, or just hang ten.
Love from
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Allie-how horrible for your neighbor. Her children are so nearby but no real help. Well, none of us know what may have happened in that family over the years. Nice of you and Trudy to keep an eye on her. Good for you helping get Carmine to school.
Dementia-I was always thankful that my mother’s mind stayed strong until the end. My MIL was starting to have a bit of confusion prior to her passing-but nothing like many of you are enduring.
Michele NC-congrats to Jess!
Rori-interesting job to pick up. I like that you can pick and choose.
Flea-I am livid with you. I do hope for the best for your mom. You need to take care of yourself.
Getting odds and ends done today-laundry, ironing, sorting things, putting away stuff. Rather cold here today. I did get out for a 3 mile walk. When you dress right it isn’t bad.
Received official confirmation from Endo that CT show stability of everything. The one weird thing is the report referred to the compression fracture as “chronic compression fracture.” Not sure what they meant, but since I am not in pain and have full function, I’m not worrying.
Going to watch some football and do a couple of other small chores. Hope everyone has a peaceful evening (or whatever part of the day it is for you!)
Take care all,
Ginny in Ohio
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grandmallie wrote: »Machka- you wrote 16 tons and what do you get? And I started singing another year older and deeper in debt... anyone remember that song?who was that Tennessee Ernie Ford?
It's the song I sing to myself when I shovel all the gravel.
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I marched for ten minutes straight! Yay! And my knee is fine!
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GINNY - the leaves on the cake are made by just tracing them with a knife.2
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Not so easy to get time to read all. Just skimming.2
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We are puppy hunting. I heard from an employee of our veterinarian. She suggested a different breed of dog and a
nearby dog breeder. I plan to follow up with our veterinarian and the potential dog breeder.
No rush just now, but I don’t want to wait too long.Katla, We were heartbroken like you when our precious Brandy died and Jake began looking for a new dog. He searched for a specific breed but after awhile had a change of heart and looked elsewhere with a different plan. That's how we got Bessie. Perhaps another breed will turn out to be the right choice. Good luck. Barbie 4 -
Did Method’s Cardio Flex Band Workout and then Shape’s Bikini Bootcamp DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do some of Leslie Sansone’s Ultimate 5 Day Walking Plan DVD.
Woohoo, I’m on a 6 day streak!!!!
katla – a proud mother doesn’t even begin to describe it. I’m really happy that she’s achieved her dream. I know that not everyone knows at 10 years of age what they want to do with the rest of their life, but she always wanted to be a vet. It took a long time (and lots of debt) but she achieved it.
Barbie – I’m hesitant to say to someone that we are not available to go somewhere because I’m always afraid the spouse will ask Vince and he’ll say something else. Well, the reason is that Jess called to tell us the good news (yes, she called, but it was earlier in the day) and we then had to arrange her flights for the interviews (yes, but we did that the other day). So we never went. Vince is glad also because now he gets to have all the chocolate chip cookies and brownies….lol
Rori IS a real inspiration in moving on.
Thank you so much everyone for your well wishes for Jess. She wants to be a research vet, not a family vet. I know if she was a family vet, she’d get bored. So many times the vet sees the same thing – ear infections, broken bones, etc. Plus, many times she is not diplomatic. If someone came in and she told them, say, they needed to use certain eye drops (for example) and they didn’t but came back because the problem got worse, I know she’s REALLY ream into them. She has always wanted to find a cure for cancer. Will that happen? Honestly, I doubt it. But if you can even start to find a cure in animals, you are that much closer to finding a cure for humans.
Margaret – I hope your nephew’s wife doesn’t need a transplant
Allie – that’s what I started singing, too
Terri – calories eaten early in the day are easier for the body to use, rather than late in the day. I’ve found this to be true, too.
Flea – honey, try to breathe. In thru the nose and out thru the mouth. In thru the nose and out thru the mouth. Does that feel better? (((HUG)))
cpblondie – I’m not sure, but if seltzer water has calories, it certainly isn’t very many. (((HUG)))
I, too, was glad that my father was sharp as a tack until the very end. However, in some ways, it was sad, too. He realized that he’d outlived all his friends and immediate family. He really felt alone.
Made chocolate bran muffins earlier in the day
Ginny – congrats on that good ct report
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Barbie – I’m hesitant to say to someone that we are not available to go somewhere because I’m always afraid the spouse will ask Vince and he’ll say something else. Well, the reason is that Jess called to tell us the good news (yes, she called, but it was earlier in the day) and we then had to arrange her flights for the interviews (yes, but we did that the other day). So we never went. Vince is glad also because now he gets to have all the chocolate chip cookies and brownies….lol
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But you would have talked to each other and if you agreed that it didn't fit into your schedule, that's what you'd say.
My husband's sister invited us out to her area over Christmas. We talked about it and agreed that it would be busy and stressful to do that. It would make our schedule really packed and we'd rather not do that. So that's what we told her ... it wouldn't fit into our schedule.
You don't have to provide an excuse. It's no one's business.
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The future has felt uncertain for almost 4 years now.
I don't plan very far ahead anymore.
That was a bit of a shift of thinking for me.
Machka in Oz
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So i look at my phone and somehow i dont know how I miss a call and it was Lils son. They were calling her and she wasn't answering her phone, could i possibly go check on her.. so i go check,TV on nobody home,i walk down to Susans and knock on the door and she is there having dinner with Susand and Myrna and I told her that her sons were looking for her..
Good lord i have to run all over the condo complex to find an elderly woman ,and so I call back Paul he said oh have her call Mark im just getting on a bus i wont be able to get my phone.. which means he is hopping a plane to Miami... so much for Mom...Mark is in Naples and Edna is here in Ct. But honestly Edna is a couple fries short of a happy meal...2 -
What are the chances birds will use the birdbath?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/machka-bb/
That's our Rhody!
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I miss our sweet old dog who has passed away & I am looking for a new pup. I have been chatting with staff at our veterinarian’s clinic. I hope to make contact with a breeder they’ve suggested. Keeping my fingers crossed that we actually get a sweet new puppy. 🐶
Machka --I love the garden, flowers, tree, and supervising kitty.
Tracey in Edmonton – I love your Smooch Pooch pillow.
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Allie - it is terrible how some families treat their parents.
I started singing that song too Allie. I love the old country songs.
Michele - Such a proud moment. Congratulations!
Machka - I’m glad you are enjoying your summer. I felt that way last year and I think it’s all the evenings I sat outside reading.
Terri - I did not know about the wolf moon. I looked it up and ended up following the Farmers Almanac page so I can learn more.
Flea - I’m livid for you. How selfish some people are through this whole mess.
Carla - I work in a nursing home, my Mom has Alzheimer’s and I’ve had a grandmother, Aunt and Uncle have it. We have used the compassionate lying a lot. It’s so much kinder. We do try to distract first. One of my favourite ways of dealing is saying “I don’t know, I’ll have to find out”.
Rebecca - I love that you are working on a space for you. Everything I have put is a reminder of family to me. Mine, his ours, it gives me such peace and love.
I don’t think this has been announced yet.
So. I had a dream last night that A young woman in my life that I’ve known since birth was announcing a pregnancy. In the dream she had used a calendar with pictures of Her 3 year old daughter and on March or May it had her daughter wearing a pink shirt that said Big Sister with her head thrown back.
I sent a text to the young woman telling her about my dream, she sent a picture back to me of her daughter wearing the same shirt as in my dream, with her head thrown back and another picture of an ultrasound. She is due in July.
I went to our daughters to have her dye my hair today. Ember got spayed on Thursday so is to be relaxing she was quite unhappy with me because I wouldn’t throw her toys for her to catch. This is her trying to ignore me. Like any good Grammie, I bought her a new toy and doggy cookies for the visit.
Tracey in Edmonton
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Michele 🥳 Congratulations to Dr. Jess 🥳0
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Accountability:Chose well: 143.3, 8 mins Yoga, readings, made up Thursday’s BB&B, BP, dogs to powerline, dog group, mfp50+, CI<CIO, CI<250<CO, active 4.04
Bonus: Farmers’ market, liquor store for AF beer,
Workin’ on it: H20x4,
Happier January 2022
23: Put away digital devices and focus on being in the moment. Outside!
Oops, looks like yesterday I did not take BP. Wonder what distracted my routine?
Dogs were enthusiastic about play training and powerline stroll this morning. Later Shadow got to play along the banks of the Winchuck River before dog group. It got up to 73F and felt like spring. Enjoyable, but worrisome for the flowering fruit trees. February and March will bring back the cold and winds and blow heck out of the orchards.
Flea ((hugs held extra long )) Praying some how your vaxxed and boosted mom dodged the C-19 bullet.
Annie very well done! Glad your knee is getting stronger.
Allie “..couple of fries short of a happy meal …” a real water snorter! :laugh:
Machka afraid Rhody-as-yard-art will be a bird bath deterrent.
Tracey that is some strong connection you have with that young woman and her children. Wow.
Ember’s expression.
Reading, thinking, whooshing care and support to you all but lacking energy for commenting. Nightmares and ear worms, yuck. Thankful catching up with you all has cleared/calmed my mind, and perhaps now I can sleep peacefully.
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
2022: Be still and listen.
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Michele wrote:
This reminds me of a new choir friend.Thank you so much everyone for your well wishes for Jess. She wants to be a research vet, not a family vet. I know if she was a family vet, she’d get bored. So many times the vet sees the same thing – ear infections, broken bones, etc. Plus, many times she is not diplomatic. If someone came in and she told them, say, they needed to use certain eye drops (for example) and they didn’t but came back because the problem got worse, I know she’s REALLY ream into them. She has always wanted to find a cure for cancer. Will that happen? Honestly, I doubt it. But if you can even start to find a cure in animals, you are that much closer to finding a cure for humans.
When we met, I asked her what she did and she said she was a veterinarian. I followed up by asking if she focused on large animals or small ones. She said she started out on large ones but now works with small ones. Turns out she's a research vet and her current focus is on zebrafish. They're about 1-1½ inches, so yeah, they're small animals. But back when she was doing her PhD work, she studied WHALES—in the wild! Quite a transition, I'd say.
Incidentally, Michele, you wrote appreciatively about the images I tend to post. Well, this isn't really the right time of year for pretty pictures. But I'll tell a little story.
When we were in the US a month ago, we frequently drove between my parents' home in NH and my sister's home in VT. That meant a lot of driving after dark, which is scary, especially in Vermont. I tried to figure out why it was so much worse than driving here, where we have 24-hour darkness for part of the year. I figured out three things.
1) Winter roads in Norway have more (white) snow beside them.
2) The pavement tends to be covered with frost or packed snow and thus pale rather than black.
3) The Public Road Administration plants reflector sticks 15 meters apart along essentially all Norwegian roads every fall.
So this is what it looks like driving on our island at 2 pm on a January afternoon:And this is what it looks like on a bigger road at 3 pm, also in January.
Dark, and a narrow curvy road, but at least you can see where you're going.
In winter, the road on our island can be "paved" with about 4" of ice. We LOVE it that way because that's when the road is at its very best quality. Smooth and reliable under our studded tires.
But when spring comes, or we get a long stretch of winter rain, the surface turns into potholes and washboard. Here's what it looks like outside our apartment in town right now.And farther down the road:
Ugh! Not venturing out into that unless I have to.
/Penny, despite it all delighted to live so close to the
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Good weekend.
Hardly any contact with people.
Gardening.
Cycling.
Sleeping.
Laundry.
I've started taking down the Christmas decorations as well.
Machka in Oz
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Michele wrote:
This reminds me of a new choir friend.Thank you so much everyone for your well wishes for Jess. She wants to be a research vet, not a family vet. I know if she was a family vet, she’d get bored. So many times the vet sees the same thing – ear infections, broken bones, etc. Plus, many times she is not diplomatic. If someone came in and she told them, say, they needed to use certain eye drops (for example) and they didn’t but came back because the problem got worse, I know she’s REALLY ream into them. She has always wanted to find a cure for cancer. Will that happen? Honestly, I doubt it. But if you can even start to find a cure in animals, you are that much closer to finding a cure for humans.
When we met, I asked her what she did and she said she was a veterinarian. I followed up by asking if she focused on large animals or small ones. She said she started out on large ones but now works with small ones. Turns out she's a research vet and her current focus is on zebrafish. They're about 1-1½ inches, so yeah, they're small animals. But back when she was doing her PhD work, she studied WHALES—in the wild! Quite a transition, I'd say.
Incidentally, Michele, you wrote appreciatively about the images I tend to post. Well, this isn't really the right time of year for pretty pictures. But I'll tell a little story.
When we were in the US a month ago, we frequently drove between my parents' home in NH and my sister's home in VT. That meant a lot of driving after dark, which is scary, especially in Vermont. I tried to figure out why it was so much worse than driving here, where we have 24-hour darkness for part of the year. I figured out three things.
1) Winter roads in Norway have more (white) snow beside them.
2) The pavement tends to be covered with frost or packed snow and thus pale rather than black.
3) The Public Road Administration plants reflector sticks 15 meters apart along essentially all Norwegian roads every fall.
So this is what it looks like driving on our island at 2 pm on a January afternoon:And this is what it looks like on a bigger road at 3 pm, also in January.Dark, and a narrow curvy road, but at least you can see where you're going.
In winter, the road on our island can be "paved" with about 4" of ice. We LOVE it that way because that's when the road is at its very best quality. Smooth and reliable under our studded tires.
But when spring comes, or we get a long stretch of winter rain, the surface turns into potholes and washboard. Here's what it looks like outside our apartment in town right now.And farther down the road: Ugh! Not venturing out into that unless I have to.
/Penny, despite it all delighted to live so close to the
Beautiful ... but I'm not sure how happy I'd be living in all that again. 40 years on the Canadian prairies was enough!
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Thanks for the pics Penny.
Can't remember, are you on the town side of the bridge now?
Felt a bit blah this morning. Not sure why. Improved my mood by washing my hair and by typing out some quotes for my book. I've been meaning to do it for ages, so something was accomplished.
I'm waiting to hear back from my son about our Burns Night dinner. Haven't heard anything about the state of plague in their household recently. If he comes over he will have to do a LFT first. I think I will make a small amount of berry/yoghurt ice cream in case. I was going to do mango, but realised too late that I need 5 limes!
Weather very grey.
I weighed myself this morning for the first time in ages, and I have put on another 2+ pounds. No wonder I feel a bit low. I'm determined to lose that, and a bit more, before the cruise. I have 7 weeks. Obviously, my CICO has not been accurate, as I have logged every day and am nearly always under. I even thought I might have lost a pound, but I was wrong.
I can do it.
Realistically, I think 4 pounds is not unreasonable. I would love 7, but I haven't done that sort of loss in 10 years.
Love to all, Heather UK xxxxxxxx4 -
Good Mornning Friends...Mary Engelbreit is a well known illustrator who lives in suburb next to where I grew up. She lost a son to suicide and yet her illustrations touch on the goodness of life. I have enjoyed her work for over 40 years. When I saw her name and quote I knew this was the picture of flowers I wanted to share today. It is okay to not be okay.
Don't save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is a special occasion.
MARY ENGELBREIT
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Machka - Thanks for the "pome". A. A. Milne had a way with simple words for simple pleasures.
Heather - We're on the mainland side of the bridge. Northbound cruise ships pass by our balcony a few minutes before they dock. We love our view. It's so lively!
Margaret - Gorgeous fuchsias!
/Penny not at the
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Good morning (afternoon, evening) all! I have been keeping up with posts, but my brain has felt too fuzzy to post anything. DH is doing a bit better after his ER visit and the meds/treatment they gave him. His recovery is going slower; but he is getting there. DYS is also running at about 75%. The cough seems to be sticking with him. For me it is lingering "gunk". Do any of you use a neti pot? Can you use it if you feel completely blocked? Will it do anything? I have been taking medicated nasal spray for about three weeks and I feel like my nose is becoming reliant on it. Can that happen?
Machka- Love the poem by A.A.Milne. It is one that I chose to recite in 6th grade when our English teacher gave us the assignment. It has stuck with me over the years. I remember the illustration that was on the page with the poem. A wonderful "Christopher Robin" looking child in a field, with head bent down to smell a flower.
Penny- Love your pics. A few years back, my hubby and I were just discussing the benefits of plows not making it down our road after bouts of extreme amounts of snowfall. The snow reflects so much light and it really does brighten things up at night.
Carla- Happy your mom is on the mend. Do you think the bouts of dementia or confusion are from the fall?
Michele-Congrats to Dr. Jess! Someone needs to do the research and find the cures...why not her?!
Flea- I am angry with you over the inconsiderate behavior of your niece. As you know, I just went through something similar with family. Absolutely unfathomable that people can be so callous and cavalier in their "care" of others. IF you truly care, you don't take risks. Hugs to you and hope you can help your mom safely.
Katla- Awww! Hugs to you, I know you have been missing Schooner. I hope you will find another pup that suits your lifestyle and can share your love.
Pip- i LOVEloveLoVe that wet pic of Yogi! He just looks so happy and in his element!
Rebecca- Sending hugs as you get used to home without your son's presence. I am sure it helps your mamaheart knowing that he is doing something that he enjoys. It will be nice to be able to put things out that remind your of the people you love.
Rori- Congrats on the job! New adventures waiting for you!
Rita- Thinking of you and hope you are well.
Tracey- Wowsa! That is some dream you had! I bet your young friend was impressed with that!
Barbie, Heather, Pip, Machka and others who have honed good habits. Thank you for posting your daily habits. It really helps me not feel like I am slogging along by myself. I tend to look with envy at those who have already reached their goal weight/health; and I think "wow! must be nice NOT to have to work so hard..." Seeing your habits and hearing your words about the work that went into achieving them, helps me see that no one is "resting on their laurels". It is a daily choice. Either you make good choices and move closer to your goal, or you make wrong choices and stagnate. You are all inspiring to me.
Well, I have some cooking and cleaning to do today. I will probably get outside and do some shoveling as well. That should help my congestion a bit. ttfn xoxoxo KJ (Kelly)
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