WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2023
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started with 2 1/2 pounds of frozen strawberries from food program yesterday. No room in the freezer for that big a bag so cooked them down all the way.
that is half way through.
Just finished cooking:
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Got my new Fitbit yesterday and got it setup. It seems to be working fine. Still need to get familiar with some of the features it has that my old one didn't. I am looking forward to Tuesday and using it in the pool. It will be interesting to see how the tracker compares with the conversion table I was using.
Time to go out and do chores.
Everyone take care, Sue in WA4 -
Worked all day long between the craft room and the spare bedroom that has willy-nilly become storage over the last few years. Between the rain (which was wonderful, thank you Lanette!) and the heat, it was a good day to take a break from outside work. A few more hours work to go yet.
Tracey - Been thinking about your next big adventure starting tomorrow. Almost (but not quite!) makes me want to go back... Hope it's a wonderful, life-changing time over the months to come..
And, Lanette, well done for Thelma! One more productive member of chicken society joins the ranks of the sisterhood...
And... they're growing so fast, they're no longer babies. Out hiking in paradise...
More tomorrow... finally sleepy.
Love, y'all,
Lisa in AR
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Heather - I’m happy that overall you enjoyed your family being with you.
What a sweetheart Edie is. They are being raised well.
Lisa - I hadn’t thought of it that way. I have learned over the years to be more thoughtful about my purchases.
I loved the grape Popsicle example. 😂
I didn’t know you could buy other straps for Fitbits. I may need to look at them again.
I think I need to tell my friend I spent the weekend with about hanging onto marriages. Her Husband asked her for a divorce yesterday. I feel bad for both of them but feel they need to do this.
I guess I’ve been learning some of these lessons. The last time I had a job I was so unhappy in I lasted 12 years! This time it was only 3.5. I have done a lot of purging and I donate stuff I no longer need every few months. The benefit of living in a tiny space is you can’t gather a lot and still have a neat and tidy home.
Terri - it sounds like you are going to have a nice day and visit.
I have been reading with interest those of you who write about your meals and how they are the same, shared with DH’s for the chore of it. I really need to set out a stricter plan here.
I have only held two garage sales in my life, one when we moved from NB to AB the other when we moved from our 1200sq ft townhouse to where we live now. I had a lot of people tell me I wasn’t asking enough for things, but I wanted them gone. There was only one thing I sold that I regretted. It was a little stack of snack/dessert sized plates that sat in their own rack. I had 12 plates and the rack and sold them for $10. Much less than they were worth. I missed them so much I went to yard sales and searched Marketplace until I found them again. I paid $25 to get an 8 plate set. I didn’t realize how convenient and well used those plates were when I sold the first set.
Lanette - I have been missing people in my life. I have my girls, DH and the grands but find I spend a lot of time alone even if DH is in the house. I have been thinking about doing some volunteering, I joined ceramics for a way to meet friends. The theory was it would be a common interest. I have met some nice ladies but we only visit at the shop. I miss the days of neighbours dropping in for a tea or coffee. It hasn’t happened since we moved to AB you would think I would be used to it now.
Barbie - my DH has done the same as Jake, he actually goes full force into something almost an obsession and then quit it shortly afterwards. Our daughter believes he has undiagnosed ADHD as it is just one of the traits of ADHD he has.
Rita - our summer has been hot too, my flowers are all dying early and I see yellow on some trees.
I had an exciting day. There was a smell in the house that I couldn’t quite figure out what it was. I opened all of the windows and puttered around, a whole later my tongue was feeling tingly. Jonah had mentioned earlier that he felt nauseous. I asked him if his tongue felt funny, he said yes and that he had a headache.
I called the fire department in case there was a gas leak or something. I get olfactory migraines, so never trust scents I get, but was concerned when Jonah said he smelled it too.
There were 3 engines, the superintendent, an ambulance, and the police. They then called the gas company in. There were no leaks and the smell is gone I don’t know what it was.
I have rearranged and have my desk set up for tomorrow.
Lisa - thank you! I’m nervous and excited. I have not been in any type of school since 1995 and this is all virtual.
Tracey in Edmonton
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Tracey - do you have any agricultural land around you? Someone could have been spraying something. Ugh!
I was so lucky, when we lived in the middle of the countryside, that it was horse country. Just a bit of fertiliser in the spring. I would not like to live, in fact I would not, live where they were spraying pesticides and herbicides. The council here have stopped spraying the pavements. It's a mess, and a lot of people complain, but better than being poisoned.
Also, some DIY products, and paint, can drift in the breeze. My friend has lung cancer from his long hobby of DIY. He never smoked, but rebuilt and renovated all his houses. In those days, no one wore masks. Even MDF is full of toxins.
Good luck for today! Is their any IRL contact? You could organise a meet up once or twice a term with those who are local. It often just needs someone to suggest it.
I'm hoping for a quiet day today. If my son wants to join us for dinner, I will make a massive frittata with frozen veg, including artichokes, and the cauliflower in the fridge. They brought lots of eggs with them when they cleared out the flat. He is GF, which complicates carbs a bit, but I might cook a whole lot of new potatoes in the IP.
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We had a grand time yesterday at my younger daughter’s. Elder daughter and her youngest boy came by train and DH picked them up while I help with prep for lunch.
Elder grandson arrived with a ‘friend’ who had given him a lift, and asked if she could come in. She couldn’t stay for lunch, but he seemed keen for us to meet her.
DH and I are planning an outing tomorrow as we finally have a potential spell of good weather. We are going to see The King’s Coronation Garden on the other side of Belfast Lough, and then to visit a new walk that has been created at Randalstown along a defunct railway line, which has a spectacular landscaped viaduct garden. I will take photos.
Lisa: They look so happy.
Tracey: Thinking of you as you set out on your great adventure today.
Today will potter in the garden, and work on my crochet.
🤗 🤗 🤗 and 🙏🏻 🙏🏻 🙏🏻 to whoever wants or needs them.
💕💖💕☘️ Terri2 -
Today’s (8/6) gratitude: the fresh scent of the forest when I stepped out on the back porch to put bottles in the recycling bin.
Whoop, whoop. Wii reported weight below 130 for the first time in forever!!! Know it will bobble back up over, that’s why I use the monthly average for the check in. Doing the happy dance anyway :laugh:
Kim I heard the same TED talk, but wondered about the metal in the body, fillings, screws, rods, plates etc…
Tracey Look forward to hearing about your course. You will be a blessing to any children lucky enough to get you.
Sorry to everyone else but my brain just went blank.
Time to snooze.08/06: Move: 2 sets PT w/xa, dogs to powerline, Jeopardy walking. Steps:500908/05: Move: 2 sets PT w/d, stroll partway out to Chetco point, dog group. Steps:8400
Fuel: sugar in vs mfp=-47
CI=1627 CO=490
Live: Joe, readings, BP, AF, church, play with plants. Wt:128.5!!! Yay!!!
Fuel: sugar in vs mfp=-7 CI=1125 CO=340
Live: Joe, readings, BP, AF, bottle drop. Wt: [/spoiler]
Later, lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
2023: Be of good cheer. August: Move more, fuel better (less sugar), live NOW.
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Debbie-glad visit with mom went well. I am in awe of how you quickly are always whipping up something like a batch of jam/jelly. Sharing food is something more of us could do I am sure.
Allie-glad trip went well and you are back home safely.
Lanette-congratulations to Gladys! I find hearing the updates here fits me more than growing the animals!
Sue-I think you will catch on to FitBit quickly. Hope any tracking surprises are positive.
Lisa-great picture of family-they look so happy. Good progress on rooms.
Tracey-scary stuff with the smell and symptoms. Agree with Heather-it could have been from the fields. We pick up on that in different parts of the county, and often they are spraying by airplane so not as noticeable at first. Good luck on first day of school! You are closing one chapter and starting another.
Terri-the walk sounds very interesting. GS wanting you to meet her-could be something there!
Barbara AHMOD-enjoy the 130-even if it does bobble it is there.
Woke to thunderstorms around 4:30 today (must have moved this way from Lisa. Won't go for walk before work-don't mind walking in rain but not thunder/lightening. Is going to be cooler today so I will walk after work. Will get stretches in this am. Slept really well last night-am hopeful this medication adjustment really works.
Off to start another week.
Take care all,
Ginny in Ohio
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Dyslexia ... I've been mildly dyslexic as long as I can remember. I was an advanced reader in school, but could not spell, and I still struggle to spell. I have had to make an effort to memorize how various words are spelled. But thank goodness for spell checkers!!
And although I was an advanced reader silently, by myself, I didn't do well reading out loud.
Now, I enjoy novels, but I'm not keen on reading other things, like research papers etc. because I find them a slog and have to read them over and over. Even going for my Masters degree, homework seemed to take me longer than others because it took me a while to wade through the material. But I do persist with it all.
Ginny -- good news on your CT.
Machka in Oz
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Well done Machka for persevering with hard to absorb material. That takes grit.
I went out for my run this morning. Gorgeous day! I had to cut it a bit short because my thigh was playing up, but, after a sit down and stretch, I managed to complete the session.
While I was jogging, I was listening to the latest 10% Happier, Dan Harris podcast.
Very interesting. I have just now bought the Kindle version of their book, 'Your Brain on Art - how the Arts transform us.'
My life seems to be one big art project!!!
Love you all, Heather UK xxxxxx
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cityjaneLondon wrote: »He is now having a bath. He hasn't had a decent bath in 8 months. Then he has to look at a few work emails, then bed.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
I had a smile at this ... I presume he usually showers.
I have a bath about once a year. I can't actually remember my last bath.
Eggs -- when I lived on my own, one of the evening meals I'd make for myself was 2 hardboiled eggs and toast. Or scrambled eggs and toast. Or an egg and potato thing. I like eggs.
Eggs are great ... a quick and easy dinner.
Unfortunately, I can't eat eggs anymore.
Wicked indigestion, agonising pain in my gall bladder region, and sometimes they go down nicely ... and then suddenly come right back up.
M in Oz
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Woke up to rain... and the percussion section. Big thunder-boomer shook the house about 4 a.m., and the rain has settled in... Supposed to be for the next five or six hours, half thunderstorms, half soaking rain. Works for me... Spent more than eight years of my life in desert climes, and rain still satisfies something very deep inside.
Lanette - I missed the storms when we lived in Coos Bay for a few years. I had no idea they occurred so seldom on the west coast! You would have thought the Oregon years would have cured that love for rain... The green spaces there are so deeply, satisfyingly green...
Love the weather here right now, but the moisture and cool does start the day with arthritis flaring. Movement and meds take care of it reasonably quickly, though.
Workroom creation and cleanout stuff:Took a few seconds of attention from the process of creating what I'm now tentatively calling the "workroom," and tackled my older laptop, the one that stalled and crashed in the update process. It had a restore point, so I reset it back to that, and it worked like a charm. Took nearly two hours while I was doing other things, but it worked!
Was able to get it fully set up to work with a wireless mouse and keyboard and my large monitor from the working years, and I will have the ability to put painting or sewing tutorials or patterns up easily, or choose a podcast or a television show while I'm working on more tedious things. So pleased with that! Have been taking before and progress pictures, and hope to get to the "after" pictures this afternoon for the room.
And of course, it's a domino thing - While I was lifting and shifting and moving things in, I was also weeding out, discarding, and putting things in donation boxes. For instance, I've got at least 20 pair of 3x reading glasses that I'll be donating--now that I'm wearing progressive lenses all day, I no longer need them. Got a whole bin full of "too good to throw away, but won't use it" donations, and Corey's taking three more garbage bags to work to the dumpster... Every one is a weight lifted.
OK... morning meds are taken, time to start the next stage! One thing I learned with all the moving in my earlier years was that super-heavy bins or boxes were self-defeating for me. Less space taken up, but unable to move or shift them without help, and things get totally lost at the bottom... so I'm a file boxes fan from way back! But then I married a man who can lift most anything I could pack, so I relaxed.
Well, I'm back to the file boxes. If I can't lift it, I don't want it around any more. And I've got four of those big, unliftable bins to get through this morning that Corey was kind enough to move to the room for me...
Onward and upward chickens! Even without the outside work yesterday, still made it to well over 9,000 steps. We'll see how far we go today...
Later, y'all,
Happy Monday!
Love, Lisa in AR
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Oh - meant to say that Corey made a fresh tomato pasta sauce yesterday, cooking his heirloom garden tomatoes in the Instant Pot all day long. His first try at a pasta sauce made from fresh ingredients (as opposed to salsas, which he makes and preserves) and it was terrific. Pulled three pieces of the foccacia I made back in early July out of the freezer, and it made some terrific garlic bread. The only part of the meal that we didn't make was the beef to make the meat sauce. Very satisfying all the way around...
Later,
Love,
Lisa5 -
Ever heard of Whidbey Island?
I'm watching Beachfront Bargain Hunt: Renovation, featuring Whidbey Island.
Machka in Oz6 -
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Good Monday!
Lots of work last week. Caught up on enough that I can breath.
Tired of messing with Robbie(irobot). Bought a new Shark robot. My first sharpie lasted two years with two big dogs. DH insisted on buying " better" (more expensive) Irobot. It lasted 14 months ans only had one dog for the first 4 months. I have replaced brain, battery, and factory reset. Still gets "stuck" by obstruction in the muddle of the room and takes twice as long to do the job! Sharkie should be here today and I bought the 3 yr warranty. I love the lines in the carpet when we get home from work. Just feels like someone treated me to a cleaning while I was gone.
First world issue, I know.
Need to clear up my desk at home. Vacation cabin is paid for in full. Need to decide if I am going to discard magazines I haven't read yet, or take on vacation to catch up on.....Will revisit that tonight. Raining today which is killing my head
Biggest challenge right now is not "permitting or accepting" my DH'S blame for things that aren't mine. Did that make sense? Example.....at car show yesterday, I dozed off in the heat under our umbrella. He was chatting on his phone. A breeze lifted our umbrella and it blew away and hit the car next to ours. No damage done, but scary! For some reason he thinks I should have been paying attention. SMH. I was asleep. Oh well. It happens daily, so I just need to not accept his thoughts on these things.
Weight not happy this morning. Had digiorno pizza Saturday night, joints hurt yesterday. Then eating out 2 times yesterday. I know just water/salt but still......
Have to take computer to best buy this morning. Wish me luck! Hopefully it I'd painless-lol!
Time for work!
Hugs, congratulations, peace, and high fives for you all!
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Kylia in Ohio thankful for rain but hating migraine4 -
Good Morning Friends...
Rainy day yesterday. We needed the rain so badly it was so nice to see.
I have enjoyed hearing how others have tackled keeping their stuff manageable. Tracey you remind me if I do get too vigorous in my clean out I can always go on line and find a replacement if need be. It will make it easier to let go!
Arranged with a Friend to go to a tea at the end of the month where they will have a fashion show...The History of Hats! It is my retirement gift to her. I am agreeing with others experiences rather than things that make better gifts today. I used to organize a group to do activities like this. Now I am looking forward to just doing this with one friend. It is part of keeping my life simple.
Today the painting group I am involved with is going to have a birthday party for Walt who is turning 91. He lived in the Netherlands during WWII. His stories are humbling. He lived near the site of A Bridge Too Far. It was a failed attempt by the allies to make a stand in the Netherlands. A Bridge Too Far is the name of a movie made about the event. He told the story how they went into the farmers field so they could get potatoes to eat. Times were tough. They were willing to pay but they could not pay as much as the Germans so they were priced out of buying them.
Margaret
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Biggest challenge right now is not "permitting or accepting" my DH'S blame for things that aren't mine. Did that make sense? Example.....at car show yesterday, I dozed off in the heat under our umbrella. He was chatting on his phone. A breeze lifted our umbrella and it blew away and hit the car next to ours. No damage done, but scary! For some reason he thinks I should have been paying attention. SMH. I was asleep. Oh well. It happens daily, so I just need to not accept his thoughts on these things.
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Kylia in Ohio thankful for rain but hating migraine
I'd just say, "That's not my fault! You were awake. You should have been paying attention."
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