WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR OCTOBER 2023
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Beautiful floors Joy!💖
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Welcome to Laney, our new puppy from the Humane Society
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Miss_Idelia wrote: »@auntiebk thank you for the welcome! I have wondered if anyone read my post...and I cannot really figure out how to comment on someone else's post yet **shrug**
If you click on Quote you will be able to respond and then click Post Reply. I couldn't figure it out in the beginning either. LOL1 -
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Miss_Idelia wrote: »@auntiebk thank you for the welcome! I have wondered if anyone read my post...and I cannot really figure out how to comment on someone else's post yet **shrug**
If you click on Quote you will be able to respond and then click Post Reply. I couldn't figure it out in the beginning either. LOL There is a lot to learn on this site but persistence, trial and error, and asking questions are great tools. I tend to be a reader until a topic interests me then I jump right in and say something
Barbie in NW WA 4 -
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On another rainy day ...
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Barbie, Laney looks like a love bug! Congratulations Plus her name is extra special, lol.
Joy - your floors are absolutely gorgeous. Wonderful job. I love the color of the natural wood like that. I can't remember - did you have the wood milled from trees on your property?
Margaret - thank goodness you are an excellent driver! So glad no harm done - bet you lost sleep though! Good reminder for all of us to pay special attention now it will be getting dark earlier. Deer and dears might be out and about.
I did a little more mowing this afternoon and my pedometer registered only 500 steps from bouncing.
Lanette
SW WA State
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Barbie- Oh what a cutie pie I see she is getting some lovins already..so happy for you and Jake.
Right now I have a snoring dog under the covers ,and I'll be hittin the hay soon myself..2 -
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Barbie - Laney looking good!
Writing this in the front bedroom, as I was awake in French time! Also I took a Nytol last night, and that makes me snore. Poor John.
The journey home started off going well, as our train to Montpellier was great. We had a salad lunch opposite the station, though I only ate the chicken and parmesan as I wasn't altogether trusting my stomach. In the end my stomach was OK. I did start to get a bit worried about a UTI though. Kept drinking water, but was dehydrated from the previous night.
Taxi to the airport went well. Then it went downhill. Huge queues for the security checks. Long, wiggly lines. There have been some increased alerts on terrorism, so they were being extremely thorough. I failed the x-ray, as did John, and we had to be swiped for explosives. They swiped his camera and my Kindle.
That done, we found the airport a bit downbeat. We arrived first at our gate, which was eerily deserted! Sat there until another couple turned up and we chatted. Eventually people fltered through and we got on tge aircraft in good time. Legroom seats again, so I wasn't able to keep my handbag, but I was wise to it and made sure I had taken out everything I needed and placed the bag carefully so that I could get it out after takeoff. The advantage of sitting in the front is that I had an empty seat next to me, where the cabin crew place their demo equipment, and I was part of the crew's discussion. They were very nice and patient, because we had to wait an extra 15 mins because of the security checks and a large school party getting stuck in it. People arrived very late.
Time was caught up on the flight, arriving on time. Then the real fun started with trying to catch a train from Gatwick on a windy, rainy night, with signals down, in the rush hour.
Jumped on to the first thing that limped along. Was going, very, very slowly to Brighton. Standing room only. Not what I needed at that point. Exhausted after the previous night. John not happy, as he is a bit claustrophobic. I kept glugging the water as I was getting uncomfortable. I spied a couple who looked as if they were getting ready to leave, so I moved over there and asked them if they were leaving. Success. We got to sit for the slow journey home.
Because of the rain and dark, I treated us to a taxi from Brighton Station, and were mighty glad to put the key in our own front door. Phew!
I ordered a delivery of fish and chips. Much deserved.
Watched a couple of gentle programmes and then went to bed.
Recovery and laundry day today.
Oooouuuuffff!
But then, when I used to go with my parents in 1961 - 6, it used to take us three days of driving to get to the South of France. Not 8 hours door to door!
Now to make a cup of tea. I did take our own tea bags with us and thank goodness! The French have gone in for all these super fancy teas, and even black tea is weird and perfumed. We like our PG Tips. Proper builder's tea, but no sugar. We made tea in our room each morning.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx6 -
Lisa: 🥰 the vase
Joy: WOW! That looks like a great job
Heather: What a saga! Travelling almost takes the fun out of holidays.
Barbie: Laney is a cutie.
We are under a nasty storm at the moment which has raged all night. There are red warnings in several places in England/Scotland. Gale force winds and torrential rain.
I have Latin Study Group at 10am, so just popped on to say 👋 Hi!
🤗🤗🤗 and 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Lisa - Did you do that at your classes, or at home? I'm presuming the glass stays in there. I could do a similar thing with the girls as I bought Edie the clays last Christmas. They are expensive, so it would be a small vase! Probably an egg cup! I imagine there are YouTube videos?
I've decided today is a 'transition' day. I had my French breakfast of two boiled eggs and soldiers. I'm not going to do my gymming, or writing, but will get on with laundry, hair washing, shopping for milk, bread and veggies. Plus catching up with bank accounts etc. John is on the machines already and had his normal breakfast. I am a very slow switcher.
Love to all, Heather UK xxxxxxxx6 -
Thursday’s gratitude: freedom to nap this afternoon just because my body wanted to. Joe’s willingness to drive me and the dogs to Gold Beach in his “new” Jeep despite thinking it a waste of time and gas, because the “road trip” time is important to me.
Wednesday’s gratitude: heartfelt message from nephew T.
Knew it when I did it ;{ Chose cocoa and cookies instead of a dryer warmed beach towel before bed Tuesday. Up 3.3 lbs Wednesday morning. Then napped today instead of playing with plants or dancing. Really sabotaging monthly weight and steps averages. Foo.
Betsy “relaxed” is a very kind word to apply to my “cleaning” style :laugh:
Kim How terrifying to find fire both in front and behind your mom’s property. I, too, vividly remember Loma PrietaI was at work at 333 Market Street in San Francisco. As the building started to sway one of our coworkers who’d suffered a disastrous quake as a child ran screaming through the office. My boss grabbed her and hugged her under a desk. After it settled we boarded a bus to go home to the East bay. As it drove up the entrance ramp it stopped as hundreds of people were walking back down the ramp because sections of the Bay Bridge had collapsed. Boss and I then walked to a friend’s apartment in the Castro. On the way, the Marina fires lit the sky. Later that evening everyone else who was camped out in that friend’s apartment had gotten through to their East Bay friends/family but me. Finally got through to a friend who’d been with Joe and assured me he was ok. The friend then drove to our house and found that the quake had knocked our phone off the hook. That, and a little mortar off our chimney was the only damage to our 1890s Queen Anne Victorian cottage that was only a block and a half from the collapsed section of the Nimitz freeway. Bless the person who’d had the brick foundation capped. Hitched a ride with another co-worker the long way around the north bay home the next morning. Commuted by ferry for the following months, too freaked out to take BART under the bay.Lanette, I rarely watched TV news in the morning but there were two times I did, 9/11 and the Challenger disaster. Our company’s offices were right across the Hudson so my co-workers had a horrific-right-there-view and were understandably traumatized for a long time.
Heather thanks for the pics. Handrail-less spiral staircase? :noway: :sick: :noway:
@Miss_Idelia this thread goes in order of when posted so no nested comments, just post away as Kim suggested. If you want to relate your comment to someone’s post you can “quote” it by clicking “quote” at the bottom of their post, like Machka said, then click post reply (thanks @deejoan). Their post and your reply will appear together later in the thread. Terri’s right, we’re a chatty bunch so the original post can be pages before any replies
If you put an “at” sign before someone’s login, like Lisa did, it may notify them of your post, or bold it like KJ did to draw the eye.
Tracey :prayers: for your cousin’s son. Horrific to be in agony that long and have surgery postponed again.
Carol prayers for favorable echocardiogram results. ((hugs))
Margaret thankful the child was not hit/hurt. Hope choir practice helped calm your racing heart.
Lisa “milleflori” Wow. Just WOW.
the lion kitten
Barbie “…the clash of the independent woman and the helicopter dad” LOL. What a Harryhausen image. :laugh: Ooh! Jake and Laney. ((hugs)) How old is she? She looks like a love, giving Jake a hug
Welcome back @dr3107. ((hugs)) and prayers for your BFF.
@linder4866 ?Joyce? always happy to see you pop in.
Joy VERY well done on the floor!10/19: Move: 2 sets PT w/dx&a, dogs to powerline. Steps:4310
Fuel: sugar in vs mfp=3 CI<CO net=243 vits=1
Live: Joe, readings, BP, AD, AF, ptT, ptS, line dance email, made tuna salad, groomed Tumble. Wt:132.1
10/18: Move: 2 sets PT w/dx&a, line dance class, dogs to powerline. Steps:8363
Fuel: sugar in vs mfp=20 CI<CO net=636 vits=1
Live: Joe, readings, BP, AD, AF, ptT, ptS. Wt:134.3]
Later, lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
October: Move more: chair yoga, line dance, dailyish PT, play with dogs.
Fuel better: less sugar, dailyish vitamins.
Live NOW: dailyish time with Joe, readings. Open heart and mind before mouth.
2023: Be of good cheer.5 -
Barbara - it was a medieval stone tower. I could stretch my hands across the width coming down, and I made John go ahead of me. It was still scary and I was talking aloud to myself. "I can reach both sides. I am safe."
Washed, one load of warm laundry done, unpacked, toiletries back in place. Having a coffee, brought by John. Next I will put a hotter wash on, and go out for bread, milk, and cold meat for lunch. John is going out later for fruit and veggies.
One thing I bought for cabin bag flights is a solid foundation, by L'Oréal. I bought it in the Monoprix in Narbonne. It's solid, so it doesn't count as a liquid. I love Monoprix for purchases like that. It also does food and kitchen tools etc.
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I can't believe it is already Thursday night! I have been reading but not replying. Sorry.
HeatherUK I have thoroughly enjoyed your trip. Thank you for sharing! Glad you are safely home.
Welcomes to the new ladies!
Joy I love the floors! I want to sand my kitchen cabinets and revarnish. They are oak that has yellowed over the past 30 years. Everyone wants me to paint them, but I love the wood tones.
Margaret That is so scary! I am also glad everyone is safe.
Barbie Laney is beautiful.
And now it is Friday morning.....
Barbara You know as well as I do that you didn't really gain that much overnight. It is hard to remember that though!
Lisa Beautiful vase!
It has been a long week for me. Monday was good until shopping with DH. He asked what I was picking up (Christmas cards)? Asked if they were for my major mailing? I said yes, and they are on sale. He asked if I couldn't get them cheaper elsewhere? I just put them back. I was pi$$Ed! I explained to him in the truck that I always feel like he is judging me when he does that. Money isn't an issue. This is why I don't shop with him. Went to bed early. BTW...cards are the only part of Christmas I love.
Tuesday I was running a little behind. Forgot he had dentist appointment. Got there on time. Fought with my tablet to get hooked up to hotspot while waiting. Didn't happen. He was on a roll at work. I was happy to leave at 4. Got 15 mins from home and my low tire light came on. I am thankful my son in law taught me about the new tire machines. Found one quickly and aired up tires. Proceeded to Cincinnati to go to play with oldest daughter and her friends. It was " The Girl from North Country". I would have left at intermission if I had driven to theater. The actors were wonderful, but the story was unclear, dark, and all over the place. Got home at midnight.
Slept in Wednesday morning, but those late nights are hard on this 60 y/o! Productive at work. Bought oldest daughter and I tickets to go see the musical "Cher" my birthday weekend in February. This one is here in Dayton at 630 on Sunday. Yay!!!! Worked on laundry. bathmats one of them shredded yuckies in the dryer! It was like sand. Had to clean out drier and rewash part of that load. Helped put more accessories on Bronco for DH. He can't see well enough to do the accents I added. After that, I went to bed early.
Yesterday I had a productive morning at home. Just odds and ends stuffs, but felt good. Kept getting "boss" questions and decisions at work when both "bosses" were there. Attitude....I muttered I was a boss with no authority and a regular customer heard me. He said my persona is that of the boss. Most customers don't realize that I have two other people above me. I need to quit fighting it and just do what I need to get the customer taken care of as well as the business. Was an okay day. Did get the windows tinted on my work truck. After having tinted windows, the plain ones make me feel naked. 😌 Dinner was in crockpot so fast once we got home. Fell asleep early typing y'all. Glad I had hit save!
So this morning I am caught up with here, emptied dishwasher, and getting out of hot tub. After work I am going over to a friend's house to cross stitch together. 😀
I am excited. No chores to do at her house and no one needing my assistance.
Walking Trying to be more aware even if dancing in place behind counter.
Dr Goodness printed his suggestions and trying to implement some.
Cleaning schedules The only thing I really try to schedule is laundry with sheet change on Wednesdays. "Sharkie" vacuums every day for me. Dishes get done every day. Everything else is as I think about it and needed.
Still craming badly through hips , legs, and feet. Added new stretches and still using ball on the wall. Water, magnesium, electrolytes.
I think that was all....though I will think of more I missed. Please know I read everything but sometimes the replies don't make it out of my thoughts.
Much love!
Healing thoughts!
Many welcomes!
Make the best choices you can!
Kylia in rainy Ohio4 -
Joy - what a great job you did on your floors. Our dining room is pitch pine, and we had it done with the normal floorboards a few years ago. Best thing we ever did.
Of course, we paid a lot, but the guys were in and out in a day!!!! Amazing. Not a speck of dust. I was dreading it, but it was really fine. I love our floors!
Another great thing we bought in the supermarket, was a set of bamboo cutlery. You can take it in cabin bags. We had several in room picnics and it was great. I looked on Amazon and you can buy big sets. Ours came in a sweet drawstring bag. It could be a project for you crafty people, and very sellable, I think. We have washed them and will take them again.
Today I ordered a new bread bin. Our old one is rusty inside and crumbs stick in the corners. It's around 15 years old. I have bought a new vintage style black metal one. We have other kitchen items in a similar style.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx3
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