WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2024

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  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,267 Member
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  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,611 Member
    auntiebk wrote: »
    Machka love the pic of your summer bathtub but wow am I impressed you were able to maintain all your gorgeous hair in a dishpan with a shower bag rinse. Pioneer spirit! I’m with you about password managers, I keep a little handwritten address book. ;}

    Later, lighter, lovelies!
    Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
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    2024: Strengthen: body, mind, heart-connections.

    Like this ... it's in a tight braid and all covered up.

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  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,258 Member
    Lanette Agreed with Ben Bickman. Loved his take on fermented foods. Microbes eat the sugars and leave the good stuff for us. Some of those microbes are also good for us. Lifestyle is what got us into our metabolic problems and changing lifestyle will get us out. I will add that reaching for the pill is not the long term answer. Unfortunately reaching for the pill comes with unwanted side effects.

    Thanks for sharing Lanette...I am just encouraged that there are voices out there giving alternatives to finding the way back to health that are based in good nutrition and positive lifestyle changes. Also addressing the emotional pieces too. I still think of that title Face your Stuff or Stuff your Face.

    It does take patience to make major changes. Some progress comes quickly and sometimes there are set backs because of life. As more knowledge if obtained in this field I can always change my mind and also judge how the changes work for me.

    Staying up a bit later tonight because fireworks are still going off. Still time to start to get ready...

  • skuehn48
    skuehn48 Posts: 3,046 Member
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  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,611 Member
    Good tips!

    https://www.bhg.com.au/do-these-5-things-to-reduce-your-stress-levels
  • LisaInArkansas
    LisaInArkansas Posts: 2,895 Member
    Good morning, my chickens,

    Still dark as I popped up out of bed just before 4, but slept really well and, for the second night in a row, slept straight through. Woot! Yesterday, I had what was possibly the fewest trips to the bathroom in any retrievable memory. I think all the sleep is finally starting to heal some physical symptoms, and it is such a wonderful thing. It was also absolutely glorious to have hours on end where I was NOT looking at the bathroom walls! So enjoying a semblance of normality--it's been so long.

    Barbie - I too think that take on gratitude was absolutely right, through the suffering and the sheer time factor. Gratitude is terribly easy to obtain for small signs of hope and healing after illness, no matter how grave the disease.

    Tracey - I'm so pleased that you're looking into placement agencies--I don't know if your area of Canada is the same, but here, companies are begging for people to come work for them, signs up everywhere, advertising on every medium. We're going through the lowest unemployment rates for the longest number of months since the 1960s. With your skills, you may well be able to get work that will give you time to breathe and look around for what you really want to do.

    Flea - You look wonderful, and time with the grands is always so good for our hearts. When the tree guy was here, his little family came with him, and their 8-year-old took to me like a duck to water--and just broke me. Same age as my granddaughter, and it's been more than a year since I've seen them all.

    Allie - Hope you're sleeping well and feeling better.

    Heather and Terri -Envious of the mere fact that your election is done! We've exactly four long months to go to November 5.

    No real plans for today - we've supposedly got a couple more hours of rain in the offing, fingers crossed, so outside work is off the table for today, most likely. Looks like at the top of the to-do list is the last few windows to cover and work on the quilt. Which I've taken quite a break from and I need to get back to...

    Later, my dears,
    Love,
    Lisa in AR

  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,611 Member
    I've been following Half Your Plate for a while and aim to have veggies on half my plate most of the time. They've got some nice looking recipes focusing, of course, on veggies.

    https://www.halfyourplate.ca/

    Machka in Oz
  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,202 Member
    :) The dogs got through the stress of the noisy fireworks with the help of the music I played on my phone from 9-11:45.
  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,095 Member
    Morning ladies
    Slept all the way through until 6 am,laundry done and folded,but feeling sleepy again.so another nap is in order.
  • OregonMother
    OregonMother Posts: 1,664 Member
    Machka9 wrote: »
    LisaInArkansas wrote: »
    Heather and Terri -Envious of the mere fact that your election is done! We've exactly four long months to go to November 5.

    Later, my dears,
    Love,
    Lisa in AR

    Without meaning to get political, I've always thought the US elections take an inordinately long time and are a waste of money.

    The elections in Australia (and Canada too from what I remember) are finished in 3-5 weeks from announcement to vote. It doesn't take more than 3-5 weeks to know who we're going to vote for.

    M in Oz

    I agree! It is too long. Everyone has made up their minds. We could vote tomorrow or in five months, and I don't think the results would be much different.

    Flea
    Still at high elevation, and feeling it! (My sea level body is not happy.)
  • kevrit
    kevrit Posts: 4,319 Member
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    A couple more things my DH made. 1/2 Banana with biscuit that has cheese and chunks of ham in it. Steak with pan fried sweet potatoes and pickled veggies.
    Chicken thigh BBQ tied with seasonings inside it, Jalapeño popper and Pesto on 1/2 cup spaghetti and peach for dessert.
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    RVRita in Roswell👽
  • kevrit
    kevrit Posts: 4,319 Member
    Today is The beginning of the UFO Festival in Roswell. Here is a link to to: https://www.ufofestival.com/

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  • dlfk202000
    dlfk202000 Posts: 3,189 Member
    Snowflake1968 wrote: »

    I didn’t do much at all today. I didn’t even get dressed. I did do a bit of scrapbooking this evening.
    Our power went off this evening, animal interference according to the website. I had already started to run my bath and we have gas heat so I still took my bath. I just used little battery lights. I may have to put those in there more often. I would put them a little neater maybe so they could just stay in there.
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    Tracey in Edmonton

    I put out the fairy lights in both bathrooms a few Christmas's ago and have left them there. Nice to have just enough light when we go in the bathroom at night without having to turn the bright light on which is connected to a fan that is suppose to be the "quiet one"- It is easier for me to get back to sleep with these as they aren't bright and loud.
    It is enough light to see. DH can use that instead of lights/fan with the door open when he gets ready for work( I am NOT a fan of him doing that at midnight or 1 am)

    Debbie
  • Vickil57
    Vickil57 Posts: 1,882 Member
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  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,202 Member
    :)Lisa, I agree with you about sidestepping the stress inducing news. Another thing I did this week was to skip a long section in a book I was reading because it was all about mice, rats, bugs, and other creatures you might find in your house. I don't have to read every word in a book if it's going to be too upsetting.

    <3 Barbie
  • auntiebk
    auntiebk Posts: 2,614 Member
    Today’s gratitude: cool fresh morning air, summer scents and sounds. Oh! What a beautiful morning!
    Joe checked the tanks and we risked a load of laundry. Took the tanks down by half so he’ll pump up from the cistern later. When he checked the cistern this morning, most of the creek water he’d pumped into yesterday it was gone. Could the cistern be cracked or leaking? Maybe we’ll know more after he refills it today.
    Was noticeably “aware” yesterday of muscles that hadn’t been worked in awhile. Just as well it was too hot to do anything. Awareness eased this morning so I did a combination of knee pt and part of the BB&B routine. Proud of myself. Tomorrow will do a combo of arm and BB&B, that’s the plan.
    Things were going so well…
    Then I dropped my phone in the dogs’ water bowl. It was completely submerged. Miraculously it seems to be ok, thank goodness for the OtterBox!

    Evelyn did you feel the quakes near Vancouver Island yesterday? Hope all’s well.
    Machka ah, braid and scarf, well done and :love: the pic.
    Tracey placement agencies will be so excited to get you, you are a gem! We have no idea when the water guy will come back so no clue how long to get back to normal. I’m trying to hang back and let Joe deal with it, but don’t know what will be his tipping point. When he does tip, he’ll drive over next door and camp out til the neighbor gets home and escort him back here to finish the job. The guy is not irresponsible, just spread too thin. Too many people in this county have water troubles, and he’s only one guy. Yes he should have 3 apprentices working with him, absorbing his knowledge. But he doesn’t. Maybe can’t find young folk willing to work for lower wages while learning, maybe lacking patience, maybe unwilling to thread the “employer regulations” needle. Don’t know but it is what it is. :love: the battery lights above your bath. Candle-like atmosphere without the danger of melting wax on skin ;)
    Heather you are doing so well! Up the stairs without the bannister, returning to the recumbent bike and your other exercises. You are the hip replacement poster child. Your ortho should use you in his adverts and discount your next surgery.
    Lisa likewise rejoicing at the sleep and healing. You’ve waited so very very long. Your “instead of” choices are inspiring. I need to adopt that approach to dealing with my iphone games addiction, true time wasters.

    That having been said, while time spent here is not wasted, the timer just bonged. Let’s see, Fold laundry? Dogs to power line? Transplant daphne? All have appeal ;)
    Later, lighter, lovelies!
    Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
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    Move more than yesterday, fuel better than yesterday, live NOW.
    Open heart and mind before mouth.
    2024: Strengthen: body, mind, heart-connections.

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