Senior Golden Sneakers - January 2011

viliberty1957

Though I would toss in a picture of my Alaska years. No...that's not me driving the sled. I did have one go by in fron of my house in Bethel. I'll share some more of Alaska when I get the pictures uploaded.

Well, so much for that....it didn't work today. I'll try later. How about that. I couldn't upload the dogsled, so I tried another picture...my Dad long ago, and it worked....go figure.

viliberty1957

:explode: Why can't I delete a post! :explode:

CALIECAT

I will not let me do it, Sorry will keep trying it till I get it. Marie

Sandydur

Congratulations Connie!!! Your team won and deserved it!!!

CALIECAT

Sandie this what I am getting now instead of Img

CALIECAT

I don't know whats going on. They don't have any IMG code under my pictures now Just Just img thumb and this is what get look like in thepost below Marie. Any Ideal. I got my daughter working on it too.

delraybuzz

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JO-AN. At least I didn't miss that!
Barbie, remind me about what internet conversion I was doing, please! Am I losing it, or what?
I haven't been on the internet except to post my daily FOOD every so often. Ugh,...I miss you all
And welcome, Joany, and everyone else I missed. Madagooga...fascinating name!!!
I also wonder, have I missed anything regarding Jeffrey?
Connie, Sandy, Marie, Irene, oh my, my memory doesn't last as long as it used to, but I think of you all, every day
and feel guilty about not visiting more. Where does my time go??? I know I have slowed down but this is ridiculous!
My eye surgery is coming up the week after next, and I hope it will clear up the sight. Thanks so much, Barb and Connie, for all
the info about the screen (or desktop?) but that's not the problem I run into. When I blur, NOTHING helps!
Sunny Florida is 40 degrees....BRRRrrr! Crazy winter this year!
I'll try to keep checking back with you all as I do miss you!
Buzz

LUV2CRUZ

Sandy, is this a new picture? You are a very good lookin grandma.....Woo Hoo!!! :happy:

Sandydur

Sandie this what I am getting now instead of Img

Think you just copied the wrong one Marie, you want to copy image to share on forums.

CALIECAT

I think I might have it now I did it. And by the way what is you take on Walking poles?

Sandydur

Sandy, is this a new picture? You are a very good lookin grandma.....Woo Hoo!!! :happy:

Yep, that is me, thank you for the compliment.

Sandydur

Walking poles?? Are you talking about when people walk using ski poles? It is a fast past walk I believe with the poles to make you think you are cross skiing.

Hope you got the picture problems worked out, your quilt is beautiful.

Good to hear from you Buzz, hope that surgery helps with the blurriness.

Our Bears lost to Connie's Packers, but they deserved it, they played a good game. Congratulations!!

Going to watch a movie now and maybe do some stepping on the Wii!

CALIECAT

Here is my Baby Bootie Quilt in PROGReSS now

Sandy is our glomour queen, Very pretty and gracious Lady

barbiecat

:drinker: :drinker: :drinker: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:
I'm just checking in so no one thinks they have to send out a search party.:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Sandydur

Happy Monday, we had a little more snow last night (so what else is new) but it is not so bitter cold. :noway:

I was so sore from stepping I couldn't exercise yesterday which means no extra calories, which means I went over. :sad: :sad: Back to step one today, I will never give up, I will never give up!!:noway:

Barbie, I was ready to send the search team out so I am glad you checked in with us.

Marie, thank you for the compliment. :blushing:

And last but not least!!!!



Happy Birthday JoAn!!!!

LUV2CRUZ

So, it's Monday again and it's 10 degrees here!! This is PA, come on....10....really???? I'm freezing all the time!!

Happy Birthday JoAn, I hope you soon feel well enough to see this and know that we are all thinking of you!

Sandy, how do you get the Quotes and your replies together? I'm a blockhead!

Marie feels better and we're all glad for that!

Welcome to our new friends, please post so we know what's going on with you.

I asked the other day what we all want to be when we grow up. (Idea from a commercial) I want to be a ballroom dancer. What about you?

I have to come back later, one of my typing fingers froze and fell off!!!!

Sandydur

So, it's Monday again and it's 10 degrees here!! This is PA, come on....10....really???? I'm freezing all the time!!

Happy Birthday JoAn, I hope you soon feel well enough to see this and know that we are all thinking of you!

Sandy, how do you get the Quotes and your replies together? I'm a blockhead!

Marie feels better and we're all glad for that!

Welcome to our new friends, please post so we know what's going on with you.

I asked the other day what we all want to be when we grow up. (Idea from a commercial) I want to be a ballroom dancer. What about you?

I have to come back later, one of my typing fingers froze and fell off!!!!

Maddy to do a quote just click on quote and when it appears in the reply box type what you want under the last quote. If you want to delete a sentence to just reply to a certain part of the quote just do so leaving the 2 (quote) to frame what you want. Understand??

When I grow up I want to be a singer!!! I can't sing a note so that would be such a miracle. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

tlp8rb

Happy Birthday JoAnn. And......

Because most of you are pet lovers and so many of you have dogs, I'm sure you'll indulge me.

Today is also our Will's birthday. Six years ago in Dallas, Texas, seven beautiful Afghan Hound puppies were born. Through the years their owners have all stayed close even though separated by many miles. So to him, and to his brothers and sisters, Cady, Payton, Jasmine, Sudden, Boone and Fabio - Happy Birthday kid.

CALIECAT

Get well soon JoAn
Missing you

Sandydur

Daisy and all her animal friends wish you a Happy Birthday Will!!!!!

CALIECAT

HAppy birthday JP AN and get eady to party and try out those new knees Love 'ya Marie :flowerforyou: Looking forward to you coming back.

:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

LUV2CRUZ

viliberty1957

I think I might have it now I did it. And by the way what is you take on Walking poles?

The Sunbonnet Sue quilt is absolutely beautiful. I always planned to do one, but haven't so far. Good job. I'd like to see it up close.

lyn54

:flowerforyou: Good moring ladies,

Happy Birthday JoAn...hope your knees aren't too painful.

Happy birthday to Will...

Marie-glad you are back! I really missed you!
{{{hugs}}}

To everyone else...I am a lurker lately....

Funny stories?? I'm thinking:smokin:

Miss Phoebe too!!

Get back with you!!!

pjsatticPhoebeWaleskaGA

Hope you are all enjoying your Monday!
It feels like Tuesday or Wednesday to me.
I'm psyching myself up to start back on Met. Miracle on Feb 1. I entered my foods for a few days and I see where my bad habits are. I'll log with the new plan and see how it affects my calorie intake. Plus by then I should be enrolled in the system with Anytime Fitness nationwide so I can go when we have a break. Be safe. For some reason, I don't have photos on here when using mt phone. I did unntil a few days ago. So I hope to see all these pics you are posting when we. Are home again.

LUV2CRUZ

Hope you are all enjoying your Monday!
It feels like Tuesday or Wednesday to me.
I'm psyching myself up to start back on Met. Miracle on Feb 1. I entered my foods for a few days and I see where my bad habits are. I'll log with the new plan and see how it affects my calorie intake. Plus by then I should be enrolled in the system with Anytime Fitness nationwide so I can go when we have a break. Be safe. For some reason, I don't have photos on here when using mt phone. I did unntil a few days ago. So I hope to see all these pics you are posting when we. Are home again.

This sounds just like South Beach, have you heard of that??

CALIECAT

Hey Mattie, I heard it is gonna get plenty cold up in Pa. You stay warm. We had a nice day today but night time get pretty cold And my feet are so cold right now.

Phoebe You did will well on Met B. It just did work for me.. But this 21 Day No binge challange sure is.

Have Gayla got back yet.?

tlp8rb

Any one watch Oprah Winfrey yesterday? Or any of the talk news shows today? Oprah has been united with a half-sister she never knew even existed. Sound far fetched? I think it happens more than most people think - at least for people in our generation.

I am the oldest of six kids born to my mother and father. My mother died when I was a young woman. She was 50 years old. Growing up, I knew my mother had worked as a nanny for a physician's family in Chicago. She often told me that one of her charges was a little girl named Connie, and I was named after her. I never thought to ask more questions.

Many, many years after my mother's death, and after receiving a life-ending diagnosis of cancer, my uncle, her brother, and his wife called and asked to come and visit. They brought with them some newspaper clippings about a 15-year old girl who was "missing" from her home and the police search for her. Another told of a joyous reunion between the "missing" girl and her family some three years later. I had never seen or heard about any of this. They then said that while it was never discussed in the family, they believed she had "gone away" because she was pregnant.

Later that week I talked to my mother-in-law about what I had been told. She confirmed that, at the time, it was rumored that my mother had fallen victim to a local businessman for whom she worked. He had a reputation for molesting the help and had gotten two other girls pregnant. I was stunned. I had to keep reminding myself that all of this took place in the 30s, long before there were laws to protect children from predators. I asked her why she had never told me any of this. She said she thought I knew and simply wanted it kept secret.

The long and the short of all of this is that I likely have a half brother or sister in their mid-70s who was born to a 15-year old girl somewhere in Chicago in 1935. The adoption was probably handled by a Catholic agency. The attending physician might have been the doctor for whom my mother worked, a Dr. Frederick Schroeter, Schraeder or Schroeder. He had two children, Freddie and Connie. I spent many, many years searching. I have registered at dozens of "adoption" web sites, and been disappointed numerous times. I finally decided that I had to stop fretting about what might be and concentrate on what is. Both of my brothers are gone. I'm so much older than my three sisters that we don't have a lot in common. I have my kids and grandkids and a circle of friends I consider family.

Not an Oprah "moment" but a story that still haunts me when I get blue.

Sandydur

Wow Connie, that is some story. I can't imagine how you must feel having a half sister out there somewhere. There is show on TV that watched a couple of times that brings adopted children to their biological families, have you ever tried on of these services? May I ask how your mother in law knew this information, did your mother's family confide in her? With your mother being missing for three years it must have been devestating for your grandparents. I am sorry you don't have the answers you need but sometimes God's plan is not what we would want, there may be a reason you are not meant to find her.

With having three adopted grandchildren I wonder if in their future they will want to reconnect with their biological families. In my daughters case she wanted an open adoption so her son could be in contact with them, but they declined and never responded to any of her letters. He is now 13 and prays for them by name every night.
Their other son is adopted from Russia so they have no idea who his parents are so that reunion sounds doubtful. My step sons adopted daughter's family was adopted within miles of their home but if it is up to him she will never meet them, his views are so wrong I can't even talk about it.

My brother in law who has since passed away did find out he had half brothers and was reunited with them, it was a wonderful experience for him and brought him much happiness.

I will keep you in my prayers Connie and if it is meant to be, I hope you find your sister.

californiagramma

Hi there
Not sure i am doing this right, but I am new to this site.My name is June I am an Ex brit living in Boise Idaho with my husband of 50 years.We have two daughters one in Boston and one here in Boise 5 grandkids.We came to USA in 1968 lived in lots of places came to Boise 6 years ago to be closer to one of our daughters.I am a lifetime member of weight watchers but am not liking the new program, so I thought I would try something different. I am about 6 or 7 pound saway from goal and having a really hard time getting motivated HELP!!!! We are going on our annual vacation to Jamaica in three weeks if I don't get my head in the right place before then, I will probably be more pounds away from goal Any suggestions welcome.