WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY2015

Joyce: Your cone shaped evergreens look like Dwarf Alberta Spruce trees. They're very hardy. I use a little one as my Christmas Tree these days because it can survive a few weeks stay the house in December and then move back outside without getting sick. :bigsmile: They are very slow growers & I see that Miriam thinks something different. This may help you figure it out. Yours are quite large. They would be quite old if they're dwarf. (The dwarfs are slow growing but can eventually get quite large.) www.garden.org/plantguide/?q=show&id...

Janet: I wish you could be my personal shopper! I have to face this today, and I'm having a little pity party. I don't enjoy shopping. :grumble:

Rori: I am delighted that you're getting some much needed rest. I hope you'll post pictures when you meet Michele and Carol. :bigsmile:

Lisa: Taking on a restaurant is a very big challenge. You are doing it the right way. :flowerforyou:

Heather: Hooray that your hips have stopped hurting!

Barbiecat: I'm glad you enjoyed the dog show. Looking at dogs, talking about dogs and thinking about dogs are great ways to spend a day. We love our Keeshond and hope he lives a good, long life. He's 8 now, and the vet raves about his good health and physical condition. He is our second Kees, and we'd be very likely to get another in the future. It is the luck of the draw whether or not mutts have health problems. Some are healthy and others are a medical mess. Medical messes are heartbreaking but lovable. DD has a rescue dog who is now diabetic and blind. She gives him insulin every day and she loves him.

Toni: If you have a calorie splurge you can compensate with exercise. I've burned off more than a few splurges by riding a stationary bike in my garage. :bigsmile:



I have to go back and shop again for DGN's bridal shower gifts. :ohwell: I'll do my best to make this shopping trip fun. I'm looking forward to going to Cathlamet, WA on Monday to meet our sailing club and share an event with them. Chores to do plus something nice to look forward to helps me enjoy a good attitude. :bigsmile:

Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas A. Edison

July Goals:
1. Log every bite and swallow.
2. Cardio exercise at least 3 days a week. Work on flexibility and back strength.
3. Have fun every day.
4. Drink at least three glasses of water daily, preferably more!
5. Eliminate alcohol.
6. Monitor sleep. Try to average 7 or more hours of sleep nightly.

Whippet- sounds like a great morning

fanncy0626 wrote: »

Good morning ladies! It sounds like everybody is up and at it already. Just checking in and then off to the garage to bring in more containers to unpack. We are trying to put away as we bring in so not to have such a mess in the house. This afternoon we will be getting company. Two of my sisters are up with their family at my DSnL house. They are going to stop by here later this afternoon to see my new place.

Have a great day everyone!

Mary from Minnesota

Did u show pics? And sounds like a good idea on putting stuff away as u bring it in

@Lisa – Wow, sounds like you certainly know your “stuff” and are getting things shaped up in record time. Very impressive on the inches lost. Nothing is better than people noticing on commenting on how we are looking. Glad you are about to see the light at the end of the tunnel in the restaurant shape up. So wonderful your family could all come and help and be together too. Don't work too hard, take care of you too in this process.

@Heather – You have no idea how immensely I enjoy your posts. Its like reading a novel and learning of new and interesting places and foods. I would love to be able to visit the places you describe to vividly for us and to be able to taste the different foods. Told hubby about the great cheeses you were telling us about a few days ago. He was almost ready to board a plane and head that way. For his birthday last year I signed him up for “Cheese of the Month Club” so he got some cheeses from other countries too. He was in heaven. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us. Rest up and recuperate.

@Barbie – Sounds heavenly, cool and dry, I'm not wanting to stick my nose out the door. It's like a sauna out there I too would be lost without out dogs. We have the Boston terrier and a Chihuahua. The little one doesn't yap and carry on like most cuz hubby has trained her from the beginning that it was not acceptable. Boston terrier is about half again the size of most, people always asks “what kind of dog” he is. He is so lovable and wants to be friends with everyone. He very rarely barks but when he does I jump out of my skin, its a big bark.

@Grits – Labs are notorious chewers, but very loyal and loving.

@Toni – I just got a Fitbit Flex a few weeks ago. I got a waterproof one that I can use in water aerobics because that is my main exercise. I love it. It syncs with MFP to put in your actual calories burned so shows on MFP how many net calories you have eaten for the day. Tracks your steps, converts the exercise to steps and calories burned. The Flex does not have any type of readout on the actual device. Some of the other Fitbit models have a watch, and heart monitor, shows number of steps, etc. Just depends on what you want.

@Lillian – I have never heard of Saskatoon berries. What are they like. Yikes, that's scary about the bears and wolf. Be careful with the bee sting on your thigh, that sounds pretty big to me. Wish I had a beach close

@Pip, the pups are all so cute. They look like they love hugs.

@Katla – I have never been on a sail boat in my life. Having lived most of my life in the Colorado and now in Oklahoma there is not much sailing It always sounds so romantic.

@Sylvia – I have never been in a canoe, I'm too scared of water to get in one. Hubby has been looking at them for a year. He wants one to use for fishing. I told him count me out. I wish I were not so frightened of water. Your morning paddle sounded so peaceful. I'm not sure I could paddle at all lol

Well my youngest daughter and her family left for home (7 hr drive) about an hour and a half ago. I always get teary when they leave cuz I know it will be too long before I get to see them again. We had a wonderful weekend but the time always goes too quickly. Today is my oldest daughter's 41st birthday. She lives in Denver area, where we are from originally. She keeps telling me how “old” she is, yeah right. Have a wonderful rest of the weekend y'all. I have no plans and feel a little at loose ends, exactly when I start snacking on anything and everything. Guess I'd better just get on the stationary bike for a while until the feeling passes.

Janetr - OKC

Hello, Ladies!

Hope all the aches and pains are better.

Sounds like many of you had some adventures yesterday.

I’m 51, and have lived in Virginia for 25 years now. First in Va. Beach, then near Harrisonburg. I’m down in Norfolk for a while now for my job.

I’ve got three rescue dogs, one of which I adopted through a program where inmates train pound puppies before they go up for adoption. My little prison beagle has been a comfort to me.

Horses have been an important part of my life recently as part of an equine therapy program. I got to interact with horses on the ground for a while before actually getting up on one. My horse buddy is named Blondie. She’s the one I’m kissing in my profile pic.

Animals can reach parts of us that people can’t. I don’t know how. I just know that they do. And I’m better for it.
Have a fantastic and healthy day!

Colleen in Virginia

barbiecat wrote: »

The first day of a new month is a clean slate....turning the page on the calendar tells me that I can make a fresh start with new plans and new goals. Thus we start this thread anew each month.

Reflect on how you did with your goals and resolutions for June and then set them aside and move on.
What goals and resolutions do you have for July? It's a bright shiny new month and a chance to make a fresh start.

June Resolutions (with end of the month comments)
*walk at least 15,000 steps a day (every day and some days many more)
*strength training twice a week (once a week)
*don't take things personally (a necessary and useful outlook many times during the month)
* figure out a good meatless low sodium stew recipe (created an easy one that I'll use again)

July Resolutions
*walk at least 15,000 steps a day
* drink at least nine glasses of water a day
*answer two long overdue e mails
*strength training twice a week

Barbie from beautiful NW Washington

Janetr - Aaaawwwwwww! How nice! I know some of the women on here enjoy reading about far flung places, so I do my best! With cheeses, I have to be very careful as it's easy to go overboard. My favourites are the stinky French ones like Epoisses, but I only buy them for Christmas or when someone is coming for dinner who will eat it with me. DH hates them, even the smell. My brother and sister in law are the prime candidates - it is like the gannets descending on their prey. No problem with left overs.

Today has not been brilliant foodwise, too much tiredness and flatness. I will be over as NO exercise. Oh well. Tomorrow is another day. Been feeling self indulgent. Alcohol has called and I have answered.

Love you all, soooooo much.

Heather UK

Rori – if your travels take you to the San Francisco/Oakland area I would love to meet you too!

Lisa – WoW! On the inches lost, the running, the cleaning, the getting the whole gang to help, showing the crew what a real team is….+++++++ You are doing an amazing job!

Toni – I have and love my fitbit, I wear it everywhere and really find it motivating me to at least the goal I have set…

Sylvia – great morning and plans for the rest of the day!

Heather – I agree with Janet, you write well and really should do some travel spot or restaurant review for a blog or local paper. I have a curry recipe I want to try, but it makes a huge amount, and I’ll need to do it when there are some others over so I don’t have so many left overs.


Well, I am in a corner as far as my embroidery goes, I need a particular shade of gold-yellow thread and the place I get it from is closed this weekend. So I will probably drive to Sacramento (1.5 hours each way) on Tuesday and get it then, I thought I had an extra spool and it turned out to be a sunshine yellow..OPPS ! I should have looked more carefully. As a result though I spend 2 hours weeding my veggie garden yesterday evening and a hour and a half in the front tidying it up a bit this morning… while it was not to hot.


July Goals:
Walk everyday –try to hit 180 miles 7/25 - 131miles so far
1 plank every day and log here – goal more then 19 - 9
Log everyday –
Eat mindfully-
Weekly fun things –
W1 – Mom is here for the 4th, and we are going out to dinner –her treat!
W2 – a new smart phone, my business paid off, a visit from an out of state friend
W3 – final week of camp
W4 – summer starts (for me) 3 days with my “boys” , a trip to SF,
Kim from N. California

Joyce this is what that cone shaped bush looks like after 30 years without being trimmed. It is in our neighbors yard. The diva hedge in the foreground belongs to us.

Margaret, that is an arborvitae. They have multiple trunks which can pull apart. That is why a spruce is such a better pick. One trunk.

MN Margaret,love the wedding pics. The babies are so sweet and the rest are beautiful.
Janetr

purdy wedding pics. i don't know one plant from another, sorry :0/

Oh, the picture was taken early summer after most of the spring blooms were done but before the summer blooms started. There is usually more color in it. I have some other plants in there that are not tolerant of clay or require more maintenance.

Janet R that is a pilea cadierrei commonly called an aluminum plant or a watermelon plant. Bright indirect light, water thoroughly but let dry between waterings. If you want a full bushy plant, it needs to be pinched back (you pinch off the tips to encourage lateral, side, growth.).

Margaret - fabulous babies! Oooooh makes me quite broody. My youngest DGD is now 22 months so I feel I've had my last baby. I do love a good wedding. DH hates them. :laugh:

Heather UK