WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2016

1 week use of the site. Next small step: everything I eat today will go on the calorie counter. I am encouraged by all these messages.

Just had an epiphany: I have been bemoaning the loss of my morning work out time due to my first kiddo arriving at 5:30. (Although I haven't actually lost the morning work out, I have just had to shorten it and do it from home.) I just realized that she is SO tiny for 3 1/2 that she still fits in my stroller! She usually naps right when she gets to my house, so I could just bundle her up, give her a blankie and she can go for a "walk/ride" with me in the wee hours! Whoot! Five milers in the morning again! I have a whole hour and 15 minutes before the next kiddo arrives! ***I'm so excited!***
Joyce- I have the photos uploaded to my profile, but I can't find an option to change the profile pic.

DJ- Talked to the 3 1/2 year old boy's mom (the one that reacted so emotionally to my neighbor) this morning at drop off; she told me that his great grandma "Grammy" died earlier this winter. I think maybe he thought Miss Ruth was Grammy. He did say "I missed you, Granny/Grammy"! He is a rough and tumble boy, like his older brothers were, but he is a lover! Very quick with the hugs.

Sylvia I am so glad that you are able to type with both hands, exercise, and play with clay. Have fun at your meeting this evening in the new place.

Joyce First of all, let me say that I am so sorry about your sister's health. Whatever decision she makes, will, I am sure be the right one for her. I know just how hard this must be for you, especially on top of your DH situation. Please take care of yourself. to you.

It appears that my message answering your questions did not post. Or I could not find it. I was in Peru to meet with educational counterparts. It went very, very well. The visits to archeological sites and museums were tacked on.

I am not sure what you meant by "illegal" pictures. You can be sure that I took pictures only where I had permission. Many museums and sites do not permit picture taking and visitors have to turn in all phone, cameras and electronic devices and bags. For personal reasons and out of respect, I do not take pictures and will never post pictures of human remains. In fact, in many museums, the graves, mummies and skeletons are reproductions. The remains may be displayed behind a screen or curtain. Other museums have pictures or videos of the discovery and uncovering of the mummy. The funerary artifacts are displayed on manikins or acrylic body shapes.

Heather is correct. Most of the gold is alloyed. The gold could be mined in short, narrow tunnels in seams contained in quartz or other minerals, or recovered in alluvial deposits (streams) through placer methods, familiar to the California Forty-niners panning for gold flakes. Gold was often found with associated silver or platinum. Copper was plentiful and most frequently used as the alloy. While the ancients knew metallurgical techniques that Europeans had not invented yet such as lost wax method, most of the pieces, especially large pieces, were heat or cold hammered, rolled or laminated sheets. They would join (solder) small metal sheets to make very large sheets. They did know smelting techniques and had portable crucibles and many types of furnaces. They would mix mercury with gold flakes and make a paste, slather it on the copper and then heat it to get rid of the mercury. They also used what we refer to as electrochemical replacement plating by dissolving grains of silver in a solution of salts and deposit on sheets of copper to plate it. All without electricity and modern chemical acids.
Coal was used as a fuel source as well as highly polished to make mirrors.

Restorers first conduct microscopic and nuclear analysis of pieces in order to determine the chemical composition of the article to be restored. I saw a number of examples of the techniques. The original pieces where chemically complex.

As for "kittens". KJL had typed in a word that MFP changed to “kittens” that described what some people do. Yvonne added to the conversation with the story that a local band used a term about the Surgeon General who had recommended that teenagers do this instead of the alternative and all the brouhaha that followed.

KJL The quipu is an Inca bookkeeping and accounting system that uses bases 10 as does our number system. It was very complex. It is not a writing system. It appears that the Incas and other peoples had no writing system as we know it. The quipu-makers were highly valued in Inca culture. The Conquistadores got rid of the quipus because they viewed them as anti-Catholic and subversive. They could not read them and never trusted the quipu-makers. Very few exist, and most of those were unearthed from tombs or archeological sites.

Pip- You're killing me! I have photo options available now, I need to find out how to make one of my photos my new profile pic. I know you are probably giving me a hard time. Believe me, the computer does that enough!
CJ- Amazing info about the museum artifacts. We, as a society have come so far in science, metallurgy, industrial science, and more. But just thinking of people accomplishing these things before they had all of the machinery etc. It truly is a lost art form.
Miriam- I have that often, the pain goes away after some pool time. I always thought it was plantar fasciitis.

kjlamore -

clicked on my login, where it says hi, pipcd34
clicked on edit photos
clicked on another picture i wanted to use
when the new picture appeared, i clicked on main image

new pic stayed, BA-BAM!!

Katla49 wrote: »

Annr wrote: »

http://us-store.bouncelifestyle.com/products/cacao-mint-protein-bomb

Just had this for snack. Wow, it was really good. Planning on buying them and sending some to my son out to sea. Other flavors of these (think protein bar in a ball form) is Superberry, coconut and macadamia, and peanut cacao.

Becca
Oregon

I didn't notice calorie or nutritional information when I followed the link. Can you provide any details? :flowerforyou:

http://us-store.bouncelifestyle.com/products/cacao-mint-protein-bomb
There you go, just click on the ingredients tab. :-)
Becca

pipcd34 wrote: »

kjlamore -

clicked on my login, where it says hi, pipcd34
clicked on edit photos
clicked on another picture i wanted to use
when the new picture appeared, i clicked on main image

new pic stayed, BA-BAM!!

I turned up the volume and still no Ba-BAM sound???? It must only BA-BAM for Pip... ((((pinches Pip's cheeks and rushes out laughing......bwahahahahahaha))))
Becca
bein' silly in
Oregon

becca wooooooohooooooo!!!!! Love it, keep going.......insertvdancng emojis right here!!!!!!

KJ, heel spur pain is related to plantar fascitis. The overgrowth of bone is at the bottom of the heelbone where that ligament attaches. According to WebMD, the pain is actually from soft tissue damage, not the actual bone hurting. So anti-inflammatories or steroid shots can help, as does exercise and my hot tub. Most people don't need surgery to remove the spur, just need to take actions to heal the soft tissue and prevent new injury. My constantly going barefoot probably is not helping, but I run in to other problems when I wear shoes (my feet are men's EEEE width with a high arch so finding shoes that don't hurt is REALLY hard- have been since childhood and thin days). So your pool workout would help, as does my hot tub workout.

Miriam ~ I developed bone spurs when I was walking my beloved pup 3 miles a day. About the only thing that got rid of them was to stop the long walks and wear better shoes.

KJ ~ Do you keep the children in your home or in a day care? Love to hear your stories about the little ones.

CJ ~ Fascinating reading about the culture of these people. You seem to know so much. I am impressed.

There are so many folks here who expand our horizons with their vast knowledge of the world. I am so glad that I have come to a place where I can learn about new things.

Healing thoughts and prayers for those who need them.

Carol

nb1959 wrote: »

Spring has sprung at our house! Here are two baby armadillos just outside Mama's den (two more are inside) and an alligator enjoying the warmth of the sun.
Noreen - now THAT I found exotic! I've never even seen a stuffed armadillo, let alone a live wild one!

Katla wrote: I suffered from migraines from the time I was about 12-30. As a child, there wasn't a lot at the time that they could do for me, so it all came down to me in a dark cool room and my mom would come in and stroke my forehead, scalp, and neck with her cool fingers (her hands were always cold) and she would sing softly. I don't know if there is any science behind what she did for me, but it would calm me down and ease the pain enough so I could go to sleep.

KJ - You want some science? Sounds to me like you've been under the gentle spell of oxytocin, a hormone that's released when people touch each other. It's extremely important in contracting the uterus back to normal size after childbirth and in getting milk from the glands into the baby's mouth. (Just the baby sucking isn't enough. Oxytocin ejects the milk to where the baby can suck it out.) At the same time, oxytocin is one of our most important "don't worry, be happy" hormones. I can see why your mother's actions could have helped you fall asleep!

Joyce - I'm so sorry to hear about all the health issues among your nearest and dearest.

Sylvia - I'm equally glad to read about your progress. If your son is taking your ill health as a wake-up call, that's definitely a step forward.

Heather wrote to DJ- There is free WiFi in the library on board. I anticipate that I will be able to post on some days and not on others. I hope to keep you all up to date, especially about my meet up with Penny. :bigsmile:

Heather (and DJ and everyone else), I suspect there will be entire days on the cruise when you either won't have internet access at all, or it will be very slow. However, in Longyearbyen we have high-speed internet. Fastest in Norway, maybe fastest in the world. It's one advantage of being near the world's largest ground station for downloading of satellite data. All those kazillions of 1s and 0s have to be forwarded to their rightful owners... But the important thing is, as we wander through town, we can stop off at the church and go online. They have wireless internet there and I know where to find the password. We can have some coffee, get updated on the thread and post some pics to prove we're both there at the same time

Yay BECCA! \o/

A lot of new people have joined us. I've been so out of things recently that I have scarcely commented at all but I'm truly glad to have you all here! Welcome!
/Penny, getting excited about meeting Heather at the

DID you guys notice the new buttons? like and awesome sause????? my quote button isn't working tho :0/

New buttons are not lining up, uh oh

Recipe for buttermilk roasted chicken was not great, not horrible, but i wont be making it again..

Off to work out at the gym, i am so proud of me...
Karen from ny

Becca – Great for you! I had gained about 6lbs back in February; so when I finally broke through my plateau – I did a happy dance around here. Getting closer to my goal; can’t wait. Get a facial when I do (can’t decide if that is the goal that puts my BMI in the correct number; or if it is what I have set for my total goal to be? Guess I’ll find out Tuesday.

My DnL is on a diet – sounds extreme; takes a lot of vitamins and stuff; then, she eats like a bird. Had to eat their ‘cabbage soup’ for the first 3 weeks. Not WW's. I hope she succeeds, has a walking pal so maybe that will encourage her. Last night DH and I went down to try to help DOS hang up his ‘massive’ turkey he had mounted. Damn that was one huge bird. Makes my DH’s look like a baby (at 20lbs). DOS’s was closer to 30lbs. Got it mounted as if it is swooping down from a tree limb. DDn#1 was not thrilled with him having it mounted; a friend of his helped him pay for it. DOS's friend is like our red-headed-step-child. Both parents are deceased within one year of one another. Now his grandmother has passed away and he is living in a house on her property. Aunt and sister want to sell it ... trying to find a way to buy them out and keep it. Primo hunting land. Turkey was one that he and DOS had been stalking for several years. Elusive little 'clucker'.

Skworon – You’ve come to the right place. Let us know what you prefer to be called, tell us where you live (general or specific); then tell us something about you, family, grandkids, hobbies, anything. We encourage and we also have bad days and ‘b****’. Come back often and make sure you track everything that enters you lips – drinking or eating. Get a good set of measuring cups and spoons, and also a weight scale. That will help you out a lot.

Gee, I find that 'if' I don't comment or make a smiley face when I read up to that point, I am lost - doesn't seem to know where to drop me down (usually in the middle of a story).

Finished de-cluttering my MBR (for the most part). Could not move the heavy furniture; so some of it did not get cleaned like it would if I had help moving it. Thank goodness for 3' long duster. Cracker does not like it at all. Tries to attack it. She's really bad when I use a vacuum cleaner. MBR bath is taking me a lot longer Moved the shelf that I used to hold my make-up container on into MBR to put HD TV receiver on) and moved a wooden tool box made by my Pop out on the glassed-in porch as a coffee table. It's beginning to look like a 'room'. Electricians come tomorrow. Can't wait until we actually buy a door for it from the deck (DH is supposed to talk to a carpenter that he sometimes works with.

96-year-old man (on news) flying in a 'fighter jet' (as a passenger) ... certainly does not look his age by any stretch of the imagination. I guess doing what you love to do every weekend keeps you young

Lenora