WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2016

Call me crazy but I love to see other people happy and succeeding.

Good Evening, Ladies,

Marcelyn, truth be told, that $3.28 was probably some of the easiest money you ever made. And you are so right about other things we have touched in our lives. lol

Becca, good girl for driving.

Katla, I will admit you are the first person I ever hear of that couldn't sleep due to brking sea lions.

Mic heleNC, I think you will finish your beaded banner before I finish all my painting. The handyman came on Thursday and finished sanding the door and mailbox post that I now hav e to paint. The door into the garage had the paint licked off by a black lab. She licks it every night while her dinner is being prepared and we can't stop her for more than a couple of minutes. So it had rusted and has now been sanded down to the metal. I got some Rust Oleom Appliance epoxy paint to put on it. Then after a few coats I'll paint it. I wish there was a paint that would last for 25 years by just getting it by the gallon.

Terri, it was good to hear from you. I'm glad to hear that you are still winning tickets even if you don't have time to post often. Just don't forget us and feel better. ((((Hugs))))

Meg, Happy Birthday/Mothers' Day to you on Sunday. I hope you have a great day.

Heather, I've seen Scotch Eggs on TV but never known of them being sold in the US. Love the picture of you and Bea!!!!

Stephanie, welcome. Are you retired? Married? Live alone with your dogs? Tell us a bit more about yourself and visit often.

Sue, how many calories are in the oatmeal recipe you gave to Katla?

Larissa, sorry about the day but just know that something better may come along. ((((Hugs))))

I've been busy today with committee work for the Women of the Moose. Once I get through this first month, things should slow down.

I hope you all have a happy and healthy day.

Words I live by:
Savor: I have to slow down and savor every bite.
Opportunity: Each day offers new opportunities for good health and happiness if we just look for them and choose them.

Love you,
DJ
Myrtle Beach, SC

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Nikion901 – I would not want to have to be down on all 4’s long enough to cover a floor with my pennies; might have enough, good idea … I’m just too lazy.

Lenora

Heather: A restaurant/bar called the Hungry Lion in a town near us makes and sells scotch eggs. YUM!!!!! We love them but don't have them very often and we haven't figured out how they do it. :bigsmile:

Stephanie: Welcome!

Sue: I copied the Chocolate Chip Oatmeal recipe and plan to try it soon! Thank you. :flowerforyou:

DJ: I promise you that I'm not the only one that sea lions keep awake at night. They swim up the river chasing salmon, are quiet most of the day and bark at night. :devil:


We went to the grand opening of a new BiMart store in the next town over. We started shopping in one of their stores back in the early 70's in Eugene, OR. When we moved to the Portland metro area, there were a few but none close to us. Now there is one about 10 or 15 miles away. It was like going home. :bigsmile: This is an employee owned company, and the employees at the new store were happy and helpful.

Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

Tibetan proverb: "The secret to living well and long is: Eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure..."

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

Thanks for the welcome. Trying to type with 2 dogs fighting for lap space isn't easy ! Walkies soon then going out for a ride, although I've done 2 longish (for me) last 2 days but want to try out new milage ap strava. Back later, have a good weekend everybody x

Larisa, I'm sorry! I've been on that side of things enough times to know how frustrating it can be. But, as someone else said, I've realized that losing out on one step forward leaves me more open to the next thing, something I might have ignored if I'd gotten the job. It's probably more rationalizing, but things do turn out the best, or we structure them in our heads to believe they do, which is essentially the same thing. Not helpful when you're aching, I know, but perhaps something to hold onto.

Fingers crossed, today's the day I get my bathroom at the warehouse! My husband has promised it his best shot, which is always pretty darned good. I've already told him, don't care if it has a ceiling, just a floor, walls where the tub will stand, hot and cold water piped into the tub and shower nozzle, and a drain that works. Got to run get the last of the insulation before we start... then it's insulation, drywall up, taped and mudded, 6-inch high raised floor (so we don't have to drill into the concrete foundation, then repour concrete over it), THEN the tub goes in. I'll settle for it to be finished tomorrow, but he thinks we can get it done today. I've got a toilet and sink in the 50-year-old half bath that came with the warehouse. The new ones of those can both wait. Just want to be able to shower in town. If the gym's not open, like on Sundays, I have to drive 90 minutes roundtrip to the ranch just to shower.

The new job's going just fine, got my first articles written, many of the reporter's edited, was easily able to post a new poll online, and will be able, one hopes, to get the first paper out, with the publisher building print pages and me building online ones next week. The following week, we'll split the print work, and I'll do online. The week after, I should be able to do it all. No pressure. I'll hit my first city council and commissioner's court meetings on Monday, and then we shall see how it all goes. Will be nice to get a regular paycheck again for something I love to do.

Got all the big stuff set up about where I want it for the sale--got it all in there with Corey's help, of course, but moved it myself. Here's a couple pics - hopefully getting tables built to house the ten bins of smaller items we picked up at my sisters, and the closet full of stuff I've gathered over the last year. Should be interesting! Sorry they're a little blurry, the lighting here in the warehouse at 5:45 a.m. is not the best!





Cheers, ladies!
Lisa in West Texas

Everyone do a rain dance please!! We are so dry here. Complete fire bans in most of Saskatchewan and complete fire ban in my neighbouring province of Alberta. Huge fires burning, people evacuated, homes lost.....

Lillian in West Central Saskatchewan

Just found this location on my iPad...I hope I can find it again because I would like to be a part of this group.

Morning peeps-


Today is floyds 7 yr bday! Time has flown by,, he's a senior now! I feel I'm getting sick. :0( I have a headache and I'm supposed to run 11 mi. I don't think I'll make it ho. If I was feeling good I would have run outside but I don't. I also am going to run in my new monkey feet. We will c how far I get.kirby had to work today, will b home early.

I see you Pip, you and your shapely leg, reflected in Floyd's glasses. And is that a monkey foot I see...?

I've just finished doing my taxes for this year. As a business owner, I have my return deadline 31 May, a month later than everyone else, so I'm WAY ahead of time. I started fairly early this year because it always takes me forever to get it all done, and I usually throw up my hands in utter despair several times when I can't get the numbers to match up. Now I feel I deserve a stiff drink!

It has been warm (around freezing) but frightfully windy for several days now, so I haven't gone out running as I much as I should. And the half-marathon is in just four weeks! I promise to go to the gym tomorrow - and I'll try to run an extra couple miles on the way there and/or back.
/Penny at the

Pip- LOL! Love the pic of Floyd in the shades! Happy Birthday Floyd! You are looking good, too, Miss Pip! Showing some nice leg in the reflection!

Hi there! I think I'll join you all since I have a break from studying my Masters for the summer.
Resolutions for May
*weight training twice or more a week
*30+ minutes of walking/jogging three days a week
*daily meditation- I will start making my five daily prayers.
*continue sorting and discarding excess teaching stuff.

My word for 2016 is "alacrity"....I will greet all experiences in my life with cheerful readiness- this is a good word for all of us!

Heather: I love the pic of your DH and DGS! It is so sweet!

Good morning ladies. Michelle is going to come over later and her and her Dad are going out to shop for me. He has gone out for the last 2 days an hasn't found what he is wanting. He has sketched out a lovely sapphire floating pendant necklace and trying to find it in the commercial world for under $50. Isn't possible. He would have to go to a jewelry store and talk to a jeweler and have it hand made. And it wouldn't be $50 either. So I found a picture of one very similar but in a different color at Christopher Banks for half that price and it's buy one get one half off so if he wanted he could get something else plus reward points are tripled this weekend. So everyone wins! He asked if I would show the picture to Michelle.

My brother got in town. The last time he came, he showed up at the door a little earlier than we were expecting and we were both still in housecoats. So he insisted this time he would show up at my sister's first. We have agreed on REd Lobster for supper. They wanted to go at 5 or 6 PM but that would mean at least a 1 hour wait so we are meeting at 4 instead. Red Lobster was not our suggestion. I think the only reason Charlie said yes was because of the biscuits and he knows everyone else would agree. I will get a baked potato and grilled flounder. I don't think I can chew the cole slaw and I know I can't chew a salad yet. The biscuits will be real interesting to eat. Will be so glad when I can eat without extreme pain in my jaw. Plus I don't want to bother the packing.

Pip, I think we need to make your dogs our forum mascots. Yours and Barbie's dancing poodles.

Have a good day everyone.

Joyce, Indiana