WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2016

Joyce - :flowerforyou:

Heather UK

PS - My hair is done. I am a natural blonde again. Booked a nice restaurant, just around the corner from the hotel. Right on the sea front. I was worried that some places wouldn't be open on a Sunday night.

Looking forward to yoga tomorrow and seeing my friends.

Mary from MN: "Katla- my daughter owns 3 horses and has to pay board, vet bills, farrier, tack, worming...she says it's very expensive and time consuming. She also leased one of her horses out to help pay for her expenses. She said that the person leasing only really covered board and she still had all of the other expenses. Leasing gives you temporary ownership at a much lesser cost and commitment. The owner usually takes care of all the other issues you just have fun and ride!"

This corresponds to my opinion perfectly.


Gloria: I am so happy to see your post! I hope we'll see more of you from now on. I am sorry for the loss of your mom. I'm also sorry about the shingles & I hope they never return. :flowerforyou:


Charleen in CO: Thanks for your great advice. I am of the opinion that a lease would be my best plan of action even though my teacher thinks I should get my own horse. If I was alone, I might buy. DH encourages me to buy, but HE is my priority. His health is compromised by diabetes, arthritis, and MS. There are many times that he is housebound. That may be part of the reason he's encouraging me to buy a horse. He feels like I need a chance to get out & have fun even when he is under the weather. I can guarantee I will not be quick to buy anything that needs my care and attention. :noway:

Leonore: Regarding swimsuits: What choice did I have? I wandered around, made my sensible choice and entered the chamber of horrors known as the fitting room. The first thing I noticed was the extraordinary tensile strength of the stretch material. The Lycra used in bathing costumes was developed, I believe, by NASA to launch small rockets from a slingshot, which gives the added bonus that if you manage to actually lever yourself into one, you would be protected from shark attacks. Any shark taking a swipe at your passing midriff would immediately suffer whiplash. :laugh:

This is hilaroius. I have one of these suits. Mine is a two part. Each part was the price of a complete swimsuit. I purchased a bottom and then a separate top and both parts could qualify as a corset or girdle. ChaChing!

Joyce: I pray that your doctors have a solution for your health that will improve your quality of life.


Thank for all your great advice regarding the horse issue. I'm in favor of leasing. Yoga today was great. Since then I misplaced my car key, and did a bunch of errands using DH's key. I wonder where mine is. It will be expensive if I have to buy a replacement. Wish me luck enough to find it.

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

Glo, hugs for the loss of your mom. Glad the shingles seem to be over.

Joyce, glad you seem to be in a better place today.

Hi ladies: Another hot day but got out this morning and got some yardwork done. Found out our barn cat has worms so made a vet appointment for her for tomorrow morning. The YM is closed for maintenance this week so no water exercise but it will be nice to have a sparkling clean pool next week. I will do exercise at home instead and I still have PT on Thursday.DH is trying a new recipe in the crockpot so we will see how that is.

Carol - Happy, happy birthday!

Katla - I am glad you had a nice ride yesterday. I vote in favor of a lease. We leased two horses over the years from a family when the daughter went to college but didn't want to sell her horse. Worked out really well for us.

Rori and Lisa - Glad you had a good time!

Allie - Enjoy that concert!

Kim - Hope Levi feels better soon. I had to laugh at dog walking not being exercise because it was taking care of the dog.

Re - Stats for 8/15:
SW = 213
CW = 211
total lost this week = -2
total lost all weeks = -2
GW = 190
total pounds from goal = 21

Joyce - Wishing you a good result.

Gloria - Sorry about your mom and recover soonest from the shingles. They are not fun.

Everyone take care, Sue in WA

Gloria sorry to hear about your mother. Shingles can be horrible. I have numbness where mine were consider myself lucky. Many fight pain for years. Glad you are feeling better.

Katla my sister owned horses at one time. She now leases because of the cost factor. She's says it is the best of both worlds.

Joyce you are in my thought.

Been hot here need to do some yard work but my allergies are really bad right now can't shake the headache and tiredness and am just exhausted when I get home. Maybe tomorrow night. Doctor is calling in different meds for me to give a try. Hopefully they help. Getting tired of this.

Have a great night ladies.

Anne from Wisconsin

Hello Spicy Sisters!

The AC is FIXED! Thank goodness… with the aid of some impromptu Swamp Coolers – buckets of ice with fans blowing into them – we were able to remain relatively cool on Friday night – and Saturday I got up and went outside to check on the infamous AC. I was worried it might be a jungle back there, and I needed to be sure that the AC guy could actually GET to the darn thing.

Fortunately, the jungle was fairly manageable, and I made sure the way was clear.

Called a local guy – a very local guy, apparently – as he arrived in about thirty minutes, had all the parts he needed, and had the air back on within an hour of my calling him.

Best yet – the cost was only $325 – hardly anything in the grand scheme of AC repair. This guy’s phone number is going into my “Saved” file.

I was really worried we might be in for the “New Unit” speech.. but, thankfully, it was some tiny little part – he also replaced a capacitor “just to be sure” – and the machine started chugging right along.

It took a few hours, but the house cooled down to a breezy 80 degrees and all is right with my world.

The scale actually gave me a lower number, yesterday and the day before, than it did, today… I am really pumped about it. But, for the 24 week challenge, I am giving whatever number I get on the official weigh in day, regardless of how much puff is showing there… so, 240.

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Anne – your hair is fabulous!

Marcelyn – “hold out for March?!?” I would have been shooting daggers, too!

Charleen – Be safe on that ladder! Glad you are nearly done.

DJ – Thanks! I am pretty excited myself. It certainly hasn’t been FAST… I started the whole thing in 2006 – but, whenever I have actually made a conscious effort, I have succeeded, so that makes me happy.

Carrie – I think it’s a matter of opinion. Mine is that NO, diet is not more important than exercise. I have always found that if I just reduce my calorie intake – without any exercise – my body just adjusts to the amount I am feeding it. It’s a marvelous machine – it will function on whatever you give it – which is swell, if you are having a famine or something. Not so swell if you are trying to lose body fat. So for me, Exercise is by FAR more important that diet. Can you exercise without changing your diet? Well yes – actually. My DH is doing that very thing. His eating is the same, his exercise level as increased, and he has lost nearly as much weight as I have. The Cardio vs. Strength Training is a whole other debate… I think a balance is probably advisable, on that one.

Joyce – ((Hugs!)) Hope you are doing better, today.

Heather – Bea is adorable, as always.

Pip – I was going to try and throw out a name for the airstream, but DANG, Karen’s are so good! I like Aluminata. Kizzy is great, too.... or just Kiz. You could put some pretty cool lettering on with a short name.

Rori & Lisa – Great Picture, Ladies! So glad you could meet and have a great time.

Lenora – I have BEEN that escapee from Disney’s Fantasia… lol. Hysterical.

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Well, my Dears, I really have to get my work done, so I will check in, again, tomorrow. My apologies for not responding to all of you – it was all I could do to get caught up on my reading. Welcome to all the New folks!

Hugs for everybody!

Re in TX

thanks for the suggestion...RE- THANKS it just so happens, our lot at the ocean, we call it kizzyside estates. we don't want to reuse the names so that's out.. kirby likes twinkie, i asked him again... we'll see

Wow, almost 200 messages since I last checked in. Will try to catch up, but don't know that I'll be successful. I have had a busy few days, but amazing too. Quick background- my father passed away in Feb after a very brief illness- only 2 weeks after he was diagnosed with cancer. We moved him in with us almost as soon as he was diagnosed and started hospice. I took a 6 month leave of absence from serving on the board of an organization and even though he passed before I even missed a meeting I decided to continue the leave to take care of his things. Anyway, the last month or so has been incredibly difficult. Almost every time I was alone for more than 10 minutes I'd lose it. I couldn't even talk to my husband, sister or friends about it. Last week I had lunch with a former board member who asked how it was being back on the board, and I burst into tears. I was embarrassed but it was helpful to talk with her. I confided to her that I still haven't been thru the boxes we packed up from his apartment. Then on Friday I was at a performance of show for the organization I'm on the board of, and was sitting next to another parent - someone I know casually but not very well. We were chatting before the curtain went up, and it came up that I'd just had lunch with a mutual friend and before I realized it I was spilling my whole story to her and crying again. Sheesh, can't take me anywhere! I realized how inappropriate it was to be burdening her with my story and apologized. She quickly pulled up a photo on her phone, and showed me. It was a photo of her hand holding her dad's hand, just before he passed. I took the same pic with my father. On Saturday I had the first day of true peace- no sudden tears when I was alone. On Sunday morning I saw my acquaintance again at a 5K walk that another friend organized as a memorial for her father (yes, we are of that age...). We walked together and it occurred to me that I'd had that day of peace on Saturday, and I told her that although I was embarrassed to have spilled everything to her Friday night, that I felt as though she was an angel sent by my dad. When my mom passed almost 2 years ago, there we SO many coincidences the weekend of her memorial. Had the same feeling with this. Then Sunday evening there was a retirement celebration at theater. it was just a great weekend. Today I took my dear friend to her chemo appointment and while she was with her doctor beforehand I got in an hour of walking in the hilly neighborhood behind the hospital and then when I got home I needed to return a package. Instead of driving the 1.5 miles to the UPS store, I walked. On track for today too foodwise. Tomorrow I have a personal training session for the first time in a month. I will be sore on Wednesday! I've been doing okay with cardio, but haven't been doing very well at all with strength training. Facing the music tomorrow!

OK, well, this was a ramble...thanks to anyone who hung in there and read it. I'm tempted to erase it all, especially since I havent' read the new posts, but will send before I change my mind!

Purl Karen

Glad you left the ramble up - it was a lovely ramble.

I blubbered all the way through cleaning out my Mom's house 15 years ago...the only reason I could even go in her closet was because she had me start on it before she died...smart woman. A few days before she died I told her she just couldn't (die). And she said with a little twinkle in her tired eyes, "I know, honey, and that worries me a little." Makes me smile now.

Your dad must have been a lovely man. I am sorry for your loss.

Karen in Virginia