Senior Golden Sneakers..........July, 2011

Ooooops. Thanks Connir and yes SANDY that comment was meant for you. I guess winging it doesn't work for me. So sorry.

:flowerforyou: Jeri, this sounds good. No invasion. Let them do what they feel is needed. You will be fine. Just continue to stay with us. You know that you have friends who love you here. By the way....I have several times posted to the wrong person.:blushing:

:flowerforyou: buzz, I hope that with the weekend you will be able to relax some.:flowerforyou:

Hello Sneakers. What can I say except sorry for not being with you for the past few weeks. Time is just flying by and I do feel bad about not checking in regularly to see how my friends are doing because I miss so much and all of you. It seems as soon as I plan to get back something crops up to get in my way but I'm determined to make the time and get logging my food again because otherwise a slippery slide will occur!!

I've had a quick run through the past few days and am delighted to see IRENE checking in. What a bright star you are!

Barbie and Jake ~ I was so sorry to read about Haifa. Sixteen years is a long time to have the little fella around and they do leave such a big gap in our lives when they have to move on. Those wonderful memories of his antics will see you through I'm sure.

Buzz ~ I read one of your posts about recognising our limitations and it struck a cord because I'm finding myself in conversations about the things I plan to do in an afternoon, especially in the garden, that in reality I know will more than likely now take me a week to achieve. I hate the idea of slowing up but have to accept it comes to us all. A friend keeps trying to get me to join a pensioners group that meets up for different events but I tell her to come back in ten years when I might just start feeling like a senior!!

I'm going to leave you with a little joke I received today. Apologies if you've all seen it before.

ROSES & HANGING BASKETS
A teenage granddaughter
comes downstairs for her date
with this see-through blouse on and no bra.
Her grandmother went mad,
Telling her not to dare go out like that!
The teenager tells her
'Loosen up Gran.
These are modern times.
You gotta let your rose buds show!'
and out she goes.
The next day the teenager comes down stairs,
and the grandmother is sitting there with no top on.
The teenager wants to die.
She explains to her grandmother
that she has friends coming over
and that it is just not appropriate....
The grandmother says,
'Loosen up, Sweetie.
If you can show off your rose buds,
then I can display my hanging baskets.

I'll come back this evening for a proper catch up to see how SANDY, MARIE, CONNIE, DEBS and all my other mates are.

Take care
Jackie

Ah the jokes the jokes!!!! Both good you guys are making me blush, I'm just a shy Jewish kid with a strong Buddhist leaning and I am very naive also. But -But!! Here's another one.

An Italian man, Luigi Galardi is hit by a car on a city street. Help arrives quickly and he is transported to the nearest hospital. In the Emergency room the head nurse asks the paramedic for any information he can give. The Paramedic says:

"Well he was hit by a car in the crosswalk so he wasn't at fault."
"Go on," says the nurse.
"He appears to be in his late 80's"
"Yes, anything else?"
"He's a tourist from an ocean town."
"How do you know that?" Inquired the nurse.
"Well because when I asked him where he was from or anything else he kept saying, 'Sono va Beech."

Well, that's it from Sunny Sequim from me. Come to the Lavender Faire sometime it's worth the trip and remember if you're resting you're rusting.

Sandy, I just saw the joke, thanks it's nice to know someone understands. I wear a black arm band when I four putt.

:flowerforyou: CALIECAT, the diet sounds good. Is that enough food? It looks like a diet that would be good to jump start some weight loss.

Thanks for the joke Jake.:laugh: :laugh:

My daughter and I went to WalMart this afternoon. This one has a Subway in it. So, I bought us lunch. I had a 6 inch veggie delite on 9 grain wheat bread. Plus, we shared a bag of baked Lays. Tonight I am roasting some meat with turnips, carrots and parships. My daughter has asked us to take her to breakfast tomorrow morning. I think that she is enjoying being the baby of the family. Her sister still lives with us, but now that she has her license...we hardly see her.:sad:

Barbie said:

Life is suddenly moving very fast :bigsmile: our house is in escrow and will probably close in about three weeks.:bigsmile: it took two days to get a response to the offer we made on the house we want to buy but now a deal has been made and will go into escrow on Monday

I'm so glad for you guys - having to keep a house in "show case shape" is a burden, especially when you have pets. I can appreciate what you've gone through.

:bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: the house we're moving to has a small fenced yard for the dogs and a small deck for Jake to sit outside and watch the dogs in the yard......the house backs up on the neighborhood "green belt" so there will be a good place for me to walk the dogs first thing in the morning and a lot of private roads for me to take them on the morning neighborhood walk. We'll be about five miles from the dog park instead of a mile and a half but that will be no problem.:bigsmile:

Sounds perfect for two people. We downsized, too, when moving here then had to add more square feet because most company drove so far they had to stay overnight!

this is the weekend of the lavender festival and we went today and visited two of the farms and had lunch including lavender white chocolate ice cream :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: the last time I had ice cream was last year at the lavender festival.:bigsmile:

Our son's company owns the Oregon Lavender Farm. (http://libertynatural.com/olf/). They had their festival a few weeks ago. He sent me Lavender Honey, Marionberry Lavender Jam, Lavender Shortbread Cookies, and a gift set with Lavender Water (spray), Lavender/Citrus Lotion, Lavender Castile Soap, and Lavender Sachet. It was a wonderful surprise.

:flwerforyou: Jackie, I used to have orpinton chickens. (I really mis-spelled the name). They are known to be great layers. I have been reading that some towns are now allowing chickens to be raise in the city limits. I am waiting til mine agrees to this. I would love to have some hens again.

Lavender !!! Love it. I even have lavender scented candles everywhere. If it isn't lavender then it is vanilla.

:flowerforyou: CALIECAT, I really hate to eat processed frozen foods but they are so convenent to take to work. Subway is not my first choice either. I am really interested in what you are trying. Please keep us up to date on how it is going.

Our roast is sitting on the stove. All cooked but I am really not very hungry. I know that evenually I will have to eat dinner.

Peeking in; I finally found all the posts I had missed, and again, Barbie, my deepest sympathy along with best wishes for your whirlwind life! I always loved Haifa's name, you know! He was a beauty!

I just can't go through every post separately for awhile, everyone; please forgive me. But I must mention all the talk of lavender reminded me of my Woods of Windsor bottles and lotions that I tucked away in my closet after an indulgent order of that hard to find favorite Lavender brand of mine! It's been a standby of mine for many years. One of the things I adored about our stay in Tuscany was that just outside our villa was a huge stand of lavender, through which we'd pass everytime we went outdoors. I'd just close my eyes and breathe deeply! Pure heaven!!!

Sandy...:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: and thank you! And Jake and Jackie, and everyone else who has been brightening these pages with laughter!

And Marie, enjoy the new diet, and hope it's easy and successful!

Black outside and thundering, so I'll log off now. Take care, have a great weekend, and Connie, that blog you sent us to was just breathtaking...literally! Gives us a whole new perspective on worrying! Thank you...
Buzz

Happy Sunday to everyone!

BECKY ~ I adore Orpingtons and a few years ago had a couple of buff Orps called Charlotte and Emily, the Bronte sisters!! They were wonderfully calm and gentle birds and I'd have more but these days they are very expensive because they are so popular and more and more families have hens in their gardens as pets. I'm sure you will get permission to keep them one of these days because attitudes are changing about such livestock. Hopefully this photo will appear; it's Emily.



MARIE ~ Thanks so much for the recipes. They both sound delicious and I will definitely try them because I think those sorts of dishes will be very satisfying and filling. I have a tin of mixed beans in the cupboard that I didn't know quite what to do with so you've solved that problem.

On the subject of lavender, I have a pot near the beehives because the bees love it so much and the other day I dead-headed it and the scent was amazing so I scattered the dried heads on to the ground so when I walk over it I can smell it. I can see why it is such a good thing to put under your pillow to help you sleep.

This is just a quick check in while the rain comes down. Every now and then it stops so I go outside where there are jobs needing to be finished but the heavens open and I get a drenching. The sun's popped out again so I'll take my chances.

Jackie:flowerforyou: