WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2017

Morning my peeps
Fir damnit- yogi on left, bullwinkle the only girl in middle and Floyd on right

Taking in the sun
while yogi goes nuts chasing the ball, young kid

Katla ... interesting observation about female doctors. My primary care physician is a woman and my husband's is a man. My care is far superior in my opinion. Can't stand his doctor.

Kim, thanks so much for the suggestion on using an address book. Looks like I need a trip to the dollar store. My current system is to write them on a piece of paper. One of my girls got me a box of pieces of paper, I'd say they are 2x2 in a little box. They are in a nice neat stack in one of my shelves at my desk. But to find a password I have to pick up the stack and go through each one until I find what I want.

I remember when JFK was killed. Like so many of you here, I was in middle school. We had a large room with a big TV, well as big as they came way back then, and we of course were sitting in typical school desks. This was the room everyone gathered in every morning for announcements. So we were all called there and watched. It is extremely hard for me to cry so I doubt i did. But there was one girl whose last name was Kennedy and she really lost it. I don't remember them offering to send us home. When you are in a rural community and you all got there on busses, you just can't send them home. But they did send this girl home at her request. Now on 9/11, I was glued to the TV for days. I kept our newspapers for a full month. I still have them in a protective bag.

Re, congrats on forgetting to eat chocolate!!!! I don't ever see me doing that. You know chocolate is actually Vitamin C? Yeah, doctors have been trying to tell us otherwise for years.

Happy birthday Barbie, you are our glue.

My SIL finally posted the video of my oldest DGD show choir. I know she is tall and that maybe is the reason she is in the back all the time. But another reason is that she really can't dance that well. She inherited that from her Mom. But she sure is pretty. She inherited that from me! LOL

You all are welcome to come up to my neck of the woods. The total solar eclipse will be best viewed from a small town not far from here. I feel very sorry for them. But they are planning all sorts of events. We can join a tour from our museum for $150 each for round trip bus, catered lunch, expert lecture on the way down there and viewing on a huge telescope. I am satisfied to jsut stay here and read about it.

Joyce, Indiana

I didn't watch Whitechapel as I'm not keen on costume dramas. Right now we have new series of Vera and Broadchurch. Really enjoying them.

When Kennedy was killed I was in my bedroom in the early evening. I remember my mother calling out to me and coming up the stairs. "Kennedy's been shot!" she said. I came out onto the landing and we just stood in shock. I went down to the living room to watch the television and all that was on the screen was the world going round and round as we waited for the news that he had died.

My rabbit stew was fabulous!

Love Heather UK xxxxxxx

Barbie – HAPPY BIRTHDAY! And meeting another ‘head-strong’ Aries!

Thanks to all who enjoyed my poem. It was something that has given me some Karma (for myself – the good kind). A lot don't necessarily think it is a 'positive' poem. Maybe the circumstances were not good; but, the aftermath was great.

Beth – My middle sister will NOT go to a male MD; she has had really bad experiences with them. In fact, one – who was a neighbor – did not diagnose a blockage of her bowels; and, when she went to another one (female this time) she told her that she’d be ‘dead’ if it had caused a hole in it, she’d probably would died and have sepsis. Which would be difficult to treat; maybe impossible. They removed the blockage and she had to wear a bag; but, there were able to reattach it later. I really liked my first Neurologist – a young, black woman; but, she moved to Atlanta and the other one in the office had too many patients of her own. The have hired one that is only ‘in the office’ part-time and is slow to return calls (other than to other MDs). He is also a little weird. He'll be talking to you and lift his head slightly and his eyes will roll up in his head. Last time I went was the first time he spent any time with me, other than to ask 'how I was doing'. We’re trying to do so changes in our life insurance and having trouble getting the MDs to release our records. It’s been so long that I think we will probably keep what we have. But, Louis is 75 and it won’t last until he is 80. What we are looking at is a life-time policy.

Chris – My son would say that he ‘sounds like a teenager’. He used to tell the DGDs [when they were old enough to go on a car date] ‘when a teenager tells you that he loves you; he is only looking for a way to get into your panties’. He has told the girls that so often that I don’t think they will ever believe it when ‘anybody’ tells them ‘they love her’. I don’t like a man who comes on strong. My DOGD has seen a lot of DDnL#1's nieces get pregnant before they should.

Pip – I received an email from a former HS classmate who sent me several pictures of ‘stacked wood’ … so amazing the things they made it look like. That would take a lot of thought and writing down which piece would go where. Like a fish, leaf, house, dogs, owls, and some other things you'd never think of doing.

Lenora

When Kennedy was shot - I was in the 1st grade in a Catholic school. The nuns cried. We stopped what we were doing and prayed. The day before the assassination - I saw Kennedy in Houston as his motorcade traveled from Hobby Airport. My little red brick school house stood on the corner of Broadway and the Gulf Freeway (I-45). All the students in our 3 grades there - were outside standing on the corner waving at him as he smiled and waved at us. My mother was there also. We were so proud to have a Catholic president and we prayed for him and our nation often. I remember feeling very sad - and seeing my parents very sad and worried.

--Ginger in Texas