WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2017

Just finish reading posts, there are alot everyday. I love the before and after pics. Congrats.
I am headed out to my veggie garden area - the weeds and the goatheads have taken over, I will be at least another week getting it ready to plant. Marti

I think I will ride hm today

Happy Lost Sock Memorial Day!

I had a long conference call first thing this morning, and it's thrown off my day in terms of reading posts. Let's see if I can catch up!

DJ - Congratulations on having your daughter nearby again! I just saw a post from someone nearby looking to rehome a Great Dane puppy... I'm having to sit on my hands to keep from responding. We adore Luna, but I do miss having a giant dog.

Kate - What a great place for an art installation! I think the figures on the beach are evocative in a way they might be if they were anywhere else.

Becca - Pie and lattes - hilarious!

Dana - I weight in on Wednesdays, first thing in the morning, in my shortie pajamas.


Philip and I are making the Hairy Bikers Spanish-style chicken bake this afternoon - one for our dinner tonight and one to take to our friends we're cooking for this month. It smells heavenly but the kitchen is getting kind of hot!

Tonight is "Detox & Retox" (yoga) so I'm thinking of sending Philip off to deliver dinner while I get my mellow on. It would be a welcome break after what is turning out to be a frenetic day.

Hurray for me - yesterday I finally got back on the exercise bike. I used the interval timer on my phone and worked it pretty hard, so I felt thoroughly worked out when I was done!

-Yvonne in TX

Lanette: I'm sorry you had a mess in the garage. Our whole garage is a mess, but an organized mess. We've never kept a car in it and we've lived here for 20 years. :embarassed:

Heather: You have a good attitude about your housing situation. The photos of your home that you posted in the past are lovely and I'd live there in a heartbeat if I could. I love living in a small town that is near enough to a city. I doubt you'd think of Portland, OR as a BIG city, but it is big enough and close enough. Good public transportation would make a world of difference because the freeways are too jammed with big trucks and quite unpleasant to drive. Western Oregon and Western Washington are handicapped by one main freeway that has to handle too much traffic. The topography doesn't really allow for a second freeway. Both states have a coast range, a valley, and the Cascade mountain range. The bulk of each state's populations are located in that valley. Washington has a better public transportation than Oregon, but in both states, the public transportation system serves the largest city, and not much else. Washington does have a fabulous ferry system. If you ever get to the west coast of the US you will want to ride some of those ferries. :bigsmile:

Lenora: I slam my iceberg lettuce on the counter to remove the core, too. Great minds think alike. DH loves iceberg lettuce, but I've come to prefer Romaine.

Dana: I weigh first thing in the morning one or two times a week, in the nude. My scale is in the bedroom and I have all the privacy I want. :flowerforyou:


Today is gorgeous and the river is deep. I assume that the Bonneville Power Administration is letting as much water down the spillways as possible without causing flooding. They seem to do a great job planning for the tides. The Columbia River is tidewater all the way to Portland Harbor. In the summer when the water level is lower we sometimes have the river running backwards in front of our house. It was quite a surprise the first time we saw logs floating up stream.

Have a great day!

Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

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

Toni - Many congratulations! That's a big loss!

I lost around 1.5 lbs last week. Don't know exactly because my scales are analogue and old fashioned, but it's definitely more than a pound. Only 2 pounds to go to be back at target.

I've lost my cleaner. Last week she rang just before she was due to arrive to say her father had collapsed and she was going to the hospital with him. Today she texted and evidently he had died and she and her mother were terribly upset. It was totally unexpected and he was a big part of her life. Almost like a best friend. She is married, but has no children. She is my son's age. Her dad must have been my age. So she is moving in with her mum to help her cope with the shock. Her mum lives a way from here. So she can't come any more.
Not a good moment for me with the party and stay over this weekend and only one arm. But we'll manage between us. I'm going to have to sit down tomorrow and make a big list of stuff to buy and do. DH has cricket all day on Friday, so we will have to prepare before that. Panicking a bit, but it'll be fine. Lots of things I can't do with the arm and everything I can do takes twice as long and hurts. Can't drive etc. He has mowed the grass. There are weeds everywhere, but that's too bad. I can't make beds and I've got to fill , ice and decorate the cake and make dinner and lunches. With one arm. Aaaaarrrgggghhhh!
DON'T LET THE PERFECT BE THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD.
Lists, lists, lists. Tomorrow is another day.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxx

Heather, wish I were close I would certainly come help. I cannot ice and decorate a cake or cook like you do but I can certainly make beds and clean house. All will be fine, we know you are a perfectionist and terrific host. Biggest hugs ever.

Janetr OKC

coastalgosgal wrote: »

Too funny!

nighty night ladies~ Happy Birthday Meg~
Heather~ If I lived closer to you, I would be there to help you however I could xoxox

Claudia, let us know how the yoga goes...is this with a group? At a gym? I've been checking it out too. I see our gym has morning basics, and there's a private teacher downtown who has groups and also private lessons. The gal posted photos of her place on her website, looks very nice - the students are dressed in tight clothing like leotards. Gulp. Maybe that's the "A" team, lol. I am more a sweatpants person.

I met my husband via "snail-mail". In the late 60's, I was a freshman in college and the newspaper printed a little article saying if anyone wanted to write to a Marine in Vietnam, send a letter to such and such an address. So I did, said I was a journalism major (at the time) and I can't recall what else. Several months later I received a letter back from the EDITOR of the Sea Tiger who said, if I didn't mind, he wanted to be my "pen pal" as we had a lot in common. We corresponded for a year, he came back to the states and was stationed on the east coast, we finally met a couple years later and the rest is history. Courtship at a glacier pace, lol.

Heather, sad to hear about your cleaning gal. Good ones are hard to find...there's the issue of how well they clean AND how trustworthy they are. The timing isn't the best but it will work out. Congrats on the weight loss! You rock!!

Lisa - your new job sounds energizing! Isn't it fun planning, making lists, getting new ideas? I am thrilled for you. You'll hit it head on and do a great job, I just know it.

Beth, we need to start eating from the freezer at our house too. I don't have any cookies in green bean bags, darn it, lol. That's an idea though.

Becca, thanks for that nifty way to store canning jars. If we had the room I'd put this on DH's "to do" list. Putting brackets/supports under those shelves has been on his current to-do list for a long time, this event likely moved it up on the list. I checked out the resort - what a lovely place! I'd like to have the tanning lotion concession! For fair redheads like me, a dip in a tank would be fine, lol. I am jealous of your tan!

Leigh, you continue to impress me. It's neat to see how you have truly changed how you eat - thank you for the stories and tips you have shared!

My aching back is on the mend. Heating pad, stretches, and a high-strength curcumin blend I picked up at the health food store worked better than hydrocodone, I swear. Also got an Aleve TENS unit - that thing is nifty! Boy it really can jolt a person but it scrambles the pain nerves. THANK YOU to all of you who gave feedback on TENS - it helped a lot!

Menopause....I reached meno at the ripe old age of 60! A year later spotted, had a D&C. Finally, the hormonal migraines went away - I don't mind the couple extra inches around the waist. Funny, in my mid 50's the doc did a hormone test to see if I was getting close to meno....the report was "you are in menopause" but I continued to have periods for the next 5 years. I asked her why this was happening, she shrugged her shoulders. Perhaps the hormone tests are unreliable? What's the point of them then? I question everything.

It was another beautiful day here. Katla, how neat you get to see the water table as a result of the Bonneville Dam. Army Core of Engineers are a little worried about the Mayfield Dam so will be releasing more water from it. We're 20 miles from the Cowlitz River so no worries about flooding at our house.

Ok ladies, Hump Day tomorrow!

Lanette
SW WA State

Stuffed Cabbage Makers - I core my cabbage and freeze it. To make the stuffed cabbage, I thaw the cabbage and remove the back portion of the rib. I combine raw hamburger, and cooked rice in about equal proportions.I also add diced onions, diced red peppers, diced celery and sometimes crumbled fried bacon. I mix this all together and make up the stuffed cabbage rolls. I then pack in freezer bags, single layer, and freeze. I also put some in a roaster to cook for supper that night. To cook them, place frozen in roaster. Combine 1 can of tomato soup with 1/2 can of water. Pour over the cabbage and bake in oven at 350F for approx. 3 hours.

Jenn from Canada - where do you live? I am in Thompson, Manitoba (north) but lived in Regina, Saskatchewan for many years.

Hugs to all.
Paula Y

Still trying to get the wedding pic on here but it saved incorrectly on my PC so will have to find out how to save as a jpg or something else. About my hair in my senior picture - that was all mine. remember ratting? I did a lot of that. I always want to be a hair designer but met my husband in my junior year and got married right out of high school. Anyway I did a lot with my hair as well as cutting my sister's and mom's hair by copying instructions in McCall magazine. I loved that magazine - it was an original DIY magazine. Anyone else remember Betsy McCall and the paperdoll cutout and clothes?

The flooding in my home was minimal but some of my neighbors got way worse. I guess I forgot to put two zeros on the 25 lightning strikes during the storm making it 2500! Still a mess here from all the trees down but slowly getting back to normal.

I have to run to the store for milk so I'll try to get back later. Wish I had a cow!

Gloria in WA where it was so toasty in my car today with the sunny weather that I parked in my parking space a took a very short snooze .

danareel6615 wrote: »

Question peeps:
How and when do you weigh in?

Dressed, half dressed, no clothing, shoes, no shoes??

I decided to weigh in Wednesday mornings with no clothing. But then I thought it I go to the doctor I'll have to weigh in with clothes but I can kick off my shoes.

Am I going crazy here? I guess it doesn't matter as long as you show a loss. Duh!
I answered my own question. My DH always tells me that!! LOL!!

Second thing every morning ... and just me.