WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2017

Caught up on the reading. Will post later. I am one exhausted Grandma!

welcome to all the new peeps.

last 3 days I burned over 1k calories. today I'm not going to push that hard.1st 2 days it was still over 850, so it was a long week. gonna go to the gym

NYKaren: I really like Karen in VA's comments. She has very good thoughts on the matter of conducting. Good luck with your decision.

KJ: I agree that you're an exceptional daycare provider. Your young charges are lucky that their parents found you. :flowerforyou:

Felicia: The "little things" are tangible proof that we are succeeding. WTG!!!

Alison: Your brother is out of line. Letting his rants go to voicemail and then deleting them is an excellent plan.

Kim: DH has been requesting what you just suggested for years now. He wants to have our ashes shot off of the cliff from the site on the Oregon Coast where we were married. This spot is part of a state park. His full idea would be to mix our ashes before shooting them off of the cliff using some sort of fireworks. I worry about how they could be "shot" off the cliff. It is a lovely spot and the idea of being scattered from there has appeal but I wonder who would do it for us. Our kids might. They've only been to our spot once. My cousins had their folks ashes dropped into the Little Nestucca River from a friend's airplane. Shortly before his death my Uncle told my dad that he was preparing to leave his wife for another woman. He had an aneurism rupture unexpectedly and died on the way to the emergency room before he actually left her. My auntie lived for many additional years before she passed & the kids had their ashes mixed & scattered in the river together. :flowerforyou:

Becca: I hope your tests come out well. Kidney stones are reportedly very painful. Nice BP number!

Oke & Talle: Welcome to a great group!

Dana: Our neighbor is a retired attorney and has her records shredded by a company that comes around with a big truck. DH would like to have our old documents shredded that way, too. We need to ask her if she is planning to send more things off, and how to contact the shredder company. I hate having all this old paperwork filling up our garage. :grumble:



Riding lesson today! Yay!!!

Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." - William James

Did 7.2 miles this morning with my daughter. Marathon training week 3 complete! Now I'm here with 12 of the 13 grandchildren who are soon heading to my pool. I'm not going to swim, just watching today.

DanaReel180 wrote: »

Machka I like your pictures of the Eastern Shore ride and your bicycle stuff!

My husband is a big collector too. He has been collecting American Indian artifacts for 50 years........

Anasazi pottery from SW Colorado

Is that from the Crow Canyon area? They are SO tough on people looking for artifacts on public lands now in SW Colorado. We stick with private lands but even then many people won't let you pick up or take finds.


Marcelyn
waiting for the rain in Houston

coastalgosgal wrote: »

Today I did blood work, and urine, for my persistent aches. The doctor stated that it sounded like kidney stones, but to await results. I have been blessed with feeling fairly healthy, so its frustrating. My BP was 123/82 so that's good.
I will be patient!
Becca

Becca - Fabulous on the BP!! Drat those kidney stones.... if that's what it is, can they do anything so they don't try to "escape" and cause all that pain? Had one once... thought I'd been kicked in the back. Luckily it passed quickly. Amazing they can be the size of a grain of sand and feel so HUGE!

Beth - golly girl, you DID have a strange week. Hope all the events are done for a long time - checking account "invasion" like that makes me nervous - hitting that deer could have been nasty - glad the funnel cloud missed you! Hope the fundraiser goes well today.

Here's another "human remains" story. There was an old gal in our county whose husband died. Rather than call the coroner, she left him in the "shed" for a while. Decided he needed to placed elsewhere so tied a rope on him and dragged him down the state highway looking for a better place to park old Earl. Of course, he lost a few parts along the highway before the deputy caught up with her. I don't think she was charged - had been having some mental issues and this made sense to her. I have a hunch she needed his social security so she probably had them to contend with.

On that note, have a wonderful weekend!

Lanette
SW WA State

Heather – DDnL#2 wants to give Will a baby so much ‘it hurts’. Going to a specialist is really, really expensive because they either have to go to Jackson, MS or Baton Rouge, LA every other day to be checked out to see if any eggs have dropped. Her fallopian tubes are almost totally blocked, so having one naturally is going to be something short of a miracle. They would have to go during the months that Will can leave whenever he needs to (which means before the middle of September). I think they have just ‘given up’; but, every month she has a period, she knows she isn’t pregnant. Because they turn 39 in August, they are getting to the age that they are not considered good candidates/ They decided to start looking for a house or property to build on (they want to get on the lake). I laughed and told her last year, all they’d probably have to do is ‘buy a house’ and she’d find she was pregnant, jokingly of course. She is already upset that it seems like she won’t be able to give him a baby. I tell her that is NOT why he married her (and Mallory), he did so because he was ‘head over heels’ in love with both of them.

Childcare here is a ‘minimum’ of about $75 per child per week, maybe more since we no longer have children in daycare. If you keep several age groups you are required to have a certain number or working watching out for them. Insurance, all other sorts of things and you are expected to ‘teach’ them to get them ready to pass a first grade test.
They expect to be paid for the upcoming week; and, you had better NOT get behind or you’ll find yourself being told, ‘you need to find a different daycare’. Most of them stay at compassity.

Beth – I am also meticulous about my checking account and I want to balance to the penny. When I buy checks, it drives me crazy that they don’t tell you when they send them how much they’ll cost, they just take it out; so I put that they have taken out $40.

I’ve wrecked my car twice since last May; both times it was my fault. So when all of a sudden my right passenger stopped sounding like a heavy car door slamming and started sounding like a tin can (without any insulation) I took it to my Agent and he called for an adjuster to come look at it. Then I was told that ‘maybe’ I shouldn’t file a 3rd claim within a year; so I took it back to the body shop and told him they weren’t going to pay as they had suggested that I not file another claim. I did hit a curb when I had my first wreck; but, he told me and the adjuster that they would have noticed that the running board had been bent when I brought it in for those repairs. We were surprised they did not total the car. Over $16K worth of repairs. So he told me that depending on what it took to fix it, he’d help me out on the deductible. So Louis and Trey went to pick it up, Trey drove off in it and Louis said that Mr. Perry never mentioned a price while they were talking about it. Apparently he was able to put a block on it and know the bow in it out. Now the door sounds like it should when I shut it and it isn’t binding when it is closed and opened. Of course, I guess he could always bill us. He’s been in business for 40 years, at least; and has fixed other cars for us and we used to recommend him and 2 other body shops to clients. They said that it looked like someone had hit a curb (run over it). I know I haven’t and Louis says he hasn’t, Trey’s says he hasn’t and the only others who have driven it is DDnL#2 (and I did not like it), and DOGD. DDnL#1 never looks me in the eye when she is talking about anything, including the weather. She did not admit nor deny ever running over anything. I’m sure DOGD would deny it, too. Pisses me off, in a way – but somebody did run over something to make that running board bow up. At least it was NOT the frame!

Margaret – When I get ‘junk’ mail and it has a return address and it has postage prepaid, a good friend of mine told me they don’t get charged for pre-paid postage until that response gets returned. So when I get something I cut it up in pieces and then stick some more trash that doesn’t have my name and/or address on it and then would take a bagful to the P.O. and send it back to them. It was surprising how few things of junk I get in the mail now.

Okie in Central Texas – All it took for me was get within 1lb of hitting 200lbs on a 5’4” frame. I looked quite dowdy at my son’s wedding, especially after I had changed into flats before the pictures were taken. I’ve lost the equivalent of an elephants’ heart and working on down to his ‘penis’ or more. About 60llbs total. It is a lot harder now that I am close to my goal. A LOT HARDER.

Welcome to all the “Newbies”. Congrats to all the NSV as well as those lbs. lost. For anyone else needing {{{{{HUGS}}}}}; here they are. Even those who have taken the wrong side of the hill to slide down, don’t give up; you’ll get there. This is a journey not a ‘diet to race through’. Slow baby steps on losing so you will have a better chance of changing your life-style in the meanwhile.

Lenora

Just click on the pic.

stats for the day:

rowing machine- 20min, 3329meters 59aw = 137c
other- around basketball court- single leg squats 10 each, set 30 sets, single leg balancing swings touch floor and single leg squat balancing- 40min = 200c
other-quick jumping and single leg hop- 9min = 98c

total cal 435, took it easy

Hugs Allie!!! We love you!!!

Becca
Oregon