WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2017

I think I am becoming vegetarian! My protein has been mostly, beans, cottage cheese, cheeses, and peanut butter. I was going to fix a fettuccine Asian soup thing with better than bouillon beef flavor, and a cut up beef brat. But the sodium in both the bouillon and the brat was horrendous! So I am having a cold fettuccine salad with EVOO dressing. Just noodles, with tomatoes, and spinach. Its olive oil and mine has garlic and basil in it. I am marinating my husbands steak in it right now.
Becca

Just reading posts before bed, trying to stay caught up. I may have inadvertently flagged some one. Sorry! I am on my phone; I do most of my logging and reading in the morning with coffee and my laptop. Just wanted to say, ooops!

The gift exchange at my mother's Christmas was always an event. Only one gift was opened at a time, and often passed around and admired by all before the next person would open something. Since I am one of 5 children, and we all gave multiple gifts to each family member, the gift exchange, which started at 7:00 on Christmas Eve could finish up on Christmas Day.

For clothing my mother always saved gift receipts. Clothing gifts had to both fit and please the recipient or Mother expected us to return for something better. Books, a very common gift in my home, had a special rule, if they duplicated a book in the recipients library they could be returned or passed along to another family member. Everything else was considered more personal and we never would have dreamed of returning or exchanging.

I now spend Christmas with my in-laws and they open presents all at the same time in huge rush. I never get to see anyone open the presents and that disappoints me, I spend many hours choosing jut the right gift for each person, just as my mother did.

I am truly my mother's daughter- lol.

Rye

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janetr7476 wrote: »

I put up Christmas trees in every room of my house including the two bathrooms. I do it if it is only Jack and I or the whole big bunch of extended family (his kids and mine and grands). I did it for all the years I was single and lived alone. I do it for me because I LOVE CHRISTMAS

Janetr OKC

I've ended up with a whole collection of trees! There was one we bought for our first Christmas together, and then 18 months later all my stuff arrived from Canada and I had one in that collection. Both ended up in storage when we moved to Tasmania ... and so we bought one here in Tasmania. Then all our stuff came over to Tasmania, and now I've got 3 of them!

Plus I've picked up several really small ones which we've taken with us when we go on holiday at Christmas.

So when I decorate, there are trees everywhere ... it's like a forest in here!

Machka in Oz

As a child; Christmas was magical. We could make a Santa letter list a few weeks before Christmas and we got 3 things of significance. I think my most memorable Christmas was the Christmas I was 3. I got a 'red' wooden rocking horse and a head-to-toe cowgirl outfit, ... including a whip. That year I got the 'only' doll that I did not break before the end of the day. Named her Ruth after a great aunt to kept me some during summers. A Greyhound bus (that got 'wrecked' when we were involved in a bad wreck that only my Mother saw coming. She was seriously injured and the rest of us just bruised up. The walk through Grady Hospital in Atlanta was something I don't think I will ever forget. Rooms and rooms only divided by curtains and so damn noisy, too.

We wrapped presents early on. My Dad would ask the preachers in the county to give him the names of a family and he would buy presents for everyone in the family and deliver it to the Sheriff. He would ask that they never be told who had done this ... he enjoyed being a "Secret Santa"; until one family nagged and found out that he was the one doing it. They started asking for money and he never did it after that. Just 'ruined' it for him. He was a 'giving' man; but, did not want it to be known.

My Mother and he was active in their church and when we moved to Macon and started going to the Catholic Church there, we invited them to come to Christmas Eve Midnight mass. I think he talked the poor priest's ears off asking questions about the Catholic faith and mass. I was glad that he saw that it really isn't that much different than any other Christian faith. Growing up, we were not allowed to go to a 'different' church other than a Baptist Church. My BF lived across the street and we had Brownies and Girl Scouts in the Methodist Church basement; but, I had never seen the sanctuary. So after we had sat in the cherry tree on the corner, we decided to go inside. It was a big, old frame church and one Sunday while we were living up at my parent's High Fall Lake house, while our house was being built in Macon, my Mother called and told us we needed to come to town that the church was 'on fire' and it did not look like they would be able to save it. Apparently, someone had put a penny in the old fuse box as a temporary fix and that is what burned it down. I think everybody in town came to help out. We had volunteer fire department from 3 counties and a regularly manned Fire Department out of Macon there. Our belongings were being stored in my Dad's office which was an old house between our home and the street that ran by the church. When they realized that they could not save it; they started throwing bricks and rocks through the stained glass windows to get water to the hottest spot. It had a chimney in it and when the Fire Chief heard a cracking sound he yelled 'MOVE!!!!!" The men trying to put it out ran far away and the chimney fell and lands right at the end of the church property and scattered at our feet as we stood in the yard of my Daddy's office. I wrote a piece about it that got published in the county paper. It was sad; but, it also brought the town's people together on a Sunday afternoon from all churches and races and religions. It was like everybody in town lost their church. They have since rebuilt and Mother's property (which consisted of a city block with 3 houses on it was sold to them prior to her death. They have closed off that street and expanded the church. Talk about 'church politics' ... after that fire half of the members wanted to rebuilt on the same spot and most of the younger members wanted to go 'out of town' and build a church with a gym and so they could expand and maybe end up having a school.

Actually the 'biggest' church in the county is Rock Springs (Baptist???) Church. It was a one-room church and now they have 2 morning services and can seat over 2500 people and it is online as well. We went with a couple of our friends one Sunday and it was just 'amazing'. They have a school, a medical/dental service, food bank, and a lot more. It draws people from about 5 counties around it. I've watch it online before and really enjoy it, especially since we live so far away from the nearest Catholic Church ... Albany or Americus and both are about 25-30 miles from our home.

Well, I hope everybody has a nice weekend. Getting ready to go to Daytona Beach on Wednesday with my sisters and our husbands/significant other. We always have a lot of fun. If we did not meet once a year, I don't know when I would see my sister that lives in Miami. I had told her that when she decided to leave Miami because of Irma, she could come here; but, as always she chose to go to my oldest sister's house. They go down 2 or 3 times a year to visit with them.

Lenora

(((Meg from Omaha)))

Becca: I still decorated last Christmas despite having no heat in the house, but it was simpler than our usual. Although our heat situation is resolved I will take simple approaches again because we expect to be away from home, but not decorating? Unlikely. This year we'll be travelling to see our new grandbaby born.

Janetr: I LOVE Christmas, too, and I love to decorate! :bigsmile:

Chris in MA: You look fabulous in the red dress! Enjoy!!!


I took my car to the VW dealer for service and came home in their courtesy car. It is a cute thing. Now I'm tired. I'm planning to check out a book to read from my library, read and rest.

Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

"So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible and the fun."

By the way ... just a quick comment on abbreviations ...

To me IP means Internet Protocol or Intellectual Property.

It took me a little while to realise it was being used for an appliance.

Marcelyn, that is the lowest f scum. I saw video tonight on e news of a man who broke into a funeral home. Stayed there for about 3 hours, are some food, looked throughout he elrsonal property of the deceased there and then stripped down naked and put an outfit on that was to be put on a man. It even showed him smelling the underwear befor putting it on.

I used t decorate both the living room and family room when my kids wee young. And they even had a small tree in their roo. That they had free reign on. But times change. I hate to think of want Mozart will do to a tree. He has already demolished an artificial tree we had one family room and that is where we would have the Christmas tree if I put it up. We do open our gifts to the Kimme family the night before everyone gets here. And that is fun. And the grand kids do need to see their grandparents have a tree. The fellowship hall we have rented for our meal will have nothing but we have a small tree that we will put on a table le and the whole family wil,bring a decoration. Last year my sister helped the kids make their own decoration and the put it on the tree and then took them home. She was a preschool teacher for all of her career and that was right down her alley. It is hard for her to walk but not to sit with little ones. Plus the parents e Joyce done time they could have socializing with the rest of the family. But our family room during the rest of the year is a time of sadness for me. That is when I hear Charlie hitting the coffee table when he is mad or cussing loudly at the news. The cats don't even like to go down there and if one is on my lap,Mir is trembling when he acts like that. So. Go down there to do laundry and when the kids and gramds come, the bedroom is there and the kids sleep in the family room. So we al do some the evening I the family room. But the rest of the year is not happiness for me. I domt know how many tv remotes and wII remotes he has destroyed. I'm glad the end table is old but it was his Mom's and we do have a matching one. He has no access to that one. It's mine.

I saw a picture on fac book of a big ladder painted red with snow glued t it and Christmas village building were on it. Oh, boards were put through the steps of the tree to set things on. Oh, how my cat would destroy that beautiful thing.

JanetR, your ornaments are a work of art.

Can't remember who is modeling the red dress but you look fabulou! Red is your color. I hope you like your dress though.

Has been a quiet evening here. Charlie went out for his karoake night.mhe has grown in that. He used to say he knew of no one who is any better or better than him. Also he wouldn't ever go out unless his two friends were with him. Now he says that Che is glad he is in a group of people that are as good as him. There is one man who the two of them love to sing a Frank Sinatra and they like to go with each other a lot.

Heather, I forgot to say how cute your kids are. Sorry Edie gave you her cold.

Kelly, jauqeem rocks that helmet. He is a ladies man.

Ordered refill from Sam's club. This is me of the weeks that it seems like I order half of them. It is time for me to order my pain medicine.mthey have been giving me 100 but I only really only take one a night, sometimes I am need another one. The doctors nurse says I won't need a pain contract if I am off the Ambien, which I have not succeeded yet and can gtna refill for less than 50 pills. So I ordered 40 and will continue my goal of off the Ambien. I was hoping the Aleve would help with the legs more but they aren't

Night night, Joyce Indiana

Let me start by saying how sad I am over the news of Gloria. I echo all of your sentiments that she was a good friend and a wise woman. The world will be a little darker without her light. How sad her grandsons will be. I hope that someone as loving as she will step into the void she has left. Praying for all of her family and friends. This tragedy is hard to wrap my head around.

NY Karen - I think that is a wonderful NSV to be able to focus on your friend instead of FOOD

Lisa - Thank you for the information. I may have to refer back to it as tonight my mind is incapable of retaining the information.

KJ - Joaquin is still one little heart melter. I bet he has a certain Grandma wrapped around his little finger.

Pip - Big Congrats on hitting 2000 days.

Rye - I am sorry that happened with your application. The right job will come along.

Michele - Hoping there isn't serious damage to your Florida home.

Linda - How far North are you talking? I've only been as far North as Thunder Bay in your fair province.

Meg - Please take extra good care of yourself in this stressful time.
Do you think DD#2 might be reacting to what is happening with your DH?

Chris - Lady with the Red Dress on, you look awesome!

Katla - Sound like you will be getting one of the best Christmas gifts.

Marcelyn - Your poor friend to have to deal with scum bags stealing from her in this time. Luckily she has you for a friend to help her get through this.

All of you talking about Christmas brought me some happy memories. We were always at home for Christmas as we were mixed farmers and chores always needed done. We always opened our stockings first. We were up at 4:45 but Dad would let the chores wait for a bit. Breakfast would be an orange, some nuts and one of those little cereal boxes all stuffed in our stockings. Oh and egg nog.
Lots of relatives came out to our farm. We had lots of food because we grew it. Some would ice skate if our dugout was frozen enough, one of the horses would pull some sort of homemade sleigh. One year we used a tractor, turned an old truck hood upside down and piled the kids on. Then we played games. I think Dad did all the chores by himself. Quite a feat to look after chickens, pigs, the beef herd, milk 16 cows 2x that day and still be friendly to everyone. My Mom absolutely loved Christmas and my Dad loved her. As usual I could go on for days.

Missing Gloworm

Sharon in Lethbridge, Alberta

mikesmom1983 wrote: »

A couple of weeks ago I told you about my trip with my friend to the dressmaker, she is getting a mother of the bride outfit. Last Sunday we went back to the dressmaker for the first fitting, and I use that term loosely because it was just a muslin pattern at this point. The dressmaker had a beautiful red satin dress hanging in the room and when I admired it she persuaded me to try it on. I finally relented and felt awesome playing dress up. Here is me in the dress, playing fashion model, as you can see I had a blast.

Beautiful!!

lhannon062709 wrote: »

NYKAREN - Here's the link you were trying to create: Alex Evenings.

Quick and dirty lesson on how to create a link on a computer, skip if you're not interested:
1) In this thread, type in the response box the words you want to use to link (like I just did with "Alex Evenings."
2) Open another tab on a browser and go to the web page you want to link.
3) There is what's called a URL address at the top of the browser that says suchandsuch.thisandso.com/whatever. Select that entire address with your cursor (you can click in the box and hold down the CTRL and press the A at the same time, and it will select it for you, or just double click inside the address box) and once it's all selected, press the CTRL C to copy.
4) Go back to the tab with our thread.
5) Use your cursor to highlight the words you typed in at number 1.
6) There is a little icon at the top of our entry box that looks like a chain link. Click on it, and in the little box that pops up, press CTRL and the letter V at the same time. It will load that link in there for you. Click "OK" and it will close.
Now - here's the key - it will throw the most ungodly text in the thread response box that you ever saw, and at the end of it will be the characters [ / u r l ] (I had to put spaces in between the letters to keep it from thinking it was code). Make sure anything else you type is to the right of that last bracket ] in order to keep your link intact. None of that gobbledy-gook of characters will actually show when you're done, it will just light up the words you selected in blue. You can press the Preview button at the bottom of the screen to check. Clear as mud?

Thanks Lisa, this is great! Excellent advice!

You know this, but I'll just add that you can use CTRL + V to paste or right click your mouse to paste. Whichever you prefer. With Microsoft, there are often two ways to do things.

lhannon062709 wrote: »

Since I'm in training mode, anyway:
How to quote with that little gray box - skip over this if you know, or if you just don't care.
1. When you're looking at the post you want to quote, there is, at the bottom of the box, an upside down apostrophe and the word "Quote" in blue. Click on the word "Quote."
2. It will snap you down to the thread reply box, with that entire post copied right into your reply. If you don't need all of it, you can actually delete everything you don't want to reply to... however!
3. To do that, while you're still in the reply box, you will see at the beginning of their post that it copied in a word in brackets [ quote] (Again, when I type it in, I'll add odd spaces, as these codes are commands to the system to do certain things.). At the end of the post is the same word, but with a slash in front of it, [ / quote]. You can delete anything you want to between those two bracketed commands, and it will still put that little gray box around it.
4.

Like this

5. If you accidentally delete even one letter of those two commands, it won't put a box around it.
6. Note: If you type your answer to the person you're quoting between those two commands, it will also put your answer in the box. If instead, you start typing to the right of that last command, [ / quote] put a space after that last bracket ] and it will put your answer below the gray box.

Just so you know, what you're learning while doing this is HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language. This is for the curious only - Here's what the code means:
1. The opening bracket [, tells the computer that you're about to give it a command.
2. The word "quote" tells it what you want it to do.
3. The close bracket after "quote" ], says OK, now everything after this is a quote and should be in a gray box.
4. Whatever text comes after that stays in the gray box until it sees the next opening bracket [ which tells the computer you're about to give it another command.
5. The slash / says stop doing what you're doing, and the word "quote" after it tells it what you want it to stop doing. The close bracket ] then tells the computer that those two commands are now complete.

If you've ever wondered why you ended up bolding everything, or italicizing everything when you meant to only do that on a little bit of your text, if you look at your reply box, you'll see the beginning and ending codes for italics [ i] and [ /i] are where your italics begin and end. Everything you type in between the two will be italicized. The same for bold, only it's [ b] and [ /b].

Hope that helps someone out...

Love y'all,
Lisa in West Texas

P.S. Oh! and if you have forgotten something or want to change something in your post (like me adding this PS) there is a little gear wheel icon that will appear at the top right hand side of the box if you hover your mouse over that corner. You have exactly one hour to edit a post by clicking on that gear and selecting Edit, and then it's sealed in stone. You MUST also click on the "Save Post" button at bottom right after you're done with your edit.

I'll add to the quote information ... as far as I have been able to tell, you can only quote things on the same page. So you can go through and click to quote one person, and another, and another ... but only on the same page. If you go to the next page, you lose the quotes.

However, you can get around that (as I did here in this post) by quoting what you want to quote on the first page, copying it (select it all, right click, copy or select it all, CTRL + C), then go to the next page, quote what you want to quote, go to the top or bottom of what you've quoted, and paste what you copied from the previous page.


Lisa, have you designed web pages? I've done one (my own) from scratch based on what I learned myself from reading an HTML4 book. I've done a few pages for classes as well. I enjoy doing it and would like to do more.


If anyone is interested, either Lisa or I could probably show you how to post a photo which will be a link ... you can click it and it will take you to another website or photo album.

Machka in Oz