WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR OCTOBER 2017

We have men out front digging holes trying to locate a water pipe line. This is due to the subdivision of 60 new homes being built back of us. Then they are going to take the right of way to build a sidewalk along the driveway entrance to my house. We will lose our mail box and all of the cala lilies I have tended for years. Boo!

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Carol, how frustrating the have all your hard work on your flowers destroyed. Can you replant them somewhere else?

wildhorsewendy wrote: »

Karen I use coconut milk instead of yoghurt in my Lassi, and I only use about two tablespoons, then add hot water, a couple dashes of cinnamon and a quarter tsp of turmeric. Mades a Golden Drink that is good for you and once you get used to the taste you can pretend it is a tropical island teaser...

So you add enough hot water to make a cup? I might have to try this.

(((Terry)) I am on edge because all that is happening. The students where I worked today I could tell were upset too.

Carol sorry for all the work around your home. We have been living with road construction around here the past few months and that is nothing compared to what they are doing around you.

Margaret

Heather – With small children and artwork you should never assume what their "scribble-scrabble" as my oldest son called it. You ‘always’ ask them to tell you about it; that opens up the conversation and you will find out more. One day I came home and hade drawn a picture all in black. My mother, bless her, asked for me to explain what the picture was – it was something like a house and the flowers and sunshine. She would say, ‘oh, now I see it; so why did you only use a black crayon? My answer to her was it was the ‘only’ one not broken and still had its cover. Even know, I get upset when my crayons get broken – tip or any portion of it. I’ll take my broken crayons and what I’ve done lately is take a rock that has been heated in the oven and melt it over it. Take another one and melt dots and stripes and stuff, they make for a lot of pretty colors. Then the extra will melt on the foil that I have covered the pan. After it is has cooled off enough I will take a knife and cut off what isn’t needed to keep it stable, that way they can be used as a paper holder, and you have in a built-in mat so that it would scratch your furniture. Then I go and hide them.

Karen in Virginia – I think we are glad that we decided to take Cracker to the Pet Spa when we went to Daytona Bch. We did not leave her crated when we took her out to Will’s house, so we did not want to do it while we were gone. After asking my son to water my plants, including my orchids. He came down and watered them maybe a day before we got home and ‘soaked’ my big Jade and big cactus. I was ‘so upset with him’. If we are gone for a short period of time, I will water all of them and hope they will be ‘ok’ … as for watering the flowers, plants, and orchids. I will call my neighbor – their neighbor on the other side because she will come over and let me show her how they needed to be watered. All I asked of him was to water the 2 or 3 times while we were gone to Will’s in August and he apparently watered them as I requested. I did expect to have at least one dead violet; I had 3. This time, rather than leave them in the porch, too hot … he soaked all of them. Now Louis has put them in the greenhouse and I will check on the ones that have some ‘green’ to them. I am sure hoping that cutting off the ‘rotted’ steam to the Jade plant and sticking it down into the soil will sprouts roots and grown.

I like having Cortana at the lower left-hand corner to my screen, so I can ‘look up what some say’ or ‘call things’

Yvonne in TX – Thanks I will ask about it. Today when I went to the PT, which was an experience. Patched both eyes, one open, one shut and then put on a special kind of computer that when he told me to look up and down and around, it showed how my eyes moved. I have no balance when I am standing still and my feet are together. Basically, he explained that the inner ear works like a gyroscope. If you move your eyes and don’t have balance, you will fall, I was ‘ok’ so I thought until I closed my eyes. He had to grab me a few times. I had forgotten about the seizure I had back last year when I had one at the bank. Today, I got the same woman to look up something for me and she asked how I was. I told her pretty good, and asked her what I did, all I could remember her asking me ‘if I was okay’ and couldn’t make sense and I stood up. She said, and then you went down. Bank loan officer knew I was having a seizure because he daughter had them and she knew what to do for me until the EMT’s got there. I don’t remember anything after pushing the chair back and standing up until the EMT was able to get me to ‘come around’. She said I was ‘out’ for nearly an hour and they could not understand what took them so long to get there; because there is an EMT office on the next block. Now, I guess why I can’t see some of my typos until after I got back and read them. I hope you understand what I am saying and understand that dropping my “r” on words like “you” when I mean ‘your’ … you will understand. I try to skim over what I have typed when I go to ‘bold’ the names.

I’m in the process of decluttering my bookshelves. I have a lot off them; but, I am sure I could take more down; but, at this moment I am glad that I got 30 books and 7 pictures off. Will donate my books to the library; not sure what I will do with the rest; but, have to decide soon, it is definitely in the way of doing the other portion.

Tomorrow I will try to clean up my CDs and DVDs. Dust as much as I can … don’t ever make the mistake of buy a corner TV cabinet. It takes 3 people to hook things up and someone to hold the TV as you pull it out as far as you can to dust under it. I’ll get Louis to help me with that. Need to get Trey to help, too.

My sister has taken a lot of things to the local auction house near them. All her silver-plate (which was something a lot of people gave brides during the 60’s and early 70’s. I’ve got a ‘box full’ and cannot think of any time I have used any of it.

Katla – I am very leery of a lot of things that are electronic. I’m at that age that I won’t do ‘online banking’ nor will I ‘pay my bills online’ I don’t give out any kind of personal information unless I ‘know’ who I am giving it to. I have taken my SSN off my checks and now they cannot ask for it.

Terry – I will talk to her to the vet tomorrow, she’s got to have her shots anyway. Tux has to go Friday or Saturday for his Rabies shot. Probably to check his allergies. Also got to keep an eye on the weather.

Carol – I’d be out there digging my own holes for my calla lilies. I’m sure they could not mind … or asking them to ‘turn’ over where they are planted and remove them from that spot to go somewhere else. I’d think they’d have to move your mailbox since they are the ones deciding to take it down. Three times while I was pregnant with Will (my youngest) I dug up flowers and shrubs around the front of my house so they could try to fix a water issue. We ended up having to sue him to get it right. He finally dug up around the entire foundation (underneath as well) to put in drain tiles. I would not have another ‘split level’ home because of that.

Becca and langman22 – I AM the ‘Loony sister’. But, that’s ok, I enjoy it and I try not to bother anybody with my loony-ness. For that my mantra is “I don’t suffer from mental illness; I enjoy EVERY MINUTE of it.

Lenora

GRITSandSLUTS wrote: »

Becca and langman22 – I AM the ‘Loony sister’. But, that’s ok, I enjoy it and I try not to bother anybody with my loony-ness. For that my mantra is “I don’t suffer from mental illness; I enjoy EVERY MINUTE of it.

Lenora

Lenora, this is why I love you. I think everyone is a bit crazy in their own way, some have got labels stuck on them, or take meds to calm them down or pep them up, but you are okay with yourself, just the way you are. You accept yourself and are not afraid to be yourself. That is very refreshing! Wendy

Last post before I grab my book and settle in for my nightly read.

Erienge, welcome! You have come to the right place if you are looking for support (and some laughs). What name do you want to be called? Jump in anytime the mood strikes you. I loved that movie took.

Karen, I was always bad at math. Fortunately my ex was a math teacher and could help my daughter.

Kelly, sounds like you are feeling better. Happy to hear that your cup is filling.

Lenora, how scary for you that dizziness must be. I was thinking it could be something with your inner ear. Hope PT helps.

Margaret, if the world is scary for adults right now, I can't imagine what it is like for kids. What do parents tells their kids?

Allie, I smile when I think of you relaxing in your new home. I wish you many happy times there.

Well that's it for today.

Terry in VT

Did an hour of deep water today. The plan for tomorrow is to do a 10 Pounds Down Better Body DVD.

After exercise, made a donation to the salvation army. Unfortunately, the person who opens the store hadn't come in yet (they open at 9 and it was 10) or else I would have stopped in.

Yvonne - I really don't like a fan blowing on me except when I'm exercising. But it's really not good to have it blowing on you after you are sweaty but cooling down.

Margaret - unfortunately, it seems that not very many people at all plant plants around here. Most of them have some sort of landscaping business that comes in and cuts the lawn and puts mulch around everything. Nothing more. I like mulch, but I also want something different in addition to the mulch. I remember when we lived in Stroudsburg, the man planted hostas underneath the trees. The main reason was so that he didn't have to mow around the trees. I'm thinking something like that might be something different from all the mulch always around trees. The landscaper next door put mulch around their trees and he made a little mound around the trees. As I understand it, this isn't a good thing to do. I had forgotten about impatience! Maybe it's because I don't think of them as perennials. Thanks for your suggestions on the plants. First we'll need to see that the bushes we planted will take, then we'll mulch but I want to put something in there along with the mulch, just to give it color and "something else"

Ginger and Barbie - remember that filing cabinet we had in the garage for 10 years that I kept asking Vince to go thru so I finally got so sick and tired that I took everything out and we got rid of the cabinet? That was only a year ago. Well, I finally got him to go thru those papers (only because they're having a shredding thing here where you can bring as much as you want for them to shred for free). FINALLY!!!!

Love all the pics. Arrow is so very majestic. I'm always enamored with pics of horses, they are such special animals (next to cats, that is....lol)

M - Vince is the same way about having things on the Internet. Now Jess' bf got some sort of thermostat that's hooked to the Internet. I know Vince said that he'd never have something like that. He just doesn't like knowing that it's possible for someone to turn on/off your heat when you're not there.

Lenora - let us know what the doc says about the dizziness

barbie9112 - welcome. Another barbie. Glad to meet ya

We had a few trees in the backyard that I wanted gone, so we did that today. Vince sawed them down and another day he'll use the ax on the stump. I must have gotten my steps in carrying all those branches to the back of the property.

Terry in VT - woohoo!!!

Called about getting Denise's gown steamed. Called the local dry cleaners, they can do it for $15. So I called David's down in Charlotte, they can do it all in one day. So I'll probably go there.

Carol - I'm so sorry for you

Wendy - can you give me the exact recipe for the Lassi?

KJ - I still remember that in grade school they were teaching us long division one way. I just couldn't get it so I asked my girlfriend's mother to help me. She could only show me the way she knew. But that I got

erienge - welcome. How right you are! It's frustrating when a young thing talks about losing 10 pounds in a week. I just think to myself "wait"

redrose - welcome!

Michele in NC

wildhorsewendy wrote: »

Terry the demand for queens is insatiable. We need hundreds for ourselves and then I get lots of calls from other beekeepers we know who want any "spare" ones I make. I could spend all day, every day making queens and still not have 'enough'. So I just do what I can, and what time I am willing to devote to it, which is approximately twice a week, then I may have to spend a little time on other days, taking the queen cells out and putting them in the incubator. My husband then takes the incubator out to the hive sites where he is making splits, and puts a queen cell into every split to make a new hive. Nine is really a drop in the bucket, but it is a start and what it means to me is that I have put the starter hives into the "queen-making mode" and have managed to manipulate the environment correctly so that all conditions are favourable for queen-making. Some hives just won't make queens no matter what you try and some hives are really good at it so it takes a while to find and create good queen-making hives. And you have to "keep" them good because if you take the reigning queen out of the hive, then the hive will slowly begin to grow weaker and die if there are no new bees hatching from eggs...so then you either have to put the queen back in for a while to strengthen the hive, or you have to put frames of larvae in that are about to hatch. (I know, too much information-bet you wished you hadn't asked, lol!)

I find it fascinating!

exermom wrote: »

M - Vince is the same way about having things on the Internet. Now Jess' bf got some sort of thermostat that's hooked to the Internet. I know Vince said that he'd never have something like that. He just doesn't like knowing that it's possible for someone to turn on/off your heat when you're not there.

It would be highly unlikely that someone would turn the heat on/off when you're not there. I haven't used a system like that, but would imagine there would be a user account with password and all in order to be able to make changes. It could get hacked, of course, but I wouldn't imagine that hacking a thermostat program would be on the top of hackers priority lists ... they're usually after more valuable things like credit card details.

If I had a greenhouse, I might be tempted to get something like that.