WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2018

Allie, Alfie is such a cutie. No wonder you fell for him. Is he a good dog?

I have a good way of limiting my dressing in a salad. I cut my greens pretty fine and then put my dressing on. And then I toss and toss. Doing that I only use a very small amount of dressing. My husband loves it coated, really coats and dripping in dressing.

This morning when I woke up for the first time to go potty, my hand felt so much better. Not normal but not burning. I was so encouraged. But I went back to bed and when I got up for the day it was back to the usual burning.somi am hoping it means we are getting close to the dosage need to take care of this nerve pain.

Machka, you sure are a busy person. My Mom used to mak grape jam and I remember pectin and those jars. But oh the wonderful jam that would be in the pantry, she kept picked beets, jams and tomatoes in the pantry all the time. Also they had a big garden and had a lot of potatoes and carrots. Dad kept a big barrel of sand in the pantry and kept the carrots in that. He found an article in a gardening that you plant a tomato inside a potato and plant the potato. The tomato feeds off the potato in the ground. You then have a bumper crop of tomatoes above the ground and potatoes in the ground.

Well the evening grooming has begun. Melody starts on Mozart's tail and has made her way up his belly. But so far Mozart has remained passive. He looks like he is asleep. So no competitive grooming tonight????? Charlie tends to over salt our porch and sidewalk and therefore we get it inside on our shoes. Mozart loves t just lay crosswise in the hallway. I guess what is in his tail could be salt. Yuck. Melody is now cleaning Mozart's toes. I have never seen. That one before.


Michelle picked up her bowel prep for her colonoscopy today. I sure hope they find out what is wrong. I have a feeling it will be irritable bowel disease with constipation. I have the same thing only it is with diarrhea. She is constinalty constipated and bloated and uncomfortable.

Still watching the European figure skating championships. I even have the Olympic channels best of past Olypmic figure skating. I think it is mainly the women's figure skating. It is such a beautiful sport.

I agree, Pip, your bod is beautiful. It doesn't look aged att all. I think Kirby would agree. How about an ab shot of Kirby!!!!

Sun was beautiful today, did sme melting of snow. It think it got up to about 41. It is supposed to gradually warm up every day and Sunday up to 50 and Sunday night have some rain which will help some more with the snow melting. Our kids haven't had school all week, in fact Friday of last week was their first snow day and haven't been in school since. I haven't seen any snow men in the yards so parents aren't making sure their kids get out in this snow, but I guess in their defense, it has been very cold. But Ellie has been going to work with Christina since she likes her bosses an who is also 11. They have made a snow fort and done a lot of sledding. For those who don't know, my daughter Christina is a personal assistant to a man who has a lot of different businesses, most of them mining, she has an office at his house. So she goes to work at his house every day. His wife home schools their 3 children. They have Nathan, the 11 year old and then 2 teenage girls. Christina also has a teenage girl, Trinity but she doesn't have any interest in going over there on their snow days. For heir snow day home work, Ellie had a gym assingment of playing in snow. Trinity had a choir assignment of looking up u-tube musicals and singing along. So they both enjoyed those. Their school does a good job of doing daily assignments for each class. They never have to have make up days like our school corporation does because of how the teachers are on there every day putting that days assignment and also being available once a day for help if needed. But I have loved their school system from the beginning, they have one school for kindergarteners. All the tables are little, bathrooms and everything are geared to that size. Then when you get to first grade, you are in a classroom that allows you to go to a second grade room if toy excel. Also every first grader gets a welcome letter from a scone grader.

Ok, enough of me blabbing tonight. Joyce, Indiana

I was at work from 9 to 5, teaching, prepping, and grading papers, but I still got in 9,500 steps. My commitment to 2018 is to continue living without sugar, to eat healthy, and to walk/jog/workout 6 days a week. Knowing I am fitter at 70 than in my 40s is no excuse to slack off.

Gloriously green, though rainy, Seattle, WA

Saturday -- While my husband was busy with the cherry orchard, I decided to get involved too ... and made cherry jam! My very first attempt at jam. I'll find out tomorrow if I was successful.

While I was doing that, I also put butter chicken on in the slow cooker ... chicken, lots of veg, chickpeas and a butter chicken sauce.

Then I went out for a bicycle ride and tackled some climbing.

Distance - 39.2 km
Elevation - 541 m
Moving Time - 2:13:26
Elapsed Time - 2:16:55
Speed: Avg: 17.6 km/h | Max: 42.5 km/h


M in Oz

GodMomKim wrote: »

Machka – interesting about not finding pectin, and jars easily, all of the grocery stores, and even many of the discount or hardware stores carry them here.

I did find pectin in three places. Two places had 50 gram packets (which is what I ended up using) and one had quite a large jar of it. But all the recipes talked about a much bigger variety and specifically a pectin for freezer jam. Neither of the two varieties I found referred to freezer jam at all. And I looked everywhere!

Although that said, I didn't check the health food stores. Maybe that's where I need to look.

One place also had sugar with pectin ... jam setting sugar. I got some of that too and when I added the sugar, I used a bit of it.

Speaking of sugar, the recipe called for an astronomically high amount of sugar!! I halved it. And even then, when I taste-tested it, it seemed really sweet.

Now I know that sugar is also needed for setting, so I hope it's OK and will set. I did the "set test" and that seemed all right.

As for jars, there were all kinds of glass jars for traditional jam, but nothing to go in the freezer. I was surprised! I finally found two sizes of a plastic jar with screw-on top. I got two 500 ml and one 1 litre container, and I've filled all three!

I've got 2 litres of cherry jam setting on the counter!!

I hope it's good after all that!


Machka in Oz