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Unfortunately I was referring to me not the dog when I said thunder thighs. Lol4
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M - it wouldn't surprise me one bit if your back pain was due to your tight hamstrings. I'm sure that's what is causing some of my back pain. You probably need extra sodium with all the bike riding you do
Terry - I still don't see any thunder thighs. When we lived in the Poconos there were some people who actually had heaters in their gutters to prevent a build up of ice.
Well, the dishwasher just finished and both of those couplers were at the bottom of the dishwasher. Next time I use them I think I'm going to have to put them in some sort of bag to wash them as the one that I know I put in where I could put a cover on it was at the bottom of the dishwasher.
Michele in NC
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Michele, too bad about the dragonfly, all that work gone in a split second... good attitude tho, you are right about the colour choices not having to be made again!
Terry, so sorry to hear about your cousins wife. My hope is that her pain can be controlled and that she not suffer.
That brass necklace is lovely! I didn't see any thunder thighs either!
Janetr, congrats on selling a couple of your eggs, they really are very pretty.
Heather, so nice that you were able to spend some time with your friend. Also, congrats on your running! I agree with the person who said that it doesn't matter how long it took you to run the 5k, the fact is that you RAN it! That is a huge accomplishment!
Congrats to those who are celebrating victories! HUGS to those who need them! My wi is tomorrow, I don't think it will be a good one. My eating habits this past week have left a lot to be desired. My biggest hope is that I haven't gained much. Time will tell...
Hope everyone has a great day/night.
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hello my friends. Terry, you have ruined how much fun an icicle can be! My innocence has been taken away from me!
Got my results from all my testing yesterday. Blood sugar was 109. I don't think I will ever hit that 99 mark. But cholesterol and triglycerides were good. Mammogram shows that I am my mother's daughter. She had fibro cystic disease, my sister has it and I do also. When my girls get old enough to get them done, I am sure they will also have it, my sisters daughter I'm sure will never have one done. Bone density showd the same thing as my last one, osteopenia. He removed the abnormal freckle on my back. I can't even tell there are stitches there. He said he is pleased with the recovery from the stroke. All my pain shows nerves are recovering, and more of the fingers are painful so it is coming along nicely. Well I will be glad to give it to him to go home and try to do normal activities and then he can see if it is good. But he is right. He did say I could increase the Lyrica to 4 times a day and I can go up from there if I need it and gave me permission to do it myself at home. We did it for my Tegretol when I had my trigeminal neuralgia so I know what he means. My B/P there was wonderful so over all he was pleased with everything and wants to see me back in 3 months.
Becca and Barbie, I will be thinking and praying for you and your husbands Ll week long. You know they will be OK. It but you just have to get there.
Betty, I am sorry you are having health concerns that will keep you from here, you know we specialize in helping people through health concerns. But you know your body so come back when you can
Maybe if we all have good thoughts about Miriam and Sylvia, they will come back.
I am looking at my hand and I look like my Mom. I have always physically looked like her. I took a picture of her when my girls were born and she was holdin one of them as a newborn. Many years later I took a picture of me holding my first grand child. I really do look like her. But I have those old lady finger look and I am only 68. Ewwwwww, saying in only 68 makes me feel really old.
I hope when this posts that it won't have this large blank area in the upper left corner. I have had to type throu it hoping what I was wanting to say was there,
All of our snow is gone, I wish the cold weather would go away. It is supposed to be 25 degrees at 7 AM tomorrow.
I have been tired all day today, don't know why. Depression???
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Michelle here in Minnesota when a new roof is needed you have to have an extra layer of black tarp placed at the roof line to prevent the damage ice can cause if it backs up under your roof. It is code here. Ice can back up under the roof and without that extra protection the water seeps down into your walls and can cause major damage to interior walls. Yes heaters in your gutters can also prevent such damage. As I said earlier one of the best ways to prevent ice dams here is to have enough roof insulation so the heat from your home does not melt the snow on the roof. We are starting to melt the massive amount of snow here but our home does not have those kind of icicles. If it did I would be calling in a professional to get rid of the ice.
We still have lots of snow on the ground from some major storms about a week ago. I feel for the east coast because I know how awful it is to find places for that heavy wet snow and how hard it is to shovel it. I hope you can find someone with a plow or a snow blower that can handle that kind of snow. If not be careful shoveling all that snow.
Margaret
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JanetR: Congratulations on selling some of your fabulous ornaments.
Michelle: Thank you for the kind words. Arrow's owners have been generous and kind to me beyond my wildest expectations. I am happy to return their kindness and generosity by helping a little when I can. I am so sorry that your beautiful dragon fly was ruined because of someone else's carelessness.
Joyce: Blood sugar of 109 isn't perfect, but it is pretty good. I'd consider it a win. I'm not diabetic but I've lived with one for more than 40 years. I think you're doing a good job of self-care in this situation and you'll get better at managing your blood sugar as you go along. :flowerforyou:
It is only 9pm here, but I'm ready for rest. I've been busy all day with various chores, ending with a city planning meeting. Now I just want to read & sleep.
Katla in beautiful NW Oregon
"Normally I'm quite normal . . ." The Gods Must be Crazy
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wildhorsewendy wrote: »Hi Sisters, wow, my calves are sore this morning from climbing hills with a pack on yesterday! Good sore. But I am up two pounds on the scale. I am believing you Machka, that this will go away and is just from intense exercise.
Wendy
Yes it will.
And your calves are sore from descending.
When I haven't climbed stairs in a while, it is the descent that gets my calves. Ouch!! But I keep doing it and two or three days later, it's OK.
If you can, try incorporating climbing stairs into your week ... even just a few times a week, up and down 5 or more flights of stairs. Your calves will thank you on your next hike.
M in Oz
Woohoo! My office is on a hill on the 4th floor. I am climbing steps all day long.
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Snowed in so won’t be going to work today! Yeah!6
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The snow is pretty though.
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Happy Hump Day!2
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Work today ... as usual.
Then my tutorial at uni. We have to be in groups for the tutorials this year, and I'm not fond of group work, but at this point, I seem to have ended up with a couple guys who are all right. They've both contributed and they speak reasonable English! We volunteered to present our little project and it went well.
By way of explanation ... the university courses here consist of:
-- lectures for the whole class of 100-300 students. Those are anywhere from 1-3 hours depending on what the instructor wants to do.
-- and a collection of tutorials which are labs or workshops, for anywhere from about 30-40 students of the 100-300 students in the class. They may be in the computer labs for some courses, or just small workshops or whatever, and the tutorials can be anywhere from 1-3 hours long.
This means that the lectures are quite impersonal and there aren't much in the way of questions or anything. But because we divide up into small classes for the tutorials, those allow us to do what we're being taught, and to ask questions, and to participate more. Then they often get us to divide up into small groups and do little projects and things together.
This is a different setup from what I experienced at universities in Canada where most of my courses were just lectures.
Something else that is different from what I experienced in Canada, is the 'international-ness' of this university, and particularly the program I'm in. Out of the 100-300 students in my classes, there are hardly any Australians. In two of my recent courses, I have been the one and only Australian. The rest of my class is almost half and half Chinese and Indian (from India), with a few other Asians thrown in. This is both interesting and challenging. Interesting because I'm learning about China and India and other places ... their customs and cultures and what life is like there. Challenging because many of them struggle to speak or understand English. This means that I am often the person they want in their groups when they do group work ... simply because I can speak English. This also means that I often end up doing a lot of the work.
So it is a bit of a relief that I've ended up in a small group with a young man from China, who speaks pretty good English, and a young man from Indonesia who is a little weaker with his English, but who isn't too bad. We can communicate!
When we got home from work and uni, my husband and I had a lovely walk down to the beach and back ... we go several times a week but we went a little later today than usual, and it looked very much like this photo which I took in Nov 2016.
And then I had a very hot bath with Epsom salts ... and then stretched and used my foam roller. I think there might be a little more flexibility in my hamstrings ... not much, but a little. I haven't done this much stretching in years!!
Machka in Oz
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Out the kitchen window
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Tony enjoying the fire
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Work today ... as usual.
Then my tutorial at uni. We have to be in groups for the tutorials this year, and I'm not fond of group work, but at this point, I seem to have ended up with a couple guys who are all right. They've both contributed and they speak reasonable English! We volunteered to present our little project and it went well.
By way of explanation ... the university courses here consist of:
-- lectures for the whole class of 100-300 students. Those are anywhere from 1-3 hours depending on what the instructor wants to do.
-- and a collection of tutorials which are labs or workshops, for anywhere from about 30-40 students of the 100-300 students in the class. They may be in the computer labs for some courses, or just small workshops or whatever, and the tutorials can be anywhere from 1-3 hours long.
This means that the lectures are quite impersonal and there aren't much in the way of questions or anything. But because we divide up into small classes for the tutorials, those allow us to do what we're being taught, and to ask questions, and to participate more. Then they often get us to divide up into small groups and do little projects and things together.
This is a different setup from what I experienced at universities in Canada where most of my courses were just lectures.
Something else that is different from what I experienced in Canada, is the 'international-ness' of this university, and particularly the program I'm in. Out of the 100-300 students in my classes, there are hardly any Australians. In two of my recent courses, I have been the one and only Australian. The rest of my class is almost half and half Chinese and Indian (from India), with a few other Asians thrown in. This is both interesting and challenging. Interesting because I'm learning about China and India and other places ... their customs and cultures and what life is like there. Challenging because many of them struggle to speak or understand English. This means that I am often the person they want in their groups when they do group work ... simply because I can speak English. This also means that I often end up doing a lot of the work.
So it is a bit of a relief that I've ended up in a small group with a young man from China, who speaks pretty good English, and a young man from Indonesia who is a little weaker with his English, but who isn't too bad. We can communicate!
When we got home from work and uni, my husband and I had a lovely walk down to the beach and back ... we go several times a week but we went a little later today than usual, and it looked very much like this photo which I took in Nov 2016.
And then I had a very hot bath with Epsom salts ... and then stretched and used my foam roller. I think there might be a little more flexibility in my hamstrings ... not much, but a little. I haven't done this much stretching in years!!
Machka in Oz
Pretty picture. My DD also has students in her classes from other places. She loves all the different languages and cultures. Makes the class more interesting.
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Old pic last year or maybe before that. On my way to the gym in the morning
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