WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2018

Rye - we're living in a mixed household at the moment - two large dogs, and two chubby kitties. Ordered a $20 thing from Amazon called a Door Buddy door latch. It's hard to explain, but it works really well. It keeps a door open enough for a cat to get through, but the dogs can't. Allowed the cats a safe space (the garage) where they can go and their litter box and food are out there where the dogs can't get to those either. It's made things significantly more peaceful. We were also able to put it up high enough that the three-year-old can't get in the garage, either, which was a bonus. My daughter's cat will allow the German Shepherd to haul him around by the head - never hurts him, but when he's tired of it, he goes in the garage. My cat, Egg, won't tolerate him, but figured out the escape hatch very quickly, spits and hisses at him, and then goes and curls up in the garage and goes to sleep. Much less stress on all concerned.

Long day, three more to go... traveling all day tomorrow, working all evening, then the main event on Wednesday. Thursday is just meetings all day and recovering in between. Friday I'm back across to NC.

Love y'all,
Lisa in EP for now, NC Friday, Arkansas in mid-April

Allie Yay! Congratulations on getting that behind you. If my mom was still alive, she would say: "Go forward with a fierce heart!"

Karen in Virginia

Caroline, you teach 17 year olds! What an honor. Yes, it is your responsibility to give those wonderful young people those life skills. I admire you but would not want to be you at all, I would have no patience for them at all. Having 2 teenagers at the same time in my home was almost to much at times and they were my daughters.

Kylie, I love your floors and you did a wonderful job. You should be very proud of yourself and I hope your next renter appreciates it. I also just admire you to,

Well we have been busy today. Charlie was on the phone with his niece as to how he could help but not do it all. Then he called the funeral home to set up a time to go in and give them a check. So I got the idea that this was a perfect time for us to do our funeral pre-planning. Charlie doesn't do to well with spur of the moment spending of large amounts of money but this was the perfect time. Karen died with no planning and her family not only had to decide what tondo with her remains but pay for it also. So now both of us have our funeral plans made down to the flowers and songs sung. Our only problem is that Charlie doesn't want to be below ground and I suppose I want a traditional burial just because that's the way it is done. I have never thought of a crypt. I have seen them and your casket is in what i perceive as a drawer. I suppose we could have adjoining drawers. I just always invisioned our children coming to the cemetary like I do with my parents plots. They have a lovely headstone with a Mr and Mrs on it. It is under a tree and we hear the birds singing and see the nice green grass. It is such a nice pastoral place. I just can't see going to a wall of crypts and k owing that you are there talking to your parents. The director and myself tried to explain that with the embalming process, your body is dead so he doesn't have to worry about being buried underground in a vault and then finding that he is alive and there is no way of letting people know. I suppose I will be the one to give in because I want is together. So now we need to move forward in getting those and also making our wills.

So my mind just can't concentrate on anything right now, like I don't know what Lenora means about our names. I assume also since I can't concentrate and my mind is al befuddled, I shouldn't make my will.

I am proud of my husband and his brothers,, they have all taken care their sister. When their sister initially went to the funeral home, they made some initial payments but left a good amount to be finished. So all three brothers have finished. And one of my SIL even personally bought an urn for her. I didn't know you could buy an urn on Amazon. I just hope that since the brothers did do all of this that the niece doesn't see this as a constant source of money when she has a strong. Karen could really come up with stories when she would ask for money. When Charlie called his niece Brittney he did tell her that that is want family is for, when you need help, family comes through. I cringed when he said that.

My brain is empty tonight so I will just say goodnight. Oh Allie, I am so glad it is now over. Sleep,well tonight

Joyce, Indiana

Congratulations Allie! :drinker:

KJ - what fantastic fun!

Tired now. Bed soon.

More possible titles - Eyes of a Child.
Patterns.
I Am, I Am, I Am.

I quite like the last one. All would have a subtitle. Like - A father. A daughter. Innocence betrayed.

I like the last one too, Heather. With a judicious choice of font it can be tweaked in directions ranging from desolation to triumph over adversity.

This is unrelated, but it reminds me of a cover of The New Yorker that showed forms of the verb To Be on parade through the streets of the city. My parents have it framed in the loo at their cottage.

An assertive "I am". A joint, emphatic "We are". A timid, sidelined "Am I?" A dejected "I was".

Must run. Heading to mainland Norway later, and the grandkids are joining us out on the island for Easter holidays. Will be busy!
/Penny at the

Joyce – when you think of it, Jesus Christ was laid to rest in a crypt of sorts. It was a large rock with a boulder in front of it. So should you be laid to rest in a crypt, you’re in the final resting place like Jesus.

The 6” cookie cutter came in the mail yesterday. Why they don’t do better packaging, I don’t know. It was probably manufactured in a perfect circle, but it came in an envelope (not padded) and I’m sure in the transport to our house, it probably got something put on top of it or whatever which is what caused it to be slightly bent. In the end, it’s not that bad and can be bent backwards. But from the reviews, some people’s can’t be

Michele in NC
who is off to do her HIIT now

Kelly ~ I got a happy laugh reading about your dog and the kittens.

Carol in GA