WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2018

Mother’s Day Dinner ( for my MiL, BiL and DH). I’m cook.

Steak- NY strips, prime cuts (when you send husband to Costco without you he gets the expensive cuts you’d never approve!), Veggie primavera (carrots, broccoli, snow snap peas, and water chestnuts served in a delicious tomato sauce, fresh Parmesan for those inclined to add it), cheesy garlic homemade hash browns cooked in steak fat and juices from steak sear. Desert is a fruit sorbet. (Take frozen blueberries, mango, strawberries, pineapple and peaches, combine with sangria or diet ginger ale in blender until sorbet-ified ).

I’ve already cut open my thumb and dropped the 1/2 measure cup of blueberries (got to clean those up pronto, they stain horribly) all over the counter, floor and myself.

We ran out of cat food b/c hubby passive aggressively didn’t bother to mention it to me.

Hot flashes running rampant.

I’m a bit stressed.

Back to the kitchen, steaming veggies.

Rye

Barbara: "I think that while it's likely our doublewide would be on the "can't save" list, we could improve its chances by installing a metal roof, limbing up trees and clearing brush to the edges of our little knoll."
I think you have good ideas, and they could make an important difference in the event of a fire.

Rebecca: I hope you feel good on your new macros. I try to have more protein but am quite happy when my pie chart is roughly equal. High protein seems to go with a bit higher fat. :flowerforyou:

Heather: Feel better soon.

Pip & Rebecca: Love the photos of your moms. :flowerforyou:

Michele: I would be in the same situation as Vince. Working hard in heat tends to make me feel awful. I'd probably work in the early morning, and maybe again in the evening, but not in the middle of a hot day. :noway:

Penney: Happy Birthday!!!

Regarding meat doneness. I want all my chicken and pork well done. Fish and beef are better when they are still juicy. I like beef brown on the outside and red in the middle. Red but done, not raw.

Bad News:
The new battery for DH's car and ignition didn't work out. We took it to Les Schwab and they couldn't fix it. Something in the new battery wiring killed the ignition system plus the new battery and damaged the electronics in the car. We have to have it taken to VW in Beaverton Monday and let them work on it. NOT happy.

Good News:
Mothers Day has been great. Both of my kids called and I also got to chat with my daughter's six year old and three year old. :bigsmile:


Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

Happy Mother’s Day!
I hope y’all had a great day!

Even though I was up at 5:30 am because poor Dolly had an accident, I had a great day!

Dolly is feeling better tonight and has eaten a little and wants to play.
I guess she needed some mom time!! I was laying down and she joined me and had her head on my leg the whole time! Sweet Dolly!

DH took me to lunch at Bubba’s, a microbrewery, where we had burgers and brew! We sat outside on Lake Hamilton. It was just perfect!

My two daughters and I had a three way text going on plus phone calls while I repainting a concrete Gnome. It was fun like the old days! I planted the geraniums into larger pots too.

Happy Birthday Penny!! I hope it was fabulous!

Katla So sorry about your car battery and it’s system! It’s a hassle!

Terry I love the Woodland Pot!. Me Gnome would like that fer his home!

Dana in Arkansas

Me at Bubba’s; Dolly; Dish garden for Mr Gnome

Hi Gals,

Barbie – fence looks so tidy! And adding Iris will be gorgeous!

Katie bug – nice looking vanity

Rye – I cut my own bangs too, and what I do is drop a narrow part of my bangs down on my face (not just the right or left, but across my face) and trim them a bit shorter than I want the finally result then drop down some more and cut them longer than the first bunch, and drop the final amount and cut those but always little short cuts at a bit of and angle so it’s not a blunt straight cut, it’s too obvious that it isn’t straight if it’s a blunt cut

Heather – all sizes of jam and jelly jars are bought and sold at about $1-2 here on different web pages!

Machka – great insight about how to “help” an introvert at times of crisis or grief, and yet I think the hardest thing to do is what you would not want; for an extrovert to help an introvert or vis versa.
Great news on DH and all the improvements!!!!


Felicia – ok, after reading your post I can’t believe I am typing this, but …. I live 45 min from San Francisco and would love to meet you when you are visiting..

Rebecca – I thought the same thing about the school secretary

Lisa – congrats!!!!!

Meg- Happy Birthday!!!

Almonds -My friends are Almond growers and there is an L in the word all-monds while they are on the tree and then the L gets knocked out when the trees are shaken and the nuts that are sold are am-ends..

I had a great trip to Boston, will see if I can get some pictures up – the weather was amazing, everything in bloom-beautiful and the history! Everywhere!!! I had a great time, landed Friday, by Tuesday was dealing with allergies? Not! A Darn cold. Still sick, my nose is running, and the drainage has my throat sore and my voice is gone. So proud of my god-daughter, she is a lovely young lady, with her BS in pre-med. Jan 2019 she starts her masters in kinesiology, then will do her doctorate. It was a real delight to also see my god son. This family has no money problems and treated us and Emily’s roommate and her family to dinner to celebrate both of the girls graduation. Emily’s roommate’s family is not as well off so this was a treat for all 25 of us, dinner at a really nice, but casual restaurant.

We stayed at an Airbnb this is my 3rd time in an Airbnb and I have loved it everytime, I think it is something I’d like to do in my retirement, this house would be hard to set up, the layout is a bit awkward for that, but I plan on moving for retirement anyway. Also had great experiences using Lyft to get us between thing that we just not located close to a T line… One day I walked just under 30K steps!


Smiles

Kim from N. California