WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2018
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Weighed myself. I’m 3-1/2lbs lighter than what I have in my profile. I will update it if I stay there in another week, but I will just lower it by 1/2 lb3
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Photography: Part 1 Aperature and cat's eyesWendy A while back I said I’d tell you a bit about photographs but I’ve been struggling to explain. See, being blind in one eye since birth, I have no understanding of 3 dimensions visually. Depth of field is only something I sorta understand, and often my photos are kinda of visual puzzles that play with perspective and a lack of depth of field- i.e. I like to take photos that show a different way of seeing things - the way I actually see them.
So explaining this is a struggle with concepts I don’t fully understand myself. But I’ll try to cover the fundamental idea of camera lens depth of field inside the spoiler tag. And, hey everyone: cute cat photos used inside as examples!
You want what is called a shallow depth of field (what photographers would set as a wide aperature) and probably need either a modern camera phone with software that fakes that effect, or a decent camera that has manual control of aperture settings.
Each phone camera would have different software and be called different things, so I’ll just say on an Apple iPhone you would want “portrait mode”. I don’t know what it would be on other phones.
But on manual settings on a camera you need to control the aperature for the effect you want.
So, think of a camera lens as being like a cat’s eye.
Here we see my Jackie Kane, indoors in a dimly lit room, light coming in from a window. Notice how large (wide) the iris of his eye is. This is a large (wide) aperature - in dim light the lens must open wide to see. Note that the whole picture is NOT in focus! His fur and his paw start to get blurred- that is called a shallow depth of field and happens more and more the wider the aperture of the camera lens is open. An aperature setting of F1.6 to F2.6 is good place to start when attempting shallow depth of field photos.
Now we see my Sweetheart. Outdoors on a sunny day, his eyes have tiny sliver slit irises. Because there is a lot of light and he only needs to open up a little to see. Note the whole picture is in focus. The camera’s aperature here is narrow like the tiny slit of a cat’s iris. Probably an aperature setting of F16 or above.
With me so far?
Photography: Part 2 Aperture and depth of field Rubber duckies and measuring tapes
Ok, a Wide aperture is the big iris cats eye, and narrow aperture is the tiny slit iris, but what does the aperture mean for the end photos? It means a depth of field.
DUCKIES! Note in the narrow aperture (long depth of field/high F-stop) how we can see the eyes of each ninja rubber duckie and we can read up to inch 17 or 18. The same lighting, same distance, same lens but I changed the aperture. (lower f-stop) The photo on the right is a shallow depth of field photo. Duckies blur as they get further from the focus and the numbers get difficult to read much closer, at inch 12 or 13.
So, If you want to take a breathtaking vista photo, or architectural city scape, try a high F-stop and keep as much of the photo in sharp focus as possible.
Portraiture (animal or human) and macro (close-up) photography is generally taken at low F-stops. The focus will blur out and in and a short area will be in sharp focus (face for instance) and the rest will appear soft.
That make sense?
Rye
Just wanted to copy so I could find this information again when I have more time to read through it. Great refresher for me!
June goals same as for May but more focus on veggie and fruit intake:
May TOTALS:
PERCENTAGE GOAL MEET: MAY
WORKOUT TIME: 205%
VEGGIES: 81%
FRUIT: 74%
WATER: 105%
STEPS: 86%
YOGA: -129%
DAIRY 228%
188.6 pounds started in march
189.2 pounds started April
190.2 started May
186.0 pounds started June 1 Lost 2.8 pounds this month
overall total 129% met
June daily goals:
Workout 2.5 hours a week per health coach
Walk 3 miles (7,000 steps) 7/7
10 min stretches/strength/yoga 2/7
9.3 cups (74.4 oz) water
4- 1/2 cup servings veggies
3 - 1/2 cup servings fruit
1 serving dairy
Lose 3 pounds to get to 183.2 or less by June 30.
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Just finished eating a fabulous veggie curry. It always makes me feel so virtuous! Butternut squash, garbanzos, lentils and spinach, plus the usual onions, garlic, ginger and chilli paste. Plus spices. Have it with hot mixed pickle and raita.
More AF stuff arrived today. Taking a big selection on the cruise. Just bought a new Seedlip for DH, who tasted the Spice one at DS's and liked it. I prefer the Garden, but they are both nice. I will have the occasional glass of alcohol, e.g. champagne, but I'm not going to drink like the last two years.
Makeup - I don't wear it everyday just around the house, but if I go out I like to wear some. I definitely look sick without it and people always ask me if I am alright! I am deathly pale with no colour in my cheeks and my eyes are tiny. Without makeup I remind myself of my aged mother. Not good. I like to wear a tinted 50 sunscreen, a bit of foundation on my nose, a touch of powder on my nose and greasy forehead. Then some eyebrow pencil, shadow and mascara, with a thin line under my eyes. The most important thing is the liquid blusher to stop me looking half dead. Then some lip pencil, some indelible lipstick, plus a bit of normal lipstick on top. It takes around 10 minutes.
When I'm done I feel human again and about ten times as confident. It is "my face". Not my mother's. It brightens my mood and I feel ready for anything. Same goes for my hair. If my hair isn't blonde, shiny and beautiful I'm not quite right.
Fortunately there are many days when I go nowhere and see no one, so I can just slob out with greasy hair and no makeup. But if I want to face the world it really helps.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxx3 -
Regarding makeup - around the house day to day, I usually don't wear any. If I end up going to "town" to the post office or some other quick stop in errand, I will put on eyebrows (I haven't had any eyebrows for YEARS). If I know I will be going out, I generally use a powder foundation, some blush, light eye makeup and eyebrows. Two minutes tops. I do have a tinted moisturizer from my dermatologist that I am supposed to wear all the time (to protect from not only the sun but the damaging rays of the computer) but I do not. I don't like the feel of anything that heavy on my face all the time.
Okie in the TX Hill Country2 -
Finished baking for my eldest son that lives here, his squadron heading up to Alaska for a spell training. Gotta have some cookies on those long watches! The brownie mini loaves are for my DIL, thinking some chocolate might just keep that little thing upbeat. Sending her cookies ( in the foil), to round out the chocolate aspect. The cookies are just sugar cookies with mini M&M's.
Not taking my cold medicine Sat and Sun so it will be out of my system prior to my procedure Monday morning. Plus I have to stay overnight. Nervous about that!
Rebecca4 -
Re Makeup: I wear makeup whenever I go out. Having acne really bad for many years, I had to wear something to cover it up. After my hysterectomy at age 39, the acne finally went away but I still wear foundation, blush, and lipstick. My eyesight is so bad I cannot put liner on without smearing it all over the place and I have stubs for lashes so no eye makeup. This is bad because my eyes have always been my best feature.
Rebecca ~ Good for you baking for your son and DnL. I made a pudding cake the other day and now I know why I never bake....I end up eating it. LOL
Had two pieces of fried chicken from the deli for lunch and now I feel so guilty consuming all that grease. Mad at myself for suggesting it but DH loves it.
Carol from GA
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Happy Saturday!
The heat index for Hot Springs Arkansas is 108°F and very humid. I was out this morning working in the garden some more. I was wanting to have our yard look nice for when my SIL comes to visit with her husband tomorrow. I worked a total of six hours out there digging out weeds, raking, and putting down new mulch. It actually looks pretty good. I don’t do a whole lot of work around because we have over an acre and it’s just too much, so I just plant a few things around the house and hanging plants.
Lenora I was reading that you took MiraLAX and what the doctor said. I’ve been using MiraLAX off and on but I think I should use it more. Sometimes it’s like two or three days goes on and I haven’t been to the bathroom and I feel like crap! Sorry for the pun, ha ha! But then it doesn’t help my weight loss situation either. I can guarantee a 2 pound lose once I go. Sorry girls if that’s disgusting.
I don’t wear makeup around the house either. When I go out I use a liquid foundation, blush, brow pencil since I don’t have much eyebrows and mascara. I gave up using eye shadow because my eyelids have gotten so droopy.
I have cleaning house all week it seems. My house is always clean and tidy but when my SIL comes for a visit I want to spic and span!! She is 74 and her husband is 78 so that would make my DH 10 years younger than hers. My DH calls him pinky or he calls him George Washington too because he looks like George Washington and pink! He also calls his sister, sister righteous. We go out to dinner, we have to go along with her deal and I don’t want to upset the apple cart. Don’t get me wrong I believe in God and we go to the Baptist church but there’s one thing I don’t like doing and that’s holding hands in public at a restaurant drawing attention to ourselves. I feel it’s just unnecessary when I can give thanks to myself.
Heather Your DH looks like he really enjoys the kids!!
Lisa Sorry about you losing the bid. There are plenty of houses to be found. When we were first looking to buy, we put an offer in on a smaller place with a city size lot. My heart wasn’t into it but my husband liked it. We also saw the place we own now and I loved it! I think it was meant to be - for the other place to fell thru. This house is a custom home on acreage and twice the other place. I love it out here. We’re 10 miles west of town.
Pip Kirby and you make a cute couple!
I’m posting pictures of me outside “au natural” the garden I worked this morning and a picture of my favorite little filly “Milly” by Milford One, AQHA out of a Poco Bueno mare from the King Ranch.
Have a great weekend!
Dana in Arkansas
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Oh, lip goo is always on. Usually tinted gloss, sometimes lipstick. Occasionally lip stain.
Okie2 -
Today I prepared my fav salad ever. Cottage cheese, some tomatoes, cucumber, green onion, some EVOO basil and garlic dressing, and wild rice. So yummy! I am addicted to large curd creamy cottage cheese. It's better than any sauce, and I sometimes add it to spaghetti sauce dishes, as a side.
Tonight it's some sauteed kielbasa sausage, zucchini and more cottage cheese! Oh and a cuppa joe!
Enjoy the day all!
Rebecca4 -
I like to eat my salads with a spoon too!
Rebecca
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So, there I was thinking "Wow! The girls are quiet this month!" Turns out that while I had read June's first posts, I had forgotten to BOOKMARK June and so was still reading from May.... Had 5 pages to catch up on! lol Am now caught up.
Lisa, that house just wasn't meant to be, there's a better one out there!
On makeup, I never did use much, never got properly shown or taught how to do foundation, blush, etc, blundered about with it several years ago, and while I liked what I saw when I would first put it on, within a few hours the foundation would sort of cake in the lines and make me look MUCH older than I really am, so gave up on that. I used to use eyeshadow a lot, got pretty good with that, but am now finding that too much of that stuff irritates my eyes. I do use mascara, pretty much never leave home without it, my lashes aren't really thick, but good enough, but very blonde on the ends to they tend to look very short. The mascara just makes them show up better. I tried eyeliner, that really bothered my eyes, made them burn, not fun so gave up on that. Hubby also thought it made me look like I had two black eyes and I guess he didn't want to be blamed for something that he didn't do! lol
Still haven't said anything to DS about the wedding day, I really want to do something soon, just hard to get together with him and I don't really want to waste any of the small portion of time that I get to spend with my grandson by having some big emotional confrontation with my son and daughter in law! Really need to do something soon tho, I'm stress eating and I'm pretty sure that's a huge part of the stress. Maybe they will let us take him for one day a week, or even one day every other week. Then he would at least know who we are!
Okay, enough of the pity party.
Heather, enjoy the cruise! We've only ever been on one, we did the Caribbean, enjoyed it immensely, definitely my idea of a vacation!
Machka, you are a pillar of strength! Happy to hear that hubby is progressing. I'm sure it's not happening as fast as you would like, but you are certainly facing it with dignity and grace. You are truly an inspiration!
Congrats to those celebrating, Hugs for those needing them and welcome to the newbies!
Evelyn, Vancouver Island, where the weather is so much nicer than the weather man said it would be! (YAY!!!)
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Barbie. Thanks for the June thread. Grateful.
Karen in Virginia3 -
Hi Gals,
Busy day, and upcoming week…
I usually start my day with a 3 mile walk (with some minor elevation changes – I call them hills, but they are minor) with Levi but in the last 2-3 weeks I have had so much going on that I’ve found it hard to find time for a full walk. 3 miles takes me about an hour, I’m short and I saunter… so for a while now I have been going a different route a couple of times a week which is just 1 mile, and instead of walking I am doing HS (Heather Shuffle) faster than a walk-slower than a jog, it’s the Heather Shuffle! I so clearly remember reading Heather describing the HS and grinned from ear to ear! She of course has graduated from the HS to a runner… me not even headed to graduation! But it means a couple of mornings a week I think of you all and hope at 5 am no one I knows sees me so I can just do my thing in peace.
Today I did the HS mile, then off to camp to garden I was there by 6:30am, meeting a friend and we worked for 3 hours. She worked on patching some wholes in our fencing (it’s plastic fencing to keep the bunnies out) and I used the string trimmer (aka the weed whacker) on the weeds in the orchard. By 9:30 it was 80 degrees and we were done ! nice to visit, and to get something accomplished. I can’t do weed whacking when there are kids in camp so this morning was perfect!
Embroidering this afternoon and really feel like a lot has been accomplished!
Smiles
Kim from N. California
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Just got her bath cut and toe clip, purdy gurl
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Dana, Milly has a beautiful face, reminds me most of my mare Aseelah.
Katla, I am not boosting my hormones through synthetic or even bioidentical means. I am using herbs, food and essential oils to boost/balance many hormones such as melatonin, cortisol, Human Growth Hormone, DHEA, Adosterone, Thyroid hormones as well as the sex hormones, estrogen, testosterone and progesterone. There is so much information out there to help. By doing things naturally, I give my body the building blocks so it can produce what I need.
My symptoms have been: cold hands and feet, thin-skinned, feel the cold easily, urinary stress incontinence, small bladder, need to pee all the time, leaking during exercise, difficulty building muscle, low libido, anxiety, increased wrinkles and greying hair, sugar cravings, and less sleeping. By learning how to boost hormones naturally, I have been fixing and improving lots of my symptoms.
The three books I have found to be most informative are: Bio Young, by Roxy Dillon, How Not To Die, by Dr. Michael Gregor and The Hormone Solution, by Theirry Hertoghe. For anybody who believes that knowledge is power and wants to take control of their own health issues, I highly recommend these three books which each provide an essential piece of the puzzle. This information is vital for weight and depression issues as well.
Machka, there is an excellent chapter on memory in The Hormone Solution and I thought you should read it and be empowered to help your husband as his body repairs the damage done by the accident.
I am particularly happy that I have totally fixed my exercise leakage problem without doing any useless Keigal exercises. I am going to try jumping on the trampoline again, LOL.
Wendy3 -
Did a hot cardio DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to do a Warrior Workout DVD
Lisa – I’m so sorry you didn’t get the house. But you DO have a great outlook on it.
Lenora – thanks so much for your opinion on the Denise situation. It’s so good to run this by someone who has BTDT. I think this is what I’m going to do – just drop the whole thing knowing that they just don’t know any better.
M – yes, the bridal shower was almost a year ago. It just brought up the feelings when Pete went on and on about how his family would never treat Denise the way he feels Jess treats her. Felicia – I felt I had let it go, but when Pete brought up the “my family is so great” business, that just brought up these feelings to me.
Rye – don’t be amazed that I broke my hula hoop. It was VERY old. Jess is 34, I probably got it when she was around 9. But thanks for the compliment, tho. It was probably dried out. I do like to change up my workout, that’s good for the muscles. To me, it’s boring to do the same thing day after day. I just couldn’t do it. Like I only go to the water class one day/week. Unless I absolutely had to, I’d get bored doing it more often
Just came back from a friend’s house. She had a “smell the flowers” brunch. I was surprised in a way that I was the only person who brought something to have in addition to something for the food pantry. Oh well….as Vince said, “that’s you. You can’t go anywhere emptyhanded”. And he’s right. She had these quiches, just had a bite of each of the three of them. Then she had bacon (the Italian type) wrapped melon (I had one), I had a piece of biscuit and butter. That was enough for me. Actually, I had some chicken before I went along with quite a bit of water.
Lenora – good thoughts for Jennifer’s niece
NYKaren – good for you signing up at a gym. Is it a chain or a local gym?
Michele in NC
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Stats for the day
Spin class- 68min, 119ahr, 148mhr, 105aw, 80ar, 16.9mi= 497c
Apple Watch- 504c
Walk pick up winkle- 47.43min, 125mhr, 3.3ap, 2.6mi= 257c
Apple Watch- 274c
Total cal 7543 -
My update--it is June and I am feeling a lot better. Trying to appreciate the now and not fret so much about the future. I have lost 6 or 7 pounds since January and my blood work looks better. I weigh myself every week and every week it is what it is and I take whatever the scale says and keep my reactions at an even keel. I take care of myself better and meditate some every day and try to get some exercise. I am not letting myself go crazy with numbers any more. I just want to feel good and look okay enough. Things still get to me but I choose today's small joys over them.Today I spent the morning in garden stores and the rest of the day I weeded, planted, mulched and cleaned. My front yard is almost looking civilized enough for visitors. My deck has suddenly become almost charming!Radishes will be picked tomorrow. The weather was nice and cool so I worked for hours.For June all I would like is more of the same. Hugs to everyone!!!
Betty in glorious Rochester6 -
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