WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2018

Machka9 wrote: »

Machka lives completely on the other side of Australia from there.



Machka in Oz

Machka - Thanks a lot for posting this. As the daughter of a geographer, I always appreciate visuals that put sizes and distances into perspective and make them comprehensible to people from other places. Map projections can really fool you! One of my family's greatest "in jokes" was a rice paper lampshade where the map they'd used was a Mercator projection even though the lampshade was a globe. :laugh: Greenland was the same size as all of South America!

What Rebecca says...

coastalgosgal wrote: »

Oh fyi from Perth to Sydney in Australia is like from Los Angeles to New York City! Sadly we meaning I, have grown up learning that Australia is this tiny island, but in truth its far from it.💗 Living with a host family in New South Wales was an experience that I will treasure always.

...is a case in point. Once you've lived the distance, you know, but until then...

When my husband flew from Cape Town, South Africa, to a research station just 100 km in from the shore of Antarctica, the flight took EIGHT HOURS!

Today I checked my strawberry patch and decided I had to harvest some strawberries. I'd intended to save them until my son arrives and give him a strawberry shortcake for his birthday (Sunday), but those a lot of those berries weren't going to last that long. So I made two jars of strawberry jam this morning. I only picked the ripest ones, so I'm hoping there will be enough for a shortcake too.

Heather - Mum's the word, but I notice your word choices shifting from "if" to "when". Keeping all my fingers crossed!

I woke up this morning at 3 am for a call of nature and saw a streak across the sky. I figured it was a contrail but when I got up I realized it wasn't.


We rarely get much of an arc of a rainbow up here, but this one offered nearly 180 degrees. Once again, something to be grateful for!
/Penny, expecting grandkids in two days near the

@coastalgosgal - a young lady that I used to babysit posted pics of rocks she painted on the weekend to hide with her niece and nephew. I'm not sure why, but this one made me think of you.

So happy it's Thursday, ladies!!

Kelly - (((HUGS)))) I agree, you are doing a VERY important job!! You are a natural and to have been lucky enough to find your niche is a blessing. Thank you for asking about the smoke -- weather report said this morning western WA was due to get some California smoke but so far, other than a bit of hot haze, no smoky smell like we had last summer. We might see a little rain this weekend - hope there's enough to cool things off on the west coast.

Carol - I feel for you cleaning out and your DH finding "gems", lol. Sounds like you have a good plan though, one drawer/room at a time. Little things add up.

Meg - safe travels! Catch up on hugs!! What a nightmare about your friend's son, glad he was acquitted but still the turmoil and hassle and bad feelings stirred up.

Katla - any smoke down your way today? Blueberries up here are finishing up, my freezer is loaded BUT still think I'll buy another 2# container to bag up and stick in there. Tomatoes are coming on and I'll put some of those in the freezer too - will thaw and cook down this winter for "fresh" sauce. Hope your vehicles get all fixed up and ready for many months of carefree driving.

Barbie - Yippee, on the mend at last ;-)

Penny - I love hearing about your strawberries and the culture there in Norway. That early early morning rainbow - what a neat surprise! We are to have a meteor shower (Perseid) this weekend - can you ladies in other parts of the world see it if it gets dark enough? Not like and eclipse so you probably can.

Machka - I am so proud of you continuing with your schooling during your DH's recovery and graduation coming soon!! Yes, photos or video's please! I was elated to hear he baked you a birthday cake!! Happy Birthday if I forgot to wish you one earlier!

Michele - Looks like intriguing things going on at the newcomer's club. I'm afraid I would have grown weary of the drama and told them adios. We have a little of that going on with the Master Gardener Board members but not to the extent of what Vince is dealing with. How nice for you to hop into the pool and relax and forget about it for a while.

Terry - can you get your daughter to decorate your cast? Love that necklace for her, by the way. So glad to see you back here!!

Regarding turmeric, what I take is Curcumin and boswellia made by Terry Naturally - Curamed or Curamin. I have found free samples at the health food store--since it's expensive I was OK at the lowest dose for months. I look for sales and use my Amazon rewards on purchases like these.

I think it builds up in the system. I know there are a lot of different brands and yes, some with black pepper which helps activate the anti-inflammatory qualities from what I've read. I love curries but don't think I could put enough turmeric in it to make a different, lol.

So Rye - if there's a health food store close by, they might give you all kinds of samples of different brands. I don't have allergies to NSAIDS but years of taking them for back pain and migraines have made my tummy super sensitive. I haven't had any stomach issues with this stuff but also take it with food most of the time.

Heather - hearing about your different papers and items you are sorting through is taking me down memory lane. I have a couple boxes of sheep pictures - our flock, which I just loved. About 20 years of photos - and I can't look at them long without getting teary-eyed. Funny, I don't have that same reaction when looking at photos of relatives, lol.

Rebecca, I think I need to hire you to paw through my sheep pix and just pick out a couple dozen nice photos and pitch the rest. Your son's ship is exquisite!! Must be fun just watching him work on it, he's very talented!!

Tracey - you are my hero with your photo organization and pitching. Scrapbooks are a great idea!

I volunteered to read a memoir and in the midst of it right now - as a "test-reader" and will post a pre-publication review on Amazon. The subject is a lady who was the mom of one of my schoolmates who died from dementia (I thought) a few years ago. Heather, it reminds me of your book a bit because he talks about his childhood growing up in rural Indiana -- they lived down the road from my parent's farm.

Evidently she was a hoarder and a writer, so she left a lot of personal papers. Even though the writer was the youngest child, he is able to pull together a lot of pertinent information and still maintain a pretty detached description of her life as he tells it, starting with childhood during the Depression in the 1920's when her father left her mom and young children to fend for themselves.

I am zipping through it right now just to get a feel for how it flows and will give it another go with more attention to detail. I can tell it's cathartic for him - but I'm curious how the eldest child would have written it. And my classmate who likely took after her mom with her own "wild streak" lol.

On another topic, someone mentioned having a house with 2 bathrooms. If I could design a house, I would have one bathroom with a toilet and a shower/tub for people to actually bathe, and then a half-bath with toilet and sink, maybe the laundry there too with close access to an outside door. So if a person is working outside and feels the call of nature, no need to either tramp all the way though the house or stop and take off shoes/boots, etc. My lucky DH - we have enough landscaping and trees in our back yard that he doesn't often have to run into the house if you get my drift.

Beth - I am going to be on the lookout for those toilet lights! Christmas is coming!

OK time to close this. I see a lot more posts have been zooming in but will check them later. Have a great evening ladies!

Lanette
SW WA State where a cooldown is coming starting tomorrow!