WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2018

M ~ What is that? How do you get rid of it?

Machka: Beautiful magnolia! It is lovely to see your spring as we move into fall. I hope you find a good dentist. :flowerforyou:

Rebecca: The cat looks very pleased with himself to me. Just look at that wide grin on his face! :devil:

Rita: We use mothballs in packets stapled to the underside of our deck to keep the raccoons away. We bought them at the hardware store. They work. Unfortunately, we can smell the mothballs, too. I’ve gotten used to the smell and don’t notice it much anymore. Be sure to keep garbage in raccoon proof containers. :grumble: I also love the photo of you and your DH.

Carol: You are so lucky to have grandchildren close enough to go to their Grandparents day at school.

Jazzy: I love the photos! We’re a bit down river from you. This morning we’re having a little mist. The deck is damp, but not wet. The forecast says we’ll have rain before dinner. :ohwell:

Allie: I’m glad the house is getting a lot of attention. I hope you get a good offer soon. Enjoy the fair. :flowerforyou:

Heather: Keeping my fingers crossed regarding the real estate deal. I have admired your wonderful home when I’ve seen photos. It is beautiful. My grandchildren are so far away that I’m lucky to see them once a year. I envy your ability to see yours more often.


We had a lovely trip to Eastern Oregon to see DSIL and my husband’s cousin, Bill. We’ve been unloading the RV, and I want to put it in the storage unit. It has been in the street across from our house too long to suit me. DH wants to take it to the RV repair guy. That would be okay, too. Time to get it put away, though.

Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

Oh man getting up quickly is not my strong suit! Youngest Navy son called at 7:30 am because he had both yesterday and today off. Yesterday at 9 am he got all four wisdom teeth pulled!!! Poor kid. He has stiches too. He sounded really chipper for just getting them pulled! The dentist was looking at his xrays yesterday and asked if the left side of his jaw had trauma as a kid! I guess it looked broken in the xray, strange. When he was a kid he could make a strange popped/ clicking noise with his jaw, but being that there was no trauma or event we thought it was one of the many unexplained noises from our boys!
He still doesn't know when he flies out. He still needs some 2nd series shots. I know typhoid shots are two series and they hurt like a mother!!
I guess he doesn't have to worry about a passport right now, traveling in orders, and living in this ship, or in barracks.
He seems upbeat, not homesick at all, and I have to draw strength from that and be grateful. He sounds good, slurping cup a noodles while talking to me. Yelling at his roommate because he may or may not have taken someone's cup a noodles off said food shelf! "Its only a buck", I hear him tell his roommate.

Well time to gulp coffee and gym it!
Rebecca 💗

blueimp wrote: »

Hi MFPers,
Posting here since this group seems current.
I’ve been away from MFP for a long time, currently on WW, but not finding much support. Many of my old MFP friends are now inactive, so I’m looking for active members for mutual support. Please join me!

I'm off and on here and off and on WW (or the free itrackbites app.) If you are on facebook there are some fairly active groups for WW and itrackbites. Currently I am "starting again" as I have a cruise planned the end of November and would love to lose a size and be able to wear the same one time worn dress from my last (2012) cruise on the dress up night. I once again tried to "buy" weight loss and ordered meal replacement shakes (310) and appetite control supplements, which I need to use now but really don't like. Oh well, it's just a meal (or occassionally 2) a day. Still counting calories.

Barbara - In South Georgia, it really isn't totally flat. From the road, in certain places you can see the roof of our house. We have maybe 35-40 acres of planted pines on slightly rolling land; which we have thinned 2x since they were planted when we moved out here. This cutting, whenever they can get the equipment on the land will be our last until our death; unless we get beetles in them. We have about 10 - 15 of them die over time just because; and, they get cut down by husband and son, so the beetles won't spread. They die from the top down; but, are not the kind of beetles that take out a whole stand of pines in a very short time. We've needed rain a lot to keep them nice; but, then, that means the timber company won't bring in their equipment. Louis and Trey planted some oaks and chestnut trees back on the edge of an easement (for 2 gas companies) for the acorns and chestnuts. They planted small trees lining the driveway and they are so thick that we can barely see son's house, which is nice - means they can't see ours any better. So, now I am washing clothes at son's house and bringing them back to dry. Our appliances are 20+/- years old, so trying to 'fix' them will cost way too much, even 'if' parts could be found. Louis wants to wait to see how much we get, so we won't have to finance them. Washer, dryer, and dishwasher. I don't know how old our refrigerator is; but, it has to be 18+ years old. We bought it when we moved out here and left our old fridge with the house when we sold it. I 'think'.

Louis knows I want him to paint my cabinets. I am 'so sick of the blond' cabinets, he has already painted the walls a light grayish-green and I want him to paint the upper cabinets a Velvet White and then pick out a much darker color of the wall for the lower cabinet doors. Our counter tops need to be replaced and I would like some sort of stone, and have them run flat against the wall, and then pick out a backsplash. Up around the window and over to the end of the cabinets on the next wall (not under the 2 cabinets over the refrigerator. I'd like a light cabinet top that would have a lot of veins running through it that would pick up the darker grayish-green and maybe some bronze in it as well. I'd like for him to paint the white back and legs of our 3 bar stools; and, then paint our dining room chairs a midnight deep navy blue. I hope when he does it he will sand them so it won't peel off. If I don't have to finance the appliances; then, I would like to check into getting the countertops and backsplash done. The house is 18 years old; and, I guess I have just gotten tired of it all being the same. Need a new sofa - got to go sit in a lot of them. So far, the only one that has been really comfortable to sit in has been a sofa bed. Not too deep from front to back; or not too high of a seat off the floor.

We had 2 deer standing out in the field between our houses; one doe and a small buck. Cracker knew something was out there before we did. She gets up and starts barking and runs to the window; about knocking Louis over to get to it. The blinds were still open.

Well, going to get off. I would like to answer some of you individually; but, when I do that, I get very long winded. Congrats to all of you and your families for succeeding in the things you have gone after. Hoping all of you are having successes in whatever it is that you are trying.

Michelle - Trey wants to get his CDL because he could get a job driving a truck; but, he really wants a job that isn't 'long haul'. The husband of one of Jenn's (on and off again friends) told him that he could have a job working for him. But, he seems like a real @$$ and I am not sure Trey would want to work for him. One of his HS classmates runs a trucking company. Both he and his Dad drove big trucks. He has gone to talk to him and of course, getting his CDL is the only thing he needs. I don't understand why he keeps putting it off though; first he was going to do it this summer; then he planned on doing it in the fall; now he is talking about the spring of next year. OH, GOOD GRIEF, just 'do it'!!!!!

Lenora