WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2018

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Hi Gals,

Judi – welcome

Machka – I’m ok generally with snakes – but NOT in my toilet…. I often get up in the night and do not turn on a light, there is enough light from street lights for me to find my way to “do my business”, but if there was any chance of a snake in my toilet – I’d have every light on! Can you flush it away? Just typing this is creeping me out!

Barbie – glad you are doing better. I like the sporkful pod cast to!

I’m an ISJF-T

I love pumpkin, the real thing, so pumpkin bread, ravioli, pumpkin chili, pumpkin cheesecake - but not really keen on pumpkin spice everything! And weirdly enough I do not like pumpkin pie, the texture gets me it’s a bit gloopy for me - there is a pumpkin-pecan pie that is better as the pecans fix the texture for me.


Smiles

Kim from N. California

Took the water aerobics class. The plan for tomorrow is to do Amy Dixon’s Give me Ten DVD.

Penny – interesting…thanks so much for the info about your city. I always find it so very interesting.

After exercise stopped at the Salvation Army. I was going to make a donation but the lady asked if I could wait until next week to make it, she doesn’t have people working. There was this one guy who came up saying first that he had a trailer full then when she told him she couldn’t take a trailer full, suddenly he only had two bags and a box. I just told her that I’d wait until next week and she thanked me profusely. I don’t understand it. He kept saying how his MIL died and the landlord wanted the apt. cleaned out. Usually you get apts until the end of the month. Do you mean to tell me that he couldn’t have waited a few days to bring it?

But score….I got a two piece wool set for 99cents. The skirt doesn’t fit me, I’ll just redonate that. But I like the jacket. For 99 cents, I can live with that price. It’s a nice wool set.

Okie – what is IR?

Katla – thank you for your concern. Right now it’s just cloudy out, sometimes the sun peeks out. A bit breezy but not bad. They’re not calling for a lot of rain. We’re pretty far inland, at the foothills of the mountains. We live in Newton. Check the weather channel. The highest the winds (right now) are predicted to get is 29 mph When the rain hits the mountains in TN, it usually breaks up and then reforms around the Winston-Salem area. So many times we don’t even get any rain. But we’ll get some, just not that much. I’m more concerned about DJ

I’m 64% extroverted (that’s very true), 58% observant (not sure about that one), 75% feeling (that’s true), 67% judging (I would have thought it’d be lower), 71% turbulent. I’m an ESFJ-T

Natalie – welcome

Michele in NC

Rori - Thanks SO much for the bone broth recipe! Now if I can find a spot on my crowded counter … !

Judi in MD - I hope you and all the rest in the east coast are staying safe, warm, and dry. Your fur friends too! I know mine hate the sound of hard rain on the acrylic sun porch roof!

Karen in VA - your grandson sounds like a really fun boy, even with the issues. I’ve enjoyed all of mine growing up. So far Nick, the one who has autism, is 6, and the last. I have a step Great-granddaughter who just began Kindergarten, but she’s 100 miles away! 😔

Barbara on S OR Coast - Far fro Trader Joe’s? Heaven help you! One of the dieters’ best friends! Your location on the hills above the coast sounds dreamy, though.

Barbie from NW WA - have you tried audiobooks? I get two a month from Audible.com, but many libraries have them free! I use them when commuting, on long stretches w/o much scenery on road trips, and I set a ½-hr sleep timer. Sometimes I’m even lazy, and listen during my cup of coffee in the morning, but then I’ve always been a bookworm. I have early wet macular degeneration in my right eye, so it’s easier on them to listen, and I find it very satisfying. I especially like the “Outlander” series by Diana Gabaldon and prefer “Game of Thrones” on audio rather than the tv. (Except I love Peter Dinklage as Tyrion and Ser Jorah Mormont so much that I watch anyway!)

Michele in NC - I was sad to think of the poor dog. I wonder if they evacuated and left him. If you’re able, and that happens again, there are pet rescue groups who will often come puck this older pets up and find someone to foster them. I know of several in our area.

Sounds like you have all your preparations well in hand so I do hope things go easy on you.

Rye - your Kidd Kirby is precious. I know a woman who is INTJ. She’s fascinating - an extremely gifted artist and musician and vegan gourmet cook who is perennially unsure that she’s “doing it right”, even with very professional praise for her work in all those fields. I am her purging opposite, an ENTP. We have great talks!

Penny in Norway - Wow! I have a couple of good friends who were born above the circle up there. They’ve never mentioned Polar bears when they were growing up. Does it depend on your nearness to the ocean? Oh duh! Of course it does! They eat seals, etc, don’t they?

Kudos on your better oxygen uptake! You mention being an old gal. I’m 65! Is there hope for me after my gastric bypass, do you think?

Carol in GA - interesting. My life is totally out there. The other people in my Bariatric Surgery support group we’re astonished that I’d posted my decision on Facebook! I was puzzled as to why anyone wouldn’t!

I too dislike pumpkin in all other forms than pie! Given that I live breads and cakes I’m surprised at my total shuddering lack of enthusiasm, but there it is.



Okie Woman - I just loathe Johnson grass. It’s found a safe harbor mixed in with my lavender. I can’t pull it up, because the lavender comes with it, and the lavender can’t quite crowd it out. We’re at a stand-off. Guess it’s pistols at high noon next!

Machka - Oh my! I had no idea the wind was so strong for Monghkut! That sounds truly terrifying! I hope it won’t be as devastating as they fear!

Having it head so strongly into Hong King reminds me of the storm scene from a book by the fellow who wrote “Shogun”. I believe it was called “Tai-Pan”. The storm description is pretty terrifying. I believe a lot of his works have many elements on fact in them.

Grandmallue - Ugh indeed! Hope all is well after the next test.

JazzyPDX - Your photos make me want to start bellowing “Ih, What a Beautiful Mornin’!” at the top of my lungs, thus ruining said morning completely!

I’m really beginning to get excited about my surgery. I wish I had a date! Folks who call this “the easy way out” have no idea what adjustments and changes we must ready ourselves for. For most of us in my support group it was/is the last best hope for success after having tried almost literally everything else.

Whatever sort of Hurricane or typhoon you’re facing in your life, I hope the waters are calmer soon!

Sharon in WA

GodMomKim wrote: »

Machka – I’m ok generally with snakes – but NOT in my toilet…. I often get up in the night and do not turn on a light, there is enough light from street lights for me to find my way to “do my business”, but if there was any chance of a snake in my toilet – I’d have every light on! Can you flush it away? Just typing this is creeping me out!

There are snake catchers ... people whose job it is to catch and relocate snakes (or who are just good at it) that you ring up.

In this case, apparently they called a snake catcher, but the snake didn't want to be caught so it zipped up into the S-bend. They had to wait a couple hours for it to come out again, then they called the snake catcher back and he was successful that time.

GodMomKim wrote: »

I love pumpkin, the real thing, so pumpkin bread, ravioli, pumpkin chili, pumpkin cheesecake - but not really keen on pumpkin spice everything! And weirdly enough I do not like pumpkin pie, the texture gets me it’s a bit gloopy for me - there is a pumpkin-pecan pie that is better as the pecans fix the texture for me.

I think I might have mentioned this last year, but here in Australia pumpkin is not a sweet thing, it's a vegetable.

So we have pumpkin ravioli, risotto, chili, soup ... all the savoury things. I never did like pumpkin as a sweet thing but I like it as savoury!

One of my favourites is to mix pumpkin soup with TastyBite's Jodhpur Yellow Dal, add a bit of chicken and veggies and serve over brown rice.







Machka in Oz

KetoneKaren wrote: »

And the other photo of your beautiful bumpy squash...just yesterday my grandson & I were looking at some pictures of rock weathering & erosion, and he said, "that photo would set off (his sister's) trypophobia". I said, "huh?" & so he pulled up the definition of trypophobia, which is "an aversion to the sight of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes, or bumps". Think lotus seedhead, hornet nest, beehive, loofah, Swiss cheese...

Oh Karen, I LOVE it! I've always been a total word-nerd. I read dictionaries for fun.

/Penny

auntiebk wrote: »

Penny How do you measure your oxygen uptake?

Barbara - I've got a GPS-heartrate device (a Garmin Forerunner 235) which does all that for me. It calculates my oxygen uptake based on how my heartrate changes moment to moment when I exercise. I'm sure it doesn't give as accurate results as running hooked up to a face mask and measurement equipment, but running with just a watch sure is easier!

Anybody else use a Garmin device and log via Garmin Connect?

/Penny