WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2019

Machka: Your beach furniture is a cut above our benches on the coastal walk. I would love to have one of those, but fear that there would be a queue to use it. It looks like a perfect meditation perch.



These are photos on one of my favourite walks in a small seaside village nearby. Taken a few weeks ago

bananasandoranges wrote: »

..... How do you set your goal in relation to such fluctuations in calories, and splurges.

I prelog my food and balance my macros/micros in advance. I then copy that day to the next week. I adjust the log on the morning of the actual day to accommodate changes. We eat a lot of similar meals on set days depending on the Sunday roast we buy. I weigh food and adjust the quantities when I serve out the food. I also have a lot of my own recipes entered in the database so that I can just enter a short title and not all the ingredients I use. I normally do a lot of extra exercise when I have a celebration of some sort.

We went out to vote in local elections on Thursday night.

Yesterday (Friday) was the first day I have driven since my knee seized up last Monday evening. Thankfully the swelling and pain is much relieved, but I will have to be more circumspect in how I exercise in future. Even short bursts of sprints and jogging are not for me!

☘️ Irish Terri

Morning, afternoon and evening, all,

My mental health day yesterday was lovely and relaxing, but my hairdresser had switched shifts with someone else, and was just leaving when I walked in a few minutes before 2 p.m. She's supposed to be in at 10 a.m. this morning, so I'll see if I can get up there. My hair's naturally curly, so I keep it quite short most of the time--and it's been more than two months since she cut it last, so it's a kinky mess at the moment, and not exactly bringing me joy.

It feels wonderful to the touch in this rainy spring, even feels pretty, but in the mirror, it looks pretty wacky. Hopefully, I'll be able to get my roots done and the color brought back to my normal ash blonde. Well, "normal" is relative. I was, once upon a time, a brunette. Now I'm probably half gray, if not more, but unlike my husband, who's gray at the temples and around the edges, my gray came in wherever the heck it wanted, in patches and odd chunks. Just looks like a bad streak job. Thus the hairdresser, who does a lot better job than I can do with boxed hair dye, plus she cuts it, too.

Machka and Terri - your pictures make me wonder why I moved to the middle of the country, minimum eight hour drive from the coast. I love the ocean--the sounds, the scents, the scenery. Absolutely beautiful, thank you for those images.

Lenora - always glad to see you posting!

I'm in my happy place this morning, plugging along on my computer, laundry noises swirling, the occasional snore from my husband when he's being quite loud. The rain won't be back until Tuesday, so with a little drying time today, we can mow the yards tomorrow. No specific plans for today, but might attend the local farmer's market, which is in walking distance from us. Kind of want to see what people are selling there, as they're open to those who sell everything, from fruits and veg to yard sale items. We've got more than a few items we might sell at the next one. And if, in a couple years, my husband's fruit trees start producing well, might do some canning, or just sell fresh fruit when it's in season.

Peaceful Saturday to y'all,
Lisa in AR

When I lived in England for six years, and did some visiting on the Continent, it always fascinated me that I could literally drive to different countries in a few hours. The first time my ex-husband and I were driving down to my mother's in Texas, and then on to our next base in Colorado, he was utterly freaked out by the fact that we'd drive for eight hours on the first day, and not even be out of Texas yet. This is one comparison map I've seen:



But then I married a man from Alaska, and to him, it was no big whoop, as Alaska could swallow Texas and barely burp.



Ah well, it's all relative...

Later, y'all,
Lisa IN AR