WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2020

LisaInAR wrote: »

Have I mentioned my opinion of camping? Yeah, it's pretty much just pretending you're homeless. Not something I say much around Girl Scouts of any age.

Love y'all,
Lisa

Funny ... I'm actually missing camping a little bit.

When we drive, we stay in the cabins in campgrounds most often, but when we are on a cycling tour, there's usually a mix of tent camping and cabins.

Sometimes I'm not keen on tent camping.

• If I've been doing it several days in a row, my back starts to hurt sleeping on the ground.
• If we've ended up in a busy campground, that's really annoying and I tend not to sleep well at all.
• I also have trouble sleeping when we've bush camped (not in a campground). Some people have apparently found absolutely delightful places to bush camp, but for some reason I've never been so lucky. I've always ended up in places that make me nervous.

But sometimes I really enjoy tent camping.

• I think back with fond memories to camping on farms in Wales surrounded by sheep. Some farms in Wales (and maybe other parts of the UK) will occasionally have a little sign on their gatepost which indicates that they allow people to camp on their land and they might even have an amenities block.
• And I didn't mind dabbling in winter camping in a small campground in Alberta.
• There's a campground on Goldeye Lake in Alberta, just in the Rockies that I'll never forget ... we stayed there a few days before we got married! We floated on the lake in a blow-up dingy. I ended up with wicked food poisoning from a Wendy's in Edmonton the day before. A massive storm came up in the night and a bolt of lightning struck really close by ... as in practically next to the tent. I had been lying there debating about making another dash to the outhouse when this bolt from above descended!! Lit up the tent and the immediate "CRACK" had us both sitting up and hugging each other!!!

And there's a place not too far from here I'd like to go back to. It's a small island. No motor vehicles are allowed (except one parks vehicle) and at night it is just you, your tent, a small handful of people, and heaps and heaps of animals. It was so lovely last time we went.

I think my husband would like it as well. But there are a couple things I'm concerned about. One is the ferry trip over. Sometimes it can be rough and I'm not sure how he'd be. The other thing is what if something happened ... a seizure or something.








Machka in Oz

Just back from Dancing. I really enjoyed it. The weather is foul at the minute, so planning an afternoon of reading and decluttering.

(((Hugs))) if you need them.
Best Birthday Wishes to those celebrating.

Have a lovely day.

☘️ Terri

Thanks Viv for the kind thoughts. After her not eating a bite on Tuesday, she wolfed down her breakfast and dinner yesterday. Took her pills (squished into some left-over Christmas cake - it's that Italian cake that stays good forever. It's usually sold in the weird shaped red box. I cannot think of the name of it). It's almost 0930, got her pills into her, nada on the dog-food. The cake has chocolate chips, and I know dogs are not supposed to eat chocolate, but she likes it. She's coming to the end, a bit of chocolate won't kill her - no pun intended.

If anybody has any suggestions to increase the appetite of an elderly min-pin, I'm all ears. She is currently getting Blue Buffalo dry for seniors - 1/4 cup twice a day. I was adding pumpkin, which she liked, but now doesn't. I then added unsweetened apple-sauce, which she liked, but now doesn't. I bought her moist Blue Buffalo 'dinners'. She can only tolerate about 1-2 teaspoons, or else it's diarrhea time.

Thanks,
Karen

Karen- I give my senior dog her dry food mixed with raw egg every other day. She likes yogurt and cottage cheese. I haven't tried pumpkin or applesauce. Also if I cook meat I will pull some before seasoning to add to her food. It is painful when they aren't eating well. Sara is Pyrenees so big, but down to 2 cups dry a day from 5. Like you I just want her senior days to be good.


Kylia

I would like your opintion - may not change what i do but ya never know.

as you may or may not know, i run 2 hrm while i'm exercising. one is the apple watch that is on the wrist and other is a Wahoo hrm chest strap. as you also may know, the chest strap is always better for giving you the more accurate reading while doing your exercise. currently. i record the reading of what the chest strap reads and not what the apple watch reads, that's just informational for me. also, if one peters out, i use the other for back up as what to record.

the question i have for you is: would you record the HIGHER calorie burn or just do the wahoo as i have been doing,
for example:

wachoo shows 216, apple watch shows 288 (which is rare, USUALLY the wahoo is always higher)


ROWING MACHINE- 40min, 49aw, 150mhr, 144mhr, 6261meters or 3.89mi= 216c
apple watch- 288c


wachoo shows 106, apple watch shows 153

bike ride puy 2 sumn station- 16.24min, 145mhr, 11.1amph, 3.03mi= 153c
apple watch- 106c

💖👍

Pip- I agree with Tina in CA. Or average them together .. just a thought.
Like Barbie, I have a fitbit on my wrist and a little one on my hip. The wrist one sucks at step counting unless my arm is moving, so pushing or carrying it doesn't count, hence the one on hip. The one on hip has calorie burn on it, but I use wrist one for that since it actually takes my pulse.

Lots of great ideas!