WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2020
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Ok, here are the answers to these questions:
Where are you located (approximately)? Southern California
What are some of your favourite hobbies/sports/activities? I like to run, hike, travel, read, SCUBA dive, spend time with my family, taste good food, wine, and beer, cook, sit outside and enjoy the sunshine.
What takes up most of your day? Working, exercising, cooking and cleaning the kitchen; not necessarily in that order.
Tina in CA3 -
Annie - I wholeheartedly agree. Twenty years ago it was almost impossible to get good tomatoes unless you grew them yourself. Nowdays there are many gorgeous ones on sale.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx1 -
Tere in RVA: I am so sorry about your family losses.
Tina: DH wanted me to give you a chocolate cake recipe that doesn’t require boxed products. It uses Bob’s Redmill Gluten Free baking flour, and your own chocolate cake recipe. The gluten-free flour is the only substitution I make. Here is my recipe:
Black Bottom Cake:
3 c sifted gluten free all-purpose flour (Bobs)
2 c sugar
½ c cocoa
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 c water
2/3 C cooking oil
2 tbsp vinegar
2 tsp vanilla
Sift dry ingredients together. Stir in remaining ingredients. Beat until well combined. For cupcakes, bake at 350 degrees F for 30-35 minutes. Cake is done when knife or toothpick comes out clean. We usually use a cake pan instead of cupcakes and use a toothpick to check doneness. I seem to overbake the cupcakes a bit but my cake pan comes out better.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
Thank you! I'll try it.0 -
So we ventured into the topic of food ...
What are your top three (or 4 or 5) favourite foods or meals?
M in Oz
This is a very difficult question. I like so many things and from so many cultures. I make an excellent paprika chicken that actually won an "impress the chef" competition back in February, but it's "just" chicken. I love mac & cheese in various forms, but rarely have it. I also love curries, but also rarely have them.
I love food from my travels the most.
This is like picking a favorite sibling.
Tina in CA3 -
cityjaneLondon wrote: »Annie - I wholeheartedly agree. Twenty years ago it was almost impossible to get good tomatoes unless you grew them yourself. Nowdays there are many gorgeous ones on sale.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
We cannot buy good tomatoes in regular markets here. They are generally flavorless. The farmer's market food is just way too expensive.4 -
Don't get me started on the subject of food.
Oh, go on then.
Generally I love anything savoury. Spicy. Garlicky. Hot. Sour. I love "off" flavours. Oysters. Mussels. Stinky, runny cheese. Fermented foods. Pulses. Gone off cheese and butter. Creme fraiche. Good basmati rice. Good sourdough bread.
And I also love extremely sugary, burnt flavours like caramel and butterscotch. Real fudge, not commercial.
And drink. A very bitter real ale draught beer. A good red wine. A vintage champagne with a caramel edge.
As I said, don't get me started! :laugh:
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx4 -
Heather, your tastes are very eclectic, not just ho hum middle of the road tastes.😁
And that's why we love ya!
💖Rebecca2 -
I just finished making gluten free pasta salad for DH and me. All it needs to do is sit in the refrigerator for awhile. The pasta I chose was brown rice fusilli. The pasta is available at our local grocery stores. I'll leave it in the refrigerator for enough time to chill. I hope it will be ready by dinner time. (About 5-6 hours from now.)
DH has not been feeling as well as I'd wish. His doctor added a new pain medication for him and it is taking some adjusting. I have energy to burn. Being housebound gets to be monotonous. I'm going to go out and ride my tryke in the garage to burn off some energy.
Katla in misty/foggy NW Oregon7 -
Annie-So true I find farm grown tomatoes 🍅 to oranges 🍊 are sooo much sweeter with so much flavor. Same with farm fresh free range chickens 🐓 to ducks the meat to eggs flavors are better. I tried once a farm fresh pumpkin baked the seeds every seed packed a punch 🥊 of flavors!
Trying the new app found a map trail to add . Finding like when I walk a real trail in the past knowing someone ahead of me brings out my competitive side! I gotta pass them! So looks like a great app for me. If you want to do it can add me I got a kiddy game avatar to make me easier to find. Amber Vazquez in the find friends. Don’t worry my kid avi wearing its white mask 😷 lol virtual safety first.Works turned off in my pocket it hooks up to your phones step counter.MFP can hook up to your phone counter maybe this app too. “Walk the Distance “ app https://apps.apple.com/us/app/walk-the-distance/id634548793
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Amber Tx3 -
afternoon ladies~
not much going on, rainy day, and just watching Little House on the Prairie.. made some ambrosia and will make little quiches that i had in the freezer, going up to my friends condo tonight.. there will just be the 4 of us... none of us has really gone anywhere or done anything,,,
Poor Trudy is having a tough time, both of her daughters are needy and she is not working,, she is paying the youngest daughter's tuition for college and her daughter who is 20 told her mother that she signed up for summer school and it would be 5200.00 and that dont even ask me to get a job to help pay for it and that her car which is a BMW has broken down and she needs it fixed.. Trudy was in tears , her daughter is a brat and her older daughter that she adopted when she was 4 is a drug addict and just is horrible to her too.
this is where I thank the good lord both my kids are respectful and good people...5 -
AMBER Did something similar a couple of years ago think it was Walking to Gondor (Lords of the Rings)
Did roast chicken today with roast Mediterranean veg lots of olive oil and sesame seeds and roast potatoes Greek style (Olive oil water and oregano. )
DH loves this. You all know I don’t like cooking, think it’s more that I don’t like standing over stuff. Going with the Greek theme (I love Greek food) we’ve got a half leg of lamb in the freezer. Next week I will do lamb kleftiko in the slow cooker.
For newcomers I am 75 in a couple of weeks married for 55 years in June. I am retired now was a college librarian before I retired. I had my 2 children at a young age, went to work part time while they were growing up. Went back to education in my 40sand graduated university.
I read, knit, sew, do crosswords, exercise and doing a huge jigsaw during our lockdown
Although I don’t like cooking I love eating I’ll try most things but DH is very conservative
I live in NW England in big city which I love
Kate xxx8 -
spikeyhair wrote: »AMBER Did something similar a couple of years ago think it was Walking to Gondor (Lords of the Rings)
Did roast chicken today with roast Mediterranean veg lots of olive oil and sesame seeds and roast potatoes Greek style (Olive oil water and oregano. )
DH loves this. You all know I don’t like cooking, think it’s more that I don’t like standing over stuff. Going with the Greek theme (I love Greek food) we’ve got a half leg of lamb in the freezer. Next week I will do lamb kleftiko in the slow cooker.
For newcomers I am 75 in a couple of weeks married for 55 years in June. I am retired now was a college librarian before I retired. I had my 2 children at a young age, went to work part time while they were growing up. Went back to education in my 40sand graduated university.
I read, knit, sew, do crosswords, exercise and doing a huge jigsaw during our lockdown
Although I don’t like cooking I love eating I’ll try most things but DH is very conservative
I live in NW England in big city which I love
Kate xxx
HI Kate, Pam in Louisiana here. You look amazing. I'm going to be 65 in July and look older. Would you mind being friends on here? I'm sure I can learn a thing or two from someone like you.
Thanks,
Pam (aka NavyWife55)2 -
cityjaneLondon wrote: »As of yesterday our government is sticking to the advice that masks are not advised unless you yourself have a cough or sneeze. I am not wearing one, but I do wear gloves to remind me not to touch my face. Unless you wear them properly and change them after each wearing a mask can do more harm than good. You must not touch your mask if you have touched anything else. I see people touching them, pulling them down etc.
I also would go to hospital if I needed any breathing aid. I would not home medicate. Home treatment can be seriously damaging to health and many people are dying because they are waiting too long to go into hospital. They have already crashed. Our hospitals currently have enough capacity and treatment is excellent.
Lanette - why do you think you have an 80% chance of dying? I give myself 95% chance of surviving, despite my age. I give my DH 80% because he is a man and 4 years older than me. Do you have an underlying health issue?
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
Heather - Katla
Sorry I was unclear. The 80% chance of dying vs. 10% chance of getting heart problems was just an example. I pulled those numbers out of thin air, no facts. Just trying to show that if the odds are good a drug would work for me, if needed and available, even with a small chance it wouldn't work or do me harm, then I'd be willing to try it.
Reading the inserts listing possible side effects of drugs DH takes for his RA is scary. The fact that they can have interactions that are detrimental but his rheumatologist figures the good outweighs the bad, well, we just have to go with it and pray that his Dr. is right.
Lanette
Hoping for a bit of sunshine so I can shovel dirt and plant potatoes.
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My emergency toilet paper that I ordered from Amazon a month ago finally arrived. Not only did I pay double plus extra shipping, the rolls are half size. Good thing my mom got a big pack at Sam's meanwhile.
Annie in Delaware7 -
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Kate- Yours sounds fun too! Lord of the Rings walking app feels mysterious
Amber Tx
Up to 1.5 miles on my app finally getting a clear view of my daily walks. Before JR I walked 3 miles on a walking trail when I got a chance which was 4-7 days a week2 -
Hey there Pam! I am a retired Chief's wife here.💖. 3 son's youngest (21) has been in 3 years, middle son and his wife (25) did their respective 4 years, and eldest (30) has been in 13 years.👍. Nice to meet you!😁
Rebecca
Whidbey island
Washington3 -
Lanette & Heather: If seriously ill or wounded, I would be inclined to give a medication a fair trial, whether old tried & true or new, promising and experimental. DH is currently in a situation that is similar to what we’ve been discussing. He is under doctors care. New medicine was getting some good results but they decided to add the old medicine, too. So far, so good.
Katla3 -
Hi all. It's a cool and misty day here and I have spent most of it catnapping with the cats. Nothing productive at all, but I feel well, so I guess it was meant to be. Still trying to work all the angles to get hubby out; he has made his application to the warden and we have a court petition ready to go If (when, really), they deny him.
I recently found out that a coworker had been to China for her mother's funeral and got out right before the big panic started there; I had very close contact to her right before I got sick. Don't remember if I told you, but I had the "flu" and missed almost 5 weeks of work. Totally unheard of for me. They weren't even thinking Corona virus back then, but now the CDC has identified deaths in California as early as Feb 6 from it. So I believe that's what I had and plan to get antibody testing when it's available.
Barbie: your tulips are beautiful! And that dog picture OMG. I swear I have seen more dogs here in the last month than Ive seen in 14 years of living here!
Quarantine coffee: I need more limes
Karen: bulbs can be perinneal in places that stay warm, but you have to dig them out each year and freeze them. I had an aunt in Houston who did that every year.
Katla: nice to see you too!
Tere: I'm so sorry for all your losses!
Amber: hooray for the ring fitting!
I too struggle with being productive while stuck at home all day.
Oh, in other news, I had some skin cancer removed off the lower side of my nose about 3 weeks ago now. It's healing nicely; the dermatologist did a skin graft with skin from behind my ear. That was a creepy sound...scraping skin away from on top of the bone behind my ear. Bleh!
I joined a kickboxing club (Yes, me with my bone-on-bone knees) and love it. They have been posting daily workouts. Yesterday I worked out for an hour. My knees actually feel better than before!
OK that's all the news that is news. Take care, Meg from Omaha.7 -
Kate UK - Your Greek style meals sound wonderful. Love that type of food. I used to live in Camden Town in London where, along with the Irish, the Greek Cypriot community was strong. Spent a lot of time in Greek restaurants in my twenties. One place we used to go to served "Lamb, bins and bins". That was kleftiko with green beans and white haricot beans.
Just watched my elder son broadcasting his AATV live on Utube. It's still on there for anyone curious to watch. Tom 'Anvil' Hibberd. He is looking at Russian ration packs with his friend Gadge. He is always so happy when he is talking about food. I wonder where he gets that from.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx4
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