WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2020

I treated myself to 2 CD sets. Yes, I still use CDs.

I'm currently listening to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings soundtracks.

The other CD set is The Music of Hans Zimmer - The Definitive Collection. Looking forward to that!!


Machka in Oz

Pip - I have a couple of memory boxes too and a smaller box of old boyfriend letters. The most difficult find was my ex husband's love letters to me when I was at uni. I had forgotten how much we were in love.
Talking about difficult memories - this morning I wrote 1,000 words about a traumatic almost rape situation I got myself into when I was 14. It was soooooo hard to write about. When I finished I went downstairs to make lunch and I was shaking. After lunch I felt so exhausted I fell asleep for half an hour. Good to get it done though. I didn't realise until now how betrayed I felt by my father hushing me up and not telling my mother. It was as if he was colluding with the stranger. Nothing actually happened, but it was a close run thing. I wrote a radio play using some of the material, which was broadcast on the BBC, plus a short story about the incident, so it had a powerful effect on me.

The pizza beach party has been cancelled because it is drizzling. I think my son chickened out of sitting on the beach with the kids in the rain. We can meet up for ice cream another day. DH has gone out for a walk. It's damp, rather than actually raining.
Haven't got any dinner planned, of course, but I might rustle up fish soup with some frozen prawns in.

Had a great Zoom with the girls. My York friend has worked out how to put a beautiful background on hers, so we had Bridlington beach behind her. She went swimming there yesterday. Freezing!

My son enjoyed his present from me, the heart rate monitor. This morning he went for a bike ride - 100k.!!!! Maybe cancelling the beach party has as much to do with being knackered!

Lots of love to all, Heather UK xxxxxxxx

Sandhillsmom: I live in a townhouse community and don’t have the space for a conventional garden. I have flowerbeds on the northeast side of our home and grow herbs, blueberry bushes, and hanging fuchsia pots. There is a space beside the driveway where I grow purple pod bush beans. I enjoy it all and don’t long for a bigger garden. My compass tells me we face 65 degrees NE. We have a lovely view of the Columbia River, an island across from us, and the Washington side of the river. We’re both quite happy here, and I enjoy my tiny garden space and good neighbors. :flowerforyou:

Barbara: Last year’s blueberries were the best crop so far. I bought the plants at Portland Nursery, but I was told they were actually grown near your area. I still have bags of blueberries in the freezer from last year. They do exceptionally well in the freezer and have good flavor and feel when thawed. I mostly use them on cottage cheese for breakfast. :bigsmile:

Heather: Your garden is a delight and a fun place for children to play.

Lisa: I am glad you’ve moved on, and I’m convinced it will be a happier life.

Amber: I’ve discovered that we’re stuck with the body we were born with, but we can help it with a healthy lifestyle, or harm it with poor choices. I suspect that you’re getting healthier as days go by.


I’m having my morning coffee and will soon get breakfast ready for DH and me. I’m planning to take the wild step of asking him what he would like today. He might go for bacon and eggs rather than our usual cottage cheese & blueberries.

Be safe.

Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon

Barbara: I did a check on my plant list. I have BlueBerry Sunshine Blue, and Bountiful Blue. I bought them at a nearby garden store years ago and they are thriving. There are green berries set and growing on all three of my bushes. I have two Sunshine Blue plants and one Bountiful Blue. I believe that the plants may have been grown near you but don't have the details available. I am hoping for a bit of overlap from last year so that we still have berries to enjoy while the plants are making more. :bigsmile:

Katla

My maiden name was Smith. Noone ever misspelled or mispronounced it. I should have kept it! It’s interesting that I married a man with a very Norwegian name and my sister married a man with a very Cajun name. We are both always spelling and pronouncing our married names for people. If we are honest, we also quite enjoy having a more unique name.

One of the casualties of the Pandemic is the closing of my beloved wellness center/gym that was a part of the small local hospital. There are metabolic workout videos that came with my paid membership to Healthy Free Life Academy so I am doing those at home. I only started the videos on Monday so time will tell if I get results. I don’t know why it is so hard for me to workout at home i’m finished in the time it would have taken me to drive to the gym. But I will miss my classmates. Several of them have joined another gym in the same town (where I worked not where I live), but I don’t think I’m ready to learn a new gym culture or deal with the germs right now. If I do, I’m going to shop for one closer to home.

I got my first round of the Shingrix vaccine today. I had to go to my husband’s pharmacy since CVS isn’t giving vaccines right now. I think I’m going to switch to them for all my needs. They are much friendlier and nicer and I like the idea of them not being a chain.

NAMES: I have a definite name deficit. I have always hated saying my last name, Bilbo, because I feel so strange saying it. When I was a teacher, I also had a very difficult time pronouncing some of my student's names. One child was named Aja and it was pronounce Asia. Another had a name that reminded me of Chiquita bananas. It took me months before I could say it correctly. Now I have a neighbor of Hispanic heritage and I can never remember how to say her name. It is embarrassing to say the least.

Carol in GA