WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2020
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Snowflake1968 wrote: »Camping - I enjoy getting out of the city and into the country because I’m a country girl at heart but I won’t do tents anymore. Last week we used our daughters pop up trailer and it was quite comfortable.
Me too ... I love being out in the country and I like camping. But I've been less and less keen on tents as the years go by. I'm just not that comfortable lying on the ground.Snowflake1968 wrote: »Allie - My Mom colours a lot as well, she uses markers, pencil crayons and wax crayons. I need to send her another gift package with some new ones. I had been buying her adult ones, but she finds them a little too confusing so I need adult themed with children’s simplicity.
Tracey in Edmonton
I've actually been rather disappointed in the colouring book selection. I went looking a couple years ago with the idea that I'd send my older niece and nephew some more mature colouring books. I had heard about the adult colouring thing and figured I'd be able to find something with landscapes, animals, etc. at a young adult level. And if I found some interesting ones, I thought I might get some for me too!
But all I could find were colouring books for little children ... or these geometric pattern things for adults. Nothing in between.
Maybe it's just here, but it seems to me there's a big gap that could be filled in the colouring book world.
M in Oz1 -
1948Peachy wrote: »Do any of you have a VPN app on your computer? I have recently learned that I cannot get into a lot of sites (such as my Health Insurance and the ENT) unless it is disabled. I'm about ready to cut it off permanently.
Carol in GA
Yes ... for security for work and university.
I don't go to "questionable" sites where I would feel I might need it otherwise. In fact, my internet usage is probably quite boring!
M in Oz2 -
dlfk202000 wrote: »Debbie in Napa Valley CA: I’m not a spicy potato chip eater, but Dill Pickle Potato Chips are my weakness. I let myself buy a bag on very rare occasions.
Evie 1958: I already mentioned that I love Vancouver Island. On our last trip we tied up in Brentwood Bay. We were on our boat & travelling with friends who were on their boat. We had a lovely dinner at a pub near the docks. The next day we took the bus to Victoria. I've always thought of Victoria BC as the Magic Kingdom. It was a grand adventure. We have always enjoyed the many places on Vancouver Island we've visited. I would go again if DH was well enough, but that is not a possibility at this time. :ohwell:
Viv: I haven’t seen a post from Amber in quite a while. The last one I remember was worrisome. It seemed that she had become sick and I worry it may have been Covid 19. I hope and pray I am wrong about that.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
I have never tried dill pickle chips but LOVE dill pickles. I will have to try them- I will put that on my list when I hit my goal.
When I go to Canada, I usually have one bag of dill pickle potato chips because we can't get them here and they are my favourites.
But the last time (2017), I couldn't finish the bag ... I hadn't eaten potato chips of any sort in so long that I found them way too salty.
M in Oz2 -
Machka - if you ever want have a few free minutes and want a chuckle search adult colouring books on Amazon. I was shocked and way too amused by it.2
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Tracey - That was some amazing bargain you picked up!
Beth - They are nice, but no way worth that kind of money. They would be half that price over here. Try ringing or emailing. It never hurts to complain.
Rebecca - I'm a bit like you. Once I start cleaning I have to do it properly.
That's another reason I have a cleaner. Her standards are different to mine, but my house looks presentable. She only has two hours every two weeks! I hate the way she moves things though! I am very OCD about the placement of objects and hate them out of position. I think she wants me to know she's been there and cleaned!
As a child I was severely OCD to a debilitating level, and a little of that has stayed with me. It's not a problem now, but occasionally I notice it.
I was touched yesterday that the cleaner turned up with her own, much superior, hoover, in order, she said, to get into the edges. I didn't see her when she finished so I will text her to thank her for taking the extra care.
The sun is shining this morning. I don't know if the family stuck it out yesterday in the tent. It was HORRIBLE weather! They often switch their phones off when relaxing, so I didn't enquire.
I used to camp out all the time with my parents as a teenager. Mostly in Europe. When I was first married we also camped. And a couple of times when my kids were young. Purely through tight finances, not from choice. My honeymoon was camping for a month! It often rained and rained and rained. And rained. Nothing is more miserable.
I spent my young years envying like crazy the 'posh' people in the nice hotels.
Caravans are a big step up and it amuses me that you Americans call it camping. No way! Nor are shacks camping. Nothing with a roof and a toilet is camping.
The only tents I have been in since are the mega luxury kind with their own toilets and showers, a huge, gorgeous bed and a nice young man to bring you tea and biscuits in the morning. Kenya, and Rajasthan in India.
These days both DH and I have to go to the loo three or four times a night. The thought of zipping myself out of a sleeping bag and a soggy wet tent is not appealing. No way. Even a dry tent. You need a very strong bladder for camping.
Time for tea!
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx5 -
My husband and I are feeling a little bit sad.
I've packed up my work stuff in preparation to go back to the office this week.
It's been such a happy, relaxed, delightful, fantastic 4 months ... now that's coming to an end.
But maybe there will be a second wave and we'll be sent home again.
I'm not taking back as much as I brought home ... just the essentials. If I have to move home again, I'll be ready to go in a matter of minutes!!
Machka in Oz4 -
Kate UK ❤️1
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Still catching up.
Viv UK0 -
Camping - My parents weren't campers. My best friends parents were so I often went with them. Usually my friend and I slept in a tent and the parents in a small camper on the back of the truck (no toilet or shower, but a bed and a small cooktop). My hub and I used to go tent camping at the lake with our bffs. We all had air mattresses that we slept on. We haven't been camping in years. I agree that camping is now a motel vs a tent
Okie in the TX Hill Country2 -
On camping:
My opinion is that camping, for me, is just pretending I'm homeless. I know I worked for Girl Scout Councils for the last three years, but my opinion never changed. It was easy to write grants for girls camping, because camping teaches them teamwork, self-confidence, love for the environment and the incredible variety in nature, and it's an adventure as well as a learning opportunity.
I'll pass.
Note - this opinion isn't based on zero experience, we went a lot when I was a child, I've camped in Scotland, Montana, Oregon and Texas as an adult. The times I've gone in the last ten years, it's been under protest, but I've gone. Kinda done with that.
Lisa in AR4 -
"Get to do"s and "chose well"sChose well: Tidepool stroll with Barb, massage, typing, called USB to arrange for paper statements.Jumpback July
Bonus: first batch of goat cheese, gave gift of listening to Barb, Patty, and most importantly Joe, coordinated with Joe’s eye surgeon’s office (3 calls so far), fruit and veg prep, fellowship prep, showed up for Julie and John’s recital.
Get to do: quick vac house, Gold Beach, email SDAO re meeting change notice requirements, practice new dances (Turning Tables, Nothing but You, Shake it like that, Larger than Life, Here I Go Again/Mama Mia, Real Deal, Get it Right); transplant bean, make garlic almonds for Barb and Dan; prep potato area and raised beds for beets, carrots, parsley root, parsnips, radishes and sow; finish weeding drive, continue weeding flower bed, mulch flowerbed; Freddie’s for complete series TDAP <$48, get Shingrix vaccine. Reward: inventory seeds, plan fall cool season garden, order replenishments. Monday postpone Joe’s primary care followup to after eye sugery, firehall apologize to Aaron, make colelslaw.
26: get back in touch with supportive friend(s), happened last week with Carolyn, yesterday with mfp.
Pip
(hugs) what a gift Bootz gave you, but know it hurts. :brokenheart:
Faye I liked the Corona
Kim “using the picture to floss”?? during the zoom funeral?
Katla “I also prefer light hearted movies. We get more than enough real loss and pain in life. Happy endings are uplifting & I like them best.” Exactly the way I feel.
Heather had to smile at your choice of words “relieved” about Johnny’s test results. Hope he learns to “settle down”.
Machka thanks for the https://www.verywellhealth.com/how-to-beat-a-sedentary-lifestyle-2509611 link. This: “Yet another study published in 2015 found as little as three five-minute walks throughout the workday can reverse the harm caused to peripheral arteries in the legs by prolonged sitting.” Gives me real motivation to get up and go, as Young Dr. Patel is making nasty hints about peripheral vascular disease.
Rebecca
hearing about your SCA days. Where did you live then?
Happy Birthday Mama, you would have been 107 today.
Household tasks: Joe and I each cook for ourselves, occasionally for each other, shop for our own groceries, and wash dishes after (Joe immediately, I wait til after nap). I find hand washing dishes meditative and use the dishwasher to store plasticware. Joe has vacuumed, two or three times during our 30+ year marriage but never dusted, so IF it gets done, I do it, reluctantly. I empty trash baskets, wipe down surfaces and do laundry because I can’t stand to see him stuff everything in the same washer/drier then wad up and cram into his drawers. I’m a compulsive folder. Joe takes the garbage out, mows the yard, takes care of the cars and all the outside tasks, walks the dogs (who we take turns feeding) and helps me change linens when I ask. I dispense all puppy meds. Joe spends time every week organizing and pruning his stuff. I am the hoarding clutterbug who hates to release her stuff back to the universe. Think I’ll hire someone to wash the windows, do not want to encourage Joe to climb on his new ladder.
24+ pages to go
Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
July: better than June.
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My last camping trip was three years ago. I have a queen size three inch foam topper that fits in the tent, very comfortable! I went to Assateague VA in the fall. The beach and wild horses were beautiful. The horses came and ransacked my food tubs. They knew exactly how to turn the tubs sideways and stomp on them until the latches blew. One horse stepped on my tent with me inside it! So sad that these gorgeous wild animals are turning into scavengers like Yogi Bear. There was rain too. And the horses are my Cheerios so I was left with cold baked beans. Still it was a great trip. Living with my parents makes travel a nice break.
Annie in Delaware3 -
cityjaneLondon wrote: »Tracey - That was some amazing bargain you picked up!
Beth - They are nice, but no way worth that kind of money. They would be half that price over here. Try ringing or emailing. It never hurts to complain.
Rebecca - I'm a bit like you. Once I start cleaning I have to do it properly. That's another reason I have a cleaner. Her standards are different to mine, but my house looks presentable. She only has two hours every two weeks! I hate the way she moves things though! I am very OCD about the placement of objects and hate them out of position. I think she wants me to know she's been there and cleaned!
As a child I was severely OCD to a debilitating level, and a little of that has stayed with me.
I spent my young years envying like crazy the 'posh' people in the nice hotels.
Caravans are a big step up and it amuses me that you Americans call it camping. No way! Nor are shacks camping. Nothing with a roof and a toilet is camping.
The only tents I have been in since are the mega luxury kind with their own toilets and showers, a huge, gorgeous bed and a nice young man to bring you tea and biscuits in the morning. Kenya, and Rajasthan in India.
These days both DH and I have to go to the loo three or four times a night. The thought of zipping myself out of a sleeping bag and a soggy wet tent is not appealing. No way. Even a dry tent. You need a very strong bladder for camping.
Time for tea!
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
I was reading this and thought I had got up last night and did sleep computing, then I saw Heather had signed the post. Where do I start ............. I have been battling OCD since I was 3, well that is the first time my mama noticed my bizarre behavior. I talk to myself constantly.
Once a surface is sanitized and shining like a diamond there is no need to go over it again let alone 6 more times. The germs are were dead Faye on the first pass of that double-strength solution that wiped them from existence. No Faye DO NOT take another swipe across that counter. NO!
Don't do it, Faye, that vase looked perfect a minute ago so do not get up and adjust it again. I swear that damn chair has moved a bit off where I had it. I must call in the ghostbuster to rid me of these prankster apparitions that are always messing with my stuff.
No, I am not playing with my boobs, I am adjusting my bra for the 100th time, do you mind?
No Faye do not check that lock again. Testing the door 20 times in rapid succession will not make it lock more securely and may in fact break it.
Faye do you think the reason friends always sit alongside instead of across from you might have something to do with all those constant facial gyrations that make babies laugh and adults cringe?
I am not confused about why I have been single most of my life. I have been through therapy with the most successful being hypnosis. I tried the meds but that stuff just makes me useless and non-productive.
CAMPING is going to the mountains or beaches with only a knife and clothes you are wearing and surviving for a least a week. Sleeping in a tent and using an outhouse is just living. I did that while I built my cabin when I lived in the mountains in my early twenties. It was daily living. In about two years I had indoor plumbing and generated my own electricity and that was off the grid luxury. Living in an RV is not camping, that is mobile luxury living. The simple in town lower-middle-class way I live now is living like royalty for me. I feel I am royalty and refer to myself as Princess Faetta and someday hope to ascend the throne as queen, but first I must learn the language. I still struggle with pronouncing garage. I just can't say gay radgee. The queens English eludes me.
Princess Faetta, her royal lowness
Near Chicken Charlies Island in Oregon
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Did a small outing to the shops today to see how things would go.
May have startled people with the sniffling and coughing!
I don't think I've got Covid19 - no fever.
But I have had nose surgery.
That means my sinuses let go periodically or my nose gets really sensitive and I find myself sniffing, snuffling, sneezing, dealing with my nose dribbling everywhere, and coughing.
It's a bit embarrassing and rather uncomfortable.
Machka in Oz5 -
Oh my stars and monsters! I went up north for two days (wi-fi patchy) and came home to find I am 10 pages behind you ladies! Catching up, if I can! I have to do my grocery shopping, clean house, clean and put away the camping equipment, and make a plan for my daycare kiddos for this week! So...hope to hop back on here, tonight when I sit down again. ttfn Love and hugs to all who need them! KJ (Kelly)5
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HI!
You all have been in my thoughts daily, but have just had so much to do and mentally exhausted every day it seems. Maybe it is just still coping with MILs death. Maybe it is all the crazy stuff going on in the world. Maybe it is still working 50+ hours a week while dealing with all of this. I just know I have been on a mental break. The last 3 nights I have come home, sat on the front porch in the sun, read magazines, and been in bed by 930. My daughters think I fell off the planet. I somehow glided through June, yet missed a few deadlines for bills and work. July has been better, but feeling a little more like me at this moment. I think ME is who I need to concentrate on right now. That sounds selfish.....I don't mean it that way. The positives in all this....I am still within 2 pounds of goal weight. Husband and I are doing well. My family is doing well. I need to get MY s#!t together as far as eating, stretching, and exercise. I need to reconnect with family and friends(including y'all). I need to learn to use my calendar and journal better to avoid missed things. I have a great support system when I remember to use it.
THANK YOU ALL! for continuing to be here supporting one another. I think my next reads will be here.
Love,
Kylia in Ohio still treading and keeping head above water11 -
KYLIA ~ So glad to see you posting. I have wondered where you have been. We were friends on Facebook; but, in an impulsive moment I went through and unfriended most of the folks I know.
Carol in GA3 -
Lisa, I loved your description of camping as pretending to be homeless. Someone once told he that her idea of "camping" was staying at a two star motel that didn't have HBO. I like my own house best and a nice motel second. When I first met Jake, he asked me if I like camping and when I said no, he was delighted because he didn't like it either. 3
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Been for my 5k run. Breezy and the waves were up. Still a few too many people for my liking, but it is a sunny Sunday.
My knee was not impressed, but the rest of me worked well enough. A marked improvement on yesterday when I was in a real slump. DH continues to improve. He came with me. He walks, I 'shuffle'.
No word from the family. I have texted them. The government has put a sudden ban on travel to Spain and a 14 day quarantine on returning from the Canaries etc. This could mean that their new Spanish au pair can't come. Ooops! I hope she is already in the country. Otherwise their summer working arrangements will be difficult. They were hoping to only have few weeks off. The kids have six weeks holiday from school. We can't help because we are still isolating.
Might watch a German film from Amazon Prime this afternoon. See how much I understand.
Lamb tagine tonight.
Faye - Horrible thing OCD. Mine is but a shadow of its former self, but I remember my childhood fixations well. I called them my 'Patterns' and I had to have everything equal and even on both sides of my body. It could go on for hours. I still am a bit of a counter, still do the evening up thing a bit, and have a routine and place for things. Yes, millimetres. DH is very tolerant, but it sometimes exasperates him. I have to square things up with the edges.
I explained it all in the first volume of my memoir, ME I AM, which you can buy on Amazon, Kindle included. My name is Heather Eyles.
Cup of tea calling.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx5
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