WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2020
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I was in this group as COSAFE1
My account under user: cosafe1 has been deleted or hacked....
I lost all my friends and info I had been using up to a few days ago.
I am currently signed in with an old account and I keep asking MFP for help with no response over the past few days.
When I try to re-enter my info when I log in as cosafe1 I enter all my info all over again, then it won't let me use my OWN USER NAME OF COSAFE1 IT SAYS IT IS ALREADY TAKEN!!!!!
ALL MY INFO I HAVE BEEN USING HAS BECOME UNAVAILABLE TO ME!!
I have contacted MFP over and over and over and over and over .... to no avail. I know there was a bug they say has been fixed but ALL MY INFO IS GONE!!!
I AM SO FRUSTRATED BY THIS!!! There is no answer from MFP!!!!4 -
Regarding accommodation ...
I have travelled quite a bit -- 13 countries: Canada, USA, Australia, Hong Kong/China, Taiwan, Japan, UK (England, Scotland & Wales), France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and New Zealand.
I've also travelled for fairly lengthy periods of time -- my parents used to take my brother and me for 5-6 weeks trips around the US. In 2004, I quit my job, put my stuff in storage, and spent 3 months cycling around Australia. In 2012, my husband and I quit our jobs, put our stuff in storage and spent 8 months travelling and cycling around the world. Plus months here and weeks there just about every year until very recently.
I have stayed in everything from benches in airports, the deck on a ferry between Caen and Portsmouth, and the lawn outside the hotel I had booked because I arrived too late ... to tent camping ... to cheap and scary motels in the US ... to various levels of hostels ... to average motel/hotels like IBIS and Super 8 ... to caravan park cabins and other cabins ... to B&Bs of all sorts ... to nice hotels like the Ramada in Hong Kong, the Novotel in Taipei and the Chateau Lake Louise.
I think my favourites have been the unique places like the hostel in Japan set up Japanese style, the barn in the northern Tasmania converted to accommodations, the converted military base in Utrecht, the cabins, and the pretty and interesting B&Bs.
For me, I like a decent, clean, comfortable place to sleep ... perhaps with a bit of interest or story to it ... but since I spend most of the time in accommodations with my eyes closed sleeping, I'm more interested in what I can see and do during the day outside the accommodation!
Machka in Oz5 -
Barbara That manuscript was garbage and I realized it. It did have a good beginning but I just couldn't carry on such a story and it was all boring fill. I never read romance novels and it wasn't my genre and I did it because the agent said it was a genre that would sell. I had written other science fiction and mystery novels and probably sent them to 20 publishers and it was one rejection after another. The self-publishers of course were raving about them and for a few thousand would put me on the best sellers list. It wasn't that they weren't good, just there was a limited market and not the big dollars the publishers want. My only success was writing technical manuals and articles about country living.3
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Happy Saturday, past, present or future as the case may be,
Headed for the elliptical here in a hot minute, but want to upload another ounce or two of iced coffee before trundling back there.
One interesting side note from the early retirement changes--I got music back. Sounds a little weird, but I haven't listened to music regularly in years. Occasionally on a long car trip, but I usually listened to public radio (NPR) when I was by myself. However, I've been faithfully on the elliptical for at least five daysand many times six days each week since January, and I exercise on it to the beat of the music. I also often take music outside with me, as I'm listening to Amazon Prime on my phone. Just turn my headset on and keep chugging along.
Now, even when I've not got any music playing, I find myself singing bits and snatches of songs that I've heard of late. It's become the ambient noise in my head again when I'm not concentrating on something mentally absorbing. I like it. Didn't know I missed it until I got it back.
On hotels, ec.: Yeah, not so much for me. I've traveled all my adult life, all over the U.S. and a bit of Western Europe, and while there are some trips that stand out, most of it is now just snapshots. When I lived in the U.K., trips to Belgium and Germany were always to visit friends, and we stayed with them. Otherwise for me, hotels were just a place to lay my head for a few hours before getting back on the road again.
I've also slept in cars more than once over the years. In 1980, the now-ex-husband and I were stony broke, barely had the money for gas, but I really wanted to see Stonehenge. As I said, we had no money for a hotel, and it was well past dark when we got there, so we just parked in the carpark, leaned the seats back and slept in the Ford Cortina. I came awake when dawn broke, but we were socked in with fog, couldn't see six feet from the car. No one was around. Very dreamlike and serene. Turned out we had parked just right so we could see as the fog finally began to burn off, that the stones appeared to be rising from the sea of mist surrounding them. Absolutely surreal.
By the time we left England the second time, we were utterly and completely over Stonehenge, as everyone who visited us wanted to see it. But the first time stayed with me.
Time to go get sweaty.
Love y'all,
Lisa in AR
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One interesting side note from the early retirement changes--I got music back. Sounds a little weird, but I haven't listened to music regularly in years. Occasionally on a long car trip, but I usually listened to public radio (NPR) when I was by myself. However, I've been faithfully on the elliptical for at least five daysand many times six days each week since January, and I exercise on it to the beat of the music. I also often take music outside with me, as I'm listening to Amazon Prime on my phone. Just turn my headset on and keep chugging along.
Now, even when I've not got any music playing, I find myself singing bits and snatches of songs that I've heard of late. It's become the ambient noise in my head again when I'm not concentrating on something mentally absorbing. I like it. Didn't know I missed it until I got it back.
Time to go get sweaty.
Love y'all,
Lisa in AR
I understand what you mean ...
At work, I could listen to music on my phone with headphones or earbuds, and did do that occasionally, but the earbuds weren't 100% comfortable plus there was an increased element of surprise. So when I did it was with one earbud and the music on really quietly.
The only time I would listen to music was late in the evening when I was working on homework.
When I started working from home, I had the radio on my favourite station (ABC Classic FM) and loved having music on all day long!
Now I'm back in the office, and can listen to ABC Classic FM on my phone again ... but of course, it's just not the same.
M in Oz
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Machka:
Lovely photos.1 -
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Lisa , and was it Yvonne ?, you gals who regularly bake bread for meals have my admiration. Have neither the energy nor the knack.
Barbara, honestly, I love baking. When I was a hundred pounds heavier the results of all that baking were not good for me, but now I can eat a single piece of whatever it is and if it isn't something I want to keep in the house, I send it to work with Corey. The guys he works with love it when I'm on a baking jag.
What annoys me is the folks on the food shows who scare the heck out of people who might want to try baking by squawking "Baking is a science!" Yeah, boo sucks to you buddy. EVERYthing is a science if you look at it right, including breathing.
What they actually mean is "baking is precise," and they're wrong about that as well. You can literally change anything in a recipe (particularly when baking bread) in small ways to suit your taste or your health concerns. When baking bread in particular, the same recipe used on two different days will take significantly different amounts of flour, depending on humidity, temperature, even the speed of your mixer. If you follow the recipe exactly, it will work one day and won't work on another, you just have to adjust.
I tell people I bake by instinct, but effectively, it just means I hope it turns out right, and am not afraid to put it in the bin if it doesn't.
I shall get down off my soapbox now.
Finished the elliptical, then I put together pizza dough for about a month and got that in the freezer--it actually tastes and acts better if you let it rise from frozen, just pitch it in a large covered bowl about noon and it's perfect for shaping into pizza by 5 or 6 p.m. I add garlic and onion powder, Italian seasoning and parmesan into the dough, so it's really fragant.
Got the dishwasher washing all of what I got dirty, so when I come back in from the yard and wash up a bit, I can get some bread loaves done. Got a new recipe I want to fiddle with.
Later, y'all,
Love,
Lisa5 -
Wishing Kim a very Happy Birthday today!!!
Karen in Virginia2 -
A couple of my goals for a couple months from now!
Machka in Oz4 -
Dellafayefox: I’m a fan of romance and have a list of favorite authors. As a child I wanted to write fiction. As an adult, that desire seemed to wane. Heather is a published author. Perhaps she will have some insight to help. :flowerforyou:
Charsuzy aka COSAFE1: I’m sorry your account has been messed up. I have no advice. The original owners were helpful when I had issues. I am still able to chat with this group and to log food and exercise. I'm happy enough.
Katla in Beautiful NW Oregon
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All this world travel talk is making me reflect on missed opportunities. The extent of my travels is as follows. Start at the gulf coast about halfway down in Mexico and draw a line up the coast along Texas veering over halfway into Louisiana up through Arkansas, back some along the east border of Kansas, to Nebraska, then over around Iowa, up around Wisconsin, Minnesota, then along the Canadian border to Alberta, across Yukon territory, and sloping over to Alaska and all around Alaska and pacific side down along the coast of Canada along British Columbia coast down Washington to down Oregon to down California to Mexico into Baja. I have never been out of this area except a few miles out on the Pacific on a charter boat.
I have never been to Spain but I kinda like the music. I missed a chance to visit Andalucia and live with Spanish Gypsy friends back in the early '70s. I gave serious consideration to moving to Australia and marrying a guy that was tired of his family's coastal boat business and wanted to live in the outback. I wouldn't object to being a Dun Dee Dee but that crocodile crap was a bit too much. I loved throwing knives and was so wanting to learn to throw a boomerang and toss a steak on the barbie and drown myself in Foster beer and play the didgeridoo, but talk of chocs, snakes, and giant insects, really put a damper on this girls happily ever after.
This memory has caused this old tune to play over and over in my head this morning while trying to focus on laundry. I have often wondered what it would be like to be my age living among the aborigines for the last 50 years, wearing a colorful skirt, bare-breasted, with a headscarf, and playing the didgeridoo.
There's an old Australian stockman lying, dying
And he gets himself up onto one elbow and he turns to his mates
Who are all gathered around and he says
Watch me wallabies feed, mate
Watch me wallabies feed
They're a dangerous breed, mate
So watch me wallabies feed
Altogether now!
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Keep me cockatoo cool, Curl
Keep me cockatoo cool
Ah, don't go acting the fool, Curl
Just keep me cockatoo cool
Altogether now!
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
'N' take me koala back, Jack
Take me koala back
He lives somewhere out on the track, Mac
So take me koala back
Altogether now!
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
And mind me platypus duck, Bill
Mind me platypus duck
Ah, don't let 'im go running amok, Bill
Just mind me platypus duck
Altogether now!
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Play your didgeridoo, Blue
Play your didgeridoo
Ah, like, keep playin' 'til I shoot through, Blue
Play your didgeridoo
Altogether now!
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred
Tan me hide when I'm dead
So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde
And that's it hangin' on the shed!
Altogether now!
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Faye doing three loads laundry
topless, with skirt, no headscarf
on the Oregon Trail by the river5 -
11 or possibly 12 for me.
Respectable book lover.
M in Oz2 -
M in OZ: Booklovers quiz+ I've never actually counted my books. I have many, some stretching back to childhood. I donated some the the local library book sale and regretted it. I read books from library to go, and reread my own books from time to time. Our town has a free book exchange. There are weather proof "library houses" beside the boat dock ramp in the county park, and the fishing beach city park at the end of our road. I have donated a book or two in those little houses, and taken a book or two as well. I've chosen to return most of the books that I borrow there. I did keep one.
Katla2 -
I got 13 because I don't follow anyone on social media.
Nor do I wear clothes with writing on.
Heather UK xxxxxxxx2 -
dellafayefox wrote: »but talk of chocs, snakes, and giant insects, really put a damper on this girls happily ever after.
This memory has caused this old tune to play over and over in my head this morning while trying to focus on laundry. I have often wondered what it would be like to be my age living among the aborigines for the last 50 years, wearing a colorful skirt, bare-breasted, with a headscarf, and playing the didgeridoo.
The crocs, snakes and giant insects aren't quite as prevalent as all that. Although it does depend where you are. No crocs in my area!
And modern aboriginal women tend to look much like everyone else ... strong, beautiful, intelligent women.
https://www.teaandbelle.com/single-post/2017/10/01/50-Amazing-Tidda-Queens
Australia reminds me very much of Canada. If you were in a Canadian city or an Australian city, you'd feel much the same. You'd do much the same things. There are subtle differences but nothing major.
In the outback ... it would depend where. Could be anything from running a pub to working on a sheep station to something in an office in Alice Springs.
M in Oz3 -
I am a serious reader BUT I don't think following authors or having clothing with declerations on it have much to do with love of reading. They are purely spurious net-culture items. I would argue that a true reader disengages from net-culture and short, canned sentences!3
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Feeling rebellious this morning because the last of my best bras has a worn spot on the strap that feels sharp and uncomfortable. That thin flat plastic elastic is the best until the fabric cover wears. Also, my under boob sore is still a bit tender. So I am going topless! Just watered my semi-private patio flowers bare-breasted. broad daylight! All the old guys in the neighborhood are out bare-chested with no regard for my feeling on extreme belly sag and sasquatch like hair, so maybe they need to see what my sports bra has been hiding.
If I had a ride I would consider a day at Rooster Rock. You PDX ladies know what I say saying and yes I have been there in the past. Sometimes a girl just needs a bit of fresh air and sunshine.
Faye Columbia River
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Also Faye, you have covered quite a lot of ground. I have never been down to mexico or to to alaska. All my travels have been to settled areas, sometimes remote but settled. Most unsettled has been to New Zealand, and parts of Vermont and Oregon, and some of West Virginia.1
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Today is August 8::
World Cat Day
Sneak some Zucchini on Your Neighbor’s Porch Day - Worldwide
Augsburg Peace Day -Germany
Bowling Day -Worldwide
Saint Dominic Feast Day -Christian Worldwide
Happiness Happens Day - Worldwide
Repetition Day, Repetition Day- Worldwide
Independence Day- Bhutan
Let’s all be happy as we take our cats to the neighbors and drop off some zucchini on their porches. Then we can go to a German owned bowling ally while remembering Saint Dominic. Then peacefully read about Independence Day in Bhutan and Augsburg. While being happy.
Let’s all be happy as we take our cats to the neighbors and drop off some zucchini on their porches. Then we can go to a German owned bowling ally while remembering Saint Dominic. Then peacefully read about Independence Day in Bhutan and Augsburg. While being happy.
Let’s all be happy as we take our cats to the neighbors and drop off some zucchini on their porches. Then we can go to a German owned bowling ally while remembering Saint Dominic. Then peacefully read about Independence Day in Bhutan and Augsburg. While being happy Happy happy! (Repeat)
RV Rita3 -
M in Oz My old neighbor Zek had aborigine heritage and even back to his grandparents, they lived like modern mainstream for their day. Something about the old ways and primitive cultures that have always appealed to me. The 15 years I spent in the mountains, the first 10 off the grid, are some of my best and worse memories. It is fun to think about, but such living these days would kill me in a short time.
Amazing on that link you provided, that Evelyn Scott looks almost identical to Zek except he has very short hair.
Also #3 on the reading quiz. This is why I don't read much anymore because I read a book until I finish it. Up 2 days straight reading the Nez Perce and the Opening of the Northwest. I read Jurassic Park and called in sick for work, so I could finish it. If I start a book and put it down, I seldom return unless it is a reference book or historical documentation.
Faye in OR2 -
DeliaFaye: There is a nude beach on Sauvie Island, too. It is on the Columbia River side of the island. I've never been tempted to join them. I had a teaching friend who went there with her son in the distant past. The nude beach at Rooster Rock State Park is also popular with the folks who want an all over tan. I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with that lifestyle, but it isn't for me. :noway:2
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Happy Birthday Kim :flowerforyou:3
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KIM ~ Happy, Happy Birthday!0
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KIM: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!0
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Katla ~ Please explain how to change the text color. I knew at one time, but, I have forgotten.
Carol in GA1 -
Katla Not really for me either in public around strangers. I was at Rooster rock once but wore a bikini. I was kidding about going to RR if I had a ride. That would be my last choice of a day getaway haha! In the windsurfing days before the kiteboards, it was common for surfers coming from work in hot weather to strip nude by their car and then put on a swimsuit. I always wore my sports bikini as underwear so no eyes on me. I will never understand why guys think women are dying to see their stuff.
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