WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2020

Patio b4

pipcd34 wrote: »

Last piece of patio came in, big diff

I really like all the lights!


And the little bicycle, of course.

I’ve separated his medals and mine. I ordered 2 medal hangers and will take pics when they come in. I am gonna put them in the spare bedroom where we have bike trainer.

Pip – we have the exact same lights by our pool as you have on your patio. Great decorating! Question – when you ordered the POD, did it come on time?

Michele NC

Morning, afternoon and evening all,

Kim - I'm so glad you got in a good day with someone who loves you. I can hear the relief and joy in your voice! Humans need each other's touch to thrive.

Machka - Hope your brother and family will be safe and dry.

Heather - Hope your cauliflower cake turns out wonderful. Sounds like something my husband would bake to try to sneak a vegetable in on me.

Tracey and Kylia - I think of you both often, and the way things are at work for the two of you. You will find a way through, you always do.

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Corey says he has no idea why the air conditioning started working again after he looked at it, which is a tad unnerving. Really glad it's working, though! He shrugged and said maybe he intimidated it, and it happens at work all the time.

Have lost a couple of pounds shaking up my exercise routine, as the sciatica thing is just kicking me right in the posterior, so I've been skipping the yard work and just doing the elliptical. Had been stalled for the last two weeks, so it's nice to bump off of that. May have to go outside and get some water on the garden today, though. We're supposed to get the northwesternmost edge of Laura's remnants, but not until late tomorrow.

Speaking of Hurricane Laura, thoughts go out to everyone in the area--Laura is now expected to be a Category 4 by the time she reaches landfall and may reach inland still at hurricane force all the way north to the area my brothers and their families live, in Nacogdoches, Texas. No, I'm not worried about them, for a lot of reasons.

On hair washing - I was skipping one or two days a week before I started exercising every day, but now I have to shower daily and wash it every day because I sweat like a li'l piglet. Tried just rinsing my hair thoroughly and conditioning it, but ended up getting small blisters on my scalp. My hair's longer than it's been in a decade, as I'm still not willing to let a stranger breathe on me, mask or no, so it takes a long while to dry. It will probably get longer still.

Hope everyone has a good day, and that all of us and all those we love end up safe, dry, and out of the fire zones...

Later,
Love,
Lisa in AR

Heather For years I would see Osho quotes and I didn't know who he was. It was after I saw the Netflix that I found out and that Sheela was now a caregiver for the elderly. I almost poo'ed myself. Looking back it all seems so unreal.

Pip Awesome transformation. It looks so inviting.

Katla The drops won't make Joe's vision better. but make the eye drain instead of all that pressure building up causing excruciating pain and damaging the nerve. I had pain for a couple of years before they figured it out.

@dellafayefox Faye, I'm so sorry you had to go through that with that intentional food poisoning. A shocking story. I was partly rewatching the Netflix series "wild wild country" on that yesterday evening after osho/rajneesh quote came up in the thread. I think I knew a 2 or 3 older people -not close friends/acquaintances, in the 80s or so, who were into or had at least experienced Osho teaching maybe in the 70s or 80s (like people who were 30-60ish when I was about 20ish). I think one or two had some of his books. I wasn't at all drawn to it, largely as open relationship seemed to be a big part of it, so I didn't really look into it. I didn't follow the news about that at all and only discovered the story through Netflix last year. I was practicing meditation from late 80s and practiced 5 rhythms dance for several years in the 2010s, but haven't been too drawn to what seem to me like over-the -op things 60s dynamics (primal screaming, rebirth, free-love). I think that experimental "everything goes" period of the 60s (and a bit before and after) probably (surely) helped open the door for some new approaches that afe now normal, and also there was excess and unskilled exploration or use. Things like meditation, yoga, mindfulness and meditation were also more introduced in the west around then and in the 80s and 90s were still considered somewhat out there and woowoo, but now they seem to be highly main stream. I find the documentary series so interesting as you have people who were locals who were first open then adverse, others who are now disillusioned previous first-hand devotees, others who remain convinced that he was good and contributed overall good to the world, and that it was some of his close devotees who were responsable for any problems.

Lisa I bet Corey would cut your hair. He’s handy.

Karen in Virginia