WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2020

Good evening all. Just caught up after not checking in yesterday.

Good news is son's GF is negative for Covid! However, sore throat and cough are still bothersome. I suggested she might want to get checked out to make sure not strep throat but don't know if they will. It would be nice if Covid had unique symptoms.

DIL and son face timed this afternoon. She looked good post surgery. Says it is going well, very tired still of course. Granddaughter was excited because Dad is taking her to store and she gets to buy something (out of her own funds!). She had to model her shoulder strap purse for (one of the Disney princesses). She is in second grade and is reading the Nancy Drew books. Glad she is a reader. GS was at preschool so will catch up with him this weekend. I guess his latest (at age 3) is he has discovered the word poop-so it is Mommy poop, daddy poop, etc. And laughing he says it.

First of my new doors installed today. He took three bedroom doors, bathroom and basement door to his house to bore out handle holes and chisel out for hinges. Says he prefers working in his own garage. He has key so he can come to house tomorrow for installation (he and family are friends from church).

I have to go do an introduction with local judge for a virtual training with area partners first thing in the morning then quickly leave to go to OSU for appointment with my thyroid cancer doctor. Hopefully he only does the usual neck ultrasound, but I have been known to show up and they send me for a bunch of other tests while I am there.

Lazy day after Terry left. I worked for three hours this morning, took off while he was working on door. Discovered something I had eaten was making my digestive system work too well (think perhaps sprout raisin bread for breakfast three days in a row!). Anyway, that got me sidetracked and not feeling comfortable leaving the house, so I sorted out medical papers and got things ready for tomorrow.

Off to bed. Got up very early this morning.

Take care all,

Ginny in Ohio

Today is the Autumnal Equinox (or Mabon)!

"The Autumnal Equinox in September ushers in a change of season. It is observed annually when the sun can be seen directly overhead along the equator. The day marks the end of summer and beginning of fall in the Northern Hemisphere. The autumn equinox is one of two days when all points on Earth except the polar regions see the sunrise and set at due east and due west. With few exceptions, all latitudes see almost precisely 12 hours of daylight and 12 of darkness. The name Mabon was coined by Aidan Kelly around 1970 as a reference to Mabon ap Modron, a character from Welsh mythology. Among the sabbats, it is the second of the three Pagan harvest festivals, preceded by Lammas / Lughnasadh and followed by Samhain."

Rita - Hurray for flu shots! It's not like we need anything else to worry about... I'm holding off until October to make sure it carries us through the season. We'll probably go in around October 1 to get that done unless we start seeing a lot of flu cases before then.

Allie - I'm sorry to hear about the passing of your friend.

Michele - Every day is a good day for Elevenses!

Evie - You and me both, sister. For me it's meal planning that's really gone by the wayside although I'm having a hard time getting off my duff to exercise too. I was doing great last year but I haven't adapted well to the new reality. But we have to remember to be gentle with ourselves because times are hard for everybody right now.

Machka - Forget the $100K. If I didn't have bills to pay I'd stay there a month for free!


Whoops, I almost let the day get away from me! We'll be taking a late walk with Luna today, as soon as I post this. Can't wait to get out into this lovely, lovely weather, even in the dark. If this keeps up it'll be soup season, which is great when I'm challenged for meal planning. All I have to do is come up with one recipe and it'll feed us for several days.

Wishing you cozy nights.

-Yvonne in TX

Pip,
I love your Meerkat! I will wait with anticipation for her name.

Karen in Virginia

Lisa - I hope you feel better soon

Machka - I always wonder where those places are too.

Carol - I have gotten into the habit of checking bank balances every morning too. What a hassle these “people” make it.

Margaret - catalytic converters are being stolen here regularly too.
Do you remember when they told us how computers would make our lives easier? It seems to make it a lot easier for the scammers and hackers but for us honest people trying to do business it’s even more frustrating.

Linda - very responsible grandchildren. How did he get involved in whittling at his age? I have not seen anyone do it since my Grandfather when I was very young.

Lanette - our health authority tested Vitamin D levels here in routine bloodwork for 10 years. According to my doctor It was found that all residents were deficient in Vitamin D and that even if we were out all day every Sunny day in a year there wasn’t enough in our northern climate to make up for the deficiency. My doctor told me I need to take 3000 units daily. I can’t afford that so haven’t done it.
It’s been a long time since we had to draw “flush water” I hadn’t thought of that in years.

Allie - I put my summer clothes away and got out cooler temp clothes on the weekend. I realized I am low on clothes but I don’t want to buy any at this size. I got rid of my bigger clothes so I would have incentive to lose if my smaller ones got tight so I need to get at it!

Terri - I thought it was interesting that she shared it as well because it describes her so well. I’m trying to understand her but she always throws me for a loop.

Katie - you made me laugh out loud literally about decluttering your decluttering groups.

Michele - that’s so true, there are so many I wish I could still call to talk to. I think most gates aren’t recommended for the top of stairs are they? I never used a gate at the top of stairs, if I was putting clothes away or doing something I would just shut the door to whatever room so they couldn’t wander off.

Had our eldest daughter and Grands here for supper. We are borrowing her car for tomorrow while ours is in the shop getting a fortune spend on it. As they were leaving Rodg says to Michaela: “love you Micki” she says “I love you too, you can call me princess Micki”. She had her little tiara on tonight.

Jonah is coming for a sleepover Friday night, we’ll maybe get caught up on some of our Young Sheldon episodes. We are far behind.

I came home from driving them home and noticed a friend had posted the Hallmark Christmas movie schedule. I realized that my youngest daughter and I wouldn’t be able to “watch” them together this year. We have been watching them at our own homes and texting through them to visit for about 5 years now. She doesn’t have cable or satellite at her new house. I texted her and she told me she had been worried about that too so we have looked at the schedule and made a couple of dates for sleepovers. I love that she still wants to hang out with her Mama.

I am going to her house the weekend of November 14th to help her decorate for Christmas and she will come here December 5th. We just need the restrictions to stay as they are and not get worse again.

Well I should probably get ready for bed, it’s late and I’m tired. I was wanting to see who won America’s Got Talent but I’ll have to finish watching tomorrow. There is a young Canadian Girl in the finales this year.

Tracey in Edmonton

"Get to do"s and "chose well"s Self Care September
23: let go of others expectations of yourself. Huh. Maybe of Mama’s expectation/requirement of responsive reply to every pause in her speech? Not easy to break lifelong pattern, maybe I can nudge it a little.

Carol, Oh NO! So glad you caught the unauthorized charge and quickly cancelled the debit card.
Margaret everything you said about following up with bank accounts, trusts etc is doubly true for medical things, prescriptions, appointments. Don’t know if economic pressures aren’t allowing for proper training, or adequate time to handle transactions, but all the front desk medical staff I’ve dealt with so far this year are scattered, distracted and ill-informed.
Lanette Southern Oregon PBS provides Passport as a perk of membership. I’d rather pay them the $60/year than Amazon every month Closet shopping score!
Tracey that was an interesting clip, but ended too soon. I wanted to learn more about how to help myself and my near and dear to shift to the curious, humor filled, open position. Don’t feel that telling each other the truth about our location is going to help. Just my humble opinion Do you feel your boss was trying to send you a message?

Trying REAL hard not to comment on absolutely every post, not because I don’t care about you all, but because it’s just too much. We’ll see how it goes.

Rain has arrived and is coming down hard. Sounds so very good! Will sleep peacefully with no fire fears.


Lighter, lovelies!

Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD

I buy Vitamin D3 at 5000 IU, and take a capsule every day. It is especially helpful in my view. Walmart carries it, and so do several other stores nearby. I think of D3 as the sunshine vitamin. I think it is worth the money and improves my thinking and happiness levels, especially as days get shorter. In the long ago past I tried sunlight temperature lights but prefer the vitamins. I don’t sunburn myself taking vitamins but I turn beet read under a sunlamp.🥵

lcharpentier2 wrote: »

Hello all i'm here to brag I was high loser at tops tonight with a loss of 3.6. So it's on to another good week.

Congrats! I used to be in TOPS in Warrenton OR.👍. Did you win a basket of fruit and vegetables?💖. Our group everyone brought in a piece of something healthy and it went into a basket and whomever was the lowest won that! Great fun. Basket was kept by group, and you just put your item in when you paid your weekly dues and such.👍We had a bunch of plastic bags in the basket for the items to go in.
💖Rebecca
Whidbey
Washington

Cake making day today! I boiled the orange for an hour yesterday.
Weather awful here, wind, rain, so I hope it improves for Edie's outside bday tea party tomorrow.
They are coming in anoraks.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

Some wildfire smoke rolled in last evening, then a wonderful gentle rain all night and this morning the air is fresh. My patio workout is complete. Breakfast #1 down. I think I will go sit on my patio and drink my coffee before music practice.

Faye - over the hill and up the river

Good morning all! On my phone, so this will be short.
Rebecca- lol. I thought your avocado was a mouse butt at first glance! Need more coffee!
Pip- Love the trailer!
Congrats on weight losses and NSVs! Hugs.to all who need them! Ttfn xoxo. KJ(Kelly)

Pip
Thank you feels good to see the scale going the right way.
Love the trailer would love to get a little one to travel with. We have a 27 foot one for camping around her. And I bring it to my blueberry patch

Ginny
So glad it wasn't covid in your family

Tracy
My grandkids are well raised wow the job they did. In this time where no one cares.
The little guy always loved to wittle since he was very young. He makes handles to put on knives and axes and anything that would need a handle. He made me a nice bowl and spoon. Cute nothing fancy mind you. But to me it's something special.

Rebecca
We used to do the fruit and whatever basket. Now we give 2 dollars. And at the end of month best loser for the month gets a fruit and whatever basket. I got 4 dollars last night because i won attendance as well

Well for me all is good feel great and have a good attitude towards bringing the weight down and blood sugars at a good count. So on to a good day start of the good week for me.

See you all lighter
Linda in Northern Ontario

Lanette: Love the photo of you when you had beautiful red hair. Your hair still looks so soft and wavy!

Pip: Wow! Y'all have made so many life changes in such a short time. Your new apartment is beautifully decorated, you have a neat new car, and now you have that nifty new pull along. ENJOY!

Waists Lines and Lengths: I am very short waisted and have never had a waist line. When I was young it was more like straight up and down. Now it is apple.

I could not decide what I was in the clutter bug quiz. I do like for things to look neatly placed in my home. I avoid going into the upstairs bonus room and into the basement because those places are just full of junk that I would get rid of in no time at all. Alas, DH is a hoarder and it will stay the way it is until one of us is no longer around. On the other side, I have a tendency to just shove things into drawers just to get them out of sight.

Carol in GA

Carol - Sounds like you are a Ladybug, like me.

Faye - I am the same about alignment and placing of things. It amuses and sometimes annoys DH. Mostly he just thinks I'm weird. My worst thing is coasters. Hate them out of line. But once things are out of sight, I'm OK. Organised chaos is fine with me. Thankfully, I am getting better at throwing things away. My wardrobe is pretty minimalist. But I must get to my sock box. Plus poor DH's study. Plus the utility room.

My Whole Orange Cake is in the oven. I will ice it tomorrow with lemon drizzles. It's very simple, but Edie loves it. It's better made a day or two before you eat it. DH is washing up the mountain of dirty dishes I have produced. What a hero!

Raining and chilly here. Autumn has arrived at last.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

Pip I love those Meercat trailers. They have a 1950 look and the idea of matching them to your car color is awesome.

Rebecca & Katla The trees are changing here really fast this year and I noticed flies already gathering around my doors.

Tracey Gorgeous photos! The only places in Canada I have been are Alberta and BC. One great grandfather was from south of Montreal and spoke French and his distant ancestor was some famous French explorer that came to Canada 1688. I always wanted to go visit there but never made it. Try to find a way to afford D3. It is so important to the immune system. I now take 2000 units twice daily in the oil capsule.

Barbara I too would love to comment on every post but it is not just the time but also saying something interesting. Also, the lack of a DH, kids, and grands, gives me less material to talk about or comment on. I could get a dog, but I can't tolerate dog or cat fur. Since my neighbor Zek moved last fall, I no longer have a FDH (fake dear husband) to tell stories about.

Machka I lived in a place more primitive than that and off the grid for 15 years that cost me money and hard work. Could I live in that lavish house without the internet or phones for 30 days for $100K? Would I pick $100 bills off my endless bearing money tree in public view wearing only a bikini? I don't know, I will have to ponder these troubling questions before making a rash decision. Hahaha!

Does anyone else notice that you can type out a post with comments after reviewing all the previous posts and then later discover that several more posts were posted while you were typing or somehow several posts were missed by your discriminating eye? A girl's work is never done SIGH!