WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR OCTOBER 2020

Regarding passwords ... the recommendation now is to use passphrases.

Passphrases, passwords and PINs
https://www.getcybersafe.gc.ca/en/secure-your-accounts/passphrases-passwords-and-pins

Passwords, PINs and passphrases
https://www.cyber.gov.au/acsc/view-all-content/advice/passwords-pins-and-passphrases
https://www.cyber.gov.au/acsc/view-all-content/guidance/comparison-password-vs-passphrase

More info ...
https://www.getcybersafe.gc.ca/en/homepage
https://www.cyber.gov.au/acsc/individuals-and-families


M in Oz

Morning all.

Lactose: I always had sinus problems. Then I read an article about how cows milk lactose can create excess mucus in the sinuses. Went off the milk and sinus problems largely disappeared. DH followed suite with similar improvements. We now have mostly soy milk and yoghurt, I eat goats cheese. I can have small amounts of dairy without a problem, so my favourite honeycomb ice cream is still in my freezer.
Machka: I use passphrases for most sites/apps. Much easier to remember. My daughter suggested it some time ago, and it made sense to me.

It's a dull day today, so planning to stay indoors.

☘️ Terri

Loving all the smells of childhood . Am I weird but I’ve always loved the smell of the dogs paw when you cuddle them and they are warm. Don’t have any doggies now 😢

Stay safe

Kate UK (in locked down Liverpool) ❤️

Hello everyone.

I am wondering about our missing members too. If I recall Penny stated her and her husband would be moving to another location during the summer and would be off the grid. I know a few mentioned the ongoing topic of our current state as being a force to back off from all social media. I completely understand their perspectives.

Welcome Linnie! I really do not fret about the macros. I tend to lean towards how my body feels by the food I eat. I am fuller throughout the day if I start with a protein. The rest of the day I aim for healthy meals; mostly plant based.

Rita – Glad to hear Wicket is doing fine after tooth extraction. Sounds like me. I came home and ate immediately after my tooth was repaired. So glad I did not need Novocain.

Carol – Thank you. My closet used to be filled with pink clothes and now I am down to 3 pink items. I always loved pastels. I guess it’s time to bring back some more pinks!

Allie – I am starting to just shake my head over the Jean stories. Your heart is in the right place, but if it were me…….I would have told the caretaker to call Jean. By the way the trust sounds like it was set up Jean is getting a big chunk of change having her mother stay there. It’s time she starts doing some work for those funds. But, of course, she realizes you will jump any time something comes up so she doesn’t worry about it.

Barbara – So sorry about the unexpected cost of Joe’s surgery. I wonder if the doctor will work with you so you can get charged this year in order to take advantage of money savings. Or, maybe Joe has a change of heart. I can certainly understand how he is feeling. I am of the ilk to get things over and done with so I would probably schedule.

Medicare, Supplements, and the Like – The programs, I feel, were set up to be extremely confusing and costly. As I read through everyone’s challenges I know I will have to seek out assistance when my time comes.

Reusable Micro Clothes – I see them everywhere; even the Dollar Store. Not a big fan because they really do not dry things the way cotton does. I do use them to clean but then wipe things down with an old cotton tea towel.

Kim – Oh, what a challenge. What a great group of friends coming out to assist.

DrKatie – So sorry to hear about your knee. Hope it heals quickly and those stitches can come out soon.

Karen – CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Mortgage is done. What a great milestone.

Tammy – Welcome to the group.

Reading about the snow, wood stoves, heat, etc. has me shivering. It is finally cooler here in SFL – 80s in the mornings! There really isn’t a need for greenhouses. If we expect frost we can just through sheets or plastic over our plants which I seldom do. My thinking…..if it doesn’t kill you it makes you stronger!

The sun is finally starting to show. I promised the garden some of my time this morning. Many things need to be controlled out there.

Hugs to all,
SuziQ – SFL

Hello Ladies!

Smells from childhood

1.Rocky Mountain Columbines
2. Fresh cut alfalfa and clover
3. Rain after a summer thunderstorm
4. Antique tube radios
5. High altitude wildflower honey
6. My mother making chow chow
7. Cow, horse, sheep, goat, and chicken manure
8. New Leather
9. Diesel from ranch equipment
10. Cotton candy and the fair
11. Septic tank being pumped
12. Swimsuit after a dip in the ranch pond
13. Campfire hot dogs and smores
14. Chuckwagon cooking at a roundup
15. Cherry cobbler
16. Cowboys farting contest
17. Blacksmith forge
18. Trout fry
19. Homemade bread
20. My grandma's homemade perfume
21. Bleached laundry on the clothesline
22. The schoolbus
23. Fresh fudge
24. Oranges from Florida for Christmas
25. Butchering day
26. Oil paints
27. Gasoline
28. Delivering calves
29. Castrating
30. Pushing in hens guts after prolapse
31. Witch hazel
32. Grandmas girdles
33. Iodine
34. Grease
35. Bag balm
36. Coal and wood chimney smoke
37. Wildfires
38. Cats hairballs
39. Dog poo on my new boots
40. Straw at a barn dance
41. Mesquite when I visited my great grannies ranch in Texas
42. Campfire coffee
43. Fish guts at the lake
44. Liniment
45. Camphor Phenique
46. Sulfur when spent time in East Texas chigger country
47. Dead skunk under ranch house
48. Lime when applied in the range outhouse
49. Chocolate chip cookies
50. The cowboy's laundry
51. Hot iron branding
52. Spoiled goat milk
53. Bubblegum
54. Coolaide straws
55. Carmel
56. Pig poo at my grandpas
57. Afterbirth
58. School lunch and sloppy Joe's
59. Gym lockers
60. Dissecting frogs
61. Cooking bullfrog legs
62. Fileting catfish
63. School paste
64. Vomit
65. Bloody nose from dodgeball
66. Dead mice in bunkhouse walls
67. Rancid peanut butter
68. Preserves and jelly
69. Baloney sandwitches
70. Spam
71. Mountain oyster cookout
72. Community chili cookoff
73. My great grandma's snus
74. Cowboys spitting tobacco
76. Cowboys smoking cigars at a card game
77. Neighbors hand-rolled cigarettes
78. Marijuana growing along the irrigation ditch
79. Ragweed
80. My mothers mint patch
81. Freinds little sisters sagging diapers
82. Window putty
83. Garlic
84. Hot hi fi transformer
85. 45 rpm record left near a sunny window
86. My calming herb-scented Raggedy Ann, sock monkey, and teddy bear
(my grandma made these and used herbs to help with my hyperactivity)
87. Fresh farm eggs and bacon (made by my grandpa) cooking in the skillet
88. Herb teas blended by my part Chickasaw and Gypsy grandma
89. Kerosene lamps in the range bunkhouse
90. Mushrat hides hanging at our trapper neighbor's
91. Homemade candles
92. My grandma's makeup rouge and body powders
93. Dirty socks left in mudroom
94. Junior high teacher dying of cancer and wouldn't retire
95. Making soda and vinegar volcanos
96. Electric motors burning out
97. Lightening hitting power transformer
98. Ether for starting diesel engines in the winter
99. Dept store nuts and candy counter
100. Feed store
101. Gun powder smoke

Fae ex Colorado ranch girl

Evie1958 yeah, we took care of them. I found the chalk also Messes up the scent trail. Vinegar and water, and citrus peels also do it.

Good morning all! Happy Sunday! It has been a rainy weekend, so all I have been able to do outside so far is pick up some branches (yesterday after grocery shopping). Unfortunately, with the rain, came some strong winds....which means there are more branches in the yard again. lol Anyway, got my yogurt made, two soups for the week (a mushroom soup and an onion soup), chicken salad is made for Tim to nibble on, and a black bean salad for myself.
My weight is continuing to go down, slowly. IF it continues to do so, I could be in ONEderland by the end of December. I can do this! I am keeping my one glass of wine or beer a day in my meal plan. Sometimes I have it, sometimes I don't; but I like to have room for it. Lately, I have been eating bacon, as well, a couple of times a week. But for the most part, my meals and snacks are mainly high protein and heavy on the veggies. The lower calorie meals allow me to have the bacon and beverages.

Welcome new ladies! Linnie, Tammy, deadon... and any others- Remember to bookmark the page, to find us easier! Come back often, read and glean what info seems pertinent to you and chime in when you feel the urge! IF you are comfortable doing so, tell us a little about yourself (as specific or general as you wish).

Heather- The Repair Shop! I started watching that a few weeks ago! It is wonderful! How very cool that the place where they film it is nearby! So...I am guessing it is NOT actually a repair shop? Is it a museum then? With a souvenir/bake shop? Happy birthday to Johnny! The girls in the wheelbarrow!

Michele- About mid summer, I put a post on our local fb "informed" page requesting egg cartons. Last year I received 500 egg cartons within three or four days! This year it took three months to get about 450 egg cartons. I blame C-19. I think a lot of people began raising chickens or using egg cartons to make their own little structures. It is a bit of work. Once I get them, I clean them all out (some come very cobwebby/dirty with chicken/egg matter on them). After I clean them, I spritz them with bleach water and let them dry. Then, it takes 8-10 hours to hot glue the cartons together to form the spaceship. After it is built, I spritz it all down again with some bleach water. So...with the cleaning and spritzing time, it is probably a 15 hour project. So, this year, I spent more time cleaning and constructing than the hours that it was up and played with. Live and learn!

Well, I need to scoot. I have some paperwork to do, today. Paperwork is probably my LEAST favorite thing to do, but having it be a yucky day outside will help me stay on task. ttfn xoxoxo KJ (Kelly)

Barbara - the lights took me about 2 minutes to hang. They aren’t hard wired in.
This is a picture of the light unlit and one lit to show my daughters how it lights up the room. 2 came in the set for 36.99, I hung the other one in the bedroom and have ordered a set for over the kitchen counter.

Barbara: Crab Apple Jelly




Just getting ready for family Skype. Be back later.

☘️ Terri

Barbara - Congratulations on the Wii weight! Happy to read Joe is feeling better.

I too am the housekeeper. I spend a couple or three hours each Saturday or Sunday and that seems to do it.

The childhood scents take me right back.
I have one scent that just reminds me of the perfect morning.
It was a day school had cancelled because of road conditions. It was early March and had rained then froze so the driveway between my Grandparents house and our was pure ice. It was a bit warmer later in the morning so my Mom opened the window and I could immediately smell doughnuts my Grandmother was making. I remember crawling literally on my hands and knees to get to Grammie’s because it was too icy to stand. The smell of the spring air and those cooking doughnuts is a scent that has stuck with me all those years.

Suzi - I am with you, I don’t care for the microfibre cloths. I have gotten rid of the ones I had.

Allie - I hope you aren’t coming down with something with the chills, sometimes it’s just being tired that makes me chilled.

Heather - location is everything with decorations. I am not happy with some items on my shelves and have been mulling over what I can do to change it.

I need to do some cleaning today, and I need to see what we have for stock for Christmas ornaments. We are not attending any of the craft fairs this year as I don’t feel comfortable being out in the public, however I found one of our local craft stores is doing a craft show for a week. I stopped in yesterday to get some details, it doesn’t cost us anything to have our stuff displayed, she keeps 20% of our sales. We’ve decided we have nothing to lose and will put our ornaments there, all I have to do is an inventory and drop the stuff off and pick it up.

Tracey in Edmonton

Good morning ladies! My favorite childhood smell is fresh cinnamon bread! I guess that would be my favorite taste as well!

Karen congratulations on paying off your mortgage! We paid ours off a few years ago didn't have a party but we did tell everybody that was close to us because we were so excited!

Kelly you're doing fantastic! I'm like you, I keep room for donuts and Coke whenever I want them as long as it's within my calories. It keeps me from binging, or going off the rails...



Mary from Arizona/Minnesota

KetoneKaren wrote: »

Michele.. I was starting to get kind of excited about a mortgage burning celebration but then I read this on Wikipedia and it took the wind out of my sails:

"Even when a mortgage is satisfied (“paid off”) at the conclusion of payments, throwing a party to celebrate is now generally considered gauche since the traditional paying off of a mortgage is no longer a standard rite of passage [source needed] It is now seen as bragging about one’s secure financial condition [source needed]. Modern advice columnists and etiquette experts generally advise against having mortgage burning parties attended by anyone other than immediate family.”



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Sounds like sour grapes to me. Have your party!! It's a huge accomplishment in today's world.

Snowflake1968 wrote: »

I need to do some cleaning today, and I need to see what we have for stock for Christmas ornaments. We are not attending any of the craft fairs this year as I don’t feel comfortable being out in the public, however I found one of our local craft stores is doing a craft show for a week. I stopped in yesterday to get some details, it doesn’t cost us anything to have our stuff displayed, she keeps 20% of our sales. We’ve decided we have nothing to lose and will put our ornaments there, all I have to do is an inventory and drop the stuff off and pick it up.

Tracey in Edmonton

Tracey, can you post pictures of some of your ornaments you have made? I love to see peoples crafty work.
Working on former mother in laws Christmas tree wall hanging this weekend. Fun to be sewing something other than masks.
Debbie
Napa Valley,CA

Katla49 wrote: »

Debbie - I love my garden, too. This home has the smallest garden space of anyplace I’ve lived. I enjoy every bit of it. This year we’ve had a hard time with deer eating my plants. :grumble:

Katla in misty NW Oregon

No deer here as we are in town (my parents have problems with them at their place but they plant so much that usually not too big a problem. We do have raccoons, squirrels, skunks and possums that wander through. Only problem I had a few years ago, not sure if it was squirrels or rats or what but something kept eating my cucumber plants after they had started to really produce, ate a small spot, right at ground level, killing the plant. lost half my plants. Now I put netting all around them. Helps keep the feral cat out too as I have my catnip planted in the same raised bed this year. My smallest garden has to be the one when I lived on base with hubby #1. Just a few tiny planters. The only time I didn't have a garden was the six months in Mobile- got there July 1st so too late to plant. Planned on having a big garden the coming summer but thankfully we got transferred close to home that Dec.
Debbie
Napa Valley,CA