WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2021

Gosh, Debbie, you look so much like your mother. I know you two are very close.

I also look like my mother, but I'm not happy about it! One of the reasons I like wearing makeup is that don't see my mother when I look in the mirror. Otherwise, her eyes stare back at me.

I'm extremely fussy about salads. No bottled dressings. No savoury and sweet mixed up. In general, apart from Greek Salad, I don't like tomatoes in with my lettuce. I like the classic combinations. Classics are classics for a reason. I love many salads, but above all, a properly dressed green salad is heaven. The best olive oil is essential.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

And we got out for an evening bicycle ride!!

Morning ladies
I am up and showered and dressed..will leave in a bit for drs office. And depending how i feel when im done will pick up the pups to bring them over for the afternoon.

I am home. Touching base with Machka's salad question, because I don't have time to go into trip details this morning. My favorite salad is a greek salad. My favorite dressing is a home made lemon dressing because it is so versatile. However, if we are eating out, I will almost always have either a ceasar salad or house salad with blue cheese. ONe thing I hate on my salads is croutons. Hard, stale, salty, bread. Ick! KJ

Turned in the keys to the apartment yesterday afternoon and they did a walkthrough while I had to wait outside. Then I got to see her comments and go inoif I wanted. I wish I could have remembered to take a pic of the commentator show kirby when I got home. He would have been pissed so he thought it would be better to stay home. Gave forwarding address signed and left

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Hoping this won’t double post. Having a boatload of problems with after thyroid surgery symptoms. Even on line has little info. From the TMI desk........my bowel refuses to work & none of the Drs has much help to offer.Three wks to go before blood work that may help. Three wks? How to get thru 3 wks? Excuse my shout out.

A nurse will stop by today,fingers crossed. Has never been a problem,but when it happens,is a problem for sure.
Kim,good luck to your Mom.Heather,all the pictures are sweet.Rori,hope you get your shots soon.Ours were the first of March.All went ok.Allie,sounds like you are getting thru the sleep problems. Know there are more,but my first post went pouf.....my mistake for not copying. Have a great day & thank you for listening. Pat C Ohio

my husband had issues after surgery(hip replacement) and had bowel issues-(didn't go for a week)- only thing that helped him, and helped FAST was milk of magnesia. He made sure to keep it on hand when he had his other surgeries, just in case.

"Get to do"s and "chose well"s
Corned beef simmering on the back burner. We’ll have our what Joe calls “Irish Day” meal today as tomorrow will be DDS/new permanent bridge. Shouldn’t be a big deal, but every time they’ve said that, they ended up having to numb me and struggle for two hours. Moving the feast up a day just makes sense.

Heather you may be right, but I hesitate. Our county sheriff’s department is spread very thin, underfunded, understaffed, unable to get the taxpayers to vote any revenue increase. If we lived it town, it would be different, there is a municipal police department. Did alert the neighbors via the NextDoor app. Sounds like no racing heart last night, whew! Loved the story of your resourceful feeding at that expen$ive hotel. First draft finished? Bravissima!
Machka I just love the pictures of your yard. Gorgeous incorporation of edible landscaping. Your landlords are lucky to have you and your husband as tenants.
Allie I had to google electrophysiologist. What you’re going through has certainly been an education for me! Brava for walking and doing your PT! Get lots of pup love and healing.
SueBDew how long were you without power?
Katla that’s a hard way to wake up at 4:30. Glad you were there for him. Living in the forest, trying to poo-police the yard, I can count on always finding some unexpectedly. My old hiking boots must have poo-magnets in their soles. :laugh:
Vicki I shake my head at the home remodeling shows I love to watch, especially the flippers who talk of “refreshing” a bathroom for $2K. Here, the average estimate for a bathroom re-do, not changing the foot print, just new floors, fixtures and paint, is $14K!!! Kitchens start at $25K, easily escalating to $50 K if any upgrades to appliances, finishes etc. Good thing Joe would oppose any remodeling and disruption, we can’t afford it anyway…
Tina I’m just grateful that both dogs are barky, and that the man didn’t want to stay around and talk about directions, and that our big black GSD/Flatcoat mix barked him all the way down the drive along our fence. Good girls! Extra cookies!!! What you said about shoes being the best investment. Truth.
Tracey ants on legs? [shudder] Safe travels, your cousin is lucky to have you.
Lisa talk about “in the nick of time”. Whew!
Debbie, the very image of your Mom.
Pat C ((hugs)) 3 weeks sounds like a long time to wait, is a second opinion possible? Psylllium fiber caps are my friends…
Pip bet you’re glad to be done with the old place

Blustery and cold yesterday, 38F felt like 28F. To absorbed in fire district work yesterday to get up off my butt and take the dogs down to the powerline. Enjoyed a zoom chat with 2 buddies and 4 others, but then plopped down in front of the TV and stuffed my face 500+ over CICO. Only plus was that I left the wine alone. Time to do better today BEFORE the wind kicks up.

Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD

Katla, oh how scary, but it sounds like you handled it like a pro. If you stress, they stress. I was like that when Lee would go into his ammonia comas. In your head your saying, "and so this too shall pass". Then it does.💖👍
Hugs
Rebecca

Good morning, afternoon, evening Ladies!

Well, the red spot on my arm is gone now. Usually, if I just wait and not panic, these things go away.

Tip of the day: To get the cent sign on Windows, type Alt key and 0162. On Mac, it’s the option key 4. I know on Windows there are bunch of keyboard shortcuts for all kinds of special characters using the Alt key. Since I don’t use Windows anymore, I can’t really remember them, but I know they had all the umlaut characters for when I did type in German from time to time.

I do love a good Greek salad too. When we were in Crete, we found this little taverna off a small road and had the best one. It was big chunks of fresh tomato, big chunks of cucumber, wonderful kalamata olives and a giant chunk of feta plopped on the top. Then drizzled with olive oil, salt & pepper. It was fantastic.

Not much going on today. Getting some work done and then nothing. I really want to take a walk, but my knee is refusing to improve.

Tina in CA

I like any salad except those that are made with jello. Those are easy for me to pass up.

Tracey: Thanks for your good wishes for DH.

Heather: Congrats on finishing your first draft! :bigsmile:

Barbara: Poo Police—One of our neighbors complained that I threw our dog poo in a place that he didn’t approve. He was puppy-sitting his step daughter’s little dog and putting every piece of poo in a separate blue plastic bag. He then threw the plastic bag in the regular garbage. I imagined the town dump with thousands of blue bags and didn’t want to do that myself, so I started dumping our dog’s poo into the toilet and flushing it away. We use the poo bags when we take him for a long walk and put them in the city garbage cans if needed. :ohwell:

Rebecca: DH has been diabetic since before we met, & we have been married more than 50 years. He does a good job of monitoring his blood sugar levels, but on occasion he has an unforeseen low blood sugar level that requires help I can’t provide on my own. Our local fire department has highly skilled paramedics who have been life savers. They are heroes in my book. Hot weather can be especially difficult and is a more likely time for DH to have trouble. :flowerforyou:

My tummy is telling me that it is lunch time. I need to get busy.

Katla in sunny NW Oregon

Katla49 wrote: »

Tracey: Thanks for your good wishes for DH.

Heather: Congrats on finishing your first draft! :bigsmile:

Barbara: Poo Police—One of our neighbors complained that I threw our dog poo in a place that he didn’t approve. He was puppy-sitting his step daughter’s little dog and putting every piece of poo in a separate blue plastic bag. He then threw the plastic bag in the regular garbage. I imagined the town dump with thousands of blue bags and didn’t want to do that myself, so I started dumping our dog’s poo into the toilet and flushing it away. We use the poo bags when we take him for a long walk and put them in the city garbage cans if needed. :ohwell:

Rebecca: DH has been diabetic since before we met, & we have been married more than 50 years. He does a good job of monitoring his blood sugar levels, but on occasion he has an unforeseen low blood sugar level that requires help I can’t provide on my own. Our local fire department has highly skilled paramedics who have been life savers. They are heroes in my book. Hot weather can be especially difficult and is a more likely time for DH to have trouble. :flowerforyou:

My tummy is telling me that it is lunch time. I need to get busy.

Katla in sunny NW Oregon

Understood.💖. Yes in Hammond the EMTs all knew us. They'd come into the apartment, explaining to the new guy's, "this gentleman has liver issues, we need to keep our voices calm and low, because he gets agitated easily. He is in an ammonia coma, so he's not thinking clearly". I just had to give him a look and a copy of his meds. They'd quietly poke their head in and say " hi Owain". It was really endearing.💖🙏👍
Rebecca