WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2021

"Get to do"s and "chose well"s
Machka and Karen, they were copper plated decorative items. Donated all but one little night light lantern I’ve had for 60 or 65 years. Just couldn’t let it go, snatched it back from the box at the very door of the thrift shop. ;} Do you know if it's possible to replate?

Machka Your color articles reminded me of a Brain Games episode that demonstrated how females generally were able to distinguidh between more shades of the same color than males. Interesting review of a book on how language “colors” what we see:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jun/12/language-glass-colour-guy-deutscher. OMG 1816 pages of color palettes???
Pat C is your 2 years new TV internet connected? Our TV is much much older
Heather and Kelly, Joe called his aqua truck “green” while I insisted it was “blue” :laugh:
Tina thanks so much for the TV info. WAY too inconvenient to hook either of our laptops to either of our TVs. Could I get some kind of wireless HDMI device to watch on my older TV? Joe’s new TV is not currently hooked up to the internet, which may be why he can’t set up his new sound bar. It’s “Roku” ready, is Roku a wireless device for connecting to the internet, or a subscription service, or??? Many many thanks!
Rebecca oh how I’d love to sit with you, sip, and hear your SCA and nature camp stories!
Kay when I was threatened with catheterization, I sat on the pot with the shower running, my hand in the warm water filled sink, and hummed. No harm in trying?
Debbie ((hugs)) to you and your DH. Words fail.
Rori Thank you for checking in. Keeping you and yours in prayers.
Kim you and Annie are in very hard places with your moms.
Tracey oh, to go with Joe to a flea market would be the best thing! Know I’m not supposed to covet, but…
Kate here’s hoping to you. All you can do is encourage. This has been a long hard year and winter. I feel both Joe and I have aged substantially, me from lack of social contacts, Joe from lack of exercise and poor intake choices. I have to stop myself from nagging him and reminding him of his recent diabetes dx. Put a guard on my mouth! Our activity levels improved with the weather for a few days, hoping we can maintain while the clouds and chill roll back in.
Welcome @Lynetteperez and good luck Lynette in FL. I sleep better when I’ve been more active than usual… and not eaten for a few hours before bedtime ;}
Heather seeing your DDIL and grands smiles! Garden visit, hot cross buns, Johnny amenable to a cruise next spring, LPA and cleaner’s price hike good discussion… win, win, WIN, win win!!!
Katla Hooray for the printer cartridges outing! Bunny dollies (not live ones) are Tumble’s natural prey. :laugh:
Lisa “heart-filler” indeed!

Colors: favorite is aquamarine, but this is too faint to really show. Palette would be Machka's beachy ones or jewel tones but can’t find one that gives the “clear” feeling I mean. This comes close: Earth tones look soiled to me. Oranges and yellows need not apply … I wear mostly blue, some lavender and pink, occasional grey, black or green. Our house’s exterior is blue with brown trim. We are gradually changing the trim to a darker blue. Our interior walls are mostly 70’s “wood” paneling which Joe loves. Where there is no paneling, there is grandma patterned wallboard, which I’d change if I had the energy and $$.

Weight was down this morning, below January levels. Encouraging after the inexorable rise in March.

Lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD

Well yesterday wasn't an OMAD day but still a good day. I ate one of my homemade banana bread mini loaves with a Tbsp of butter melted on it with coffee for breakfast. I did good work on baking them! At noon I had about 1/2 cup of leftover taco meat in a taco salad with diced tomatoes, farm style shredded Tillamook cheese, sour cream and a few of my husbands nacho chips smashed up at the bottom. Totally heavenly!

Eldest son had stated he wished to take us out to dinner. Sweet child💖. He was going to take us to Mod Pizza, but noticed a lot of bad reviews about that chain, so husband had mentioned we take our pilgrimage to Langley, down the island a bit, to our ramen place. Its a mom and son thing, so husband stayed home. Son felt bad about leaving but once we got in his van, I explained that sometimes its nice for his Dad and I to be separated. The whole absence makes the heart grow fonder, really is true! Well, we had about an hours wait once we arrived. So we walked around, chatting and window shopping. My son is such a gentleman, conversation was easy, and I thoroughly enjoyed it! We stopped at an expensive candy shop, and stocked up, getting myself a handful of soft chews, some NECCO wavers, and a Bighunk bar. Son bought a bunch of stuff and it was my treat. Even splurged and got some orange slices for husband. When we circled back to the restaurant they were able to seat us in the back tented area, but the heaters were going, so it was quite comfortable. Son showed me pics on his phone of Chinese Lego sets he was thinking of buying, and at one point we both got the giggles and were quietly giggling until I was about crying! I can't even recall what it was about, but man, I hadn't laughed like that in awhile! I ate a bowl of ramen, but it was definitely more food in a day than I have had in a LONG while. Last night it was hard to sleep, and I had to take Pepto Bishop just to calm my belly down. But you know, it was totally worth it. The evening wasn't just about feeding my belly, it was about feeding my soul and filling my heart. Sometimes I wish he had a wife or girlfriend, because he has so much to offer, and all we Mommas wish for our kids to have, is someone that loves them as much as we do. I guess it might come in time, when he retires from the Navy. He is happily set in his ways, at 31 years old though.

Today its mealess day, coffee, water and maybe some juice. I need to rest this belly!
💖 Rebecca
Whidbey
Washington

Getting near to booking a cruise for next spring.

Yes, folks, so happy about today's ordinariness. Life hasn't been ordinary for a long time. We were royally entertained by the kids,especially Edie. 7 going on 14. I'm glad I don't live next door. What an almighty racket!

Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

Debbie, i am so sorry for your loss.

Tracey, that's lovely about the flea market suggestion and visit.

Colors, i like most colors and it changes over time. my clothes tend to be neutral, but with a few colorful pieces. my furnshings are neutral colors but some comforter covers are very colorful (purple, red), others are neutral(gray, beige). i have a divider that's white with huge dark pink flowers, and i change curtains every few years. (i get inexpensive standard ones) and last batch was white- a bit too boring, the present batch (which cover a wall of windows) is a gentle but solid purple.
i'm not big on yellow. i can't imagine buying yellow clothes or furnishings at present, though conceivably a yellow wall in a bathroom or kitchen i could imagine. of course yellow flowers like daffodils are lovely!

KJ congrats..

KJ --- Wonderful!!!!!!

Heather UK xxxxxx '
XOXO

Stats for the day-

Other- 1hr 30min 35sec, dust, vacuum, = 412c
Walk w/family- 1hr 14min 51sec, 77ahr, 90mhr, 3.52mi= 328c
Strava app- 426c

Total cal 740

Happy keister

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The TV didn't come on until about 7 pm.

Machka in Oz

I love not having the TV on. It hasn't been on since last Tuesday evening. I need to work on less computer and phone screen time.

Tina in CA

That's one of the things I like about cycling. It's too hilly to go right from home, so we drive to better locations and then ride ... a weekend ride can take me away from my computer for 3 or 4 hours!


M in Oz

Happy Easter

Last week, my friend Jean invited me for coffee in her garden (now that we are allowed to meet up - outside) a few of my other friends were there too. It was so nice to be able to socialise again, I didn't realise how much I'd missed it. (Zoom is better than nothing, but it's not the same.) It was my birthday the day afterwards, so they gave me cards and presents, I can't believe that I am 65 years old. Where have the years gone? I can't wait until we can arrange more days out together. Keeping fingers crossed that by the time it is Jean's birthday in May, we can have a day out at the coast to celebrate.

Thanks to Barbie for starting us off on the right track for April, as usual, I'm late to the "party" and still catching up, but for now I've been putting off my exercise session for long enough, time to get out the exercise mat and limber up!

Take care and love to all
Viv UK

Kelly - a new grandbaby -
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Distance: 21.31 km
Elev Gain: 153 m
Time: 1h 11m

Nice evening bicycle ride.

Before that, we went to a place called Grindelwald, a little courtyard with shops and cafes based on a Swiss village, for lunch. That was lovely.

Today was a good day to go because apparently yesterday was just chockers! It's a popular tourist place.


Machka in Oz

Had to go get the laptop.....
If I have explained this before, sorry for repeating. I think lots, but don't always post.....
So my girls asked me what we were doing for Easter. No one was any help in deciding, so.....husband wanted to go down to farm. Oldest daughter wanted to go to farm (only an hour for her). Suggestion by me.....DH and I were heading to KY on Saturday after work. Our truck looked like the Clampetts it was so packed. We even had a chair in it. The girls options were to meet at the farm for food, fun, and egg hunt or meet for the same at our house on Sunday around 4 for the same or oldest family meet at farm and youngest family meet at our house. Confusing, right? Both daughters decided to meet us at the farm on Sunday! Yay! So plans were made. I feel like this is the first time I have had some quiet since Wednesday! Thursday after work was organizing what we needed to take with us, laundry, work stuffs. Friday after work, we had planned on going to Walmart, but after picking up a used TV from a friend and having a truck full of beds in boxes, we went to another friend's home and picked up some more furniture they were giving away. The farmhouse was empty so we are refurnishing. So Saturday morning, I went to Walmart(btw the first time I have been in that store in 18 mths). I needed household items and groceries to take to KY. DH stayed home and started packing the truck. We parked that truck in the garage and took a different one to work. When we got home from work around 2, we finished getting things together and were on the road about 3. It took basically 2.5 hrs to pack the truck and we unloaded it in 1.5 hours. We put the food away and set up one bed to let it breathe before heading into town for dinner. I was STARVING and getting hangry. We found out the mattress is suppose to rest for 72 hours to reach its full potential. OOPS. I hope we didn't stress it too much by sleeping on it anyway. It was a long night! I am use to a king bed and we were in a double, not yet inflated bed in a strange room. We always slept upstairs before as "our" room was once his mom's room. DH had wanted to go to the flea market in the morning, but both girls were there around 11. We set up a tv, set up the other bed upstairs, hung some more pictures, and I scrubbed the bathroom-ugh! It is better but still no where I would like it to be. DH finally went outside to do some things out there. But he "needed" my help lots. I just wanted to sit and be quiet for a while, but so much to do. I decided to mop the kitchen floor ( oldest and I didn't get that done two weeks ago). Neither the Norwex mop nor the swifter helped. It just made it sticky! YUCK! I don't know when it was actually cleaned last. I ended up using a scrub brush and dawn. WOW! Big difference! I only got about a quarter of it done before the families arrived. I was NOT cleaning floors while I had family there. The guys played ball in the field near the house. Oldest granddaughter practiced her flag techniques. Youngest granddaughter cheered everyone on. Daughters and I just hung out outside and talked. Youngest granddaughter helped me make the fruit salad, oldest granddaughter helped make the egg salad, daughters helped fill plastic eggs with $ and chocolate. Our menu was fruit salad, ham, turkey, choice of hawaian rolls or croissants, veggie tray, and chips. Girls brought brownies, cupcakes, and chocolate chip cookies for dessert. Everything easy with simple clean up. Afterwards we hid the eggs for the kids. They each have their own colors. Oldest grandson is color blind, so his all have a design on them. We found all but one! Thank goodness it only had $1 in it! After cleaning up kitchen, the kids all shot their bb guns then they all left. DH worked on clearing rocks from flower bed edges while I prepared the farmhouse for us leaving. I still haven't finished the kitchen floor. Oh well, it has waited 14 years for a good cleaning, another weekend won't matter. I did get a little sun on my chest yesterday. All in all it was a great weekend! I was happy to be home in my own bed last night!

For all of you with bird feeders, just saw on the news that song birds are carrying lots of Salmonella, so make sure to wash hands before touching face.

Favorite color/colors- my favorite is deep purple. I like the red, purple, blue pallets. Some greens. I like deep rich color. Our home is mainly deep rich earth colors. I don't care for beiges, yellows (except on daffodils), or tans. Like someone else said, those look dirty to me. The MIL's man painted the farmhouse 3 different shades of yellow. Yuck! Not repainting right now though, so will live with it! Not sure why he thought it would sell with those colors. Then again, he wasn't planning on Pat dying, so probably hoping the place wouldn't sell. Well, it didn't, but he is out.

I reckon I need to get this day going. I am already stressed and not even at work yet!!!! Anyway, I did end last week averaging 10K steps a day. Plus!!!!

Welcome to the New Ladies!
Hugs to All as we ALL need them!

Kylia feeling blessed in Ohio