WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2021

Annie: I’m happy that your mom decided to trust you about the week old roast.

Rebecca: I love the planting a garden message from Audrey Hepburn. My garden is small but well loved. Marauding deer, not so much. I haven’t seen them yet this year. :flowerforyou:

Terri: Congrats on getting your second jabs! You are lucky to be able to meet with your daughters and grandsons.

Nicole Pulver: Best advice—measure portions, count calories & move more. Let MFP set your calorie goals. As you lose weight the amount of your portions will get smaller. Stop in here regularly for friendship and support.

Lisa: Regarding the weather girl—change channels and complain to the station about inappropriate clothing. :grumble: You may be cranky but you’re quite a bit younger than me. I don’t think you’re an old woman yet.

Heather: Thank you for your sympathy. We have both been vaccinated twice with the Pfizer vaccine. The vaccine will not give us confidence for a multiple thousand-mile road trip. A couple of years ago I went to visit my daughter & DH stayed home. DH has multiple health issues and doesn’t want to fly anywhere. The kids would like us to drive our RV but that isn’t likely at this time. Every time we go somewhere in it, we have to have it repaired. :ohwell: My solution is to buy airline tickets for the kids so they can come here. We may be able to do things that way. Here’s hoping!

Gwen from MO: Welcome!

Machka: I hope you are able to stay safe in the wind.

Kathleen MVP: Welcome! Best advice—let MFP set your starting calorie goals. As time goes along, your allowed calories will be reduced. Move more-choose activities that you can do now. Walking is a good beginning. Stop by here often to give and get encouragement. :flowerforyou:


We have a beautiful morning. I hope to get some exercise with DH. Perhaps I can convince him to go for a meander in the neighborhood. He can ride his mobility scooter and I can walk beside him with the dog. Yesterday we were treated with wonderful birdwatching from our own window—two Bald Eagles and two Osprey were the main show. Our lovely little hummingbirds are always here.

Katla in NW Oregon

We have a beautiful day so far. We’ve seen Osprey fishing and two Bald Eagles in flight. I feel very lucky this morning.🦅🦅

Peach1948 wrote: »

(((Beth and Betsy)))

Ditto this.

Karen in Virginia
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Worked today so no formal exercise. The plan for tomorrow is to do a body pump DVD

kymari – have you gotten the bed (frame) yet?

Kim – yes, our bedroom is big. The whole house is 5,000 sq ft.

Vince just got back from the allergist. Seems he’s allergic to almost everything. You know, a part of me wonders if the fact that he had air conditioning in his home while he was growing up had something to do with it. I’ve heard that if someone is exposed to things like pets, etc. when they’re young, they tend not to get as many allergies. I don’t think there’s anything that I’m allergic to. My air conditioning consisted of an open window! I also spent a lot of time at my aunt’s house and she lived on a farm. An onion farm, not one with animals.

Terri – lovely flower. I so love to look at other’s flowers. My gardening theory? If God means for it to live, it’ll live.

Bananas – we have wood floors, and many times I find a roomba to be a real help in getting up the crumbs. I may go around the perimeter of the room just getting the crumbs into the middle of the floor, but it’s a certainly a time saver. As I decide I don’t want something or need it, it goes into the “Salvation Army” box and then when the box gets full, donation time!

Allie – someone at Food Lion mentioned that they discontinued J&J, thanks for confirming this. I wonder if they discontinued it everywhere? The hardest part of getting our vaccine was making the appointment. Once we got that, it was very smooth sailing. The first time we didn’t wait at all to get it, just the 15 minutes afterwards. The second time I think we waited one minute before they took us. Very well organized

Gwen – jump right on in, the water’s fine!!!

Carol GA – no, we still don’t have a definite date for visiting Denise. We have talked about the possibility of staying in a hotel. We would probably go up on a Friday and leave on a Tuesday after Denise goes to work.

This gal who used to work at Dollar General said that DG has “penny Tuesdays” where certain things are only a penny. Now she said that a list of the things on sale is posted on their app, but I sure couldn’t find the most recent list. Does anyone have any experience with this?

Washed the floor in the mud room and then in the kitchen, just the high traffic area as that gets the dirtiest.

Kathleen – welcome. You’ve got the right idea, baby steps

Kim – welcome back. I do hope your husband will follow your lead

Got a little over 13,000 steps in today. I feel sorry for this one guy, whenever he’s really bored, he comes outside to get carts. I’ve seen him bring just one up to be cleaned. Today I started this thing where if I see someone in the parking lot with a large order or an elderly person, if I can I offer to help them load their groceries into the car. Helps me, if anything. Or if I see someone buying a plant, I just give them a cart. You are supposed to keep 3 of these smaller carts in the store along with 2 of the larger ones. Really, most mornings there aren’t any in the store. And I’ve seen a lot of people who don’t put them in the store. I’m going to ask if this has been discontinued. Really, it’s a pain in the lower backside, I can’t see why people can’t just take a cart from outside the building. But that’s not my decision. So I’ll see what the final decision is

Beth – feel better fast. Sending virtual chicken soup

As I recall, someone on here had the recipe for sauerkraut that only used 1T of salt. Can you please repost it? I loved it, but I made it a while ago and forget the recipe

Michele NC

exermom wrote: »

Vince just got back from the allergist. Seems he’s allergic to almost everything. You know, a part of me wonders if the fact that he had air conditioning in his home while he was growing up had something to do with it. I’ve heard that if someone is exposed to things like pets, etc. when they’re young, they tend not to get as many allergies. I don’t think there’s anything that I’m allergic to. My air conditioning consisted of an open window! I also spent a lot of time at my aunt’s house and she lived on a farm. An onion farm, not one with animals.


As I recall, someone on here had the recipe for sauerkraut that only used 1T of salt. Can you please repost it? I loved it, but I made it a while ago and forget the recipe

Michele NC

I grew up in a rural area where we were outside all the time in the summer. We also had A/C. We went camping, swam in lakes and ponds, worked on my uncle and aunt's ranch (with animals and crops) and had no allergies growing up. Now, I am allergic to a bunch of things I know about and some that just seem to make me miserable. Mostly pollens.

I think our sauerkraut is 1 TBSP salt to 1 head of cabbage. Someone else posted a recipe for sauerkraut in a jar, but I don't recall the recipe.

Tina in CA

Quick drop in. Have Church council zoom at 7 and since I am president I really should show up!

Lisa-I agree with your rant on weather girl. I don't think you should wear for work the same outfit you would wear to a bar hoping to get picked up!

Julie-congrats on washing machine! We had marque floors in our kitchen for a number of years-until my husband fell into his 90 gallon aquarium and the water lifted most of them up (that is a story for another day).

Sympathies to those with spouse with issues. My husband was having memory issues for a number of reasons. While I miss him, a part of me is glad I didn't have to watch the continued deterioration.

Need to get a couple of things ready before meeting.

Take care all,

Ginny in Ohio