WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR NOVEMBER 2021

Hi Gals,

Sunday night was Friendsgiving at my house we were 7 all my friends from when I was working at camp – I’m 30 years older than most of them, but still have a grand time – a pot luck dinner, I hosted and made Veggie Thai Curry on brown rice – they brought spinach salad, fun apple cider cocktails, a Charcuterie Board, and amazing sweet potato cookies. Then lots of chatting about everything under the sun.

I’m celebrating Thanksgiving Day with Levi (the dog) and in my new tradition I am making something I like but you can’t serve to everyone, so this year I will try to make salt and pepper calamari for the first time. I love squid in many forms but rarely cook it. So calamari it will be. Last year I made steamed clams and loved that. This year my family like friends will be doing Christmas but not Thanksgiving so solo it will be.
Still very busy with the embroidery and will work most of the weekend.

Thinking of everyone.
Smiles Kim in N. California

Michele - I have siding hangers so I used zip ties as a loop on the top of each one and a zip tie to keep them crossed and hung them on the hangers. The ones in the gazebo are just zip tied.
Love you Pinochio

Machka - I don’t participate in any groups that require a long term commitment. I take different lessons or classes but they are something I commit to for a few weeks and then leave. All of the articles, newsletters, ads, etc go to a separate folder if I chose to read them I know where they are, but I rarely do.
I worked 12 hour shifts for the first 3 years I was in Alberta and after that until this job I never knew if I would be able to leave work on time and was in call at least every other week sometimes for longer than a week at a time. I just never felt it was fair to commit to anyone or anything because I was scared I couldn’t be reliable. Now I look at things and think I don’t need the commitment as I don’t feel I’ve missed out on anything.
I love my evenings and weekends to have to do what I feel like at the time and very rarely feel stressed about anything outside of work.

Katla - I don’t blame you for being agitated with your son. I can’t say I don’t understand his concern with a new baby, but still as a New Grandma that travelled that far I would be upset too. Happy to read you are at your sons.

Pip - poor Yogi I hope the ointment works.

On receiving help - when I couldn’t bend or squat last Spring. I was shocked that my DH just did things. Of course, he never noticed the toilet that needed cleaned or the floor that needed scrubbed, but I let it go. My daughter actually came and helped me rearrange my cabinets so I could help myself more easily when DH started working evenings. Both of my girls and one friend will do things if I ask, but I hate asking. I feel like I’m a bother.

Vicki - I’ve heard a lot of people are suffering from long covid. It’s a terrible disease really.

I have done some painting the last two evenings. I bought some pieces at Michael’s after Christmas last year and hadn’t done anything with them. I finished Michaela’s last night. Started Jonah’s tonight.



Going to be a massively busy week at work. I’m feeling pressured to complete a project that I should be spending about a week on. In the meantime she keeps adding more and calling me for meetings asking the same questions over and over.

Tracey in Edmonton

Got home about 8 p.m., Corey fed me the best cheeseburger I have ever eaten. Of course, 36 hours with no food helps the enjoyment. I tried three times to write a post after we got home from my procedure. There must have been some anesthesia molecules wandering around my brainpan, because I totally lost my train of thought every time. Goofy as a three-toed tree frog.

While I was out, they took a number of biopsies in the stomach and the colon, and will test for microscopic colitis, among other things.

The diagnosis for now is... ulcerative colitis. About 12 inches of the colon were ulcerated, to the point where he stopped the procedure, as there was too much danger that he could perforate the colon while moving the camera through. Also some stomach inflammation, but not bad. They're putting me on steroids starting tomorrow, plus antibiotics. He wants me back in six months to see if things are healing.

Curled up in my recliner, and starting to fall asleep again.

Love y'all,
Lisa

Barbara.

Here is the Virginia dinner roll turkey!