WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JANUARY 2023

Had a great walk- wish I had had more time. Only had an hour. Was sitting at the house waiting for Fedex to drop off dh's comic book. Waited until son's girlfriend got back so she sat and waited while I walked and got Ezie, They finally came about half hour after I got home.
Comic book graded at a 6 instead of the 9 dh was hoping for so the value is not $30,000 but is $6,000. Not bad for a 35 cent investment. He has another that is coming back on Thursday. Not as high value as the one that came back today. Hope he starts selling them. The quality isn't going to go up if he holds on to them.
Was perfect weather. Ended up taking my jacket off. T-shirt weather for the last part of the walk.
It was low tide so all the little birds were back and feeding like crazy. The swans were back too.
I plan on going a little earlier tomorrow, get more than an hour plus she gets outside half hour early.
I did end up getting my 10,000 steps.

Debbie
Napa Valley,CA

Pg 63 bottom

Walked dogs to powerline meadow, where we played down, stay, come, middle games. Lightly pruned our pitiful, sun-starved, dwarf apple and peach “trees” and mulberry bush. Dwarf cherry is still recovering from radical pruning year or two ago to nip gummosis/?bacterial canker? in the “bud.”
Belated welcome to @MammySher Mammy from MA, @xk47nj2n99 Karen in TN, @sewhike Mary in San Diego,
Tracey :brokenheart:
Ginny grateful for your stable scans.
Andi in IL, Beans is beautiful and reminds me of Machka’s Rhody.
Lisa now that’s the good kind of shot in the arm. Hooray! smoked paprika. “..action that helps…” change the tape. Yes this!
Viv “not sure if it is the cold weather but I am having a hard time getting motivated. I blink and the day has gone. Feel like a sloth doing everything in slow motion. Roll on Spring!” Ditto Margaret and Carla on this. Has taken two sunny days in a row to begin nudging me out of an atmospheric river/short dark days slump. So easy for me to skip the exercising and open another bottle of wine… Be pleased with yourself for logging honestly!
Tracey amped up the prayers was already praying.

Thru pg 63 but time to snoooozzzzzzzzzz

Later, lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
2023: Be of good cheer.
January: Move more, fuel better, live NOW.

Wednesday

I presented my Project Plan today. Sometimes I can do a presentation and I'm OK and can carry on like normal, but sometimes I do a presentation and I experience this odd combination of a "high" and yet feeling utterly exhausted.

Today, I experienced the latter: euphoria and exhaustion combined.

Some of that probably had to do with the fact that although most people in the room were on board, I knew I had 1 or 2 in there who were "hostile". But everyone was able to talk calmly and the general consensus was that we need to do this.

So I went for a walk after, bought a dress, a couple books and some colouring supplies!


And now I'm off for the weekend.

Tomorrow is Australia Day ... a controversial day but nevertheless a public holiday. Friday is my usual day off and I took Monday off just 'cause = 5 days off.

Should be a good weekend for cycling ... I hope.

I've been colouring but I'm going to go lie down and read now.

I feel like I should be doing something productive, but not this evening.

Machka in Oz

Good morning ladies!

Playing a little catch up here. Warning - Long post, lol.

Karen - I want to live at your old Folk's home All of those activities sound wonderful. Neat that Lillybell and Aurora Rose-Cameron are close by. And thanks for sharing that info re your dad. I guess the lesson here is keep an eye on parents and spouses after surgeries.

Betsy - have a safe trip to Alaska, and prayers for healing for your son, and your sister. You've more than earned a trip to Panama, hope it all works out for you.

Ginny - glad you are able to get a winter walk in. I think folks in the midwest are most used to walking on snow and ice than those of us who don't have to contend with it much, similar to driving on winter roads.

Vicki - thinking about you and your knee. Hope the doctor had some good ideas about what was wrong and how to fix it. What a sad and scary thing for you and your son to go through with your friend.

Workplace violence/employee issues.
Debbie - oh my gosh, what cute triplets. Bet they kept you busy. Sounds like your DH has a good business going with his comic books and has an excellent eye for buying them and finding deals. I'll bet good Deli managers are hard to find and keep. At our local Safeway, seems that there's constant turnover in the deli, everyone is always new. BUT the employees do a great job, so no complaints.

I'm glad your DH had a good job and good retirement. Corporate was probably very sad so see him go, sounds like he was a dedicated employee. Hope he gets things resolved with that manager. Once we're retired, our BS meters are on a hair trigger.

Rosemarie - Sorry to hear about your drapery string, and glad you have someone to help with it. A few months ago I went to pull open the insulated blind in the dining room and the whole thing released and fell down on me. It was a chore for one person to get it back up and attached to the "catches", but I did it.

Machka - thank you for sharing your "summer" photos! We're due for lows in the teens early next week, highs in the 30's. And here I thought spring was around the corner.

Kylia - your snow pictures keep me from complaining about the chilly temps here. So fun to think when I was a kid, all the cars were heavy, rear wheel drive, and would still punch through a foot of snow. There were really no ditches, just cornfields on either side of the road so if a person skidded, just turn the wheel and get back on the road, wherever that was, lol. No need for tow trucks.

I called the mower repair shop, and my Toro doesn't have any problems they can see so it will get the regular service and blade sharpening. Great time to have it in there, that's for sure. I told the service manager I'll have it back in time to mow snow (predicted here next week.)

Amazon - continues to deteriorate in my opinion. I read yesterday as of Feb. 20, they will no longer have the "smiles" program which was a great fundraiser. And, they pulled a fast one on me last weekend. I decided to finally try out Crocs, and found some evidently unpopular color at a great price so put them in my shopping cart. Got distracted, and when I went back a couple hours later to push the "purchase" button the price had gone up $3.00! That had never happened before. I'm seriously thinking of giving up the Prime - almost $150 a year now and start sourcing things locally. Even if I have to pay a dollar or two extra, I think it might be an overall savings. I see I can get Britbox and Acorn without going through Amazon. My Prime is due to renew in July. I'll check it out thoroughly before I decide - can I still get rewards if I don't have prime and so forth. I've heard they are having some financial issues and Jeff Bezos might come back.

Heather - love that photo of you, DH and family on the beach. Did your son take before pictures? Will be neat to see the house once it's all finished. Glad your DIL's wi fi is working so she can continue her sessions.

RE feet and shoes: I've started taping the pinkie toe I broke last year. The tendon on top the foot connected to that toe was retracting and pulling it up and crooked. So it's tethered down into the correct position and feels better. Same thing is happening, for some reason, to the toe next to the big toe so that one got a taping too, much improved. Hoping that keeping them taped for a few months will guide them back to where they need to be and I'm also doing so stretches (pushing toes down and under) a few times a day - thanks again Bob and Brad, lol. AND much gratitude for KT tape!

I'm seeing thoughts changing among Podiatrists and PT's about shoes - now going for flat soles, wide toe boxes. So Hoka's and New Balance with the 1" heels and lifted up toe box (so the foot "rolls" and takes pressure off the metatarsals) might not be so good for everyone. Going barefoot, my feet don't hurt and my balance is much improved. Crocs are recommended.

I'll need to go shoe shopping one of these days but I'm taking my time. Need to keep my feet happy.

Have a great day!

Lanette
SW WA State

Morning peeps- I see a few women counting their steps, I’ve never kept track of them and keep forgetting to log them. When I do notice, it’s usually over 15k each day, due to walking the 6 miles no doubt. Well .we take off this morning. Wish me luck , hoping I don’t f$&*k something else up