WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2023

Joy I’ve been pulling my onion whenever the top dried so have had them for about 3 week now. I need to pull the rest out and dry. My potatoes are almost ready. All growth is yellowing and drying…. Soon…soon… just need patience! LOL. My tomatoes and peppers did very little this year after a great crop last year. I’m still drying parsley, sage, thyme and marjoram though they are slowing. My oregano died out. Disappointed with failures but happy with the herb success! I will cover in the winter and hope all winter and grow again next year. Every herb but parsley is perennial. Parsley is bi-annual, so may grow again, may not. Hope the tomatoes do better next year!

RVRita

Was whining to the receptionist that I hoped “it’s not a cavity” when I caught myself and flipped it to “I hope it’s JUST a cavity and not the bridge!” Be careful what you wish for…
Just an accountability check in. Will read later.
Gratitudes:
8/26 the internet and FaceBook for wildfire updates.
8/25 That I still have teeth to clean ;} Later, lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD
2023: Be of good cheer. August: Move more, fuel better (less sugar), live NOW.

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And the fun begins!!! Yipee!!!

Carol - Happy Anniversary Love that photo of you and your DH when you were "kids". Doesn't time fly!

Heather, Cindy, Joy - all of you who can successfully grow basil. I am so jealous. One year I successfullly grew a healthy plant in the greenhouse and after that, no luck. I'm grateful I can buy it at the store. I need to hit the weekly farmer's market and grab some there. I'm finding it easier to not stress over my gardening "failures" and instead look at is as supporting small community growers. Seeds and dirt and water cost money.

Rita - I am so glad you have good doctors who are looking at all avenues to getting you back on the road to good health. Hope your hot weather is done and over soon so you can get back to enjoying your outdoor activities.

Cindy - thank you for all of your insight about the aging and effects of meds for some folks. During my DH's final year, I am sure some of this memory loss and physical frailty were the cumulative effects of all the RA meds he was on - most of them to counteract the effects of years of low-dose prednisone. Good to be aware of this.

Tracey - love your vacation pictures. All those dinosaurs! Where is that? I could spend weeks there, that's so fascinating. When I was a kid in Indiana, a neighbor plowed up a Mastadon tooth. I've been intrigued by dinosaurs and artifacts found in fields ever since.

Lisa - so glad John's and Soraya's visit is going well. Soraya - what a beautiful name. I remember the Shah of Iran's beautiful wife with the same name. Ancient history.

I'm working on filling out my info sheet for first visit with Dr. Matt on Monday morning. I don't do well with "check boxes" and writing things in on teensy lines (bad handwriting), so will instead scrawl "see info sheet" where I can type out legible information. He can read my epistle, lol. I am really looking forward to having a Functional "medicine man" as part of my team again.

Nice walk with my neighbor this morning, we got caught up a bit.

Make it a wonderful weekend, ladies!

Lanette
SW WA State where the hippy dippy weatherman is calling for 90+ this afternoon.

Welcome to the newbies.

Carol - If my DH were still alive we would have celebrated our 54th anniversary on August 23. Happy anniversary to you. Love the picture.

Smokey again here today and hot for us. DD and I are working inside. Hoping for a cooler weekend next week as we need to do some fence work.

We put the goats out in the back pasture to eat blackberries as they have kind of taken over this summer and the horses just eat around them.

Allie - enjoy your adventure.

Everyone take care, Sue in WA

Hello peeps-

Now that i have a keyboard, i can type faster.

Regarding the new Bette 4.0: kirby did his research and we talked about my “must have” and the only thing was a walk around bed and storage. We talked about keeping the smaller trailer and the new one. The reason for that is we are having it stored over there at Pismo Beach. This will restrict us to only going there. We are paying for storage and for them to deliver it to our spot and when we are done they will take it back to storage. This way we won’t have to haul it back home, buy a bigger vehicle to pull it, find storage over here, etc. all we will have to do is take the food. When we get there, the trailer will already be there waiting for us. We decided that we are going to sell the smaller trailer. We really haven’t been camping elsewhere a lot, we really like Pismo and the beach and the town. When we sell it, it will free up the garage more and give us more room and what we get out of the trailer, we can put back in the bank or give to our broker. We will be paying cash for the new one and the smaller one was paid for when we got it. We cleaned her up and posted it. We drove it home on 11/4/22 so we have had it less than a year, it’s still very clean.

Tomorrow i will type about my great niece Addison.

It’s posted on Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, OfferUp and Nextdoor.

Last Thursday we did the walkthrough and they gave us the keys and let us put stuff in it so we wouldn’t have to bring everything back, that was nice

Regarding great niece Addison:

Well……….. everything seemed to go well at the end of the week and there didn’t seem to be any serious issue. When i dropped her off i made her friends on MFP and on the Strava app so i could see her activity and her food and exercise entry. The deal was she was to walk 4miles a day and floor exercises. I told her it was going to be hard because it won’t be as scenic as it was when she was here (lives out in the country, dirt flat farmland). Told her if she had any questions or issues with logging or anything to call me, we traded phone numbers. For whatever reason no logging or walking since she was back at home. One day she walked 1-1/2 miles and i texted her what happened to the remaining mileage to make 4. No response. I found out her mother (my niece) said that she didn’t want her walking alone. I told her to have her walk with her (she needs the exercise too) or follow her in her damn car if she had to. If she had to go somewhere, i told her to get up earlier so she could make her appointment. There were excuses after excuses. I was beyond pissed. I told her that in order for her to come back for another round.of being here with us, i would require 5 consecutive days of 4 mile walks and logging of food and exercise. So far nothing has happened and i told her, if it’s not logged, it didn’t happened. I also wanted to pick up the shoes i got her ($160) they have a 60 day return time. Told my sister (addision’s grandmother) that i wanted to pick up the shoes, i didn’t dish out that $$ for them to stay in a box. She assured me they would pay me back.

Allie - thank you for sharing those photos of the ocean. Very relaxing, I can just imagine a cool ocean breeze. It's 85 here right now and your view is wonderful, makes me feel better already. Enjoy your cruise!

Pip - thanks on the Bette 4 info, I kind of thought maybe you'd leave her someplace and not tow her all over. She'll be the perfect getaway, sounds like a good arrangement. Sad that Addison isn't able to hold to her agreement. It sounds like she's not getting support at home, and it makes me wonder if that's not part of her weight problem. At least you planted a seed, sometimes it takes a while for it to root and grow.

Heather - I bought a basil plant at the grocery store this spring, but I think it wasn't in good shape to begin with. Between the chicks and getting my car fixed, I think my mind was elsewhere this summer. Next year I will try again with basil - this time I'll go to an actual nursery where plants are grown locally, it will probably have a better chance. I bet your pesto was delicious.

Barbara - prayers going up for your goddaughter and her family and critters. Praying the winds die down or changes direction and spares them and their town from the fire.

Barbie - crossing fingers Bodhi will calm down and settle in just fine. You and Jake are to be commended in fostering this guy and showing him what it's like to live in a home and not the street. Wheaten Terrier and Poodle sound like a nice mix, bet he's pretty smart! Love his markings.

Sue - So far it looks like next weekend's weather will be cooler, maybe a little rain mid-week at least for me here south of you. I remember what it was like needing to get fences built and/or fixed. So good you have DD right there to help, many of these are 2-person jobs, or at least they go quicker that way.

Lanette
SW WA State