WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2024

April - I'm so pleased to hear that your son's awake! Pleased, too, that the blood work was good. Glad they're going through with the tests to follow up on the heart.

Heather - Take the advice and go to a real doctor. Your health and movement are the key to all the rest. John would rather have you healthy and happy than go on a cruise any day.

I was walking around the side of the house, checking on a large dog that came running through the yard, and ran into this.
In order: Walked around to the side and saw that stump sticking up. Looked at it again, and realized it was almost exactly centered on that end of the house - had this tree not slid down as it was falling, instead of breaking off clean, it wouldn't have slanted its fall so it missed the house by a couple of inches. The last picture is looking back toward the path of its fall.


We got lucky on this one...

I heard only a bump a couple of hours ago, about the same loudness as Egg pushing something off a shelf, and even walked back to that bedroom to see if she had broken something. I never looked out the window though!

I wonder if Egg pushed it over! 😀👀😈😍

Still saying "Wow."

Later, y'all,
Lisa in AR

April: Wonderful news about your son!

Lisa: I looked up the Genie Bras and see the 3 for 9.99. I plan to place an order this evening. Thanks for the tip!

MargaretTurk: We used Car Max several times to sell vehicles. We have had a situation when their offer was 1k higher than the dealer offer.

Heather: I read a book on Catherine the Great. And then by co-incidence The University of Georgia had an exhibition of some of the art she owned and her jewelry. They paired this with a concert with music from her era. Then there was a cocktail hour we attended. The people at the cocktail hour were very friendly. We had a nice time. However their hobby was going to Europe to purchase art. My husband and I were never sure if that cocktail party was really open to the public like we thought. Maybe we crashed it! We weren't sure!

Joy: The walk with the dogs sounds like fun..for you and them!

Beth: The St Patrick's day brownies sound delicious!

Rori: Have fun at Madonna's concert. I liked Cyndi Lauper back in the day. I did get to a Cyndi Lauper concert!

Sunny here today, but expected to go close to freezing tonight. I have petunias I purchased as Lowe's sitting on my dining room table. I guess they will stay there over night. I have weeds in the grass and need to think about what product to buy to eliminate those. I hate putting chemicals on the grass because my son visits with his Dogs.

Lanette: I didn't want to do what the young people sometimes do and "ghost" my friend. I knew she knew there were increasing difficulties with the friendship, so I don't think this was a sudden surprise. I asked for distance in the friendship...because I know i will see her again...small town, mutual friends. i have told a couple of people the decision was mutual. I have said nothing of the details of relationship.

One occurrence I will mention occurred around Valentine's Day. She asked me several times to go to a concert with her on Valentine's Day evening. She is a close friend and I responded several times that the day was special to me and I probably wouldn't make it through the evening. So I declined to go to the concert. Recall this is my first Valentine's as a widow. I have read enough widow and grief literature to understand I probably should have deferred by saying I had other plans that evening. Well the conversation, by text, quickly deteriorated into something you would read in a grief book. She texted me about going out on anniversaries and holidays and said horrible things about grief that no widow should ever read/hear. I have had an okay year. I have not talked with her about grief or loss. I have not been a needy person. She just felt she had advice to give on how a widow should spend holidays, birthdays anniversaries and so forth. The books say your closest friends and relatives can be the hardest to deal with. And this turned out to be true. I was glad i had read some books so I wasn't completely shocked by what she said.

Best,
Rosemarie from Georgia

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Annie - you are doing so well.

I have only used real butter since 2015. When we were cleaning our parents house out we found a “new” tub of margarine in the cupboard that was so old the writing was faded on the tub. We opened the container thinking mom had rice or something in it and it was never used margarine. No smell, no oils on top nothing. My brother and I both stopped using it then, when I told my son-in-law who works at a dairy he said he would never eat margarine, and a lot of other stuff.
I think a lot of what they have said in the past is “better” for us has been proven to be worse than the original. Even eggs are good for us again now.
In truth it’s all a guessing game I think, one study says one thing another says something else.

I am not having a traditional Easter dinner this year, my best friend comes the week after Easter and we are going to have a family dinner then.

Heather - did the clinic have any suggestions about what might be happening?

Lisa - I am in need of bras so looked up Genie bras, Walmart here doesn’t carry them. A 3 pack here on Amazon is $51 what a difference.

Kim - those sound like some good memories.
I did scavenger hunts with my girls for Easter instead of doing eggs a few years they loved it. No I usually buy everyone a chocolate bunny, but I’m not doing that this year

Tina - I was telling Rodger the other day that I thought Galveston looked like a nice place to visit someday.

Lanette - I remember a story from NB regarding GPS. A travelling nurse followed her GPS blindly, it took her onto an old logging road. She ended up running out of gas and cell service. She was found 3 days later. This occurred in January, luckily she had food and some candles in her car, I always look at a map as well as using my GPS when I need to go to an unfamiliar area.
I don’t have any physical maps, but will look at maps online.

I broke off a friendship when she stole from me. She even had the audacity to try to friend me on FB a few years ago!
I have also had to step back from a friend for my own mental health for a bit, but she has gotten the help she so desperately needed and we are friends again, never as close as we were though. When she spiralled before her diagnosis she shared some of my secrets online. We have been friends since I was 14, her children are my Godchildren and I understood it was her disease causing the behaviour. She was 50 years old before finally being diagnosed with Bipolar disorder, I know she suffered for years with it.

April - great news about your son and your cardiologist appointment.

Lisa - what a lovely photo of you with your granddaughter. I wasn’t around at that time.

Ginny- I throw bananas in the freezer and when the freezer needs a clearing I bake some bread. It’s the only thing I bake on any sort of regularity. Yesterday’s baking was because Michaela wanted dessert. I didn’t think we needed it and she can take muffins to school this week.

Pip - will you need a new vehicle to haul that trailer? I think that’s the brand my cousin has and they really like theirs.
I hope your burn heals fast.

I started a new session this morning, it’s for English language learners. I need to conduct an interview with a bilingual person. I guess my first step is to find someone bilingual.

Evelyn - This is a two week course, then I have two one week courses and start my practicum on April 15th or ends on June 20th. I’ll be hopefully getting hired on my practicum to start in September.

I went into the city and met the new doctor, I guess he’s going to take me on. He seemed nice enough, he checked what meds I’m on, asked about family history and looked over my last tests to see what I need coming up.
I feel better knowing I have a doctor.

I think my dishwasher has decided to die. It’s making a terrible noise and won’t start.
It is only 4 years old. Of course, no warranty left. When it wasn’t draining last year the repairman told me it wasn’t worth fixing. I have been able to get it to drain most of the time, I’m hoping I can figure out how to get it working a few more months at least.

Kylia - that’s getting to be pricy.

Kaitlyn is coming tomorrow to help me go through more pictures.
I’m really enjoying doing this with her.
Their GoFundMe had stalled so I hadn’t mentioned anything about it, but there was a $1000 donation this weekend.
They are about $500 away from being able to do the first part of the process. She has been looking for work since her last job closed its doors, she has found a job to apply for, so hopefully that works out for her.

I did not sleep well last night. I don’t think I shut my light off, for any length of time, until 1am. I then woke up at 430 and tossed and turned for quite a while before reading, then watching the end of a movie. The movie was so terrible I thought for sure I would fall asleep. Of course, when my alarm went at 8 I was sleeping nice and sound.

Tracey in Edmonton