WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2024
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Michele - is he starting Kindergarten in the fall? What about a lunch box for his lunch when he goes to school, or a small size day pack for "homework" or a jacket?
kim in n. california6 -
Lisa - that is funny that we have been so long without seeing our friends.
My friends flight changed again this morning, I’m waiting to hear if there is another change. She should be arriving in Toronto for the layover soon.
I hope you get some rest today but not enough to cause insomnia again tonight.
My comfort food is any that takes me back to my grandmother’s. Corn soup, potato scallop, pancakes (when I can get them made like hers) and Doughnuts, but only hers.
I’m actually thinking of making a batch because Cheryle grew up with her doughnuts too.
Machka - Congratulations! What a view!
Beth - Those prices are insane! In NB the government used to take money from savings, my grandmother was worried about that so she put all of her money into an account with my brother and Mom’s names only. It was still her money for her use. The government just couldn’t touch it.
It’s a shame that all of your Dad’s savings are having to be spent that way.
Pip - I have no words.
Barbara - Do the brothers not speak to be able to work this out themselves? Or is the nephew old enough to call himself. I hate being put in the middle of those things, unfortunately I find myself there a lot.
Beth - we were taught at the nursing home to let the residents fall. Apparently, it can cause more injury trying to catch them than not. I’m glad I was never in the area when a resident fell, I don’t know that I couldn’t try to stop it.
They are talking about outlawing “for profit”nursing homes here in Canada. The differences in care that was brought to light during Covid really spoke volumes.
Rebecca - I am getting used to do dishes but I’m sure grumbling about it.
Michele - our local high school does hair and such too. It’s a great way for them to learn. I have never heard of a gift for a preschool graduation, but maybe a book about starting kindergarten would be a good gift.
Well after a few changes my friend’s flight is back to the original time of arrival. So almost midnight.
I am going to ceramics, I’ll come home, put the dishes away, watch a couple of shows, maybe have a bath and then it will be time to go get her. I live 5 minutes from the airport so I don’t have a long drive to get there.
Off to ceramics, I’ll probably check in later.
Tracey in Edmonton
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Kylia-don't envy the family business issues. And the way the workforce is now you may not find anyone better. You can always come work at my place!
Machka-congratulations on the new house.
Pip-I'm a bit speechless but as they say "you can't make that stuff up!"
Didn't sleep well last night. Long day. Heading to bed.
Take care all,
Ginny in Ohio6 -
dlfk202000 wrote: »Machka-great news on the house. I just think of ALL that work on your dry stream and the whole yard.
Can you transplant some of the plants to your new place? With it being fall where you are, would be a good time to do that.
A lot of our plants are actually in pots, so they'll all be coming with us. We did that deliberately so we could take them with us when we moved ... whenever that would be.
All the fruit trees and bushes are coming with us because they're all in pots.
The raised veggie beds are coming with us. Most of the veggies are almost finished now.
The bamboo, red hot pokers, bird of paradise, fuchsia, several roses, camelia, buddleia, and a bunch of others I can't think of at the moment are all in pots so they'll be coming with us.
I'll dig up the bulb garden - maybe today - and the bulbs will be coming with us.
Some pavers and rocks are coming with us. They're all stacked and ready to go
Part of the drystream is coming with us.
And we'll probably take bits of other plants we like.
Most of the rest of the garden was quite built up when we got here - we've just been modifying it along the way and trying to make it easier to take care of.
However, over the past year or so it has become challenging for my husband. It's getting on top of him, and I have had to do more and more to the point where it is getting on top of me too. The current house and yard are on a hill and climbing up and down has been increasingly problematic. He has slipped many times and had a few falls so he feels uncomfortable out there.
The new place isn't absolutely flat - very hard to find a place that is! But it is a lot flatter than this place. And what stairs there are have railings which this place does not have.
I don't know how long we'll be in this new place, but we look at it as the next step. The next step we take (after this one) will probably be into an independent living community or something like that.
Meanwhile, the new garden is completely a blank slate. There's almost nothing! So we've got plans.
Machka in Oz9 -
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dlfk202000 wrote: »Machka-great news on the house. I just think of ALL that work on your dry stream and the whole yard.
Can you transplant some of the plants to your new place? With it being fall where you are, would be a good time to do that.
A lot of our plants are actually in pots, so they'll all be coming with us. We did that deliberately so we could take them with us when we moved ... whenever that would be.
All the fruit trees and bushes are coming with us because they're all in pots.
The raised veggie beds are coming with us. Most of the veggies are almost finished now.
The bamboo, red hot pokers, bird of paradise, fuchsia, several roses, camelia, buddleia, and a bunch of others I can't think of at the moment are all in pots so they'll be coming with us.
I'll dig up the bulb garden - maybe today - and the bulbs will be coming with us.
Some pavers and rocks are coming with us. They're all stacked and ready to go
Part of the drystream is coming with us.
And we'll probably take bits of other plants we like.
Most of the rest of the garden was quite built up when we got here - we've just been modifying it along the way and trying to make it easier to take care of.
However, over the past year or so it has become challenging for my husband. It's getting on top of him, and I have had to do more and more to the point where it is getting on top of me too. The current house and yard are on a hill and climbing up and down has been increasingly problematic. He has slipped many times and had a few falls so he feels uncomfortable out there.
The new place isn't absolutely flat - very hard to find a place that is! But it is a lot flatter than this place. And what stairs there are have railings which this place does not have.
I don't know how long we'll be in this new place, but we look at it as the next step. The next step we take (after this one) will probably be into an independent living community or something like that.
Meanwhile, the new garden is completely a blank slate. There's almost nothing! So we've got plans.
Machka in Oz
Great that you can take so much of your hard work with you and have a huge start on the new garden.
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Good morning ladies!
I am at 178.8, so down 1.5 lbs, Yay!
Machka your new place sounds marvelous! And much safer.
I am up extra early. Hope I can get a nap later.
Annie in Delaware4 -
My book lesson for today is to deliberately put extra food on my plate and not eat it. I will try that tomorrow at the restaurant. I generally overeat, to the point of feeling too full, at restaurants. I try to order food with less calories, but I seldom leave anything on my plate. Although I have been doing better with French fries lately. I stop when they get cold. Hmm. I could stand to practice that. I could get a burger and eat half of it. Or even the avocado chicken sandwich.
Annie in Delaware5 -
Has anyone tried the Nick's swedish lite ice cream? Instead of milk fat for creaminess, it uses a modified plant- based oil, whatever that is. I'm convincing myself not to try a strawberry milkshake in the restaurant because the portion size will be ridiculous and the calorie count astronomical. This sounds like a better choice, although rather highly processed.
Annie in Delaware2 -
More views!
We are planning to get some work done to the place before we move in: paint, floors, etc. We could move in with it as it is, but we'd like to make it more our own.
The area is better for cycling than our current area. There are several opportunities for us to cycle right from home, which we can't do now, and more within a short drive. That was one the things right at the top of our list.
But as for cycling to work ... it's 25 km each way so while it is possible, I think I'd want to be a bit fitter. Bicycle storage at the work end is also problematic.
Machka in Oz8 -
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LisaInArkansas wrote: »What's a food or a combination of foods that mean complete comfort to you?
Lisa in AR, at just past midnight on a Thursday morning
Mexican-ish food is one of my main comfort foods.
But during the time my husband was in hospital, I ate a lot of grilled cheese sandwiches, pasta with chorizo & pesto, and chocolate covered almonds.
Yum yum!
I like macaroni and cheese too. But I can't get my head around the fact that a few of you use macaroni and cheese for special holiday dinners. For me, macaroni and cheese is something I might whip up for a quick lunch, or something we'll heat up for a fast dinner, especially when we're not feeling brilliant. If we've had curry a couple days in a row, we'll have macaroni and cheese the next day to help settle the system.
That said, the best macaroni and cheese I have ever had was in Scotland ... a big bowl of the richest macaroni and cheese followed by a millionaire bar. I was in heaven!
Machka in Oz
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Anniesquats100 wrote: »Has anyone tried the Nick's swedish lite ice cream? Instead of milk fat for creaminess, it uses a modified plant- based oil, whatever that is. I'm convincing myself not to try a strawberry milkshake in the restaurant because the portion size will be ridiculous and the calorie count astronomical. This sounds like a better choice, although rather highly processed.
Annie in Delaware
I use Skinny Cow sometimes.
https://www.peters.com.au/brands/skinny-cow/
Machka in Oz
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Machka ... beautiful views!2
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Annie - Everyone deals with things differently. One restaurant habit that followed me from the decade after the gastric bypass was to go ahead and ask for a go box when the meal arrived, cut my entree and sides in half, and get them in the go box. I understand the psychology and discipline in training yourself to stop eating everything on the plate, but I always thought it made more sense to remove temptation than to risk mindless over-eating while enjoying conversation in a restaurant. Do what works for you!
Machka - I know you're aware of this, but the more you can do before you move in terms of painting and floors, the better! We bought this house in July of 2018 and didn't move in until October, so we could get things done, and I'm so glad we did. It's so much harder to fix or change things once you've moved in, or at least we've always found it so. Your views are just stunning, and I hope the new home is safer for Rowan. Falls are so scary. The interesting change for me that came with ownership is the ability to think in terms of the next season or the next year in the house, especially with the work outside. Watching the seasons turn over and over in the same place has brought great joy and a very different way of thinking. I found myself wanting a Bradford pear tree, but remembered that they only last about 15 years here, and felt that was too short a space of time...
On comfort food, one of the things Corey taught me was to make grilled cheese with light mayonnaise instead of butter. It's soooo good that way, cuts out about a third of the calories, gets just as brown and crunchy and so much less oily.
Tracey - I hope you have an amazing time with your friend. Those friendships are just irreplaceable and so precious.
It's supposed to be warm enough for me to get out and work on the bricks today finally, and Corey brought me home four big 5-gallon buckets of sand--probably enough to get me to the finish line on getting this flower bed constructed. The weather critters are saying 60F (15C) by 11 am. That means I can get out and get the prep work done starting at 10, while that side of the house is still in full sun. Woot!
One thing that's really helped a lot with projects where I'm on my feet more than a few minutes is that I finally found compression socks that fit outsized calves. They've almost completely eliminated the ankle swelling. That enlargement can get a little unnerving when your ankles double in size, but the worst is the pain the swelling causes.Because I know someone will ask, the picture is also a link to the Amazon listing - I like them so much I've got another set of three coming in today. Not cheap at about $9 a pair, but totally worth it. I wear them all the time except when I'm sleeping now. I've never been able to wear regular compression socks, 'cause they cut off my circulation immediately. These are great.
About 9 am, if I haven't heard from them, I need to call the people who are supposed to deliver the roll-off dumpster and ask if they've forgotten about us. They just said it would be delivered "sometime this week." That kind of vagueness is not my favorite aspect of any relationship, business or otherwise.
Later, kidlins,
Love from Arkansas,
Lisa6 -
Lisa you are right. I resist the to-go box because I want to eat it all. I need to make peace with a smaller portion ahead of time.
I did twenty eight minutes on my bike and fourteen minutes walking! Yay!
Annie in Delaware3 -
Regarding serving sizes ...
Restaurants here usually offer two sizes for meals: Entree and Main. Entree is about 1/2 or 2/3 the size of the main. I always order the Entree and it's a fairly reasonable size for a meal ... maybe just slightly larger than what I would eat at home.
If I had to guess, the entree choice of pasta in the example below would likely be a bowl with about 500 grams of pasta and sauce. At home, I would eat 375 grams of pasta and sauce with another 100-150 grams of veggies. There wouldn't really be enough in the entree to box up half to take home without leaving me a little hungry.
But if I ordered the main, that would be above and beyond what I could eat!!
https://www.lamensahobart.com/menu
Regarding compression stocking ...
I have several pair and I think that $9 is an amazing price!! They run $30-$50 a pair in stores here.
I thought I was doing well when I got my husband and I each a pair for our flight to and from Canada for $20/pair!
I use mine for flights or after running, standing for a long period, long walks, etc.
Machka in Oz
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