WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR APRIL 2024

Regarding our new house ... it's a "next step". We needed a place that my husband could get around easier - a place where he isn't in danger of slipping and falling like he is in the place we rent. He's had a few falls here.

We also wanted a place where it was easier to do the sport we love - cycling.

Our new house won't be our "forever home". It's a transitional step. Our next step will likely be an independent living community which is close to medical services and with very little garden to take care of.

The move we're doing now happened earlier than I expected ... who knows when the next move will happen.





Machka in Oz

sh0tzz99 wrote: »

It's no one's business to decide if someone else's life is adequate or not. That is such an individual choice. I have learned to not care about anyone's opinions on my life. It's mine. I don't judge theirs.

I decided, perhaps stupidly, to start doing P90X workouts on my legs again. The only time I really got definition in my legs was when I was religiously doing that one. So, I'll give it a try and see how I feel. I'm exhausted. Tomorrow will be interesting.

I just looked at my legs today and they were too jiggly for my taste. I need to focus on exercise again. I've been pretty lax lately and it's showing.

The mister is still sick. We are wondering if it's RSV. He's had what seemed to be a cold, but then he got a fever and says his lungs feel weird. I hope it's not pneumonia. It's been a week.

Tina in CA

My sisters life is so much more physical. I mean for example, if she needs to take the bins to the curb she needs to put them in the bucket of her tractor and drive them down. While husband and I just wheel them a bit and done. She weeds 5 huge beds, while I weed nothing. So her life is very different than mine. She asked me once if my life was fulfilling. Because in her eyes it just seemed less so. When (or if) she comes visit this year, I will probably have to have a sit down conversation on our individual ideas of our lives. Just a lot of feelings not expressed on that subject. We are at a good place though, so just things I have had on my mind that she needs to hear. Being her little sister though, I do tend to give in, to regress a bit, and tend to not give my opinions. I think the whole little sister thing needs to be hung up, I'm 61 yrs old for gosh sakes.😂
Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa

Debbie - The only one my Fitbit just can't cope with is when I'm on the little lawn tractor, it thinks I'm either on an "outdoor bike" or running. I can't make it stop logging that movement as steps, but in the settings for the device, there is one for "auto-exercise recognition." You can turn that off, or if you want it to recognize when you're walking, say, you can set the other individual ones to "ignore."

Rebecca - Oddly enough, your relationship with your sister is much like mine with my best friend, who's four years younger, but acts more like a big sister. Over the years, I've had to fend her off from trying to change my entire work wardrobe (she thought my bras carried my accouterments far too low 🙄 and that was 20 years ago!) and fix my life in various other ways. One thing I've found though is that she is much, much less big sisterly when she is out of her territory and on mine. At her house, she was always trying to fix me. At my house, she drops out of that fix-y mode and just becomes my friend.

Corey brought home the piece of big equipment, and he had described it wrong - this is what he actually brought - a mini track loader:

They call it that, but it's taller than me. You stand up on the back of it and can then lift up to a thousand pounds (450+ kg) without any effort at all... He put me up on it the minute he pulled it off the trailer, and I was able to scoop up the first load of dirt for my flower bed and put it right next to it... I know it's weird, but it was so much fun! So much power in one place, very simple, drives and operates much like a video game controller.

Went looking for what his boss saved us by letting him bring it home for the weekend, and it was over $1,000 for a weekend rental, so significant. Of course, he also knows if Corey breaks it, he'll fix it because that's his job, so it wasn't much of a risk... 😻

Anyway - I was out cold in the bed by 7:30 last night, I guess pulling the siding off the carport walls just wore me out this week. I was up far too early this morning, but I woke up feeling great, so there's that. Looking forward to a day outside, getting my flowerbed sorted out finally. Corey wants to take the loader back tomorrow late afternoon, so we are planning on our first restaurant meal out in at least a year. Looking forward to that, too.

Hope it is or was a good day for everyone... The sky is just beginning to lighten here, but the birds are already singing to welcome the sun. We are on the path of the cicada emergence, but they were around a lot when we first moved here six years ago, not too worried about it. Egg likes bringing them inside and poking them until they scream--they sound like an air raid siren, and she thinks that's funny, apparently.

Love,
Lisa in Arkansas

Anniesquats100 wrote: »

I've been wondering what to do with my purse while I'm at the party. I might hide it in the car.

Meanwhile, my scale read high this morning so I stepped off and stepped back on, and it came down a pound. It shakes my faith in the whole plan! So bizarre. It's only a few months old.

Annie in Delaware

Scales do that.

First, they have to be on a hard surface.

Second, I "reset" mine periodically by standing on it with one foot and with much of my weight on the other foot so that my weight comes up at about half what it is. Then I let it turn off and turn it on again. Often it will show my weight as something different from what it was all week. I've read somewhere that some scales can hold a certain weight for a while and won't change unless something a certain percentage over or under that weight is on the scale. Look up hold and peak hold.


I have a couple small purses that hold my phone, a couple tissues, a small comb and lipgloss. They're crossbody purses so I can wear them at events and hardly notice they are there. And they're cute.

Something like this:


M in Oz