WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JUNE 2024
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Managed to trim my toenails this morning, after a shower in my own step up shower cubicle on the top floor. Go me!
Then I applied clear varnish to all my nails. Ready for summer sandals, which I normally wear two days a year when it's over 85°. 
.Applied unguents to all parts.
After all that I dozed off for half an hour. Still a bit generally achey. I will take a totter down the road in a moment. Then fry the halloumi in preparation for the curry for dinner. AF beer.
My new covid tests have just arrived, so we are well stocked.
Love Heather UK xxxxxx4 -
Got my new monkey feet! Can’t wait to take them for their first walk! They feel very comfortable. Not a fan of the shoe strings version, I prefer Velcro straps, can’t have it all.
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We've been camping again this weekend!
But it's less and less like camping.
M in Oz6 -
I learned another reason why it is important to not mouth breathe if possible at night. It dries out my mouth. I notice when I still find myself mouth breathing at night I wake up to a dry mouth.
Saliva helps to protect your teeth. I have been fortunate to have a good supply of it. I know certain medications and health conditions can affect your saliva. Some have mentioned problems with their teeth here. It might help to talk to your doctor or dentist on ways to increase saliva if possible.
I am also trying to rinse my mouth with an alkaline rinse like small amount of aloe or baking soda/water mix after eating to counteract the acid I eat and drink. I like lemon water or apple cider vinegar water in the morning and they are high in acid. These foods are good for me in other ways but hard on the enamel of my teeth hence rinsing with something alkaline.
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OK, so I can't make a rolled cake. Hee! Luckily, Corey will be happy to eat it out of a bowl, bless him. I took him the picture of it, and he said I couldn't throw it away. He knows me pretty well!
Hahahahah! Lisa
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Love the cake, Lisa!
I went for my walk. John to my right. The front gardens around here are in full bloom, bursting with roses, and Mediterranean and seaside plants. Every so often the scent of a rose hits you.
I was very taken by this hollyhock, which had sprung up under the street tree.
It reminded me of our holiday on the French island of Isle de Ré, which is famous for its hollyhocks growing in the streets.
Some front gardens have gone full on beach plants, like sea holly
I got as far as the main road next to the beach, but was tired by then. Made it back OK. That's two blocks down. I sat on a couple of low walls.
My crutch hand is the wrist I broke last year, so it does protest a bit after a while. The hip is doing well.
Not going to fry the halloumi just yet. Will finish my German tv show episode.
Love Heather UK xxxxxx9 -
LisaInArkansas wrote: »Machka - I can't bear to shut all the light out of any room except the bedroom, it's the only place we've kept the room darkening curtains. And I put the window tint behind them, as well, but that's more for the heat reflection there. It's making a difference already in how much the air conditioners are having to run to cool the rooms down to 75 or 76 degrees (24C). It's all I can handle in terms of being able to be comfortable in the summer heat.
Later, y'all,
Love,
Lisa in AR
I also don't like shutting out the light. If I'm here, I'll likely have the blinds all up, but the sun does get very strong and warm on the one side. The inner blind is similar to the screen in a screen door. We can see out through it, but it blocks the sun, and also mutes the view of anyone who might glance our way, kind of the way that sheers used to.
Then the blackout blind is great for the night and the winter, to keep the warmth in and coolness out.
If it were up to me, I wouldn't have curtains over the blinds, but my husband has told me he would like curtains. I've told him we'll wait and see.
M in Oz
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Dry Mouth I have a parotid gland (spit gland) missing due to a tumor so have a shortage of moisture in my mouth. I carry Biotine lozenges all day, I use Biotine mouth rinse rather than Listerene or Scope mouthwash, I also keep a spray bottle of Biotine near my bed that I use whenever I wake up with a dry mouth. These things have protected my teeth from getting any worse than they already are. (Had a partial plate with 4 teeth at 18, not have 8 teeth on it). All permanent teeth have major fillings. As a child, I never was told to brush my teeth or floss. Never started doing either until I was 18 when I got the partial plate. But, on the good side, no more fillings for the last 20 years! Had only 1 tooth pulled since because it was crushed and fell apart. They wanted to repair with root canal and cap, I said no. Pull it as is it easier for me to add it to my partial. I had 2 front teeth capped at one time to hold a bridge. Those teeth rotted and had to be pulled. After that experience, no more cap teeth or root canals for me. Especially if they won’t last more than a couple years. My partial lasted 20 years before I had to replace it!
Sunlight Since we live in the desert, DH has put styrophoam insulation on all windows in the camper except the door. I hate it being dark like that, but it helps our air conditioner that struggles to get the temp down to 81 in the 110 degree heat of midafternoon. So I don’t complain. I get all the sun I need outside!
Food: stuffed yellow/orange peppers without eggs, slice of honey wheat bread with real butter.
Creamed chicken and veggies on 2 slices of buttered toasted honey wheat bread and 1/2 apple.
Supposed to be passion flower I planted but looks more like a daisy! Maybe it isn’t fully opened?
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Today is Onion rings and chocolate eclairs!!!! My favorites!!
RVRita in Roswell. (Heading to pay booth after this!)5 -
I am with you, Onion rings over frys! but they have to be good onion rings and they are very hard to find.
smiles Kim2 -
It occurred to me this morning as I was in the shower (a slippery and sometimes dangerous place), how important it is for me to care for my health and safety with my husband's fragile health and impending chemotherapy and the dogs who depend on me. I am careful but plan to be even more vigilant. Barbie in cloudy and cooler NW WA 7
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LisaInArkansas wrote: »Ginny - Love the view from your cottage, so pleased to see you moving toward retiring. Regarding the VA - unlike Social Security, there's no work or salary restriction, you aren't restricted from whether you work or not, and there is no subtracting from your VA disability, no matter how much you get paid. If your son is retired military, the VA part of his retirement pay is simply untaxable. In other words, my ex-husband was 50% disabled, so half of his military retirement was untaxable, but there wasn't VA pay ADDED to his retirement pay. Regarding how they add varying disabilities tied to military service together, the math is arcane and punitive to the vet, to say the least. Thanks for the hints on the cooling towels to you and to Lanette and others - they're helping enormously.
Carol - sounds like you're ready for your guests to depart! How is your husband feeling?
Tracey - Love the freezie sleeves, and you've given all those kids a memory they'll keep with them, of someone who knows how to be kind. What you're doing really matters.
Machka - I can't bear to shut all the light out of any room except the bedroom, it's the only place we've kept the room darkening curtains. And I put the window tint behind them, as well, but that's more for the heat reflection there. It's making a difference already in how much the air conditioners are having to run to cool the rooms down to 75 or 76 degrees (24C). It's all I can handle in terms of being able to be comfortable in the summer heat.
Barbie - Hope chemo in pill form goes well for Jake. Being able to get that kind of medication in your own home is such an amazing step forward.
Heather - Thanks for the good wishes for Corey's birthday... I'm thinking of trying a Swiss roll cheesecake - I have a good recipe for red velvet cake, but I've never made a rolled cake before. In theory, it SHOULD work... 👀😁 Either way, it will taste good, even if it falls apart. I need to do the baking before it gets too hot! On the subject of your friends and Covid - I wouldn't get near anyone with a compromised immune system if I had the flu OR covid, or even a really bad cold, so it makes sense to me to keep your distance.
Kim - Keeping an eye on the fires every once in a while from here - hope your friends are doing OK.
Absolutely gorgeous full moon just set this morning. Perfect view of it from where I sit typing this. The white morning glories are just emerging from the pre-dawn darkness, and I need to get moving if I'm going to get some baking done before it gets all scorchy!
Later, y'all,
Love,
Lisa in AR
From a couple days ago - the purple morning glories are coming on strong, and will fill most of the twine trellis before long. The window you can just see under the flag is the one I look out of every day while I'm trolling around the interwebs and talking to y'all. The blue above is the T-111 that was under the siding, and we'll be repairing the obvious places before we repaint a more vivid deep teal:
In regarding light, since we live under huge Fir trees we do not get any direct sun. So we have no shades,or drapes on the first floor where living room and kitchen is. We do have shades for our bedroom that we put down at night, because of the street lights and neighbors that never turn off their outside lights. Glad I am not ibby-jibby about people peeking in at night. Son was, and had to always pull the slatted shades closed on the slider door in his living area. He also never opened his shades in his bedroom, which guys don't really think about doing. His room is at the top of the stairs and ours at the opposite end, with a hallway. Having his shades drawn really made the hallway dark! So it is nice since he's overseas, to have it open. Since its the second floor I put a crystal sun catcher in the window, so some mornings for about 10 minutes the sun does catch it and the rooms a disco.💖😁
Rebecca
Whidbey
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My cousin's wife lost her daughter in her 30s to a slip and fall in a shower, so scary and sad.
If any of you would like to check out my next cruise which isnt until August 2026
On the Sapphire Princess - it is 15 night British Isles - Canadian Passage leaves out of Copenhagen and arrives in Boston
Let me know what ya'll think.. gives me time to save up.3 -
It occurred to me this morning as I was in the shower (a slippery and sometimes dangerous place), how important it is for me to care for my health and safety with my husband's fragile health and impending chemotherapy and the dogs who depend on me. I am careful but plan to be even more vigilant. Barbie in cloudy and cooler NW WA
I find it interesting as we age that looking at situations on a daily basis, that when younger, we never gave it a second thought, now we pay attention. Its nice that our body and brain do that! Like yesterday husband and I were checking out a new Bagel Factory place in our town. It had dark green painted cement stairs going up the side. There were railings on the building side, but not on the other. I distinctly made the decision to step, then use the railing. When I was younger I would've just ran up the stairs, even skipping some of them. I am glad you're paying attention. I hope your husbands chemo goes smoothly. Its hard to put that darn caregivers hat on. Its good to have a support system in place for you though. Whether its having food delivered so you aren't having to go out and about if your not able to. Glad you have your walks to help you de stress.💖👍🏼
Rebecca
Whidbey
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I bought a kind of loofah mat from Amazon for my shower. Very non slip. I hang it over the bath afterwards. For John's shower, j bought a more conventional shower mat. I also put a suction grab rail on his shower wall. I stick the mat to the tiled wall when I get out.
My friend G has a horrific story of a friend who fell in the shower and drove her new metal hip out through her thigh.
Yes, be careful.
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And... probably because of all of you, I bought a Duck mat for the bathtub from Walmart, padded and non-slip, for all the same reasons. Corey puts it down for his baths, says it's quite a bit softer than the tub surface. At some point, we really do have to learn from the experience of those who've gone before us. I got over "admitting," that I'm old and decided I want to keep getting older in the best possible shape, And that means not incurring an easily avoidable broken hip!
He had to run up state earlier to get a truck fixed for one of his crews, 90 minutes there and another 90 back, and stopped at the grocery store for the few fresh things we need. He's already back already and mowed the lawn... I took a short nap, got wiped out while I was out dinking around this morning. Easy to do these days. Man, I hope these lab tests show something easily fixable!
Cor's out picking potatoes from the garden. No joke, this is the second one that's fully produced, by mid-June! This is five pounds already. He picked tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers earlier. Not lots, but more than plenty for our needs. OK, his needs, but I will eat potatoes.
Later, babies,
Lisa in AR
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Stats for the day-
Walk w/family- *put Lucy in buggy after 2.5mi, put Chispa in buggy after 4mi*, w ew monkey feet!, 2hrs 3min 33sec, 45elev, 2.95ap, 86ahr, 172mhr = 580c
Strava app = 751
Treadmill jog- *testing out the new shoes *- 19.42min, 1.8mi@ 6.0sp, .10mi@ 7.0sp, .10mi@ 7.5sp, 126ahr, 166mhr, 142spm, 9.51min mi, 2mi= 224c
Total cal 806
Shoes were really comfortable. Got the beginnings of a small blister but didn’t know or feel it til I took them off. I should have switched to my old shoes after about the 3 mile mark of my walk, of well…7 -
Good morning ladies
Lisa - I thought that cake looked fine and tastes great. Bet it's a little like a trifle. A nice Happy Birthday treat for Corey. Glad the VA came through with at least something. Like you said, if it pays for your Medicare portion, that's a win. Your garden is impressive!!! So far all of my little container tomato plants have at least one pea-sized baby hiding among the leaves. I might actually have some edible in a month.
Ginny - your new home will be gorgeous. That lake view is very nice! Good to be able to take your time moving, finishing retirement plans at your job and getting your old house ready for the market. I'd go for that plan too.
Rita - glad the Styrofoam is helping keep your motorhome cool, sounds like you'll be getting some sun today. Yummy food photos as usual. I did an early morning shopping trip and picked up a package of pork loins, so glad you posted a photo the other day. I like your beautiful passion flower.
Heather - good to hear you're getting out and about more. Sounds like you've been able to avoid the crud and nice that Johnny seems to be getting over it fine.
Barbie - I understand about being vigilant and more careful. DH often said he didn't know what he'd do if I wasn't around to care for him. So at some level I did to what I could to stay healthy, and was glad to do it. And now, staying healthy for the dog and cat and to care for my home in this neighborhood is so important. I need to check out bathtub mats next time I'm at Walmart. The tub/shower I use has a built in grab bar and it sure comes in handy.
Hope Jake's chemo has mild side effects if any and does the job. You two are a great pair! Loved the photo of Annie soaking up the sun.
Basil: I grabbed a nice looking basil plant at the store this morning. Made a quick rough pesto (olive oil, chopped garlic, grated Parmesan-no nuts) in the Nutribullet (not a good job but OK) from about 2/3 of the leaves, set the little pot with the remainder in a bit of water per the directions on a kitchen windowsill and hoping I can get it to thrive for a while. Ended up with about 1/4 cup pesto I stuck in the freezer that will last me for a bit.
Lose It: The diabetes prevention coach mentioned another app/website useful for logging other than MFP. It's free, or most of it is. I signed up to see what it was all about. The website is loseit (dot) com if anyone is curious.
Finished mowing the back yard. A million dandelion blooms chopped down, but millions more will come to their funerals, lol. I like having a yellow back yard, or at least the buzzy bees do.
More I want to comment on but I've been working on this since mid-morning so better get it posted.
Lanette
SW WA State where the days are getting longer already. 9 seconds today, lol. 4 -
Kids are loving their frozen treats I made them on this hot day (104). Walked them at 5.30am to beat the heat and got home at 8. Yogi always takes a dip.
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I almost forgot, today is our 22nd wedding anniversary -
When I met Kirby, I was a basket case, was in a real dark place, my husband had passed away, I ballooned up to almost 200lbs (used to be an aerobics instructor, so needless to say I was in shape) family situation wasn’t the best, quit my job and moved out of State with someone I had met 3 weeks earlier. Suicide was in my head all the time. He was (and still is) too good looking to think he would be interested in a fast *kitten* like me). I wasn’t thinking about a relationship anyway. AIDS was a scary thing back then and I let him know my situation in case he wanted to back out. He saved my life, I wouldn’t be here if wasn’t for him. He got my *kitten* on a bike, got me running and I did the rest after slouching around for 5 years. I’ve been back to my 30 year old body for quite a few years. I love him more than he will ever know or than I can ever express. I consider our meeting date more important than our wedding anniversary (September 16, 1996), that is my true celebration date. I love him lots.14 -
Watching Mary Poppins takes me back..lol3
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Camping this weekend. We hiked Iron Mountain today. We had to do it separately because Harley, the dog, was already pooped out from a shorter hike, so hubby stayed with her while I hiked, then we switched. Beautiful hike, and I fell only twice! Nothing hurt, didn't even break skin. With all we hiked today, I logged five miles.
I love my peaks, I saw Bachelor and St Helens in the very distance, then, heading south, Hood, Washington, three fingered jack, and the three sisters, and too many cinder cones to count. Wild flowers were amazing. Pictures below.
And snow. Ha! Pretty satisfied with myself today.
Flea
Willamette Valley OR
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One more pic of one beat pup.
She was too tired to ask to have her harness removed. Just ate dinner and crashed. She's even snoring.
Flea
Willamette Valley OR
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And relating to what we're doing these days ...
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Awe Pip, Kirby might have saved you, but you saved him too. You two are the yin-yang of each other but together your zen, whole.💖👍🏼
Happy Anniversary!
Rebecca
Whidbey
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Happy anniversary Pip and Kirby! So glad you two met.
BIL's celebration of life is tomorrow in Grass Valley, CA. DD went to represent us. I decided not to make the trip. DD sent a picture of my sister. She looks pretty awful. Don't know what will happen with her now. Makes me sad.
Everyone take care, Sue in WA8 -
Heather - I assume the beach parking used to be free. It’s such a sad state we live in when such simple things become monetized. I bet for some families being forced to pay to park would make the day unaffordable.
I wish we would get on board with the more natural garden and lawns.
Ginny - I looked at that option and funnily enough they pay even less! I have not given up yet, my BF and I were talking last night, she said “those doors flew open for you to do this, something is bound to open for you to be able to continue.”
What a beautiful view in your new place.
Lisa - those morning glory’s are so pretty.
Love the cake, I bet it tasted delicious.
Machka - it’s funny, I’ve tried the blind only before and found it didn’t make the room cozy. I have to have some curtains. You’ll reach a compromise for sure.
I had Michaela today, we went to see the Inside Out 2 movie, bought her $60 worth of clothes for $40 at a store that is closing here, I’m very sad it’s closing.
We then went to the spray park, hard to believe that we had frost earlier this week. While I was at the spray park, I noticed all of these grandmother’s with their grandchildren and noticed one of the teachers at the school I just finished at with her two young daughters. It got me thinking…last Friday was the staff year end party and she struggled to find childcare for her daughter’s and her mother reluctantly took them for the night. Her mother called her at 6 am to come get them because she didn’t want to feed them breakfast. She mentioned that asking her mother was a last resort.
One of my greatest pleasure as a grandmother is having the kids, but there are a lot of young parents that don’t have parents to help them. I have helped a few now.
Maybe I need to start a Granny-on-call type of business. I’m rattling some thoughts around in my head. I think that just like there are young moms looking for grannies there are grannies looking for grands. I don’t know if something could be done, or even if I would want that, but I’m thinking at least.
Lanette - I have to tell Rodger how you described the dandelions. He’ll get a chuckle out of it.
Pip -Happy Anniversary.
Allie - Michaela and I did YouTube quizzes on Disney for our vet an hour this evening. They also have old tv shows and movies. I bet you would get a kick out of it.
Flea - I suck at geography, is The Three Sisters that you saw the same as the one here in Alberta?
I think I would enjoy hikes if I lived closer to a forest or mountains.
Michaela and I replanted flowers in the new bed Rodger made for me. I think I was partially responsible for the death of the last ones, I thought I was watering them enough, but the dirt was extremely dry an inch or two down. Mind you, it’s been quite cold and little sun and others have told me theirs died too.
Today was the day that Jonah was invited to help Brodey move dirt. He also invited Chase. The boys were being paid $10 an hour each to help. They moved a lot of dirt, I don’t know how many yards, but here is a picture of it and them.
Michaela chose to do all of the activities today so tomorrow I’ll be struggling to keep her occupied. I may end up taking her home early.
Well I should head to bed, she’ll probably be up early.
Tracey in Edmonton
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