WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2024
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Hello, my chickens,
Lanette - When I was trying to figure out if Corey was wearing all of the ungodly number of T-shirts in his closet, I put everything on a white hanger. When I pulled anything out of the washer, it went on a black hanger. If anything was still on a white hanger six months later, it headed for the donation pile. Barring his one decent suit for weddings/funerals, etc.
Working on the quilt from heck this morning. I can see the finish line, I swear! It's the pinning and prep work that just seems to go on forever. Corey gently suggested that I not start another quilt for a year or so. I think he's sick of this one... 👀😲🤣
Up and down all night last night probably because it was my last night with the steroid on board, and hopefully I can get a full night's sleep this weekend. My body says I've got plenty of energy, but my mind is not in agreement. It will pass...
No real plans for today... do need to get out and get the garden watered this morning. Our water bill was just stupid high, but that garden is too important to Corey to let it suffer and die. Hopefully we can get through enough of our priority list to get the well looked at, tuned up and online. We want to put a solar panel on it, so it will be independent of electricity and water. That is, however, way down the road, so we're stuck with city water for a few more years, most likely.
Oh yeah - now we're at August 2nd already... My goals were, as usual... Be lighter, be healthier and stay on budget. One pound lighter, definitely healthier, but the budget took a hit due to the carport reno. That one is definitely a "one and done," though, so there's that. 🤷🏻♀️😲
Same goals for August.
Later, babies,
Love,
Lisa in AR4 -
Lanette, Everything I'm wearing now was bought online. I haven't bought anything in a store in over five years. When I find something I like, I order one in the size that seems right. I try it on and if I don't like the fit, I send it back and exchange for a different size or style. I try different sites until I find what fits. It takes time and sometimes money, but through persistence, I have a small wardrobe of things I love.
Barbie 7 -
Dinner yesterday, Huge salad, small roasted chicken thigh and roasted potato slices. Nectarine for dessert. Breakfast was oatmeal, almond milk, 1/2 banana, butter, almond butter. Supper was a biscuit with butter and cream cheese.
RVRita in Roswell6 -
Today is: Beer, coloring, and ice cream sandwiches. 🙋🏼♀️
RVRita in Roswell, on her way to town for a Gastro appointment and monthly shop.
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Morning ladies2
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Rita - I am envious of your beetroot. I adore it, but John loathes and fears it. He associates it with childhood memories of that vinegary stuff in jars, though I have explained multiple times that it's nothing like that. Occasionally I buy it for myself, and he makes faces, (love it with feta), and I nearly always have it in a restaurant, if it's on the menu. Soooo good for you.
I've just woken up from a 90 minute sleep. Wonderful!
John has brought me up a cup of tea.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx6 -
Barbie ... thank you for moving us into August!
Kim ... that's just crazy with Medicare!
Heather ... hope the hip starts to feel better soon!
Rosemarie ... enjoy your yoga retreat.
Tracey ... keeping my fingers crossed!
I lost 2 pounds in July ... sigh ... same pounds I keep losing and finding. We are definitely making a reset in my household, however. My husband's blood labs were not good. Evidently, if I'm not planning and preparing well-rounded meals, my guys just out and out eat junk. Everyone is on board so we'll see how it goes.
My husband is having problems with his heart rhythm and he is wearing a heart monitor for 2 weeks. He's a worrier so need to keep things even keeled until he gets an updated diagnosis and treatment plan. He's experienced this before and there's been conflicting opinions on what to do in the past. Now the problem is becoming more pronounced and will require a definitive plan.
In just a bit I'll be heading to my mother. The current facility changed her room Tuesday and that just seems to have rocked her boat too hard. The confusion and inability to speak a sentence that makes any sense is pitiful. And she was doing better too. Lesson learned. I'll not allow anymore room changes in this facility.
It's raining today. Much needed really.
Beth near Buffalo
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Wow! It's taken my son nearly a year of wrangling to get the skylights replaced. They didn't fit properly. It's taken soooo long.
The biggest square one in the kitchen needs a crane to get it over the roof. Hope it fits! Photo sent by DDIL.
Beth - Such a lot going on for you. Sending hugs.
Love Heather UK xxxxxx
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Kim--Sorry for what you are having to deal with.Nothing is simple anymore. Sending prayers and vent anytime. That is what we are here for.
Blessings, Vicki GRAND ISLAND, NE 4 -
Stat for the day-
Walk w/family- 2hrs 15min 49sec, 93elev, 2.82ap, 81ahr, 151mhr, 6.41mi= 631c
Strava app = 785c
Took yogi to the river, Lucy got her feet wet, didn’t swim tho.
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I’ve been having a day offline. Weather was changeable, so mostly indoors.
Yesterday we did a little tree surgery on an old rowan that was getting very ratty looking. We are pruning lots of our shrubs as they are outgrowing their allotted places.
Lanette: I loved Christopher and Banks when I visited the US years ago. I still have several of the items I got there 😂
Virtual (((hugs))) held extra long and 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
🙋♀️ Miele failte to the newbies.
☘️ Terri4 -
Gee I'm hoping Machka is ok,usually she checks in with us daily..will keep her in my thoughts...
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Hot, humid and smoky here today. Not good for breathing. Got horses out in the back pasture with lots of shade. Goats have plenty of shade in their pen. Not even the gazebo is cool. Glad we have a couple of room air conditioners in the house.
Beth - so sorry your mom is having a hard time with the room move.
Lisa - you guys have made lots of improvements on the house but ours always seem to put a pretty good dent in the budget. We have been trying to save to buy a compact tractor with a brush hog but every time we think we are making progress something else comes up like needing a new dryer or new transmission in the truck so the tractor is still on hold.
Kim - there are no words for your situation. Government red tape is a bear complicated by others who take advantage of the system.
Everyone take care, Sue in WA6 -
Sue - Ditto on the tractor, probably for similar reasons, just to make so many jobs easier... but a) they're expensive, even used, and b) something else always comes up that takes that priority. I've promised that as soon as my car's paid off this time next year, we'll look at buying a tractor, but it's always a *fingers crossed, if nothing else goes south* kind of process with a big place like this one.5
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Had a post and I don't know where it is.
Michele NC3 -
We get a new dishwasher delivered tomorrow and they will take the old one away.
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Lanette Unfortunately, the new garage addition is the same size as our home! It is 30x50. Without our room addition and the attached garage that is the size of our 3 bedroom/2 bath ranch. My idea of a tiny home is much smaller.
Ginny The storms were awful! A clap of thunder and lightening right over the house scared the you know what out of me. I screamed, kittens froze, we all curled up in the house. The shop lost power which screwed up lots of computer stuffs. Of course SIL didn't call and tell me there was a problem with the computers so that I had a heads up. I got to work at 8:40 (we open at 9). One phone shorted out, one router dead, only one computer half working, credit card machine not working, one printer not working. The positive is we were slow and most customers were great about cash only. I bought two new routers, hooked things back up, still no good. Spent from 11-4 on the phone between the credit card processor, the business system provider, and Spectrum. I finally figured it out! Spectrum couldn't answer the questions I asked. I finally switched an ethernet cable to another port and finally got everything working at about 430. It was a really rough day!
Kim That is awful!!!!! I hope you get some answers and relief soon. Our medical system is so screwed up. HUGS!!!!
I am exhausted and time for bed.
Thank you all for sharing your lives with all of us. Healing thoughts for all!
Lots of love,
Kylia in Ohio
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Lanette...RIght now my mother lives independent in an over 55 apt complex. She has been there about 14 years and has many friends there. And a van that picks her and others up to go to the Senior Center. She plays bridge on Fridays and my brother takes her to church most weekends. She is in a book group...and does some Tai Chi...we text everyday and talk once a week. She is within a mile of one brother and 5 miles of another and has grown grandchikdren. She attended all the ball games of the nephews. I am more isolated than she is! She flew down to GA to my son's wedding in 2022. So one brother is father of the bride and the other will be artiving late to the wrdding. So it really is my turn to step up. I will hate missing seeing my in-laws. Such nice people!
Best
Rosemarie from Georgia8 -
Hi all ... thanks for the concern. Just very busy + limited computer time & no more long bus commutes with phone in hand.
Plus Olympics! Aussies are doing well!
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Lanette - I have bought three shirts online. I went by the size charts and one was too big and one was too small. I know a lot of people have great luck with it, but I am too scared to try again. We have a Canadian discount store that I love getting shirts at, unfortunately our local one just closed last month.
There isn’t any smoke in our area right now. I hope it stays that way.
Lisa - what a great idea to know if something is being worn or not. I normally decide at the season change if I haven’t worn stuff that year I donate it.
Beth - I hope your DH’s problem is easily fixed.
What a shame that moving rooms has upset your Mom so much.
Heather - I hope these skylights are properly fit and installed.
Rosemarie - are you able to add a couple of days to your trip to spend with your in-laws?
Machka - glad to see you. Love the meme.
Well I didn’t hear from them today, I did hear from another reference who says she feels 99.99% sure the job is mine. She said she felt that the reference check was just a formality.
I won’t hear anything now until at least Tuesday but I at least won’t be anxious all day waiting for the phone to ring.
I am going to trade cars with my daughter for the week as hers needs some repairs and they are going on a family trip 3 hours away. I would prefer that they aren’t on the highway with theirs, but this may interrupt two of my days plans.
I am just getting ready to go to bed, but I saw lightning and heard thunder so will stay up a bit longer.
Tracey in Edmonton
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Machka So glad you're OK.
You've just been such a reguarl part of my life for so many years, I got a teensy bit worried. 😻 Was so pleased to see your post when I popped out of bed.
Tracey - Great messaging from your references. Thinking about you!
Heather - Good grief on the skylight--such a long time for a fix. Obviously not a minor fix, but a year is a kinda ridiculous...
Nearly 1 a.m. here, took a two-hour nap yesterday afternoon, fell in bed by 7:30 when Corey sloped off to the bathtub for a long soak, and am going to try to go right back to sleep. If not, I'll pop back up and get some work done on the quilt from heck.
Later,
Love,
Lisa in AR5 -
Oh Tracey ! What a pain to be waiting so long.
I presume you have a bank holiday on Monday like us.
Yes, I do hope the company got it right this time. They haven't been able to finish decorating, and the big square skylight, which is near the family room, has been covered up the whole year. I don't understand how they got every skylight wrong. I can understand one, but all of them?!
Slept pretty OK, with my usual hour in the middle to go to the loo, shut the window, put one sock on, ( shove the other one under a cardigan ) , take some painkillers, and read while I wait for them to work. I should have bought a sock putter-onner, but it's a bit late now. After that I slept well, until 6 am.
Dull day, and much cooler. My unclad foot is cold.
I welcome the lower temps and I think John will too. He seems a bit tired with all his efforts of looking after me, back pain, and it being too hot and sticky. He is nearly 79.
I think he might make cauliflower cheese today. He knows how to do that, and it'sdelicious. Teaching him how to make my dishes only causes frustration.
I very much want him to go to cricket tomorrow, but he is reluctant to leave me. It's mainly going downstairs that he worries about. I hope I can persuade him.
I have a gold belt arriving today. Again, it's to cheer up my navy.
Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
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Machka: What Lisa said. I was just about to tag you to see if you were okay. Glad it was only RL getting hectic.
Thinking of those of you having weather related woes. Hoping they pass quickly. Our minor temp rises seem paltry in comparison.
Same old same old today. Local shops, chores, gardening, play some games, watch TV. Maybe some crafting. Do some exercise.
Virtual (((hugs))) held extra long and 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
🙋♀️ Miele failte to the newbies.
☘️ Terri5 -
Been up since 3 AM and ready to take a nap!
Kim ~ I really hate the mess the state has made as you try to figure out the health care you deserve.
Kylia ~ The kittens are so cute! We have had a lot of thunder storms this week also but are lucky that we did not lose power. Even though our yard people came on Tues. the drive is now full of debris and lots of pine cones.
Tracey ~ I have been shopping mostly online for the last 5 yrs. Amazon Prime has been great as it is so easy to return things that don't fit. I am a strange size and it is really difficult to find tops that hide my middle and pants that are not 5" too long.
Heather ~ Sorry you are in pain with the hip. I am feeling housebound and wanting to get out and about, but, I will have to wait. Used my cane instead of walker to go to PT yesterday. Still having to wait for the swelling and discoloration to subside.
Carol in GA
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Machka Happy to see you! We know you have a
Full plate. Hugs!
Lisa I know your sleep schedule isn't normal, but I kind of like it! I am normally at my best early morning and late night. It is the middle of the day that my energy sags. I can't seem to think between 2-8 pm. Unfortunately work keeps getting in the way.
Heather Do you have toilet downstairs? Could DH help you down for while he is gone? My DH wouldn't have lasted 2 days as a caregiver! I am proud of all the DHs doing so well at that task. Any surgery/illness I have had, two days is great, then he lacks understanding the healing process. Part of that could be as he always has to be doing something. Part is possibly because if I am down he can't go anywhere. SMH! I love that belt!
Tracey The wait is hard, but I hope it ends with a job. They seem to be giving this position a lot of thought.
Five days until my short trip! So much to do, will miss the kitties, but excited as it has been awhile since I have gone solo anywhere other than the grocery! Driving the Miata. I have an orange blouse but need something white. College colors are orange and white.
Speaking of things to do.....better get my day going.
TTYL
Kylia in Ohio7 -
Carol Healing takes time! Please give your body what it needs.2
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