WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2024

Yay, Tracey!

I’m taking my brother for hernia surgery tomorrow. I have to pick him up at 4:30 a.m., which means I have to leave home about 3:45. Yikes! He needs it desperately though. His belly button looks like a horn growing out of the middle of his stomach. It’s at least the size of 8-ounce drinking cup.

I’m squandering too much time on mindless iPhone games. Time to set it down, maybe even uninstall a few, in favor of getting up and doing even 5 minutes of PT, or grooming dogs. ;}
MFP not letting me login from laptop yesterday morning, recaptcha verification failing.
Debbie what do you and your mom do with 3x100’ rows of squash?
Lisa wow that quilt! What you said about swirling with gratitude. Amen, sister, amen. Yours to Tracie in WI, truth that.
Margaret conVERYgratulations on getting your BP down. Just another sign that you are on the right track for your body.
Lanette hawkbit, aha! Thanks! We do have some dandelions too, but the hawkbit ?hawkbits? predominate. Funny how the genus name “leontodon” means “lion tooth”, just like dent-de-lion. . . but different genus.
Kay, “deer food garden” made me snort my tea! LOL
Tracie in WI what kind of dog? ;}
Belated welcome @MounjaroMia Mia in the UK!
Barbie Rejoicing that Jake is home. For an introvert, you have two very reliable friends.
Only through page 12.

Moose, the prequel
gratitudes:
Thursday: Deep, box breathing finally stopped the retching. An hour and a half is a looong time. :sick:
Wednesday: Shadow joined Moose on the bed for a while this morning. Settling in process.
Tuesday: meeting with Moose went miraculously well. Tumble barked, went up to him and sniffed and seemed to recognize him, and quieted down. Shadow still suspicious.
Monday:: stretching and luxuriating in bed, the feeling of the sheets and blankets, and petting Shadow by my side.

Later, lighter, lovelies!
Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD

Move more than yesterday, fuel better than yesterday, live NOW.
Open heart and mind before mouth.
2024: Strengthen: body, mind, heart-connections.

Katie - Good grief! That sounds so horribly painful. Hope the relief is immediate and a quick recovery.

Barbara AHMOD- An hour and a half of retching? I barely last five minutes and I'm weeping. So glad the box breathing stopped it. I hope Moose is a lovely and peaceful addition. Terrible name for a lovely looking little guy.

Terri - So glad my completion was inspirational. I never know if I'm here to be a bad example or a good one... 😁 Now I'm walking around slapping ideas out of the air... Stop it! Stop it! Take a break! 🐿️😝😂 Doubt it will work, now that my energy levels are rising too. I've unleashed a kraken... 🐙🦑🌊 and it's about to swamp my craft room.

Loving my life, and genuinely reveling in living inside a body that does not feel sick and exhausted. So much joy in that.

Here's to joy,
Love,
Lisa in Arkansas

Machka - Are you all moved now?

Terri - I agree about us all being there for one another. Aside from my friend that was visiting, DH and Kaitlyn you ladies were the next to know I was getting an offer today.

Annie - I hope the new medications slow your dad’s decline.

Lisa - the backside of the quilt looks like looking out a window to the sky to me.
Beautiful.
We have flat rate boxes here in Canada too, it is the most economical way to send anything these days.

Allie - what a face on Miles. 😂

Lanette - 😂 have you ever watched the episode of Big Bang Theory when Raj starts a deep friendship with the Apple equivalent of Goo-Goo. If you can find it you’ll get a chuckle.

Thank you all so much for being with me this past month’s journey waiting for my job offer. I read through and signed this afternoon, I also went and got my security clearance I needed. I start on Aug 19th, it’s a bit more money than I was expecting, more vacation time than I was expecting and benefits start day one. I’m quite happy tonight.

I’m glad it’s starting after next week because they should give me time to get my table finished. I’m hoping to get a lot of sanding done tomorrow and maybe can start staining on Saturday. I’m really hoping I can pull this off.
I’m nervous as all get out, but decided I can’t make the table any worse than it was.

Katie - I can’t even picture your brother’s hernia, hope the surgery goes well and recovery is swift.

Terri - I had to look up what a “gilet” was, it sounds lovely.

Barbara - it looks like the dogs are all adjusting well to one another.

Well I don’t have much else to say tonight. Thank you all for your best wishes and for bearing with me always.

Tracey in Edmonton

So, so, happy for you Tracey! Every day I was waking up thinking, 'I hope Tracey gets an offer today!'
Good vacation time is so important. I don't know how people cope in the US with so little vacation. You will be such an asset to any organisation.

Terri - Gilets are the height of fashion now. What will you wear it with? Black trousers? Maxi skirt?

Edie is coming over this afternoon, so I will be 'washing and brushing up' for her. I just love her energy and her presence. I wonder what interesting insights and gossip she will come out with this time! She clearly has missed us so much, and turned down the offer of having a friend over, to come and see us. Bea has a friend to play. Max is sailing, I think. I so love just having one of them at a time.
She will be 11 years old next month.

G persisted in asking if she could come over yesterday, so I had to be firm and say I wasn't feeling sociable. I truly wasn't. I described it as feeling like a snail withdrawing into its shell. A visit from her would mean extricating myself from my sick bed, difficult, exhausting showering and hair drying, laborious, slow and painful dressing, toiletries, makeup, and a quick tidy up. No.
We are seeing each other next Tuesday, after my physio session, so I will already have got all that practical business done, and just have to be in sociable mode. It's wonderful that she was prepared to make the journey to see me, but I just didn't feel like it, especially with Edie coming, and DSIL coming for the weekend. Enough!
She has booked herself a P&O cruise in November to Amsterdam and Hamburg. 7 days. The girl is indefatigable. Just thinking about everything she does exhausts me! And exhausts her!

I am impatient for more progress, but it's happening, if not at the desired pace.

I have John's delicious chicken soup/stew for lunch, (last night's leftovers). With gorgeous, (expensive), artisan sourdough wholemeal bread. Dinner is the last of my big batch of chilli, with roasted butternut squash. Salsa, with avocado, for which John managed to buy some cilantro, and crême fraiche.

Love to all, Heather UK xxxxxxxx

Morning, my chickens,

Enjoying my cup of hot tea this morning... while I have a gallon of iced tea brewing in the kitchen. Eight minutes and it will be done and will join the gallon in the fridge. Had some very minor stretches of a few months where I could drink plain water after the gastric bypass in 2005, but mostly I have to adulterate it in order to get enough liquid in. Tea always works... haven't had a cup of coffee in months, though, and I think it's really helping the amount of sleep I get.

Laundry day and want to get a couple of small projects going. 🐿️ I'm sewing up some Halloween trick-or-treat bags for the two little grands, eight and four, and will get those mailed to Kels as soon as I design them and get them sewn together. Picked up some material with a candy corn print on clearance while I was wandering around the craft stores a few weeks ago. 🥰

I also want to make some covers for my sewing machines. I love my cat, but much like Pigpen in the old Peanuts comics, she carries a cloud of dust and dirt and cat hair around with her, and my sewing machines get terribly schmutzy from it. The bags and the covers are my first real foray into three-dimensional pieces - and I want to make a cover for my stand mixer in the kitchen as well. I've got one on it, but I want one that doesn't look like a schlumpy old ghost on the counter! 😂

Trying not to add anything else to the list, but I do have a lot of things coming in that I plan to sell in a Christmas craft fair around the November time frame, and a few Christmas ornaments to put together and sell. Plus there are things I want to make in the interim breaks from my home projects - some gift potholders and other things that sew up quickly and make great gifts for the fair-goers. And I'm crocheting hairbands, as well.

The idea flood is just sooooo huge right now, so I need to take advantage and see what I can do. I need some small projects, easily finishable in a few days, if not a few hours...

Off to the races, kids,
Things to make,
Laundry to do,
Dishes to wash,
Life is good... and busy!
Love,
Lisa in AR

Morning all. I’m just hanging out in the waiting room while my brother is in surgery. I just saw where The Thursday Murder club is coming to Netflix.

Just a quick drop in to record something, more to push it into my memory than anything.

This was breakfast for me this morning:
Let me rephrase that - this was the last half of my breakfast this morning. I actually made myself both halves of an toasted English muffin and two over-medium eggs.

And when I got through one egg and half the muffin (OK, + one bite of the second half! 😂) I realized I'd had enough.

I haven't readjusted the amount of food I make for myself to the recent changes. I'm gaining weight because I'm still eating for that time period where I had to get in 3000+ calories a day just so I didn't starve. My body is dealing with nutrition very differently now, but I hadn't changed my way of cooking or of eating, thus the recent weight gain.

I absolutely despise wasting food; it is a really big thing from my childhood. Leftovers in my house are either eaten or frozen... but I threw these away very deliberately. It's time to start making food for the way my body is working now, instead of the way that it was.

Back to thinking about what I eat again, and just as important, what I make myself to eat!

Later, babies,
Love,
Lisa in AR

What have I been doing recently?

The last week or so of July was very busy and utterly exhausting including:
- My job. Got a quarterly report finished. Put in a 5-day week at the office which I haven’t done in ages. Attended meetings.
- Brain Injury Association of Tasmania in person meeting.
- COVID vaccination … which tired us both out. I also had a painful gland reaction.
- The Move. Lots of work every weekend in July, again on the last day of July removing things from the basement/garage (some to the tip, some to storage, some to the house). Cleaned the house to a certain level but was really sore and tired from the COVID vax. Then had professional house cleaners come in to finish the work.
- New House. Had a new power point put into my office. Unpacking.



Then August arrived.

The rest of the story ...



And no, we have not completed the move yet ... the August distraction told in the story in the spoiler kind of got in the way.


Machka in Oz