WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2024

Flea - I saw the pics first, and missed your post, and I wasn't sure she was real! What a beautiful dog... a very sad one right at that moment, but really just wonderful markings.

Mo - What a lovely dress and as someone else said, you were lovely and glowing and your dad looked like he was having a really good time.

Rori - Those images are just beyond romantic, you were and are so very beautiful. You always wear your heart in your face anyway, and it really shows in your wedding photos. Couldn't look away. And thank you for the compliment re: the pumpkins. I'll send an email later after I see how things shake out.

Heather - I look forward to seeing the cabinet in situ! Love Edie's toucan, and the tiles, too. How did your mending of her blanket go over?

Rita - Barbie's got the right of it (no surprise) on stress. Finding another coping tool is really important, and one that doesn't involve food, alcohol or drugs is just incredibly key to maintaining the amazing strides you've made in turning your kidney and other numbers around. Depression is both a thief and a liar.

Annie - Well done on the bike! Proud of you!

Kylia - So glad you're enjoying your time away. Hope Dollywood is tons of fun. I have so much respect for Dolly Parton and the good she does--one of the few celebrities I just really admire.

Margaret - Quilts like that just make my heart so happy. 🧵🪡 They make me itch to start designing the next one, too! 😂

Barbara and Ginny - Hope your dental work is healing quickly and as painfree as possible.

Carol - Thank you so much for the compliments on the items I'm making. I'm having way too much fun still! 🤣

Speaking of which, I just got my early Christmas present today - we picked up a serger while we were out and about. I've got it out of the box, and now it's time to figure out how to use it! I'm branching out from the cottons that I've used all these years into other fabrics, and it's time to do it right.

Hope everyone's doing well.
Love from Lisa in AR

Heather - what kind of exercises/movements are you doing at physical therapy? I see a lot of hip exercises I probably should add to my routine. I stopped the sit-to-stands for a while because of my sciatica and I just did ten. Kinda tough. Wow, so glad Edie had that helmet. Bea is a great little painter - I liked those tiles a lot too.

Barbie - happy to hear the weekend is going well. Nice to visit when people are relaxed at home and not in a hospital, that's for sure.

Rori - I think your relationship with N is just perfect. Short happy times together, and he's not underfoot so you still have your independence. Does he have a brother? Your trip to Thailand sounds great, glad it's coming together for you.

Allie - good job on the weight loss. Yes, whatever you're doing is working and that's what's important. When is your cruise? And how is Dan's dad doing?

Flea - is your beautiful puppy a Bernese Mountain Dog? Love his markings.

Lisa - you are a pumpkin making wizard, those are so so cute. Have fun with your serger!

Carol - lots of good suggestions for your DH's eating - of course, getting him to follow any of them might be a feat, lol.

Interesting how cooking evolves in a marriage. My DH ended up fixing all of his own meals because all he wanted was easy highly processed food. Hot dogs, french fries, chicken strips. A lady down the street's husband has T2 diabetes, and for years she prepared a huge healthy breakfast - eggs, toast, fruit. Then lunch on their own then a nice dinner four nights a week. After his T2 diagnosis, he told her to quit making the big breakfast, and wanted to do his own thing. The last I knew she was still making good dinners and would have the left-overs for her lunch the next day. She said he liked to eat high-carb foods, but evidently adjusts his insulin. That works for them.

It would be hard for me to be strict about my eating if there was another person in this house, especially one that liked sweets and junk food.

Lanette
SW WA State

I had a great talk with my neighbor. She told me the story of going out to eat with one of her professors from over thirty years ago The were in a space to have their class when a person wanted to cut through to get to another place in the building to safe them time. He told the person NO! the person tried to explain it was much faster to cut through this space and wouldn't take much. He said No again because it was disruptive to his class. The lesson my neighbor learned is it's okay to say NO and to have that person respect that NO. There are people who have trouble respecting boundaries. I am still learning to set boundaries and to stick to them.

What I have to work on is to pace myself and plan better so that I am on time when needed. I was proud of myself for making it to church by 8:15 today! It helped that I found the outfit and had it out the night before.

My puppy is a miniature Australian Shepherd. She weighs about 20 pounds. But her markings are very much like the Burmese Mountain Dog. I think of that every time Rebecca share's a picture of her sister's dog. They really do look very similar, just my pup is teeny tiny, in comparison. We have a very small yard, so we didn't want anything too big. The forbidden yard is just the right size for her to really get up to speed and run circles. That's also the yard she plays in the sprinkler, another one of her favorite activities. She's a sweetie, but she is very territorial and possessive. She would be happiest if there were no other animals or human beings in the world except for those in our house.

Flea
Willamette Valley, OR

Oh,
DH and I needed to turn trailer around to be able to reload miata when time to head home. We managed it this morning with lots of patience and laughter and not a cross word! Success!

Annie - I must have missed the earbuds and how you got them to work, I see Barbara mentioned it as she’s never found any to tolerate. I haven’t either. I would love to know the secret.

Barbara - I hope you heal fast. It sounds like Joe has been helpful.

Heather - I love the look of bare for about a week and then I find everything too sterile. I have tried over and over in my life to do it but can’t. I have given up. 😂 I applaud those that can.

Lisa - I had some clothes like that that I got rid of a few weeks ago. They just didn’t sit right.
Love those pumpkins

I know I’ve mentioned Linda before, I loved her so much, anyway she was married to her second husband who was awful when I met the family in grade 6. They split when I was in grade 9, she passed in 1996, but in 94 or 95 I’m sure it was him that bought her a serger for Christmas about this time of year.
She made Tickle Trunks for the girls and her granddaughter (my Goddaughter) for Christmas that year. They still talk about it. For those that don’t know, when you gals were getting Captain Kangaroo, we had Mr. Dressup, he had a “tickle trunk”. It was all costumes and such.
She made them wedding dresses out of thrifted sheers, the veils were lace curtains stitched onto satin headbands she made. They had evening gowns and 60’s go-go style outfits. Bangles, and jewels all in their own little trunk.
It was an incredible gift and your serger reminded me of her happiness of what she could do with that serger.

I always wanted to renew our vows and have a huge wedding, with reception, dance and everyone we loved there but now I just want a dress up party and dance.

We are currently experiencing 30C weather. It is 10pm and I am sitting outside in a tank top and shorts. It is beautiful. Unfortunately, there is smoke in the air from a fire somewhere though.

Carol - I found that since I have had to discard so much out over the last few years I am more intentional in my purchases.

Rita - sounds like your Mom is going to be treated, that just ease your mind a bit.

Rebecca - so happy for your your son will be home. How can Eli be 1 already?
When we went to the dietitian to see what to do for Rodger’s sugars she told him not to restrict anything. Eat like he normally did in smaller portions.
I have a gift certificate for a pedicure from work. I may do that this week coming.

Allie - Congrats on the loss.

Pip - looks like a nice little trip.

Rori - Your wedding looked beautiful.
That will be fun to have someone along on the trip.

I really dislike driving with DH. He lets everyone else’s driving get him so upset. It just ruins the whole drive. I would prefer to drive and listen to him complain about the people around than him having the wheel and pedal control. Since he’s had his truck though I never get if we go anywhere together.

Heather - the school I did my first practicum in had a young autistic student that could do a 1000 piece puzzle in two-three days. You could try a school too for donating. I know we have lots of puzzles donated at the manor and they are appreciated too.
Edie has talent, like her Grandma. So thankful she was wearing her helmet.

Kylia - I am so incredibly envious of your vacation. I hope you are enjoying every minute.

Monique - you and your Dad’s look so happy.

Rita - Stress did so much damage to my weight and health over the last few years. I’m still trying to recover from it I think.

Barbie - I’m glad you were able to have a nice visit.
Like you, I make one meal a day, supper for us I make sure there are other things for each of us in the groceries as well.
I like the idea of a 911 playlist. I’m going to give that some thought.

Lanette - I so agree about all of the wedding photos. It has been so much fun looking through them.

Flea - Your dog is pretty. I thought of a Burmese Mountain dog too.

We kept Jeb last night. It will be his last time here for some time as his Mom is moving to BC for the Winter. I will miss them both.

We tried a new technique yesterday at the scrapbooking crop. This was the most hilarious speech at their wedding. I thought the leaves I used was appropriate since the bride and the speaker stole so much of Rodger’s as teens and told him about it on her wedding day. 😂



I shortened and hung my new curtains today. I decided to just hem them by hand, it would have taken more work for me to dig the sewing machine out. It was my friends and I don’t know if it works well or not so didn’t want to be frustrated.


Rodger made some more pens this weekend.


I bought stuff for my lunches this week and for my favourite snack in the evening. I finally found some good grapes.

I should head to bed.
Tracey in Edmonton

Morning from the weeee hours of the morning here in Arkansas, but with Machka out there on the other side of the world, I can reassure myself that it really is "five o'clock somewhere," 🤔😀😂

Heather - Oh my stars and whiskers, I'm so glad Edie was in that helmet!

Flea - That's why her coloring looked so familiar. Love her coat.

Tracey - Love Rodger's pens... so beautiful. The curtains look great, too. Your one-month anniversary of starting back to work is coming up already isn't it? Very cool. Near but not dead on the same subject, because I was driving a grocery cart and not a car, 😀, Corey told me yesterday that I had gotten very "skittish" about making my way through the people infesting Walmart... but I think I'm just not in as much of a hurry as he is.🤷🏻‍♀️

Egg just left my lap quite abruptly 🐈‍⬛😹 - she often knows when I'm going to get up before I do, so I guess I need to fulfill her expectations and go snag my second cup of tea. Hope it's a grand Monday for those with it still ahead, or that it was grand for our Tasmanian lassie...

Love,
Lisa in AR

Good morning beautiful ladies!

Heather Yay for Edie's helmet!

Lanette yes it is hard to eat right when I have to cook for Dad outside my window. He has cookies, pudding, ice cream and pizza much too available. But his own cooking is limited to peanut butter toast and cereal.

Flea love your puppy! Mine is fifteen pounds full grown. Big enough to crawl into my lap, but not big enough to get to the kitchen counter.

Tracey my earbuds are GNMN v7 and they have an ear loop outside the ear. They work fine with my glasses. I don't quite understand what the lights mean, but they work anyway. I control volume and such on my phone, even though there is a button on the earbuds. I haven't tried to answer a phone call yet, and probably won't. So like most technology I only use a small part of it. But it works well! I've been listening to podcasts.

The only problem so far is that when I pause the podcast resets to the beginning. But I think that's the website, not the earbuds.

And your curtains look marvelous with your table!

My ex was a terrible passenger. My dad tries to be helpful, and can't help supervising. He isn't as judgemental about it. But I wonder whether he "helps" men drive, or just women.

Well I've done most of the easy things on my list. Either I take on something bigger or give it a rest. Hmm.

My scale said I lost ten pounds last night. Something is wrong there!

Have a great day! May you all be happy, healthy, safe and free!

Annie in Delaware