WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MARCH 2025

Exercised (stairstepper and then the rowing machine for 15 minutes) and then went to WalMart. Came home and made a taco tater tot casserole for Jess. Not sure if she'll have it here or take it home. Then the soup kitchen. Had BLT (I snacked on some of the ends of the tomatoes) and potato wedges (they are good). Then came home and tried a new recipe for brownie drop cookies which I'll give some to Jess and the rest for Vince.

Mo - did you REALLY have to remind me that I have laundry to do?????

Have a question for you all. Previously, I'd have Wordpad open, write my comment, and continue reading. Ever since the update, when I cut the post from Wordpad, some of the words run together and the spacing is off, What do you all do?

Michele

almost forgot, today is the anniversary date of moms passing. One year

Rori - glad you are free to do your regular activities. It must be frightening to blackout.

Heather and Machka - I agree. When I used to take public transit to work it was awful. So many couples arguing, people talking rudely to someone on the phone, the swearing. It was awful.

Heather - that’s a pretty bracelet.
What a pretty photo John took.

Lisa - I love that cardigan! Beautiful.
Sorry about the bag. You certainly gave it a solid try.

Flea - when I’m at my in-law’s I get dinged for roaming in the States. The cell towers don’t seem to care about borders.

Kylia - what a week! I hope your granddaughter understands that she should treat this like any job that she could be fired from. That awfully irresponsible of her, I would be miffed too.

Rosemarie - my grandfather had a bottle of fertilizer or grass seed, he alternated, with holes punched into the lid taped to his lawnmower handle that way he was always fertilizing or seeding while he mowed. He had a beautiful lawn.

Debbie - sorry you didn’t get your walk in. It will be a change for you not having Jona at home.
The Canada Geese have started showing up here over the last couple of weeks.

Mo - I hope you have an uneventful set of shifts.I ended up having to get a new battery thankfully that was under warranty. The Throttle Body was replaced, and that corrected some things, but it’s still not quite right. The repair was almost $700 with the tow. 😩. I’m scared to take it in again.

Heather - What a day you had, happy you had a nice lunch with a free drink though.
That poor young girl with the deaths and fractures.

Vicki - good luck with the court recorder job. I bet it would be interesting, I don’t know if my facial expressions would be welcome.

Rebecca - I think it’s good you’ll have a phone next time.What a day you had travelling!

We moved across Canada by bus. Rodger came with nothing but a hockey bag full of his stuff in Sept 1997. Christmas night 1997 the girls, myself a young woman that babysat for me, and 9 pieces of luggage left NB and arrived on Dec 28th, a couple hours later than expected because of a traffic accident involving a moose in Manitoba.

Last night was the last ceramics night with the original owner. I’m really going to miss her. I have seen her weekly, except for maybe 6 weeks since Sept 2021. She is planning a barbecue for us to visit this summer.

It started snowing yesterday and has not stopped yet. 😳

I’m going to be very lazy tonight. I am tired.
Tracey in Edmonton

Bicycle ride yesterday …

Walk today … with new shoes …

Machka in Oz

Not sure paying for Premium is worth it, even though it’s still cheaper than WW. I’m doing the free trial now and other than the Plans (looks like you can only do one plan at a time) and the scan feature there isn’t much of a difference. I am down 2 more pounds! Getting closer to goal (57 down and 38 more to go). Being at healthy BMI is important to me….plus I love how clothes fit me now 🤗

Rosie FL

Rosie - You found us again, I'm so pleased! Very well done on your weight loss, you're doing very, very well. Don't forget that @barbiecat (Barbie) will be posting a link on Monday evening for the April thread, keep an eye out for it! We start new each month with a clean slate…

Terri - Thank you! I'm quite pleased with that cardigan, and probably will be changing my sales website a bit to sell all kinds of items as well as purses. I really enjoyed making it, especially changing the design on the fly to fit how I wanted it to fit and to work. I love having fun with all this.

I think, though, that the next one I make will be sewn, rather than crocheted. I need to give my right-hand trigger finger a rest. It is no more painful than any other joint (they all hurt), but it is trying to curl in, and the distal phalanx (that last bit of finger at the tip) is numb. Makes it hard to grip anything—I've been dropping things all morning. Someone else (Rori?) had issues with a trigger finger. Anyone have any advice on home physical therapy for it?

At the moment, I've got it flex-taped, which is helping me be able to type, and it straightens it while at rest. I only know about the taping because this is how they helped my husband's hand keep from curling inward after he shattered his wrist. They taped every finger like this.

I really would prefer to avoid splinting it, if possible, and the flextape at least lets me use it. And yes, I will get it seen, but Medicare hasn't cut in yet and working with the VA is getting worse and worse.

Anyway… other than that, kinda staying in the house at the moment. We have wildfires all around us - though most are under control, thank goodness… We live in the Arkansas River Valley - I put a small yellow dot there to show us, between the Ozark Mountains and the Ouachita Mountains. The black ones are out or under control, and the red ones are actively burning.

It's that time of year - but yesterday's soaking rain across the same area was certainly helpful, and more coming mid-week.

Later, y'all,
Love,
Lisa in AR

Lisa, I had a trigger finger and cured it myself. There are many instructions online on how to stretch and do PT on them. I don’t want another so unconsciously do the exercises when not using my hands. I ‘play piano’ on the table or in the air. I touch the tips of my fingers to my thumb and my thumb pad to stretch them. I also do a couple of Carpal tunnel stretches as well. Here is a site with 11 different exercises: https://handandwristinstitute.com/trigger-finger-exercises/ One night I woke up in the middle of the night in pain, I had straighten my finger out enough to fix the tendon in my sleep! Hurt like crazy for about an hour then my finger worked as it should. I haven’t had any issues since then. I didn’t want surgery on it and consciously and unconsciously made sure I didn’t have to!

I did some Yoga yesterday for my back and while doing some of the floor one, I became extremely dizzy and nauseated. Lasted for a couple hours after. Emailed my new doctor and researched online. The doctor replied right away and told me to monitor my blood pressure until my next appointment in 2 weeks to start and will discuss more then. The research all pointed to sinus/inner ear issues. Well, do said I may have to go to an ENT and it looks like that is where I will end up. No more floor Yoga for me, only standing!

Heard from my DS yesterday, he sounded ok but would not get into any discussions about work, where he is staying or even how he is feeling. At least he spoke to me….

Thought for today:

What do you call a magic dog?

A labracadabrador!

(This one sounds familiar. Sorry if it is a repeat. I may need to find another source…)

RVRita in Roswell

Yes, it was a whirlwind travel. On the good side I have the rollaway bed in the hotel room, so my sis has said I didn't have to pay anything.😁. Sleep is not really comfortable but free is free. Yesterday, is the cute town of Sisters Oregon, I bought three books for grandkids, and a book about things to cook in an airfryer.

Rebecca

Whidbey

Wa

Well ya just never know what is goong to happen in a day..i went to the bank this morning,and get a call from Tracy,she needs a ride to the ER.So here I am with her and she has kidney stones.poor kid..they just took her down for a CAT scan,she thought I was going to just drop her off..I dont think so.

Kyle has the kids and she will need a ride home,so here I sit.

Allie - my brother had kidney stones. So painful. They had to give him suppository painkillers. Nothing else worked.

Michele -So sorry. It must be so hard.

I had an interesting day! As I thought might happen, after my long, thirsty, train journey on Thursday, I woke up with a UTI. Grrrr! No doctors at the weekend, so I went up to the pharmacy, where a very nice man said he was very sorry, but he was unable to prescribe antibiotics for me, as I am over 65. Yes, he thought it was ridiculous too. So I got on the bus to the 'walk-in' clinic near the station. Two and a half hours later (!!!) I emerged with a prescription, which I had to take to the big chemists. Phew!

I bought myself some sushi and ate it on the bus home. 😀

Had a nap, then Edie arrived. We painted cards. Hers was a Mother's Day card for tomorrow. This is mine. It will probably go to DSIL.

Off Edie goes to a swimming gala in Hastings!! She said she was tired as she had biked a time trial of 11k this morning.

Then I had to make the chocolate mousses for tomorrow's dessert. My son is cooking the main. So I have eight lovely desserts in the fridge. Then I had to cook the cauliflower for a mash to go with black pudding and haggis for dinner. Oouuff!

Now relaxing with a large glass of fizzy water.

Much love to all, Heather UK xxxxxxxx