WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR MAY 2025

Worked then the soup kitchen. They were short staffed.

Remember that gal (W) who was non-English speaking working at BK. Well, I realized today that she wasn’t there so I mentioned it to B. He said that she quit sometime last week. Then he told me that they put in some paperwork for her and a red flag came up about her Social Security number. She quit the next day. I also found out that a guy who works at night got her the job (I was quite sure this was what happened)

pip – so glad to hear that you guys are negative. What a terrible ending to such a lovely cruise. What a lovely kitchen. Kirby did a great job. So much storage space!

Carol – glad your hubby came home. You know, when he gets used to eating non-salt food, salt food will really be apparent and he won’t want it.

When I got home from the soup kitchen was watering the plants and the guy who I think we’re going to use for landscaping next year stopped by to measure how much mulch we’ll need. He seems to be very knowledgeable and I know that he does the lawns for a few other people in this neighborhood and their lawns look very nice. We’ll probably go with him next year

Going to the Green Room to see “Margaritaville” tonight. Everyone says it’s such a good show. I have a flowery shirt and a (fake) lei that I’m going to wear.

Think I’ll go take a walk to Food Lion. They have kiwi on sale and something called a red pineapple. Never heard of that, so I’m going to give it a try.

Michele

Heather: UTIs are the pits. I hope you recover quickly.

Started planting up my summer containers today. The weather was almost too hot. We resorted to sitting in the shade eating ice cream. The fine weather is set to continue a little longer.

🤗🤗🤗 and 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 for those who need them.

🙋‍♀️ céad míle fáilte to our newbies

☘️ Terri

I have been dealing with my brother’s death by focusing all my attention on his poor neglected dog. She was the body shop dog and I think all the men who worked there fed her leftovers and various assorted other table foods. Poor thing hasn’t been groomed in forever and her overgrown hair is matted and full of beggar lice and cockleburs. I actually cut a long skinny piece of metal out of her hair yesterday that I found when trying to brush some of the other debris out. She had never walked on a leash before. I had to drag her into the vet, but she walked out on the leash. Baby steps! I told her she and I could diet together. The vet wants her to drop 10 lbs. we left the vet $465 poorer, but she is now current on shots, has flea and heartworm meds, diet dogfood, and a grooming appointment for June 5. Expect “after pictures” at that time. Meet Lavender, more affectionately known as Possum. Just an FYI for all you city folks, beggar lice are plants, not animals. As bad as Possum looks, she didn’t have fleas or worms. And notice how nice I was to her and did not show her weight in the picture. Suffice it to say, all of that fluff is not hair.

I have decided that in order for it to work well, I need to put in some work too. So logging my protein, so what I eat matters, as well as getting regular exercise is something I need to do. I do have to realize that the day after my dose days are going to be achy days, but hopefully not always so. On the good side exercising Mon-Thursday should be really doable! I don't dose until the afternoon, so without really planning that, it was smart of me!!! 🙃😂

Yes I am glad Amazon fixed the issue.😁. Glad you're enjoying your book! I might have to check that out at my library.

Rebecca Whidbey Wa

Got another load of donations taken to the church for the youth garage sale in the morning- We had more stuff we could have taken but ran out of time and dh was NOT feeling well-thinking it is just stress but had constant runs to the bathroom all night and this morning so he was a bit grumpy.
He sat while I loaded the car- a few boxes were pretty heavy and a bit awkward to carry down the stairs from the other house but I managed. He did take the large microwave down to the car. I filled the rest of my car with as much as I could- that made 4 car loads plus I had a friend from church pick up two car loads of kids toys that wouldn't fit in my car- Little Tikes coupes, slides, etc. I unloaded all of it while dh sat in the car. Said if I wanted to take more over, I could do it myself.
Hope all of it sells and the kids make a lot of money. It is for camp so I was happy to donate.

No real plans for the weekend. Dh said he will go see his mom tomorrow- planned on it today but wasn't feeling good and the regular nurse was there to visit her. The Hospice team seem to have her medicated a bit too much in our opinion. When he sees her now, since they took over her care two weeks ago- she can't feed herself, just mumbles. She was better on Tuesday but that was the day we had the family meeting and they knew we would be there. We know she needs to be medicated so it is easier for the staff but maybe not quite so much. The nurse called her a "deceased asset" which hit dh a bit hard.

Have a great weekend ladies

Debbie
Napa Valley CA

That's a sample of what I'm eating. The lunch is almost always the same. The dinner is quite similar each day. The snacks will vary.

My daily goal is set at 1500 calories. So I walked and climbed stairs to get the total "Your Daily Goal" up to 2068.

And that's how I've lost 8.4 kg = 18.5 lbs since early January.

Machka in Oz

Heather - I am excited to see your new bedroom. It’s sounds divine.

Machka - I’m going to try to watch those webinars.

Barbie - Sorry that Annie got at the pillows. Have you tried a radio on when you are out? It helped my in-laws dog.
I would miss Rodger too, I really do love him, but I’m tired of the misunderstandings

Beth - I have the phone dilemma thing to deal with next month too. Our plans are ridiculous here. I bought this one through the plan, I may keep it for another 2 years. Rodger’s has to be traded in.

Our granddog is crate trained and she also goes there for a safe place. She had a bed in the living room too. They don’t actually close the crate anymore she just likes to go in there.

We decorate for different days at the home I work at too. It really does make a difference for I would say the majority of the residents. Some scoff at them, but most of them actually enjoy them. We go over the top too to keep them entertained and happy. So many never get any visitors so we are their families.

Pip - I don’t think we can even get tests here for Covid anymore. Glad you tested negative.
Nice colours in the kitchen.

Carol - I hope your husband listens to you, but ultimately it’s his decision to make.

Lanette - I am friends with one of those girls on FB now. I’m happy to say most of those poor kids actually have decent lives these days. The shacks are all mostly replaced and doing better. I’m sure there was a lot of abuse in those little shacks, I didn’t realize it until I was looking back though.

Lisa - we had a wood stove my mother burned everything in that when she finally got the fire going. I’m fairness to her, the stove was not air tight. We woke up to smoke almost every morning with my mother fretting, clucking her tongue and sighing. My dad would start it when he left for work but it would be out by the time my Mom got up to get us kids up.My mother was not accustomed to the way we lived and had no interest or knowledge in fixing anything up. She was an only child and grew up in a different class than I did. I often thought she married my Dad to get a big family. He was the third from last of 7 but was raised by his eldest sister a lot because my grandmother was in a psychiatric hospital off and on throughout his life.
He had a hard life.

I continued reading through but didn’t take time for notes.

I couldn’t sleep this morning so showed up at work at 730. I had a nice talk with my boss before anyone else arrived.

Rodger picked Jonah up after work and brought him for a sleepover. He is going to do our lawn mowing this summer. He has been saving for a year for a PlayStation 5. This should get him to the finish line. This evening he and I went and bought him a pair of shoes for him on clearance for mowing in so he wouldn’t get grass stains on his good ones. We then bought some flowers for me to plant this weekend.

I’m off to bed now, it will be a busy day tomorrow.

Oh, code switching! I can't help myself! Sometimes I find myself embarrassing. 😜

I'm taking back the bedlinen set I bought yesterday. I got it home and decided I didn't like it. I'll do that this morning. I've ordered an 800 count set from Amazon. Curtains should arrive today. I love the glass ceiling shade, and I've ordered new knobs for the four wardrobe doors. Will tidy up and hoover in there today. Get a few more things set up.

My son came over to help with the dresser. Still a struggle, but they got it up. Then he put my new shade up. (He's 6ft 2 ) Then he sorted out the TV he brought over. It's not too big, and John appreciates it. The recorder seems to be working OK with it. John installed the old one upstairs, to replace a 20 year old one I watch occasionally.

So, all good, and I will slowly be working on the room today. My perfectionism and OCD keeps rearing it's head. 😔

Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

Photos of son's family attending the rehearsal dinner before the wedding of DnL's brother!