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  • j29t
    j29t Posts: 234 Member

    @BCLadybug888 your vacation photography is wonderful. Thank you for sharing. I'll post my new bike pic after I get it put together and out on the bike lanes.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,595 Member
    edited June 2

    We are a household in crisis.

    The gourmet doughnut shop has unexpectedly gone out of business. This is the one of Doughnut Sunday fame, purveyor of apple fritters that my other half is obsessed with, and has been for years The reason the dog jumps out of bed brighteyed and bushy tailed on Sunday mornings, assured he’s getting a RIDE.

    I’ve never seen my husband this close to crying before.

    it’s like being cast adrift in the universe, only with no fritters and no prospects.

    He always bought two, carefully cut them in half, and made them last through Wednesday.

    “I guess I can eat cereal” he said with the saddest face, ever.

    I can make him a Dutch baby on Sundays, and we can give the High Anxiety Dog a ride around the block to nowhere, he won’t care But I have trainer, classes at 8 am during the week and the HAD gets a mile and a half before I even go to the gym. I can’t make a Dutch baby every day. And my husband won’t touch my meal-prepped chocolate pancakes no matter how delicious I assure him they are

    Anybody tried making fritters or doughnuts in an air fryer? How are they a day or two later?

    I’m at a complete loss. I swear there’s a quartet in the background of my life today singing “gloom, despair, excessive misery”!!!


    (I just gave every over 55 an ear worm. You’re welcome. 😬)

  • Rainbow2300
    Rainbow2300 Posts: 152 Member
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    Here’s to clownin’ around, Janet! 🚴‍♂️😃

  • j29t
    j29t Posts: 234 Member

    @Rainbow2300 Love the yellow outfit (reflective too) and shoes. Thanks for the laugh!

  • BCLadybug888
    BCLadybug888 Posts: 2,021 Member

    @springlering62 - I would offer those chocolate pancakes again 😉

  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,660 Member

    The pandemic was the WORST for staples in my life going out of business or being unavailable. The thing which bugs me right now is Starbucks Toffee nut syrup being no longer made. I use the sugar free vanilla but for 15 or more year the toffee nut was my morning snack. 🥹 Replacements just are not the same.

  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,660 Member

    @AnnPT77 will be thinking of you this week and hoping for the best news… 🙏

  • SbetaK
    SbetaK Posts: 406 Member
    edited June 8

    I was away for a few days, pleasantly surprised to see 27 comments on here. I miss our news feed. Laughing at the "friend requests" comments. I've had several too. One was persistent, tried requests 3 times, guess the first delete wasn't clear enough, hahaha. A lot of my friend requests are doctors, usually military, stuck in a foreign country. Or a captains, and even a general, also in a foreign country. Guys in boats interest me…but I have my own boat. 😆

    @BCLadybug888 loved your pics of Norway and Iceland. I was just telling someone the other day that those are the next 2 places I want to visit. I've only been on one cruise, but that would be a tempting way to get an intro to both places. I have roots in Hardanger, Norway, and would love to go there. The fjords there remind me of places up here in Alaska.

    @AnnPT77 will be thinking of you and hoping for a good outcome. I recently read an article about senior women and rowing, was on National Geographic site. The waters around me are too darn windswept and freezing, no good rivers, lakes too small, but sure sounds like fun. May have to incorporate into a vacation some day.

    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/rowing-older-women-exercise-sports

    Glad to see activity here!

  • cynmj58
    cynmj58 Posts: 3 Member

    Hey there ladies! You guys all sound like a lot of fun! Where are you all? I am in Orange County in So Cal.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,756 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48646429#Comment_48646429

    Hello!

    I'm a long way away, Michigan, palm of the mitten, more or less.

  • BCLadybug888
    BCLadybug888 Posts: 2,021 Member
    edited June 10

    My place of residence is in my name!

    I am 🇨🇦 in the Vancouver area of British Columbia. We just had a run of truly warm, sunny weather (highs to 80f, or tad higher - up to 30c)

    But supposed to cool off as the week progresses. I got the A/C set up again in my bedroom on the weekend, which is a godsend, the whole upstairs gets cooking for sure.

    Planted Brussel Sprouts for the first time, bought a 6 pack of seedlings. Also resowed some lettuce but may prove to be too warm for them. We'll see. I tried celery in a planter on my deck, and they seem happy!

    We (me and my grandkids, mostly my granddaughter) are trying a few different things this year. She is a really good helper in the yard. The vegetables are our thing!

    Had my 1st cataract surgery today - not what I was expecting at all, kinda traumatized and still medicated lol. On here when I'm supposed to be napping - shhh or my daughter will hear you!! 😉😁

  • Rainbow2300
    Rainbow2300 Posts: 152 Member

    I’m in MA! Originally from NY. It’s been raining every weekend here! My yard needs some serious TLC but between work, the weather and then getting sick I haven’t been in the garden to prep it at all this spring. I love gardening but it looks like a weed patch…🥴 I’ll feel better soon… At the end of May, they closed down JoAnn Fabrics and Crafts for good. I worked there for almost 3 years! I like working and being busy! I’ve been looking for P/T work or maybe I’ll get sewing again. At 60+ a good p/t job can be hard to find if ya want weekends free. I tried a start up window treatment business in 2006 for a while. What are you all up to these days?

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,595 Member

    overheard in the dressing room this morning:

    “My son is getting married the first week in August. I need to lose twenty pounds for the wedding.”

    I scarpered outta there as fast as I could.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,756 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48653952#Comment_48653952

    Yikes.

    Unrealistic, crazy fast. Viscerally, I just don't get the "lose for X event" mindset. (Maybe it's just that I don't have a son, so no upcoming wedding? 😆) I admit, weirdo that I am, just the appearance motivation part is alien to me, but if appearance motivated, why not all the time? Just because photos?

    Sign me confused. Also troubled about the desired loss rate: Too much "Biggest Loser" and similar nonsense?

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,595 Member
    edited June 17

    speaking of, I’ve never seen Biggest Loser, but since the only channel I can figure out how to operate is Discover, and I’ve tired of homicide and hunters of houses with no discernible source of income, I checked out “1,000 Pound Roomies” and am hooked.

    The two women have such likeable personalities, and no filter about showing how weight and food affects their lives, I find myself really pulling for them, and wishing we could get Jaz, the one trying to lose, into the warm arms of MFP support to help sort her out.

    I’d feel icky and voyeuristic, except that it’s so well done, and the production team really seems to try to produce a balanced and sensitive show.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,595 Member

    and as an aside,

    It’s so darn humid here, I can’t get dry. I’ve felt damp for days and days and days, and it’s supposed to storm yet again in 18 minutes. Just took el doggo out for a walk and he balked and demanded to come back in

    At least we’re only getting crashing thunderstorms daily, not the flooding and catastrophic weather many of you may be experiencing.

    But I wouldn’t be surprised if mushrooms start popping out of body creases and cracks. They’re popping up everywhere else. Never seen this many mushrooms. Every size shape and color.

    It’s def going to storm. The Troublesome Cat has staked out a spot scooched up against me. He abhors thunder and lightning.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,595 Member
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    may be a PITA but he’s so darn cute.

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