WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2025

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  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 13,304 Member
    edited July 6

    Lovely to see you, KJ. 🤩

    I've had a very quiet day. Just a bit of cooking, and paying the window cleaner online. I made Chinese crispy duck with pancakes. Very yummy. Nice to feel able to use the oven again, now it's cooler.

    Watched the second episode of The Body in the Library. They don't seem to have any more Joan Hicksons scheduled after the third episode. Boo!

    Cleaner tomorrow. No Bea pick up on Tuesday. Some kind of school thing going on. 😕

    I've got another 2 months free from Readly. This is my third free two months. I have always put a date in my diary for cancellation, and it's worked fine. I do like homes magazines, but you can have anything, including newspapers, from anywhere. All for nothing. Today I read Homes and Antiques.

    Love to all. Thinking of the sadness in Texas. Heather UK xxxxxxxx

  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 18,043 Member

    10411041

  • 1948CWB
    1948CWB Posts: 1,986 Member

    😍

  • LisaInArkansas
    LisaInArkansas Posts: 3,491 Member

    Hey, kids...

    Good smells coming from the kitchen, as Corey's putting together a lasagna, and he is really good at lasagna…

    Trying to stay even further from the news than usual, but the news out of Texas is as relentless as the rain there, which is still coming down.

    KJ - What a bright spot seeing you pop up, though! Enjoy the time with those boys, I know you will. Congrats on the pounds gone and the good things added, and welcome home...

    Got all the edge trimming done this morning, then a shower to wash off the grub, and a run down to Walmart alone, so the man could enjoy his Sunday morning...one of us will get the mowing done tomorrow.

    Later, my darlings, hope it's been a lovely, peaceful Sunday,

    Lisa in AR

  • grandmallie
    grandmallie Posts: 10,527 Member

    Afternoon all

    Got some sad news from Toms couain..his last remaining Uncle who they share a birthday will be coming home on hospice today..he won't make it to his 83rd birthday unfortunately..Tom and he are 10 yrs apart and he is closer to him than he was to any of his siblings and I know both there hearts are breaking,Maryanne said Tom was holding back the tears.. so im hoping he goes peacefully he was just a sweetheart of a man.

    On another note ,I have been looking for my iPad mini for awhile and come to find out I gave Tracy and Kyle an outside lamp speaker and it was in the box with that ..sheesh.

  • Rosemarie2972
    Rosemarie2972 Posts: 542 Member

    I hope everyone is well. I am trying to catch up with you all!

    Okie: Good news that you are safe!

    Barbie: Values are important in decluttering that is for sure. One podcast says, "If everything is important, nothing is important". Values are also a struggle for me in budgeting! Saving is best of course!

    Rebecca: Perhaps several cards to your DIL and Athena would soften her up. I had trouble with my in-laws and would have loved a card from my mother in law! I see now going through the cards she sent my husband that she generally ended the card/note hoping I was well. But I never saw these cards and notes!…Until now!…a little too late!

    Are you much older than her own parents? My husband was older so his parents were older and it was not easy. One little story is I tried to get them Christmas gifts and in my family we take the XMAS gift, say thank you and if it is not right for us, we re-home it or donate it. They were trying to get me to return things and telling me this wasn't right and so forth. I never tried to give them a XMAS gift again! They really didn't seem to understand I had a full time job.

    Also they lived in Florida, so I really wanted to be at the beach. I only had 10 vacation days a year! I was 32! They and my husband really wanted to visit. Does your DIL work? How many vacation days a year does she have?

    Tina: I understand Savannah Banana tickets are hard to find!

    Doing well here! Went to fireworks last night! They were fun!

    Best,

    Rosemarie from GA

  • dlfk202000
    dlfk202000 Posts: 3,604 Member
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    Thank you!! Yes, it has been a long one and will take time to find his new normal.

    We are planning on going over and start clearing out more of the stuff from her house. Things he wasn't quite ready to get rid of while she was still alive. It will be good for the kids to have a bit more room. She was there over 60yrs so there is a LOT of stuff. We don't have to do any of it at any certain time- just want to get started. At least get the kitchen finished and some in the living room
    I really want to open the drapes/blinds/windows- air it out. She always kept it closed up. Musty and dark in there. Linen closet has been partially done- need to donate a bunch of sheets and towels- don't need 20 sets of sheets and at least 20-30 towels. One full dresser looks to be full of table clothes/placemats, mostly Christmas.

    We will tackle her room after that I think.He has but things that he wasn't ready to get rid of in there when we were cleaning out his old room that the kids are using and the down stairs area that they are using for their desks/computers/tv, etc-their hang out space. They don't use the living room at all right now, because of all the stuff there.

    I would love to see fireflies in person. We don't have them out here. Not sure if they have them in Alabama but I don't think I ever saw any if they do(I was only there 6 months, the rest of the time I have lived in CA)

  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,766 Member

    Allie – so very sorry about Tom’s cousin. I know you’ll be there for Tom when it happens

    Worked some on the puzzle. Whenever I do, I need to put a timer on.

    About the cruise – I’m pretty excited since I’ve never been ona cruise. Wish Vince would be more excited. I mentioned to him about going in May since we’ll need to go check on the bathroom and all I got was a “do you think we’re going to go down. How will we pay for the bathroom” I just told him, “we’ll find a way. To me, your being able to breathe is more important”.

    So many times I’ve mentioned to Vince that he needs to write down what all he does so that if I need it, I have the information. For some reason, he hasn’t. Maybe it’s that he doesn’t want to accept the fact that things happen.

    Tina – have a real great trip. We need pictures...hint

    barbie – congrats on getting the filter cleaned. You rock

    Beth – hope the truck isn’t expensive.

    Michele NC

  • Whidislander
    Whidislander Posts: 4,560 Member
    edited July 7
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    Yes, though I do send birthday cards, boxes of treats, and she thanks me, it goes no further. She has always been kind of shy.

    Her Mom and I are friends on FB and chat periodically about our kids. We are about the same age. She is divorced.

    Rebecca Whidbey Wa

  • Whidislander
    Whidislander Posts: 4,560 Member

    Lisa,

    MmmMmm, lasagna! Funny story. Many years ago with each layer husband had taught me to pat down each layer with a spatula. So I was doing that, each layer, then cheese, (no ricotta because husband hates it), then sauce, and when I got done to the top I was so proud. Baked it and sliced him up a piece. I had squished out all the sauce so it was noodles upon noodles! Lol!

    Rebecca Whidbey Wa

  • Rosemarie2972
    Rosemarie2972 Posts: 542 Member

    I love fire flies! I don't think I have seen any in Middle GA recently.

    It is wonderful that you are helping your DH with his Mom's house. I think it would be emotional and somewhat overwhelming otherwise. Also great there is no time pressure.

    My mother just gave up independent living and had been living in an over 55 community for 10 years. She had more stuff there then i realized. He was taking her back to the apartment multiple week ends to sort her things. I didn't mean to put that on him. I didn't realize there was so much. But he is about 60 years old and still works and is patiently working with my mother while she decides which tea cups to keep and struggles to let the rest go. And he is offering to store things for her. Me I am decluttering. This house will either be sold or be "funeral ready".

    The other thing I remembered about my in-laws is I wanted to eat near the water or over a canal. They felt I was extravagant. I really wasn't. Pizza or sandwiches would have been fine! I just wanted the ambiance of the water! They wanted a local deli they enjoyed and Cracker Barrel.

    LOL! See, I am not up for this. I would like another relationship…with 1 person..a man…but it won't be that. There will be children and maybe even living parents! Horror!

    Best,

    Rosemarie from GA

  • dlfk202000
    dlfk202000 Posts: 3,604 Member

    you are going to get itchy shucking corn in your bathing suit!!! Shucked a TON as a kid. We grew an acre every summer.
    We would have the cousins/aunts/uncles/church ladies all come out- sit in a circle in the garage with a huge pile of corn in the middle. After shucking it went into the house- blanched then cut off the cob and into freezer bags(Seal a Meal bags). We grew enough for all the families. We used a sheet of plywood on the kitchen table as the cutting board and about 4 or 5 of us cutting it-filling large Tupperware bowls up with it. Everyone had their job- shucking, cutting, bagging. Mom did the blanching and icing down the corn.
    Leaving it on the cob took up too much room- we had two large commercial size freezers(mom still does) but that was for all of our meat(we raised all of our own meats-beef,pork,chickens, rabbits, plus goats and sheep but we sold them,didn't eat them) plus all the other veggies. Mom did can most of the veggies though.

    Debbie
    Napa Valley Ca

  • margaretturk
    margaretturk Posts: 5,518 Member

    Barbie Proud of you for figuring out the furnace…I like the comment about taking pictures to make sure you put it back together correctly.

    As I took down blinds I did mark brackets right and left in the kitchen Unfortunately The blinds will not fit on the new windows. I am still deciding what I will do. I still can use the drapes in the den because the new windows did not affect how they go on.

  • Whidislander
    Whidislander Posts: 4,560 Member
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    Carol, yep they are all very independent, the Navy helped them in that area. I think my son does what his wife wishes to do most weekends. And though he seemed excited to have come down to my sisters bday, it was wifes call on if they went or not. Or maybe Athena had a party to go to, or Eli was sick, I was never told the reason.

    Rebecca Whidbey wa

  • Snowflake1968
    Snowflake1968 Posts: 7,185 Member

    Kelly - I’m excited for you that you’ll have your family closer, but a few months with 5 people moving in will be a lot.
    I’m sure you’ll handle it all very well though.

    Lisa - Yes you’re right. I actually lost weight when I quit smoking because I was so fearful of gaining. I just need to get consistent again. I know I can do it.

    Rodger lives for tv. He prefers to be in the bedroom watching tv more than enjoying his family. His father was the same though.

    Barbie - currently I can’t cancel our cable and we are getting a 40% discount. Our friend that worked for the company was part of a massive layoff and she gets a lifetime discount as long as it’s never cancelled. She is living in an RV so she placed her discount on our service. When she decides to use that herself again we’ll have to make a decision.

    I change the furnace filters here, I never thought of vacuuming them.

    Carol - the treats sure make the scale climb faster than ending them and having the scale go back. I don’t understand why it all can be in proportion.

    Rebecca - I text. Keep up with you ladies, scroll FB and read a lot of Threads on my phone, I guess it’s really no different than watching tv all evening.

    Speaking of energy - I have been struggling terribly the last few years and started HRT 8 or 9 weeks ago. I tell you I am feeling alive for the first time in years in the last couple of weeks. I am sleeping better, I actually want to get up and putter in the evenings. I feel so much better. Now to get rid of the brain fog, the doctor said that can take longer. We have a follow up in 8 weeks.

    I love watching all of the Grands grow up, it’s sad it happens so fast though.

    Fireflies - my childhood home was an old farmhouse with no insulation so very hot in the summer. My bedroom window was the double sash kind that you put a screen in to hold it up in the summer. Because of the heat I would move my bed to right beside the window. It overlooked a field and I would fall asleep to the fireflies all night long. I haven’t seen any in years and I miss them.

    I made lasagna for supper tonight too.

    It is late - I’m usually in bed by this time but I’ll got caught up in a show on Disney called Paradise.

    Tracey in Edmonton.

  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 20,030 Member

    The heat is back!!! We enjoyed our family lunch yesterday. 

    Laundry, and general chores planned. And feeding the shark 🦈

  • kymarai
    kymarai Posts: 3,914 Member

    Hi!

    Not sure what happened other than life. I have been unable to "sit" still for very long lately. That means I have gotten several projects taken care of. House dusted and vacuumed. A couple of bins gone through and stuff put in appropriate places. Cars shows with DH. Got the front flower beds weeded and edged yesterday in the morning. It looks so pretty. I was only going to do 15 mins. Did driveway bed the day before. Shaped up a couple of bushes that have to be shaped mid summer, then they will bloom in spring. We actually had a LONG WEEKEND! We closed shop at 2 on Thursday. And after lots of convincing we were not only closed on Friday, but also SATURDAY! WIN!!! DH was very lost with so many days off. I only wish I had taken more time to get some work done, but it is still waiting for me. I enjoyed time with family and friends.

    I woke up at 130 this morning. Struggled to go back to sleep even after Tory cuddling with me and purring away. Finally got up at 230 and caught up with everyone's adventures. Fireflies are abundant again this year in Ohio. I remember chasing them as a child. Now I watch the cats do it! Fireworks- My shepherd was terrified, Pyrenees didn't care. Tory was unaffected, but Cali stayed hidden behind the head board until they stopped.

    Hugs to those grieving.

    Grateful to have you all in my life! You continue to inspire, challenge, and encourage us every day.

    Welcome to the new ladies!

    Should try to get some work done. SIL is on vacation through Wednesday so busy work week I am sure. I have massage tonight. Grandson is coming over Tuesday after work to change the oil in my Flex. His family is taking it to SC to see my sister the end of the month. Wednesday I get my hair colored. Thursday, my sister is coming to stay with me for the night!!!! I am excited. It will be the first time she has been to our home since we got married in 2009. She has never stayed here. So it should be busy, yet fun.

    Lots of Love,

    Kylia in Ohio enjoying the hot temps as long as there is a breeze.

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