WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR JULY 2025

Heather - what a wonderful date! You look so pretty and happy. Very posh indeed.
I like your analogy of chrysalis and a butterfly.

Mo - You have gotten used to being alone. I understand why he would startle you.

Noises for sleeping - when we were first married living in one of the Toronto suburbs I would leave a radio in all night. Rodger worked nights and we weren’t home together a lot. He used to come home and ask me how I could sleep with the noise on. Now, he falls asleep with the tv on and wakes up when I turn it off almost always.You and Corey work so well together each doing your own thing.

I sent a video to my daughter the other day of a Southern woman talking about spoiling her grandchildren. She wrote back and said if it had a Carleton County accent it would be me. I’m from that county in NB.

Annie - I hope the rower is what you are looking for, it would probably be a pain to return.

Lanette - Funnily enough I’m taking some things back to NB with me to pass on to different branches of the family tree. I have very old photos of my grandparents siblings and offspring. Both of their sides have someone in their late 20’s that is interested in genealogy so I’m passing them on for a new generation.
My grandfather had a sister that passed two weeks after having her first child. That child was in the nursing home with my mom for a time and her daughter and I had connected. Last year I found pictures of her as a young girl, I also found a picture of her and her husband. Then some of just her husband and daughter. Her daughter would love to have them to give to her daughter that is wanting to research the family.
On my grandmother’s side I have several photos of my grandmother’s favourite sister and her daughter. Her granddaughter is my age and her daughter is 27-28 and is looking forward to getting these pictures.
So these pictures will be leaving my house and treasured for some time yet.

I was taking Advil quite regularly, but stopped and used Aleve for a long time. Come to think of it maybe I need to start again the pain has become worse again. I do know as we talked about it work today that Advil is hard on the liver. If you have a damaged liver it isn’t a good idea. I also know from work that if you overdose on Advil you will die, there is no antidote. I think there are risks to anything and you have to decide if the risk outweighs the benefits.

I know this is probably an unpopular opinion but I believe in a lot of cases we grasp at straws to try to rehab or fix the elderly. It’s usually the family that insists on all of these measures and the poor patient is left to suffer through it all. My brother and I don’t run any tests for diseases on our mom. She has been in a nursing home for 8 years and neither of us feel she has any quality of life. Also the treatments for anything could be so confusing and traumatic for her at this stage. Why put her through it.I’m not saying mom is unhappy in the home, I think she is content but she has also suffered with depression since she’s been there. It’s not easy.
I give a lot of thought about who my personal directive is and that they will listen to what I want and don’t want to happen to me.

Barbie - some of my treasures were my grandmother’s and great grandmother’s. I don’t have anything that was my Mom’s because there just wasn’t much to have. Mom kept some of the strangest things, but didn’t keep the sentimental stuff at all. I do have beautiful embroidery work she made for me over the years and a bunch of trinkets about daughters and mothers. Quote books, mugs, frames, etc.

I think I’ve told the story about my Mom giving away her grandmothers rocking chair. My dad and grandmother learned how to re-cane it from a Reader’s Digest DIY book. They studied and measured and put the order in for cane so it would be there for their Winter project one winter in the 80’s. I wanted that chair so much and my Mom gave it to people “in along the road” without even talking to my brother or I about it. I still get teary at that. It’s the memory it evoked, not that the chair was comfy.

Margaret - the only thing I’ve found besides what you’re doing to help tremendously with plantar fasciitis is a pair of recovery sandals from Amazon. They are amazing!

Carol - I don’t like my voice either!!!

Allie - Sorry for your loss.

Pip - that looks cool! And Cold! 🥶 Love it.

Busy day at work today. This evening we kept the grands for a couple hours while their parents went out to celebrate their 14th anniversary. I made a very quick, easy supper for them, hot dogs, potato chips and watermelon for dessert. After supper we walked with the neighbour and her son down to the park. Our daughter stopped at the park on their way back. Jonah caught a ride because his flip flop broke, Michaela the neighbour, her son and I walked back.

I had a dinner roll, a couple ham slices and some cheese for supper. I had a handful of chips too, but it’s 7 days without Coke. I almost caved today but stayed strong.

Tomorrow I am having coffee with the residents at work. I have to stop and pick something up for a treat for them.
When they were asked what they would like they said that they wanted to know is better. So each month on the second Wednesday of the month we take turns having coffee with them. It’s basically a get to know you group. They question your life history, how you came to be working there, and in turn we get to know them. Our Rec therapist, did a whole PowerPoint on herself for them.
I’m nervous and excited all at once.

It’s so hot I don’t know how I’ll sleep tonight, the temperature was supposed to drop significantly tomorrow but it’s currently 22C and supposed to be 21C tomorrow

Tracey in Edmonton

Hey, y'all,

Thank you to those who complimented the pillow and commiserations to those who had sketchy experiences with granny squares in their history! 🤣🐈‍⬛🐱 My sister taught me how make a granny square, and my first afghan was made from a granny square where I JUST KEPT GOING. As in a square that was six feet long on a side, with alternating stripes that went all the way around… I think I was 20. I find it easy because you only have to count to three. No concentrating on stitch numbers or changes.

And for Lanette, who both complimented (thank you!) and asked - yesterday was a day of pure exhaustion, so I took a two-hour nap and then nodded out every time I sat still for a minute… and I still was able to make six of those same size small squares. It takes 16 small ones to make a pillow. So a couple days of work in my spare time for the squares, and probably another day of my TV time to put it together, because I crochet it together, rather than sewing it.

I've been crocheting for more than 50 years, so it's far more than 10,000 hours of crochet in those years - possibly even more than 100,000, looking at the math. Right now, without a smidgen of exaggeration, the yarns that are available are ten times more beautiful and incredibly more varied than they were when I began at 13 years old, so it's a joy to indulge in small designs like that pillow. More to come most likely. Really enjoying it!

I have to skate - I have an optometrist appointment in an hour and a half, and it takes me an hour to shower and get ready and 15 minutes to drive there… so I'm off. I'll pop in later, I'm sure, unless I start napping again!

This is a picture of my newly finished front yard, now that the little house is gone, gone, gone. It was a little foggy this morning, but this is from my carport, looking down my front yard… you can see the front porch steps at right, and the mimosa tree that lives 20 feet from my bedroom window. At the far left is that patch of fence that was left to obscure the transformer boxes, and my driveway curving past the solar lamp post and flowerbed around it.

Oh - and the stump with the mushrooms is from the tree that fell on the front edge of the house and bought us a new roof through the insurance company a few years back! We're letting it decay naturally…

Later, my babies,
Love from foggy Arkansas,
Lisa

Heather-I’m sitting in Heathrow and there are people with “Saga” signs. So of course, I thought of you.

Kelly-Nice to see you pop in! Yes, that’s a lot of stuff. Hang in there.

No sleep on my flight. The people behind me couldn’t sit down for more than 5 mins at a time and bumped my seat constantly. At one point, it felt like the guy was playing drums on my seat it was annoying. But my niece met me at the hotel and had me roaming London all afternoon. I managed to stay awake till 10pm

Had a nice afternoon in London. Heading to Dublin soon.

Tina in CA, currently in London.

Good morning ladies! This afternoon I pick up new prescription. I'm kinda excited for that.

This morning heading to the gym to walk for a while. I do a little over a mile and will eventually lift weights, just taking baby steps. I need to see what this new dosage does and I don't want to be sore.

Down another lb. Heading down this mountain graph like a mountaineer! Wearing my "Uff Da!" teeshirt this morning. Having that as a gym shirt just makes me smile. I really dislike going, but I get it done. The lady that works there, she is so nice, we chat like old friends. So Carol (that's her name), is glad I go, so don't want to disappoint her! The fact that I see NO other older ladies there makes me feel kinda special. Its just old retired men, and sailors, and me, the token old lady.

Cooler weather here, just 70's as highs, and 55' lows. Normal island weather.

Hope you all have great days! Hugs

Rebecca Whidbey WA

BE HAPPY WITH THE SMALL VICTORIES. STRING THEM TOGETHER AND YOU HAVE TRUE COMMITMENT!

Flea … oh darn. I had hoped you had a recipe. I have a very large cauliflower in my fridge and since I'm not overly impressed with cauliflower as a vegetable, I thought to make something spectacular with it. I will check out the frozen cauliflower crusts though.

Tracey … my mom will be 94. She is in an excellent nursing home … but it's not "home." Once we moved her into this facility, I discontinued paying hefty health insurance premiums and enrolled her in a managed care insurance specific to nursing home residents. She continues to get excellent health care but we have all agreed (my mom concurs) to do nothing heroic. It's a fine line between prolonging life and hastening death.

Rebecca … good luck with the new Zepbound dose.

Nicer day today, but I still have more cleaning to do so off to it!

Beth near Buffalo

So, my October birthday present is coming early. On Sunday, to be precise!

I've wanted some proper noise cancelling headphones for years, and everyone knows Bose are the best. A bit pricey for me! Today I was looking, again, at cheaper ones, when I saw that the Bose ones were on Prime special offer. Still a lot of money. Then I had a brainwave! John could buy them for me as an early birthday present. Yes, rather early, but he didn't mind, as long as it's something I really want. :-)

So, Sunday it is.

John actually does have an earlier model, and always takes them on the cruises, but otherwise doesn't use them much. I hope I will use mine more often.

Very excited!

Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

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Hello Ladies,

It's 11:49 pm, and I'm tired. I did nap today, and it was a good one. I did my laundry once I got my nap boost. I also loaded the dishwasher. ( I wash the dishes before I load them.) I had typed a lengthy recount of our day, but then my post disappeared. (WIfi issues:() Long story short, yesterday I discovered that on top of DH's Colonoscopy, I had an appointment with the orthotics lady. We went to my appointment at 10:00 am and arrived at the GI lab, located in a different building at the same hospital.
As a result, we arrived an hour early and started early. They said he was well-prepped, and this time, no pre-cancerous polyps. He will not need to get one done again for 5 years. We were doing one every year due to his polyps, and now all is well. Healthier eating must be the reason. DH has several interviews lined up. And a 3rd interview with another company. So we will see what happens. DS is trying to determine what to do during his internship. They, meaning the people at my niece's friend from NYU's Art Gallery, are pretty vague about what they want him to do. They said he is coming in too early. They explained that they are artist and prefer to sleep in. When he asked what he needed to work on, they told him to ask AI. Then, the work he needs to do, he doesn't have enough information to complete it. So he asked for the information, and they said, Don't worry about it. Then they pack up to go home in the middle of the day. They tell him to enjoy his weekend. DS likes structure and guidelines. DS said to me that he wants to get out of his shell. He asked me why we didn't put him in the camp that we put him in before. He believes that would have helped. He loves to go over where I went wrong. I thought about it and remembered that there were calendar conflicts. Plus, he didn't tell me that he wanted to go. A parent can only do so much, and they will learn that one day.

Anyway, DH wanted Mexican Food, so we ate outside at La Conzuela's. I was nervous because a wasp was nearby, then a bee joined in, so I ran into the restaurant. DH couldn't believe that I brought my own low-carb/calorie tortilla and my Quest Chips, so I would not overdo it. I had carne asada tacos with beans and rice. DH ate my beans and rice. So, I ate his leftover tamale for dinner. :) All was good, but I prefer the other restaurants near my house. I am going to bed now. DH has a 4:00 am flight to North Carolina for a church conference. Good night for now.

XO,

Mo in Mississippi

Good morning my friends!

Lisa your front yard is beautiful! Reminds me of Kylia. Lots of grass to mow.

Machka sorry about the arthritis. Concept2 makes a great rower, I hear.

Tina Enjoy London and Dublin!

Rebecca Yay for lifting weights! Hope the new dose goes well.

Terri blackcurrant jelly sounds lovely!my grandmother once put salt instead of sugar into her homemade jam. She tried to rescue it for a week!

Heather Yay for noise cancelling headphones!

Michele so far I like the rhythm of just rowing. But I'm only at ten minutes…I have my grandmother's rocker.

Pip you look happy with Kirby

Tracey Yay for coffee with residents! That's a good idea to call customer service. So sad that idiots think they can cop a feel. Hope he got caught.

Barbara kilt Lol! He just comes downstairs without thinking about getting properly dressed then doesn't want to bother going back up. Best wishes for your nephew.

Mo My daughter was dissatisfied like that. She always wanted me to get her into show jumping on horses. Not on our budget.

I had a lovely lunch with my friend. My Dad came along but didn't say much. I had Thai basil shrimp and then mango cheesecake. Very good!

I finally quit horseback riding. Well, I stopped weeks ago for my foot but now I told them I quit because of the osteopenia. But today my sitter is coming anyway and I am headed to the library. Not sure what I will do there. I might take my laptop and try to write something. Or work on that application to start a writing group.

May you all be happy, healthy, safe, and free!

Annie in Delaware