WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR AUGUST 2025

stats for the day-

Walk w/family- 2hrs 22sec, 13820steps, 45elev, 2.54ap, 80ahr, 102mhr, 6.01mi= 592c
Strava app= 728c
Walk to vet and back- 12.41min, 1194steps, 2.82ap, 82ahr, 103mhr, .55mi= 62c
Strava app = 67c
Walk kids around park- 12.56min, 1322steps, 2.55ap, .54mi= 71c
Strava app= 66c

Total cal 725

2697 miles ahead

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July Exercise

July was the best month for walking in a long time! But I didn't cycle much.

Strava Trophy Case

MyFitnessPal Exercise Minutes Report

Machka in Oz

Good morning:

Looks like I have to deal with a cat issue today. I had noticed a couple of places where one of them was urinating on the floor. Lucy (my torti) has been know to urinate on papers on the floor but this was unusual. Zombu (gray with Siamese in her) was hiding much of yesterday, but since family was around and things were getting moved I didn't think much about it. When she came out I noticed that she is having trouble walking with her hind leg-almost like her right leg is collapsing. She can't jump. When walking she is more dragging the rear. She is eating and drinking water. Calling vets office when they open at 8 - I think she really needs to be seen. No idea what it may be but Dr. Vet Google has some conditions that sound similar to her and they aren't good.😕

Have to get some stuff cleaned out quickly-brother and nephew coming at 8:30 to take furniture stuffs the family wants.

Take care all,

Ginny in Ohio

Good morning my friends!

I planned to go walking this morning but now my foot hurts. The broken part isn't healing. Hmm.

Machka Yay for July walking!

Pat welcome! Online communities are only as good as the people in them, and we are the best!

Ginny good luck with your cats.

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

Annie in Delaware

Tina - Love, love LOVE the photos. I never got to Ireland during my time in the UK, and feel I really missed out.

Lanette - That was exactly the feeling, that sense of awe at seeing buildings older than any I had ever seen before. I used to sit on a stone wall around a small churchyard cemetery that served as the bus stop in Reading, where I worked on the British economy for a number of years. Loved just soaking in the sense of ages and lives long gone.

Annie - Sorry the foot is giving you gyp. Hope it's healing better than you think. Sounds like it's time to get it checked, though.

Ginny - Fingers crossed that Zombu isn't in pain or too terribly ill.

Kelli, Pat and anyone I've missed, welcome! Rebecca has already described us well. Hope you can find us again and feel comfortable jumping in. New members are always welcome.

I've had a busy early morning already - Corey's jeans are in the wash, and they'll go out on the line soon. Got his coffee made, and then cut up a bunch more tomatoes and got them roasting. After that, got the cutting board along with all the grates and other things off the top of the stove into the dishwasher. Sprayed down the outside of the stove with cleaner, and will go by and squirt it a couple more times as I go in and out of the laundry room - then just wipe it down with one wet and one dry cloth. Easy way to clean a stovetop!

And about ten days' production of Corey's tomatoes. Those roma plants produce like mad here, and roasted down with some olive oil and a little salt and cracked black pepper, they make a great tomato sauce to cook with almost anything:

Later, my dears,
Love,
Lisa in AR

Machka ~ Are you the only female in your cycling club? Just wondering…🚴

Ginny ~ Hope your kitty can be helped. She has had a long life!

Annie ~ Sounds like a very busy day and hope you enjoy!

Lisa ~ Those tomatoes look wonderful. Good luck on cleaning your stove. Ours never looks clean and shiny any more.

Pip ~ Are you training Ethel to be a rescue dog? That ladder climb looks scary.

Allie ~ Love Delia's blue eyes and smile. She looks so happy.

Granddaughter made the high school varsity track team yesterday even though that was her first day in 9th grade. So proud of her achievements. She came in second place behind all the other varsity runners.

Ginny: I hope you managed to get a vet consultation for your cat.
Lisa: Impressive harvest. Ours are slow to ripen, and not as productive as in previous years.
Machka: I’m in awe of how much you achieve each month.

The hot humid weather has returned today. We are just not used to this level of heat. Fortunately, we have a north facing lounge which is much cooler than the rest of the house, and the bottom of our garden is wooded. Normally I have our loungers on the sunny terrace outside our French windows, but this year they have been left in the shade.

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

🙋‍♀️  céad míle fáilte to our newbies 

☘️ Terri

Vince bowled in the afternoon on Wed. We prebowled for this past Monday and I accidentally wrote on the paper that it was for Wednesday seniors but the lady at the bowling alley said that she’d fix it so that our prebowl scores applied to Monday.

Went on the stairstepper Thurs. Went to ceramics, finished my shell and J&C came here late in the day. Of course, Friday was the soup kitchen. Tonight I lector at the church.

M – sometimes I think the Ozempic is used more as a crutch than anything else. Oh, I’m sure there are people who it helps. Really, 40 pounds isn’t overwhelming. I’ve never taken Ozempic, wonder if it just curbs your appetite?

Lisa – you’re right, J&C like to eat later in the day. J has asked us so many times how to save money and we always say “don’t eat out as often”. But does it happen? I guess part of me would like them to eat at home more often and see how much can be saved. J did say something (I don’t know how serious she was about this)about buying a toaster oven. I guess I just have to leave it up to them. I guess part of it is that I like to plan (like what we’re going to be having) and they like to just put things off. Like I’ll plan and take out of the freezer what we need.

It’s just misting out so I took Ganon for a walk. J&C were putting together shelves for their food. Vince had already said where it could go since he’d measured it. Really, the main reason was because that was where Ganon’s water and food bowls were and we’d really like for him to be downstairs. Really, Ganon is their pet. I don’t have a problem taking him for walks after work or after dinner since that’s what I do anyway. I just won’t take him to Food Lion mainly because he gets anxious when a car goes by in our development, what would he do on the road there? I won’t chance it. The other day Amazon made a delivery right as I was about to take him out. The truck made this loud noise, Ganon, even tho he has to go, wouldn’t go until the truck left. I suspect J would be very happy if I took complete care of Ganon, but I do NOT want a dog, no matter how wonderful he/she is. Four cats is enough, thank you very much.

Colby was going to put their food in the back bedroom. Why, I really don’t know. We keep the door closed so that the cats don’t go in since I have my jigsaw puzzle there. Every time you open the door, a cat could go in. He said that he wants their being here to be as little intrusiveness as possible. To me, it would make more sense to have all the food in the kitchen. Well, what finally happened is that the shelves with the food went where Vince wanted it. And we still have to make room for the furniture that is on the enclosed porch that has to come in when they rebuild the deck.

Speaking of the deck: called and they said there was a bit of a misunderstanding about the position of the septic. So they had to resubmit the approval application

When J&C eat out (like last night) they put the leftovers in the fridge. There is just so much room in the fridge. And you know how the take out containers are….so huge. There’s a big container with cake in it, wish they’d finish it up. Unfortunately, when it’s so full, you don’t see the food in the back. Oh well….

Dogs and food: everyone is so right, people food isn’t the best at all. Oh, a snack now and then won’t hurt. But not all the time. They need certain nutrients that aren’t in our food.

One tree is starting to turn yellow. Boo!!!!!

Rita – could you give Lucy a sedative when she goes in the car? I believe J gives Ganon gabapentin. One time my doc asked me if I was drinking enough water and my answer was “you name the store, I can tell you where the bathroom is!”

We had some rainstorm yesterday. Right after I took Ganon out, I was going to take him for a walk but never got to it, it started to rain huge drops. So we came inside and, boy, did it ever pour! The bad part is that we saw that there’s a part of the gutter that seems to be clogged so that’s one more thing we need to do. C said that he’d do it.

Flea – yummy yummy

Water bottle – I have one of the Taz bottles, got it at WalMart. But it is well insulated and has a straw in it, so it works well at the gym.

Crochet: I like to crochet but I never was able to do the crochet in the round. Don’t know why.

OMG a new thread for August. Where IS the time flying to. I’d really like to know why it seems that summer flies by but winter drags on and on. Well, see you all in August

Sandy – great to see you

Kelli – welcome! I’ve never gotten messages from guys wanting to know where I’m from, etc. But I have gotten a lot of friend requests from guys and I just delete them. I’ve had quite a few from this one guy. You would think he’d get the message that I don’t want to be friends? Oh, it’s probably just some MFP bot that sends them out. To be honest, I don’t have the time or the inclination to answer any questions if I were to get them.

Heather - sorry about your old boyfriend. Boy, you have done and met some very neat people

pip – I keep meaning to ask you, how is Kirby? Does he still have effects from the accident? Ethel looks so at home with you guys

Tina – you only put gas in your car two or three times a YEAR??? Did you maybe meant month?

Pat – welcome

Carol – congrats to your granddaughter

Guess I’d better go and get prepared for lectoring.

Michele NC

After doing our 4 mile walk, we dropped off 2 of the dogs and took the new member, Ethel to Costco, the bank then home. She walk a total of 6 miles, then we put her in the buggy for the first time and Lucy’s cooling coat fit her (soaked in cool water). There’s an attachment that I hook her into. She jumped out 3 times, expected, then she settled down after that, no problem. We walked a total of 10.42 miles.