WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2025

Happy Friday, Machka - we're just getting here, but I was looking forward to it…

Welcome Melanie in Alberta! We've got another Alberta resident here somewhere, I'm sure she'll pop up soon. You'll get to know us quickly, just drop in to whatever conversation you like. As others have said, I start here pretty much every day, helps center me to be in a group of like-minded women striving to be healthier.

Heather - I love the days where I do nothing. I don't have many because it's so hard to get my busy bee mind to shut up long enough for me to just enjoy one thing. It's been hard to finish a book for me for years now, and it was all I did as a child. I do keep trying, though.

I've got an alarm going off in 20 minutes to remind me that I have only 10 minutes left to be out the door to the dentist this morning. My usual alarms these days are set to remind me to take my meds three times a day, so it's a bit odd to know another one going off shortly.

Already finished a couple of the New York Times games - I was able to get a $12 subscription to a year of their online games, and have found that it's helping me keep boot my mind into gear a little more easily, or calm it down when necessary. Very absorbing. I don't always do the crossword, but I do the Mini-crossword, Wordle and one called Connections, which I love. 16 words, four sets of four that have something in common, and you have to group them.

My mild headache pressure and sneezing fit last night say there is definitely a front moving through, but they're just guessing at how much rain we'll get. Of course, they're always guessing, so oh well.

Kept the weight at 161 two days in a row, so I feel like it's legit. Made a couple changes that I think I'll keep in the rotation, maybe see if I can get below 160 again. I feel best at 155. Still heavier than the BMI charts think I ought to be, but I feel healthiest there.

Onward and upward kids… Need to go put on deodorant, and maybe even mascara if I'm feeling kicky… 😂👀🐈‍⬛ I can't see it, but most of what they see is me with my eyes closed. Might distract from the wrinkly bits. Maybe. Probably not.

Later, y'all,
Love,
Lisa in AR

I've just made my first lasagne for many years. (The meat sauce was already in the freezer) When I went to get the pasta sheets out of the cupboard, I saw that they were expired 2016. !!!!!! Oh well. So I had to boil them for a while. Normally I don't bother, but they took a while to soften up. :-)

I'm making just enough for the two of us, in a loaf tin. With flat green beans on the side. Ii love lasagne, but it's such a faff if you haven't got sauce ready. It's the ragu I made for R&U.

G has tried to get to Chichester today. Trains cancelled. Signal failure. What is WRONG with the railway? It really makes you very unwilling to travel.

Beautiful day here. Summer has returned for one day only. The window cleaner came this morning. I went out to post a birthday card to L. Called in at the butcher etc. Deli for parmigiano.

Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

I am drinking some Sun sweet "Amazin" prune June this morning. Its a 7.5 oz can. I figure I would alternate between having actual prunes a this stuff. Its not too bad. Drinking it makes me think of my husband's dear grandmother, Grandma Brown. What a character! Had to have her prune juice every morning. She came once with other family members, to our place in Alhambra CA. I was dealing with a summertime cold so she takes out of her bag a huge Act mouthwash bottle. Remember the kind that you squeezed the bottle and it would fill up the top with a small amount to use to gargle? Well she had that thing filled with whiskey! "Here, put a bit of this in yer tea, Rebecca"! She had quite an accent growing up in Arkansas, then Texas. She owned a restaurant at one point, and said she had a loaded shotgun at the ready for these that gave her trouble! During WWII she worked in a factory that made grenades. She was one tough broad!😁💖

Rebecca, Whidbey Wa

Today is our anniversary. Nothing planned for us. Dh is going out to breakfast with his friend who is back in town for a few weeks from China. I have my daycare girl so will go walk the wetlands before getting her. I have my last aqua zumba class of the summer tonight.
Dh asked son and his fiance to go to lunch with us on Sunday. I am sure we will eat lunch out somewhere tomorrow- that is just the normal eat out while shopping.

this picture is 33 yrs old. So much has changed in those years.
He always jokes that he covered all ethnic groups and I covered all sizes.
This is the dress I made. It cost less to make than my parents paid just for getting my first one altered.
At the first wedding, they had to take a LOT off the bottom and some in the bust- I was 4'10", 95lbs and 32 B at most. Wasn't as small in this picture but still had to alter the pattern quite a bit.

Todays food:

5 oz of chicken seems like a lot to me, but I want to eat my protein not have more than one protein related shake a day.

The prune juice has 42 carbs! I will not be buying that again! Eating my prunes seems easier to do. Plus I would rather use up the carbs on my bread I bought. Instead of my Lego seaded bread I bought Dave's Killer Powerseed bread. Some nice sandwiches in my future for lunches. Also bought Dannens Joko Triple zero yogurt in the flavor Banana crene. Gosh that is good! It is mousse' like and not too banana flavored.

Rebecca Whidbey Wa

Pip ~ You were pretty in ALL your photos. You have oversome so many obstacles and roadblocks. Congrats on all you have accomplished.

Barbie ~ Enjoy your visit with son and DnL. It will be nice to have them do some chores for you.

Heather ~ I have only ridden on a train once when I was 16yrs old. Can’t imagine the mess you have to go through with all the trains where you live. I would have no idea where to get on a train around here.

Lanette ~ Glad the ladies are keeping you in eggs!

Barbara ~ Come home safely with the pup. Know you did not like being away from home. Glad the vet school can help.

This morning my old and stupid took over! I deleted some files (Microsoft 365) and thought I had lost some info that was important to me. Ended up resetting my computer and then spent hours getting my deleted files back. My persistence worked and I am happy. 😊

Melanie - Wordle got me and my best friend through the pandemic - we would swap our scores back and forth, and talked very nearly every week day for two years or more. It was a lifeline. I just got back to it a few months ago, and still enjoy it! I agree on the "friends," question. There is no one within literally hundreds of miles that I would actually call a friend. My best friend migrates between Montana and Arizona each year, and I have wonderful phone and email friends I've made through this thread over the years… but none live nearby.

My husband and I are solitary human beings who found each other, and we love the time we're together (I'm retired, he has another six years to go), but love our time alone, as well. Family (two grown kids, three grands) on the phone, and friends on the phone aplenty. But I also traveled due to the military and other reasons for more 28 years with first husband and nearly ten with my current and final husband before settling in the Arkansas River Valley. I love the idea that you're a livestock veterinarian… and watched many episodes of The Incredible Dr. Pol. Do real-life vets like that show? I always wondered, but had no one to ask.

Barbara AHMOD - I'm so pleased Tumble's bump hadn't metastasized, and hope the surgery was quick and easy and successful and the recovery is pain-free.

Heather, and everyone who commented - thank you! I love this stage of a quilt, where the sky is the limit, and I can envision anything and it all seems glorious and gorgeous. I enjoy the beginning, too, the first stages of trying to make that vision come true, before reality smacks me around and helps me understand that quilt fabric won't actually do what I think it should be able to do. 🤔😂😎 Then I finish it and I think it's awful for weeks, if not years, afterward. Much like every painting I've ever done, and the books, just with fabric. 😂

Allie - Endoscopies are much easier than them taking a camera up the other way. The usual nothing to eat since the night before, but then they knock you out and you wake up with a sore throat. Easy-peasy. I'm glad they're making sure everything's ok.

Mo and Pip and Melanie and anyone who had that person in our lives who watched our weight for us, and/or verbally abused us - it's awfully hard to remember we don't have to look at ourselves the way they looked at us. Corey told me once I had beautiful legs, and without thinking I told him he was a liar, that my legs were ugly and always had been. I learned not to correct him, but it took a long, long time to get his trust back that I wasn't going to lash out at him. He meant it—and I still can't believe it. So hard to break those particular chains.

Got that hour of sleep I needed - I've not slept well at all this week, not really sure why.

Cavatappi alfredo for dinner. We're trying to break out of our rut and do something a little different. Easy dinner for a Friday night, because much like your lasagna, Heather, I've made it easy. Corey's perfectly capable of making one, but I picked up a pre-made alfredo sauce as a base that he can then zzuzzh up, and I made the meatballs as part of a large batch and froze in dinner-size portions a few months ago.

That went on longer than I meant it to! I went back and looked at my post from the morning, and found some rather large typos… wasn't quite awake yet, I guess. Ah well.

Oh, and my teeth are squeaky clean. I love the way they feel after they've been cleaned well.

Hope you've had a good day.

Love y'all,
Lisa in AR

Pip - those are all terrific pictures. But like most of us I have the same image issues.

Carol - good job on getting files back. Persistence and patience are necessary for computer dealings.

I spent most of afternoon tracking down things for realtor. They should have everything. Hope to know actual closing date next week.After digging out everything I had to put it away (had stacks everywhere). Glad I had what was needed. Looking forward to shutting down utilities, etc.

Going to do a couple of my pt stretches. Not sure they are helping back any. However, the more it is painful the more I am looking forward to surgery. A bit less than 2 months-and maybe I can get in a bit early with a cancellation.

Take care all,

Ginny in Ohio