WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR DECEMBER 2025

Experimented with lentil curry tonight. It smells divine!

Best to all!

Flea

Willamette Valley OR

So some major news in our household! We got an email from the management company saying we have 90 days to vacate the rental home. Evidently the owner wants to sell this property. Oh bugger! We have already been looking and put in a request to view a 2 bed, 2 bath 1270 sq ft rental home in a 55+ neighborhood, so we'll see. Fingers crossed! Why they couldn't have waited to send that darn email until after Christmas! But ah well! We were to get our new washer and dryer tomorrow, so with the place we have our eye on already with a washer and dryer,we called Home Depot and cancelled it. Then husband went down there to sign the paperwork terminating that. We still need to chat with overseas son to see if its ok to put his stuff in storage. And how to pack his LEGO's! Thinking just zillions of zip lock bags and then the sets in peanuts. I have eaten 1500 calories today. I had an unscheduled bagel with two slices of cheese, a squirt of mayo and sliced tomatoes. Then I raided the candy car of the clusters. I logged everything though.

Rebecca Whidbey Wa

Our fruit! Cherries, pears and apples.

Our lime tree and mandarin tree are also blooming.

But our lemon tree is not doing well.

Machka in Oz

Rang the savings bank, they answered straight away, and a very sweet young man sorted it all out for me. He made the transfer on the phone, and I have since moved it over to our joint account. Phew! It's Saga savings, so they must be used to dealing with confused people! I wasn't confused, 😝 but I had got a date wrong by one digit. Money has always scared me.

Next week I will ring the cruise people to pay. I hope John manages to get his money transferred over by then.

Now to wash my hair.

Heather UK xxxxxxxx

Lisa - I wholeheartedly agree with cutting things out not working, except Coke, I need to cut it out completely again. I just crave it too much.
Congratulations on the paid subscription! I love your articles I’ve read, I am behind right now. 😢 I’m behind on everything it seems.

Machka - I need to do one of those deep clean days. It doesn’t take long to do it here, but I’m so busy with other things I find it hard to do.

Lanette - My craft room still has a lot of my things in it. There is nothing else I can do at this point about it. I just need more house, more time and more money to do it all with.
I’m making it work though.

Heather - I love your portrait, I have never attempted one, great job!

Carla - sorry you have to move with such a small time left to go. Hope it isn’t as bad as you expect. Good luck with the surgery.

Melanie - I love reading about your veterinary experiences. I’m in awe, the thoughts of sticking my hand in any animal makes me tremble..
Thanks for the tip on where you get your mail. I’ve driven up that way a few times so now I can imagine it better.

Barbie - I love the penguin.

Allie - I’m so happy to read you are getting some resources.

Rebecca - what a time to serve that notice. I hope you find exactly what you need in a price you can afford.

It is currently 5:30 am I have been awake for an hour catching up with you ladies instead of sleeping.Too much on my mind I think.
Today is MIL’s birthday, she is 81. Brodey, Kaitlyn, Rodger and I are taking her out for supper.
I wanted to do something here at home for her, but she has a doctors appointment and with competing schedules this is what worked best.

I had an unpleasant conversation with the granddaughter last night. If I could trust what I say to her would stay with her I would be more open.
MIL hasn’t told them anything and everything we’ve learned and she also hasn’t explained why she chose to stay here. Apparently the whole “house being foreclosed” isn’t enough of a reason. She thinks there is something
Fishy going on because her grandmother wouldn’t leave her like that. I do feel sorry that her rock was taken from her so abruptly with no opportunity to say goodbye but what she fails to understand or see is that we aren’t blaming her for anything it’s mostly her mother. I believe that if it had been her and her grandmother alone they would have made it work.
I don’t know if MIL will talk to her at some point or not, she tends to keep quiet about things.
I can see how easily this money disaster all occurred as she tries to give me money for everything. She doesn’t like change so keeps giving it to me, she wanted to help with groceries so gave me $60. If I’m not careful what I say she reaches for her wallet. I’m forever telling her I don’t need or want her money. I also have to tell her I can buy my own things. She can’t afford her generosity.

She sent them all money for Christmas on the weekend and they have it all spent I guess.

I should try to get a bit more sleep. It’s currently 545 and my alarm goes off at 715.
Have a great day
Tracey in Edmonton

All shall be well.💖. I have decided to wrap up Christmas except the tree, with red apples, tree skirt, and jewelry tree. Everything else I will stow away. Husband getting boxes so we can start wrapping up sons Legos. Hopefully we hear from the management company for the new place we want. This is the first time we have ever had to move because of what they want to to. Most of the time it was because we were transferring etc.

I hope your banking issues get sorted!

Rebecca Whidbey Wa

Oh yes still on Whidbey. Its nice being 2 hrs from husbands yearly liver doc, plus all the advantages of the base here. This new place we're eyeballing is maybe 5 miles closer to base and away from our old house here. Fingers crossed. Today we start packing up eldest sons Legos and things for his storage unit.

Rebecca Whidbey Wa

My typical breakfast. Oats (museli) with ground flax seeds and loads of berries, usually blueberries, but sometimes strawberries. So yummy!

Flea

Willamette Valley OR

We will pay for movers to get the heavy stuff. Today putting away Christmas a bit. Kind of bummed!

We went to the gym though. Did a drive by, its definitely a lot smaller!

Hoping to get a peek inside soon!

Rebecca Whidbey WA

Flea - that curry looks delicious. Are those peanuts I see? Like your oatmeal too. You are giving me all kinds of ideas, thanks.

Mo - thank you for the laugh at the golden dealing with the carolers. My Rosie would have "sung" right along with them, lol.

Barbie - fancy Christmas decoration! So far I'm the winner in the decorating contest on my road with garland wrapped around the mailbox post and a wreath on the garage. Waiting for the other neighbors to show me up. Update - they are busy right now.

Rebecca - what a surprise. Thank goodness you have 90 days to get it sorted. That 55+ house sounds interesting! To your credit you are such a minimalist, other than DS's Legos and favorite items, your packing should be easy as other ladies have mentioned.

Michele - your pierogis sound so good. The folks in the little town where our farm was located were primarily Polish heritage. Every year, the town ladies would come together and have a huge pierogi making "party". I was never invited, they probably didn't want them turning into something Italian like tortellini, lol.

Melanie - WA State requires pets to be vaccinated for rabies every 3 years. When we lived on the farm, the barn cats would often bring dead bats to show us - at the time, I had no idea that bats were the primary rabies carriers. All the barn cats got rabies vaccinations when they were kittens and were neutered, but after that, they were on their own. In 1995 a child in WA State died from rabies = bat bite, and in 1997 a WA man also was diagnosed with bat-caused rabies. No report of his death. Happy Birthday to your little fella, so nice they live close. Reminds me so much of my grandparents who had the farm next door when I was a kid, they were there for everything.

Debbie - hope that tooth gets taken care of quickly, I can imagine the pain. Sounds like a fierce infection.

Heather - sorry to hear about the continuing boiler troubles. Glad you got the bank transfer sorted out.

Anymore, I dread this financial stuff when there are hiccups. Had another incident with my credit union yesterday. Again. This is the 3rd this year. After many years of walking into the branch and interacting with the same employees and having business easily and quickly taken care of, it seems these days, it's mostly staffed with new employees haven't been trained properly. They are either doing things incorrectly or giving the customers (like me) the wrong advice. I need to contact their training division and volunteer to be the old lady that comes in with situations for the newbies to handle. 😁 By the end of the day yesterday, the manager I was continually interacting with via email probably resigned and applied for a job at Panda Express, lol. I was kind and professional, but direct. Welcome to the world of management and having to put out fires caused by other departments. I felt sorry for her.

Collette was here this morning, and I told Rosie let's try hard to keep the place looking nice for a few days.

Lanette😎

SW WA State