Senior Golden Sneakers............October

I'm still here, just had a busy day Friday. We are at home, today is so pretty, sunny, beautiful colors in the trees, and lots of leaves on the ground.
The cats are fine, growing, eating, and___ing, lol.
We let them out this morning, trying to teach them about the pet door.. two or three of them have it all figured out, but the others only go out when I hold the flap. They don't try yet to come back inside. This is important because we hope to teach them to go in and out on their own eventually. We aren't sure yet if we should allow them to do this when we travel, or just when we are at home. We are playing it by ear, learning what works as we go.

We spent most of yesterday driving, -the one thing I don't want to do when we are home.. lol, but it was necessary. we had our truck in the shop, took it up in the morning and picked it up in the evening. then I made a grocery stop on the way back last night, so I wouldn't have to go anywhere today.. yay! It was a dreay day for driving, rain, and mizzle, as Jackie calls it. then a real downpour that lasted about five minutes. It resulted in cooler weather, but nice.

Sandy, hope you get good news from your doctor about your knees, it is good that they want you to wait til you really need the surgery. My cousin had the replacement, and she said she will always walk with a limp, but the worst of the pain is gone, so she doesn't mind. However, my brother in law had surgery on one knee, and he cannot bend it much, still has pain, and won't consider surgery on the other one, or even an attempt to fix the fixed one. So it sometimes is better to wait, isn't it?

Jackie, you certainly got a workout in your garden, hauling those bags of gravel, The honey in tea and on cereal sounds great. I almost bought crumpets yesterday, but resisted..lol, but I didn't resist the sugar free pumpkin pie. I get them at wal mart, love the taste, and try not to eat the crust.

Chris, I would love your weight watchers no crust pumpkin pie and apple crisp recipes, pretty please..
I think I have one crustless pumpkin pie recipe, just no time to look for it right now. I want to try a coconut or pecan crustless recipe, if I can find one, or make up a recipe.. for dh.

Welcome Doug, you sound pretty busy, and the photo shows you know how to have fun too!

Maddie, I never used volume and body shampoo, coz my hair didn't need either, but I guarantee that the sleek and silky kind doesnt do a thing for the rest of me!! I'll try Dawn tonight!!

Jackie, when I get done here, I am going to watch the cat videos, can't wait, thanks.

Marie, sorry about the rangers, I was rooting for them. Both teams had a great season. Connie posted lots of comments on facebook about the cardinals. I wish Connie would come back here.

Jeanne, sorry you are having cholesterol blues, it is a tough one to control for some people, and I wonder why. Some people have hereditary high cholesterol, and others never have any problems at all.. like me.. mine is always good, and it runs that way in my family. My husband has high readings and his family does too. One aunt has constant readings over 300. she is thin, and watches her diet and exercises, but the numbers won't budge. Let us know how the synthroid makes you feel, I'd am curious about it.
Shirley, wasn't it cold sleeping on the boat? well, of course you had heat, lol, but it would seem so cold on the water at this time of year, except maybe in Florida with Buzz.
And how are you today, Ms. Buzz? hope you are soaking up some warm rays for all of us!

It looks like the forecasts for a tough winter are right, so let's all do our best to stay healthy and safe. For me, that means remembering to take all of my supplements, and my vitamins. I think they help me.

Time for lunch.. late lunch, coz we had a late breakfast. The grocery has Eat Smart bagged veggies for 1.00 per bag this week, so that's my lunch, steamed with a little melted butter and sometimes diced chicken. Yum!

see ya later

Thanks Chris, I got the recipes, they sound great!

A hearty [img][/img] to DOUG!
My son rides one of those recumbents and he had it made to order, and it looks just like yours! I wish he'd use it, though, as at 57 his weight is way up there and I doubt he'll lose that 100 pounds necessary to lose! Good for you, getting after important things to grab onto a long healthy happy future. And happy to add you to our group. Barbie's husband Jake will be pleased to have company.

Don't know where today went, except we Netflix'd an old Kathy Bates movie most of the afternoon (rainy 77 degrees) and then??? I don't recall where I got lost! I'm ashamed to post my food, though I did anyway. ANd I maybe need a bit of a nudge to get back up on the wagon! I just love rhubarb strawberry pie :sad: and Ben and Jerry's chocolate anything!:ohwell: Barbie, don't even read this!!!

Anyway, DH is rumbling and grumbling which means EAT, so have a good Saturday night, and Sandy, I'm white-lighting your sister!

Buzz

:flowerforyou: Sandy, I will be praying that God gives your sister the strength to continue fighting.

:flowerforyou: Gayla, did your doctor tell you what strains of flu that your shot covers? They are saying that we will be having the same ones as last year, but what if another type starts circulating?

:flowerforyou: Chris, I am going to have to check on the recipe for the crustless pumpkin pie. Sounds great and low calorie...can't beat that.

:flowerforyou: buzz, you seriously had 77 % temps? Lucky girl !!!

I turned on the furnace this morning. First time this year. I really need more heat in the house to help dry the clothes I am hanging up all over.

Sandy, that was a good one, lol!
I wish I was more like Barbie, I am a slow starter in the morning. So I'm on this computer and not getting much else done. supposed to be transferring audiobooks to my ipod.. my pc is too feeble to do two things at once, so I'm going to have to be brief (lol, me? brief? nah!!)

Sandy, you have a good point about your sisters' needs vs. your knee surgery. It will limit you so much at the beginning, you must focus on you own recovery, so much depends on you during therapy.
I hope your sister can stay strong in spirit, it must be so tiring to go thru setbacks.
Jeri and Irene, we are still thinking of you, and we miss you, take care.

Becky, that pie sounds great to me too, I won't make it this weekend, coz I bought a sugar free pumpkin pie, with a crust, which I try not to eat, but did eat it on the first slice. I like pumpkin pie with light cream cheese, and sometimes sugar free cool whip.

better get to the audiobooks, it takes a long time.

Hello sneakers
Lovely day today It is so nice not to have to use the A./C Love this cool days and nights,
alice and i work on the computer today . Working me some desgn for my Mug rugs. I am going to make. I just try one and the stiches was so close together it kept breaking my thread. So we will have to redo them. But they Were cute little flowers. Alice went out and bought us a Salad for lunch. It was real good. I was a big one.We are both doing fine. The Cowboys doing fine.


Just wanted to report in.

:flowerforyou: Gayla, wonderful idea to purchase candy that you don't like, even though you like them all. I could just buy Kit Kat and be fine. Unfortunately, my husband has already bought for tonight. And, it is all candy that I love. Plus, we don't get many kids at our house so there will be lots left over.:mad:


:flowerforyou: Marie, please post some pictures of your coasters. I would love to see them.

:flowerforyou: buzz, it is really too bad about the rain. You had perfect temperatures to hang out your clothes. I am finding that it takes a couple of days for my clothes to dry in the basement.:grumble:

:flowerforyou: Phoebe, good thing to have fat free Cool Whip. My problem is that my husband introduced me to the real stuff that I have to whip up. It certainly isn't lite.

I see that I have one new message here but it is not showing up in my mail !!! I guess I will wait a while to see it it appears.

:flowerforyou: Sandy, loved your joke and your accent.

I tried to find candy that I don't like but I don't think they make any!
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Gayla... ROFLOL at that!! it is so true. we don't get door to door trick or treaters here. They have events etc., so I have no excuse to buy candy..:embarassed: , so I just buy it.. it is so tempting to see all that stuff when you walk into any store.

Becky, yep, the real stuff is the good stuf, Land o Lakes makes a sugar free canned whipped cream, like redi whip.. I saw sugar free and bought it, didn't read the nutrition label, it has a lot of fat in it, but it is absolutely delicious, I could eat it without anything else.. so I only used part of it and threw it out, and I still miss it!!

just saying hello before I shut down the pc. We will leave sometime today, maybe after dinner tonight.

Sandy, I'm so sorry that your sis is going thru such troubles. She must feel awful right now. Do you think your sister would like to get mail from us? I am thinking maybe just postcards from each of us, with a little info or photo of our localities. Let us know what you think.. we don't want to intrude on her.

Well, I'm not sure if all of the kitties are trained on the pet door entrance, but they all know how to get out. If I could be sure they can come in, I will feel good about leaving them tonight. They all seem to want to come in at night, and three like to go out in the morning. Three stay on the bed with 'mama'. This was so funny(to a cat person) when poor dh woke from his recliner 'nap', he decided to go to bed. He was dozing when he jumped and jerked his legs, and yelled 'ouch!!'. Little Dolly was attacking his toes..lol.. she bites thru the covers, and you are glad of that, coz those little teeth can still be felt. He couldn't take it and went back to his recliner. LOL!! After daylight he came back, so I got up, and kitties went with me.

hope you all have a fun and safe and Happy Halloween, love to you all,

p.s. Sandy, that is one ugly mask,

In honor of the last day of October I thought there should be a history lesson that had nothing to do with Halloween.


The Biblical Origin of The Internet

You might have thought that you knew how the Internet started, but here's the TRUE story (hmmm!) ....

In ancient Israel , it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a young wife by the name of Dot.

And Dot Com was a comely woman, broad of shoulder and long of leg.
Indeed, she was often called Amazon Dot Com.

And she said unto Abraham, her husband: "Why dost thou travel so far from town to town with thy goods when thou canst trade without ever leaving thy tent?"

And Abraham did look at her - as though she were several saddle bags short of a camel load, but simply said: "How, dear?"

And Dot replied: "I will place drums in all the towns and drums in between to send messages saying what you have for sale, and they will reply telling you who hath the best price.

And the sale can be made on the drums and delivery made by Uriah's Pony Stable (UPS)."

Abraham thought long and decided he would let Dot have her way with the drums. And the drums rang out and were an immediate success.
Abraham sold all the goods he had at the top price, without ever having to move from his tent.

To prevent neighboring countries from overhearing what the drums were saying, Dot devised a system that only she and the drummers knew.

It was called Must Send Drum Over Sound (MSDOS), and she also developed a language to transmit ideas and pictures -Hebrew To The People (HTTP).

But this success did arouse envy. A man named Maccabia did secret himself inside Abraham's drum and began to siphon offsome of Abraham's business. But he was soon discovered, arrested and prosecuted - for insider trading.

And the young men did take to Dot Com's trading as doth the greedy horsefly take to camel dung.

They were called Nomadic Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Sybarites, or NERDS.

And lo, the land was so feverish with joy at the new riches and the deafening sound of drums that no one noticed that the real riches were going to that enterprising drum dealer, Brother William of Gates, who bought off every drum maker in the land.

And indeed did insist on drums to be made that would work only with Brother Gates' drum heads and drumsticks.

And Dot did say: "Oh, Abraham, what we have started is being taken over by others."

And Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel , or eBay as it came to be known. He said: "We need a name that reflects what we are."
And Dot replied: "Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators."

"YAHOO," said Abraham.

And because it was Dot's idea, they named it YAHOO Dot Com.

Abraham's cousin, Joshua, being the young Gregarious Energetic Educated Kid (GEEK) that he was, soon started using Dot's drums to locate things around the countryside.

It soon became known as God's Own Official Guide to Locating Everything (GOOGLE).

And that is how it all began.

Impressed?

H E L L O S E N I O R S,
Sandy that picture is scary and that joke is so funny.

Phoebe, the crustless pumpkin pie only takes minutes to make and I do use the fat free cool whip. It is so worth it for so few calories.

My day today, Slept in until 7am, weighed myself and lost another pound. I feel I have finally got it. I had pumpkin oatmeal,(I am hooked on pumpkin lately). Then we went to meet friends for coffee.

We picked up a few things at the store because I forgot to get somethings and I found some pumpkin coffee creamer. I usually drink my coffee black but I am on a kick now. I know its more calories but again its worth it.

I made a salad for lunch with green tea to drink. I will make coffee with dinner and use my creamer. My son and his two boys are coming for dinner. I plan to make white chicken chili, corn muffins, and apple crisp for dessert.

Now I am going to ride my stationary bike and then sew a little. I am also going to make rice krispie treats for the boys to take home for halloween. I have a large bag of goodies and a $5.00 bill for them. I send all the grandkids $5.00 for halloween

Well the kids are on the way here so happy halloween
Chris