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Cat - This sounds like me. I injured my back last spring, lifting the front runner of a snowmobile carelessly. I've been paying for it with inability to exercise and the weight gain that caused. But now I'm back on track; started with weight training again about a month ago. Welcome to the group! You can get a lot of…

It's been a glorious autumn day! Decidedly crisp out there this morning, just above freezing. But by afternoon, when I went out to pick black currants, the thermometer had crept up to 10 C (50 F). The sun was shining, the air was crystal clear, and there was a chorus of sheepbells from the meadow. I love that sound!…

Oh, a couple things I forgot to mention. When I started out on this veggie thing, it was inspired by the notion that I was more likely to be successful if I added a good habit, than if I deprived myself of a bad habit. A psychological trick, but it worked. I started small, with just one carrot and a bit of bell pepper, and…

Sending strength and good thoughts to everyone who's feeling overwhelmed by the forces of nature and dark side of human nature. :cry: Sometimes I just want to give up and crawl into a hole. But as my mother told me long ago, that's a cop-out. I mustn't give myself that luxury. As a thinking human, I have a responsibility…

Oh Katie. And you a mathematician! :laugh: I arrived in Tromsø this afternoon and went shopping for the week I'll spend out on the island. (The only grocery on the island is a 30-minute drive from our house, and it isn't very well stocked either.) At checkout I felt like a Goody Two Shoes! Heaps of fresh vegetables and not…

Has anybody else noticed that MFP has changed its "rules" about how much one must eat? Since a week or so back, it has accepted anything above 1000 kcal (for women) without scolding. Two weeks ago I was just under 1200 at the end of the day and MFP told me off. So I ate two pieces of peppermint candy I didn't need at all.…

Thanks for another month, Barbie! Happy birthday Heather! Sorry to hear about your husband's job, Kelly. The employer sounds like a crapweasel. :grumble: Machka wondered if sensitive skin is a menopause thing. I've got sensitive skin, but it's been that way for a long time. How sensitive? I can feel loose strands of hair…

Poor Carol! What a bummer. /Penny

Great to hear about your bees, Wendy. I've toyed with the idea of keeping bees, and a guy on the other side of our island in northern Norway DOES, so I know it's at least possible, despite being at nearly 70°N. It will have to wait until I'm retired, though. Kelly - I'm sorry to have to confess I giggled a bit at your…

Welcome Patrice and sorry for your loss. Do please keep us updated about those boys. :'( Yay for stronger bones, Katla! On the discussion about what to believe and not believe about the number on the scales - I NEVER get the same weight three times in a row, so I never allow myself to get upset (or overjoyed) about any…

Ooops, forgot to post the picture I promised, that showed how the stair railing looked after another storm. This was after the big blizzard in December 2015 that led to the avalanche that killed two people in town. After yesterday's wind, it looked like this (from the upstairs landing). My husband and I have dragged the…

We've had strong winds here today. The whole house shook, but that's nothing unusual. Then it sounded as though the wind had picked up a huge scoop of gravel and thrown it at us. Then I discovered that the wind had blown the railing off the outer stairway up to our door, which is one story off the ground. (Pic from after…

Well, ladies, my baby girl – the one who turned 36 yesterday – just finished a 30 kilometer race. That brings her total distance over the past 12 months up to 4005 km, just shy of 2500 miles. /Penny, proud as can be at the North Pole

Felicia - What a sad story about your Sophie. I can imagine both your sense of loss and your relief when she disappeared. Meg - Sending strength to you. Looking at it superficially, 50 months isn't a lot more than 42 months, but I'm sure the difference will make itself felt for every passing day. :'( I forget where you're…

Dang! I can't view the Vietnam series because I live outside the US. /Penny, now peeved at the Pole

Machka - Modern dentistry is one of the things I'm frequently grateful for. My mother told horror stories about her early, pre-Novocaine visits to the dentist. I don't think her dentist had a foot-powered drill, but I've seen one of those at a medical museum. I also remember - can never forget - a gut-wrenching display at…

Awww.... Puppy paws :heart: /Penny

Stunned is the word, Kelly. My thoughts are with you, your husband and his mother. :heart: /Penny

Yay for your own place, Allie! JanetR - I have a serious case of furniture envy. >:) Beautiful woodworking! About 18 months ago, one of the other sopranos in my choir was diagnosed with a form of ovarian cancer that's usually lethal. As a fully qualified physician, she can read the writing on the wall. She's always been…

Rye - If you use fitness equipment rather than free weights or body weight, the machines help isolate specific muscle groups so it's harder to injure yourself. They might also overcome your proprioceptive disorder. Do you have access to a gym? /Penny again

Thanks for posting this, Allie. /Penny

Kate, I have a feeling this image was even more stunning in real life. I often find myself absolutely gobsmacked by clear water along a rocky shoreline, but when I take a picture it never does justice to the original. I'm compensating mentally for the loss of depth perception in yours. I just know the mysterious depth…

So sorry to read about our Gloworm. My thoughts went immediately to her grandsons. I fear her sudden passing will be difficult for them. /Penny at the North Pole

Congrats on getting the condo, Allie! I spent the whole day working on our porch steps, painting and calculating angles and cutting boards with a mitre saw. I also demolished and rebuilt the gate to our sheep fence because I needed the wood it was made of to match the floorboards on our porch. After pounding in a couple…

Seriously, though, Heather. I thought he was a lovely man :flowerforyou:

Tell your DH I'm deeply offended :trollface: :lol:

Um, Machka, that doesn't look very impressive. One and a quarter stairs per minute :noway: Remind me what "Stairs" really means in your book. Was it a 5-floor stairway you ascended? I think it was something like that. Harking back to your gorgeous flowers, I recognized protea because there was a florist near the subway…

Transfixed by reporting from the US Gulf Coast. So much water falling, so few places for it to go, and so many people in its path. :noway: I devoured all the information I came across, but with no TV and slow internet I'd soon read all I could get hold of. I'm keeping everyone who's in danger in my thoughts! :heart: But to…

Rye - Those photos are stunning! Joyce, yesterday's pictures were from a trip to our holiday home which is in northern Norway, about the same latitude as the northern tip of Alaska. W-a-a-a-y far south :lol: The town I live in is only 800 miles from the North Pole. There it looks like this right now, at the height of…

Even if the next ferry is 3½ hours later? :noway: Nope! I'm way too fond of my island paradise :D /Penny