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Well, looking at the radar, I'm thinking the outside work is out of the question until this afternoon, and then it will be in the 90s and humidly swampy. But... it means I don't have to water the garden, which will save a few bucks. Kinda took my plan for the day (moving more rocks) off the table, so I'll have to see what…
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I'm kind of the opposite. :) I start something FIRST, and then wonder what the heck I was thinking! Then I make bad noises --#&#%$*-- and then I go back to getting it done. Case in point: below is Levi's half-finished afghan for Christmas, which I began in late July... probably finished by the end of next week--you can see…
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Elliptical - 30 min 222 Working in the yard shifting rocks to single area and moving fence slats - two hours - 783 Total - 1005 calories, 2 and a half hours
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Beth Holy crapapalooza, Batwoman. Like your son doesn't have enough to deal with--I'm glad he made it through OK. Time to kick butt and take names, Mama Bear. I know it's not the first time to go into this slugfest...
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Margaret - I'm glad you've got Drew to be with you through all this. The flowers for your son are absolutely beautiful. Thinking of you. Lisa
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Karen - No worries - a sister-in-law scarred her lungs permanently with a combination of ammonia and bleach in a mop bucket. I'm always careful to keep them apart. Good luck on the gingham dishcloths. :) Regarding yesterday's back and forth about various slang terms - these two were spotted going after it next to the…
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Pip Dang, those are some ouchies. And the soda removing rust thing is disturbing. I haven’t had one in nearly 15 years, now I know why! JanetR So good to see you, and Jaxx is a real cutie! Tracey So sorry work is so rough right now, but it sounds like things might turn around eventually! Debbie I dealt with the…
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Heather - I seriously had to read this three times before I realized you meant the man who deals with your window blinds. I just couldn't figure out why you were dressing up for someone who couldn't see you! :smiley: Love the top, it suits you. Just stopping by on my way to the shower--it will either be raining or…
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Yvonne in Texas The mini-magnolias can get as high as 20 feet tall, and as wide as 15 feet, but they can also be trimmed, and I want them about five feet wide at the ground and 10 feet high, a stretched pyramid/cone shape. The original Southern magnolias they were produced from grow up to 80 feet high and 40 feet…
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Allie, my dear, All days are not like this one! I'm just enjoying my body moving now that I've taken 10 percent of my body weight off, and while some days it objects, I'm so pleased I can still get back up and go again the next day. By the time she was 60 years old, my mother had three heart attacks, was newly diagnosed…
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Yeah, it's hot. Egg just came staggering back in the house, complained to me, and then splayed out on the cool stone tiles in the kitchen... poor baby girl... Can you imagine being outside in 96 degree weather, with 60 percent humidity, and wearing a fur coat? I'd be laying on the tile, too... I won't mind when Fall comes,…
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@dsgoingtodoit , Donna from North Texas, welcome! No worries on the age, you're welcome anyway. :) Well done on the 15-17 pounds lost! Honestly, on the subject of where to keep your calorie goals, much like exercise, I think as long as you're losing, any amount you set over 1000 is fine. I've heard in more than one place…
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Congratulations! I hope the next phase brings much joy and you find that energy again as well... Love, Lisa in AR
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Typing around Egg this morning, as the moment Corey leaves for work (about 5:20 a.m.) she comes and lays on my lap, as she knows I'll be at the computer for a while.. VERY pleased with the scale this morning, as I've now lost 10 pounds in 10 days, 21 pounds total since mid-March, and now stand at 198 - Woot!…
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In the neighborhood of 300 calories burned on the elliptical, and trying to make it to two hours on the yardwork, and around 1,000-calorie burn. Elliptical - 34 minutes, 299 cals (per fitbit) Yardwork - 113 minutes, 938 cals (per fitbit) Time to go peel off the sweaty clothes, jump in the shower and then get a few kitchen…
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SuziQ: Glad to see you post, sorry things have been crazy! Water inside a house always seems to create far more destruction than is obvious at first. The times I've had to deal with it have always been frustrating and expensive. Machka: looks like your life really is gearing up again there. My sympathies. @farmermariepier…
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Barbara, honestly, I love baking. When I was a hundred pounds heavier the results of all that baking were not good for me, but now I can eat a single piece of whatever it is and if it isn't something I want to keep in the house, I send it to work with Corey. The guys he works with love it when I'm on a baking jag. What…
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Happy Saturday, past, present or future as the case may be, Headed for the elliptical here in a hot minute, but want to upload another ounce or two of iced coffee before trundling back there. One interesting side note from the early retirement changes--I got music back. Sounds a little weird, but I haven't listened to…
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Margaret, I'm glad that the service was what you wanted, especially with the flyover. <3 Vicki, Always good to see you! Tracey, Well done on entering Wonderland! I know it will come for me, as well, I just have to be patient. Not my strong suit. :wink: The fraught with peril shopping trip for the week is done--the liquor…
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Hope everyone's Friday is/was/will be wonderful. I'm in my happy place, at the computer, washer swooshing, dishwasher running, and raining outside. Supposed to slack off by noon-ish, may go outside this afternoon and see if I can dig a couple holes in the mud. :) Still got two mini-magnolias that need to get in the…
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Morning, afternoon and evening, all, Rebecca I'm so sorry about your stepbrother. Many hugs coming your way. Rori Totally unsurprised the VA lost your paperwork, that is one place where they are specialists. It took me almost a year to get them to realize I was no longer in Fayetteville, North Carolina, no matter how many…
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My husband loves IPAs, and has taken to brewing his own. Considering how expensive beer is now, it's actually a savings, as well. He can brew eighteen 16-oz bottles for about a third of the price of one six-pack of 12-oz bottles here. Plus he's having fun with it. I never have liked the taste of alcohol, but like the…
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Burned 800-ish calories between elliptical and yardwork, and just a couple minor twinges from the knee, reminders such as not bending the knee into a lunge position while picking weeds that are uphill from me. So I won't do that. Was 64 degrees when I went out, and getting warmer. Am contemplating going back out again and…
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That was really, really good... and the link in that article to here: Smashing the Wellness Industry if you can get there has some interesting things about intuitive eating. I tried it and just couldn't - my brain just couldn't wrap itself around eating that way without panicking. But that was then - and I hope to get…
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Barbara - I've had to have a root canal done on a bridge anchor tooth, then the bridge redone. The original bridge (military dentist) done in gold, the second one in a natural color. I always have to pin civilian dentists'office staff down and say, "How much is it going to cost me?" They waffle on about the insurance, and…
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Morning, afternoon and evening, all... Chugging along here in the wilds of Arkansas. Nursing my left knee. They replaced the right one a year and a half ago, and told me at the time that the left was bone-on-bone. This morning, it feels like it. Probably horsing that walk-behind mower around yesterday as I mowed and…
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Machka- Thank you! Love this. Kylia- for me, my bad cholesterol tends to go up when I'm getting the vast majority of my protein from animal sources--cheese and red meat in particular.
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Heather - Many good wishes going out for your brother. Hope it all goes well. And... contrary to my previous statement, I did change something. I've faithfully been 17/7 intermittent fasting for five days now--less because I necessarily think it's effective, and more because if I don't eat breakfast, keeping my calories in…
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Echoing Kylia as the hurricane with too many vowels makes its way up the East Coast--please stay safe and dry, ladies... After struggling to lose one single pound in July, I've dropped five pounds in four days - from 208 to 203. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to lose them... but my mental state would be more stable if it…
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Levi sighting! Apparently, he has combined the art of lip blubbing and food bubbles to become one little sticky person... :smiley: (My grandson, for those who are new...)
