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  • Hi all! I have been very busy as has everyone else. I started a spinning class last Saturday and am on my second round of classes for cycle/yoga. It is about to be very busy season for me at work (won't slow down until mid-March) but I hope to have time off around the holidays. I am traveling quite a bit the next two weeks…
  • Hi all! Leaving this pm for Tucson for the wedding of a good friend's daughter. I am staying with then tonight to help with a bridesmaid's brunch tomorrow and the staying at a hotel next two nights. My mom was discharged from the hospital yesterday and did fine by herself last night at her house. Since this is follow-up…
  • Zebras!!! so great to hear from you. Alf prayers to your SIL. My mom had to have emergency surgery on Sunday for intestinal blockage due to scar tissue from her hernia repair the beginning of August. She is doing very well and may get to go home tomorrow. My siblings in Mississippi are taking care of her so that I can go…
  • Hi all! Am back from a weekend trip to Mississippi to see family. First time the hubs and I have been there together without our kids (who are almost 27 and 22). No fighting in the car was nice! It was nice being there when it was not so darn hot like it is in the summer when we would go and take our kids when they were…
  • Hi all! We went to the trainer on Monday night. Hubs is tolerating more intensity in the workouts which is great. He mowed the front lawn before I got home last night. (Darn traffic has been horrible in Dallas this week.) I did the back yard. Much easier when the temps are in the 80s instead of the 100s. Have the…
  • Hi all! Welcome new people. I love hearing everyone's stories and information about where they live. Swiss: congrats on the 5 lb weight loss. Glad your daughter's finger is better. I did my fourth cycle.yoga class last night. It is the hardest thing I have ever done. I thought my balance was pretty good until trying this…
  • Hi all! Spent about 8 hours yesterday building a new raised bed for the iris we went overboard ordering back in the spring. Hauled 11 40lb bags of soil, 2 50lb bags of composted manure, 3 25lb bags of organic compost, 2 40lbs bags of drainage rocks plus spent about an hour breaking up very dry, hard clay soil. We also…
  • Hi all! Hello from hot, hot, hot, dry, dry, dry north Texas! Temps above 100 during the day, lows in the mid to low 80s. We successfully got our daughter moved into her new apartment in Austin this weekend. Amazing how young men materialize to help when there are cute, in-shape, 20 something girls around. It was a little…
  • Hi all! I am bummed. I left work early to get home, change and get to the natatorium for 5:30 water polo. There was unscheduled maintenance in the pool so the pool was closed so no water polo... WAAAA! I wlll miss next week because we will be in Austin helping our daughter move into a new apartment. Oh well, river aerobics…
  • Hi all! Greetings from hot, hot Texas! it has been over 100 degrees for about a week now. Thank goodness for air conditioning and the silver fold out shade you put on your car windshield. My husband grilled hotdogs and chicken on the Fourth. We could have just thrown the food on the patio to cook. I finished the first four…
  • Yea Lady Persia! Way to go! Zebras: lift those kitties! I had a good eye doctor appointment and I can now go back every 6 months instead of every three. (I have a structural problem in my eyes resulting in a pre-glaucoma condition for which I use eye drops. I am always the youngest patient in there, although the doctor is…
  • Swiss, my husband and I buy 12 visits at a time from our trainer. We try to go one time a week but don't always make it. If we did not go to the trainer, I am pretty sure that my husband would do very little and what he would do would not be correct!
  • Hi all! Had two kicker workouts yesterday. We went to the trainer first. I had asked to do something with the exercise ball. She had us do weight pyramids on the ball. Yikes! It was hard but fun. Then I went to river aerobics for another hour. The instructor is finally pushing everyone. I think we did about 10 laps which…
  • Hi all! Just got back from the river. We did four laps against the current and four laps with the current plus a lot of arm exercises. The river is 1/8 of mile so we did a whole mile but when you figure in the resistance of the water and the extra resistance of the current, effort was probably about 4 miles (which is the…
  • Hi all! Robin, I am so sorry for your loss. Take care of yourself. We finally got some rain last night here in north Texas. There was lightning about 40 minutes into the river, so we had to cut it short. Got in three laps running forward and two and half laps running backward. We will get a make up session the beginning of…
  • Hi all! Its River Aerobics Time!!!! I had to miss last week due to this stupid cold which is still not all the way gone. I was so happy to see my river friends when I went on Monday night. The instructor is not as hard as ones we have had in the past. There are lots more people taking the class, about 35 compared to around…
  • Hi all! Still battling this stupid cold. Now on week 3 of it. However, I AM going to the trainer tonight and to River Aerobics! I wore my water running shoes all weekend so hopefully I won't start a blister tonight. Go Mavs!!!! Husband and son are huge fans. They went to the last game of the season many years ago that the…
  • Class of 77 here. BeeGees, Barry Manilow and Cher! Gunney Sax gingham peasant dress for prom. My sister had a blue one. My daughter's best friend's mom had a yellow one. We tried to get the girls to wear them during dress-up week in high school. They refused. I thought they were beautiful...
  • Hi all! Horrible summer cold (in my head and chest) since before Memorial Day. Has not stopped me from doing things with my son before he returns to graduate school in San Francisco. Took a family trip to the east coast to see sights and family last week. Did tons of walking and lost four pounds! My right ear has still not…
  • Hi all! Back from an amazing weekend in Austin at my daughter's graduation from UT. The campus-wide graduation ceremony on Saturday night was awesome. Check out the fireworks over the tower on YouTube. FINALLY got my 80 year old mom home last night. She was supposed to fly out of DFW yesterday morning at 10:15. After…
  • Hi all! Welcome to all the new people. This is a great group for motivation and support. This weekend my baby graduates from UT in Austin! Didn't we just get her settled into her dorm room freshman year? My son is flying in from grad school in San Francisco and my mother is flying in from Jackson, MS tomorrow and then we…
  • Hi all! We have gotten some rain here in North Texas but it comes with bad storms and tornadoes. My brother in Kentucky says that weather this time of year is a full-contact spectator sport. He teaches at Murray State and they had to cancel classes yesterday due to a big storm the night before which took out trees and…
  • Yea Duffy/Danelle!!!! So great to hear from you. We missed you. I have been checking your blog for updates. Take it slowly as you begin to get back into the swing of things. TxMs
  • Hi all! I started writing a post yesterday but it went into some alternate dimension. Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter. I sent each of my kids a fruit bouquet. They were both very excited to get them. I doubt my son gets much fresh fruit so hopefully, he can munch on the fruit all week. We had a quiet Easter with just…
  • Hi all! Quick post, sorry I can't respond to everyone. Welcome newbies! LadyPersia: so glad your family is safe from the storms. I got some kind of GI thing after lunch last Tuesday. Maybe it was the "prewashed" mixed organic salad greens that I did not re-wash. Never again. Finally got my appetite back on Friday and…
  • Hi all! LadyPersia, so sorry for your losses. Funerals are rediculously expensive. Hopefully you will not have to deal with "funeral idots" like we did when my sister and my father died. I tried to pay for my father's funeral over the phone while we were driving to Mississippi. I talked to three different people at the…
  • Hi all! Had a very busy week with a giant project on Monday that kept me at work all weekend. Ended up with a knot in my back between the shoulder blades. Goes away at night but comes back as soon as I got to the office. grrrr Favorite thing to do this week was to look at the iris when I got home. One yellow one blooming,…
  • Hi all! Spring is definitely here in North Texas (Dallas - Fort Worth area). Blue bonnets and prim roses are blooming along the highways (thank you Lady Bird Johnson). We have one yellow iris blooming and lots of iris buds. If you want to see a great display of different iris, go to argyleacres.com. Argyle is a little town…
  • Hi all. Spring is definitely here! I spent almost three hours this morning raking leaves that fell last fall. Also clipped back the dead lantana branches. New lantana is growing. The vine my hubs mowed down last fall has lots of new growth on it and looks so much more healthy than it did before it got accidentally pruned.…
  • Happy St. Paddy's Day everyone. I had a great grandmother who was a Sullivan from Ireland and my sister had red hair so there is Irish blood in me. Don't know what the weather is like. It was dark when I got to work and I have been in the "innerds" of a the big concrete box that houses my office. Hopefully I can enjoy some…
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