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New picture of cherry tomatoes and a couple of okra from the backyard. Had a nice "float date" with the hubby last night. Got to the water park at 7:30 pm when it is half price so $5 each to get in. Got on tubes in the lazy river and floated for an hour and a half. Had to pull to the side several times as roudy kids went…

Hot times in North Texas! My husband's work has free baseball tickets to a semi-pro game on Saturday night when the heat index is supposed to be around 107. Don't think we will make it. Annaliza: what a rotten situation to be in. I went to school at night for 5 years starting when my son was 2 and had my daughter during…

Sing: Happy Birthday! Enjoy the day. Cardigirl: hang in there Tron: That is amazing to step up the step! Our trainer had us do steps on a bench made for regular sitting. We only had to do 8 on each leg for 2 reps. I was really sore the next day. Alf: we are not on water restrictions yet. That would kill my husband,…

Forgot this for Alf: Orval R. has a 100 calorie pack of kettle corn. Slightly sweet not too much salt. Go plant the flowers!

Hi all. The temp on the patio thermometer says 116: ok, it is in the sun. Husband is grilling?? He could just throw stuff on the patio and it would cook there. Annaliza: teaching class at a prison? Wow! What class? Cardigirl: I am so sorry about your divorce. I am here for you. You were so kind (as was everyone else) when…

Stirring: Great job! What an inspiration! Alf: Great idea about Goodwill clothes. I used to buy all my jeans at Goodwill: They are much cheaper and already broken in. Yesterday, I was able to fit into another pair of jeans I have not been able to wear. About cholesterol, water soluable fiber is good for taking out bad…

I think I lost my post... Happy Father's Day Sing and all fathers related to the girls in the 40+ club. Was bad today and went to a pizza buffet for lunch. Boy, the pizza was salty! Drink three glasses of water at the restaurant and been chugging it since we got home. Swiss: enjoy time with family and savor good food when…

Hi all! Happy Saturday. It will be hot here in north Texas, it must be summertime, duh! Still getting veggies from the backyard. My husband has a giant pumpkin on the vine. Only the size of a tennis ball so far. I have done very well getting exercise this week. Did weights at the gym on Monday and Thursday, did river…

Alf: I am impressed with the kickboxing! Wow. Not quite ready for that. mkwood: glad you have finally shaken the summer cold. Keep up your vitamen C! I used to swear by Zicam but they are now saying that it can kill your sense of smell. Stiring: Last time I lost 50 pounds, I ended up with a whole closet full of clothes…

Hi all! Found you too! Good news last night from the vet. We thought our dog had diabetes, but it turns out it is a urinary tract infection. She was much perkier last night after the antibiotic shot. We thought she was just sad after our other dog died two weeks ago but she could have gotten this urinary thing around the…

Mcelledge, Hang in there! I agree with Mkwood: get rid of the junk in the house, if you can. Whether you can or not (I can't, hubby keeps buying bad stuff), stock up on good stuff for you. I have also stocked up at work and have fruit, string cheese and granola bars as well as skim milk and canned soups to eat at work.…

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Let's see if I got my ticker to post. Thanks for the kind words everyone. I think my brother-in-law is getting out of the hospital today. The family has had lots of practice rallying around those who need help, so we will get through this too. The daughter and car with new tires are back in Austin and I have some very…

Hoosier: Enjoy the wedding prep! Not ready for that one yet. How many calories in worrying?? 20 year old college daughter was driving home from Austin Friday night with her housemate coming a little later. South of Fort Worth, her car broke down at 8:30 at night with terrible thunderstorms with tornadoes and hail on the…

Hi all! Am back from River Aerobics at the waterpark. Tonight was ab night. It is amazing the ab workout you can do while floating down the lazy river and the really hard things you can do trying to hold onto the side. The current makes you really work your core! Luckily, there is no river on Wednesday nights. (that is…

Back from river aerobics, also went with hubby to gym and did weights. For some reason all the "sit and blabs" were at the gym: two people using a piece of equipment but one just sitting on the equipment and talking to the other one. Three different sets of them tonight. I gave up on the last hamstring curl set. We did ask…

Tron, We went to the Grand Canyon on our honeymoon 25 years ago. (Slept in a pup tent: what was I thinking???) We did the mule ride half way down the canyon. It took until lunch time to go half way. The trails were very narrow and the edge was the edge with a long way down. We have friends who have hiked it but it was 15…

Annaliza, good happy thoughts being sent to you from the DFW metroplex in Texas! I agree it was totally unprofessional. Someone who does that usually ends up doing it one time too many and does not have the opportunity to do that again. Hold your head up high and be proud to be a human and not something less than that.…

Wow! congrats with the sizes. I have never been smaller than a 10. Had gotten up to an 18 before I lost weight the first time. Was pushing 16 this time. Now am between a 14 and a 12. Had a good visit with my mom this weekend. She feels she has "turned another corner" in working through the deaths of my dad and my sister.…

Swissmiss: Does your doctor take into account the weight you have lost in the dosing he is prescribing? You could ask your pharmacist. Take care of yourself! We are having our neighbors over for lunch with my mother. Doing a salad bar and baked potato bar. Mostly healthy things...

Happy Friday everyone! I am home after getting my mom from the airport. She flew in from Mississippi for the weekend to "practice" using a wheelchair at the airport. She loved it. So now she can work on making plans to go to Michigan to see her brother which will involve changing planes, which will not be intimidating with…

Thank you to all for the support. It is very helpful having you out there. We did go to the trainer tonight. She noted how thin my middle area is getting. Yea! It was making me sad looking at the dogs' pictures so I changed the main picture to produce from our backyard: cabbage, eggplant, squash, tomatoes, bell pepper and…

Hi all. Sad day here. Had to put our beagle to sleep this afternoon. When we got home from work yesterday, she could not use her front legs. Took her to our regular vet who sent us to the overnight ER vet. They loaded her with steroids and did xrays and blood work: nothing definitive. We took her back this morning to her…

We had fresh beets last night. Very good but turns everything pink. In the south, macaroni and cheese is considered a vegetable! We have not been able to grow it our backyard...

My husband was not feeling well last night so I went to our trainer by myself. She told me I needed to go buy some new work out clothes because the ones I have are hanging on me! Also, I wore a skirt to work the other day that I have had for two years and have not been able to wear it. It was actually a little big on me!…

Regarding airport food, we just flew from Chicago to Dallas on Tuesday. We had granola bars, bananas and ziplock snack bags with homemade granola. No problem with any of that. My daughter bought a fancy cupcake for her boyfriend. The screener had to xray my bag it was in three times before he figured out it was a cupcake.…

Hi all! Congrats to all the successes! We are back from Chicago and the 20 something cousin reunion. We decided last fall after two unexpected family funerals that we needed to get the "next generation" together for something other than a funeral. So the Texas and Mississippi clans gathered with the Michigan and Illinois…

Texas Mom, I chaparoned a church retreat for teens about to be confirmed. I spent the night in the halls at a Jesuit retreat facility! You would thing there would be some restraint there. I have a friend who chaparoned a band trip. They brought masking tape and taped all the doors shut at night. Hard to re-tape from the…

Fruits of the summer! My husband loves to garden and grow vegetables. We have gotten butter lettuce from our backyard (made low fat, low sodium chicken taco salads with it), our first tomato and our first yellow squash! He has gotten several giant pumpkin seeds to sprout. Two years ago he grew a 90 pound pumpkin, which for…