Just need to talk to my friends (217)

Lorita, I’m waving at you as we pass Lake Eufaula❣️

Lorita…I vote for 2 extra strength Tylenol and a nap.

Ron…how are you feeling???

HB…I have a drawerful of Dick's glasses!!!

Good morning.

I'm glad the storms are past.

Carl, greens and beans sound really good for lunch!

HB, I only have one pair of glasses and a spare.

JeriLynn, safe travels and enjoy your trip!

Lorita, you've been pretty active lately. I usually build rest breaks after each activity. This is how I can keep going all day.

Beth, enjoy your gym workout!

I'm getting ready for my next trip, to Italy, to Florence and the Tuscan region. The flight leaves at 6 am, so I will be leaving home at 3 am. I fly to Newark, then get on a flight to Milan. I will post when I can.

Iris

Have a fantastic trip Iris❣️

Lunch was really good, Lorita. Pinto beans with ham, cornbread, spinach, and a scoop of peach cobbler, with a cup of milk and two cups of coffee. Met a new person. She has had a stroke and sold her car, but she lives across the street and rolls across on her electric scooter in good weather to eat lunch with us. Her husband, a veteran, died last November 11.

Beautiful day today. I walked down to the small lake below the sr ctr after lunch and sat a while by the babbling brook that flows out of the cave to feed the lake. (Sr ctr is in a park). Peaceful place, with water sounds and trees swaying in the wind. There were geese, joggers, dog walkers, etc. but not a crowd.

Have a good trip, GG. Did you find your camping mat, or will you hook your heels on a door and hang like a 🦇?

GG, will this trip to Charleston be the one where you move your mother-in-law? Good luck! Glad she is willing even though reticent. It is tough for a person to leave their home and their independence.

My workout was good. I did chest press, 3 types of squats (step squats, box squats and back squats), farmer's carry, leg press, tricep press down, bicep curls, treadmill - those were the exercises on my prescribed workout from the trainers. Then did deadlifts, lateral jumps, step overs, step ups, box jumps, suitcase march, overhead press, rows, bridges and bird dogs. Also added elliptical and rower as I heard that 30" of cardio 3x/week decreases chance of dementia, and 30" daily (?? 5 days/wk??) decreases the risk of 13 types of cancer. So now I have something else to be obsessive/compulsive about!

We have a chance of severe storms tonight. We have had a lot of rain the past 3 weeks, 6.5-7 inches in my rain gauge. The grass is growing like crazy and very green.

JeriLynn, love hearing about your travels and your babies. Sweet little goats! Goats seem like very friendly animals. I have only had experience with them at a petting zoo where they come over to you hoping for a treat! Once we were riding on a bike trail and there were goats along the side of the trail cleaning things up. I guess you can rent them for that.

Iris, have a wonderful trip! I can't wait to hear about it! I appreciate the pictures you post of your travels.

After exercise yesterday, we went to the thrift store and I picked up some Nikes - purple and orange! Also some leopard print leggings and a shirt. Then we did our grocery shopping and later went for a convertible ride and then out for pizza. It was a busy, but good, day.

Beth

Lorita it was just on the edge of Oklahoma City - I40: KOA OKC EAST. We passed a small residential neighborhood and then we were seemingly in the country. It was quiet, clean with really friendly people. And, there chickens in with the goats 😆 so we felt right at home 🤩

We’re on our way to Amarillo for 2 nights. Adventure awaits 💕

another soft rain last might…beautiful today

JL….sorry you were not closer to me. I would have popped over to say hello. I have spent many nights in Amarillo and many more driving through. It will take you about 4 hours from OKC.

Ron…you coming out to rock on the porch today???

GG…love Charleston. Such a pretty city and good food,

Carl - I hope your peonies stay put in the rain. As you say, fingers crossed.

I got lucky and found my thermarest mat. I kind of had an idea of where it was, and sure enough, it was there. I also found my little REI mummy air pad. It rolls up very small. It's the one I used to use to sleep on the floor when I'd stay over with Peggy. I might actually use the little one just for plane space. Sadly, no hanging like a 🦇. But if I had little bat wings ….. 😄

Beth - Yes, we'll move my s.o.'s mom during the trip next week (now scheduled). She's starting to be okay with it. He talks to her every day on the phone (as does his brother), and so they both have a good feel for where she is emotionally.

What great workouts you're doing!! How long does one of your workouts last? I'd heard about the lower dementia risk, but I hadn't heard about the lower cancer risk. Looks like I'll upping my treadmill time.

Judith - Charleston really does have some great food. Definitely a foodie kind of place. We also like going out to Folly Beach, which is only about 20 min or so from my mom-in-law's facility. Some good little beachy places there to eat too.

Iris - I hope your flight to Milan isn't/wasn't too uncomfortable. It's a long flight.

Over in my neck of the woods, it's been going over stuff and getting ready for the trip. We have to combine it with a trip to the Bay Area for my aunt's 95th birthday party. It sounds like most of my cousins are going to show up for it, so that's great - it'll be a crowd. No word on if my brother or my aunt's son will be there. They're the problem children (even though they're in their 60s).

My s.o. and I realized that the night before my aunt's party is Dark Sparkle. It's been eons since I've been able to go to that. So, even though we can't manage to get to Death Guild in person, Dark Sparkle is a good substitute.

Good to hear you're on the ground, Iris. I hate being crammed into airline seats, it's like being in a coffin except with less room. I agree, the Alps are magnificent.

Lorita, I have several plantings of peonies. I have white, red, and pink.

Good morning!

GG, travel mercies for you. It should be fun seeing your family for the birthday party. You asked how long my workouts last. I am at the gym for 2 hours usually plus I go to "Fit for Life" classes at the library on Mondays and Thursdays as well, so 3 hrs those days. I do have little rests between sets. Also, I'm not going daily. 3x/week minimum, more if I'm so inclined. When the weather is nicer I look forward to walking outside. And gardening too.

Barbara, great to hear from you! I am impressed with you publishing 15 books. Wow! Are they all on Amazon? I think my grands might be interested in your children's books. Sorry about your knee pain. One would think there would be something more that could be done. PRP injections/regenerative medicine? Acupuncture? Have you sought a 2nd opinion?

Iris, enjoy your trip! Next time, request an aisle or window seat. Middle seats are so crowded feeling. And for 9 hours, whoa. Not pleasant. But I know your trip will be pleasant! Enjoy! Before the pandemic we did a Mediterranean cruise and Italy was one of our stops. We went to Rome, Vatican City and Pisa. We took some of those goofy looking photos where we look like we are holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Lorita, hope you did not get bad storms. There seemed to be many around the central part of the country. Where I live, next week will be nicer weather. Hope that is true for you as well.

Carl, I have peonies too. 7 or 8 of them. 3 were dug off my grandparents' and parents' graves. They are special. I just obtained them last year so this year is the first where I will see them bloom. This is just the 2nd spring we have lived in this home so the garden continues to be a work in progress.

Ron, I hope you are feeling better.

HB, enjoy your shopping and let us know what you come home with! We were at Trader Joe's just last week. It was so-o-o-o cold in there that I couldn't bear to stay and look around. We bought what we came for and left. What a pity. We bought their 3-in-one cleanser and 2 tubes of facial sunscreen. I love that sunscreen. It is a clear gel, so you get zero areas of white stuff on your face.

Yesterday was pleasant although storms came in later in the day. Nothing severe here although there were watches and warnings. I went to the gym in the morning where I boxed, did the elliptical and rowed - plus some other things. It was very pleasant "ellipticalling" next to and talking with one of my new gym friends. I enjoy the socialization there. Then I went to a friend's home. She's one of my very closest friends and she also gardens. She and I worked in her garden doing spring cleaning. She also fixed me lunch which was chicken salad sandwiches, chips, and fruit. After lunch my phone gave me a tornado watch and the sky was getting dark so I headed home. I encountered some rain but nothing bad where I am. There were areas where tornados touched down in MN and IL. I saw a Reed Timmer Extreme Meteorologist video of him in the "Dominator 3" entering the actual tornado. That is NUTS!!!

Today will be busy. I'm going to a Master Gardeners' plant sale this morning. It should be a fantastic sale. They have a (my estimate) 1 acre garden that the MGs plant and maintain. It is a show garden…plus they raise veggies and donate lots to a local food pantry. Anyway, they dig/divide plants from their garden plus some of the MGs dig/divide from their personal gardens and bring plants to sell. I can't wait to go spend some $$$ there!

This afternoon we're going to a soccer game of our grandson's. Tonight we are watching the grands while their parents have an evening out.

I hope you all enjoy your weekend. Beth