Lets Post our Daily Exercise
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Karen - Deepest sympathies on the loss of your family friend. As is said in your faith "May her memory be for a blessing."
In the greater Cincinnati/N Kentucky area, we are on the borderline of "the big storm". Hoping it misses us.
Continuing with all the Silver Sneakers (SS) zoom offerings and also zoom classes by local Cancer Support Community. SS has changed some of the offerings. Bummed that they no longer offer the Cardio Dance classes taught by ballroom dancers. These classes were based in the UK & it was always such fun to learn some fun dance moves.
Speaking of the UK - Where is Lilac Blue?
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I just sent Lilac a PM. Hopefully see will see it & report in.
We got 6 inches of snow between last night & today (which is half of what was predicted), so it was a cleanup day. I feel about 80% normal today, tired though. I will probably do something light tomorrow & get back to a normal exercise schedule on Sunday. Sounds like some of you in the East will be getting some of our bad weather.....stay safe!
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Karen-sorry for the loss of your dear friend.
Ruth- glad you’re feeling a bit better.
Super cold weather here for the weekend. My Christmas gift from DH was an overnight in Newport staying at an Airbnb. We go tomorrow and it’s gonna be single digits and windy. Brrr.
My preschool classes were in quarantine this week and since I was exposed, I had to be out M and T and have a negative test to return due to my cold symptoms last week. Went back Wednesday and was put in to sub for 4th grade.(we only have 2 subs in our district right now and lots of sick staff and kids) Last time I subbed was 1984 and I forgot what a challenge it can be;I am looking forward to getting my own class back next week!
Stay warm and healthy everyone!
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Karen: I am so sorry for your loss!
Ruth: I have also been laid low this week by a COVID-like (but also negative by PCR) illness, but doing better today, just very limited exercise tolerance! I like your meme. THat is our forecast for sure. Tonight it is to be -18 (probably a bit colder at our altitude) but without the strong winds we had last night. Tomorrow should be sunny, then we have a storm with somewhere between 0 and 84" depending on the forecast. Well, no one is actually predicting less than 4", last I saw for our "favored location" 8-12" was the official forecast, but I am hoping for a couple feet at least.
Ginger: Have fun! Even if is cold you can have a romantic time in a space not-your-own!
I did some rowing this morning then have been doing a mad amount of what I can only describe as early spring-cleaning! My sewing nook is a small space on the landing outside our bedroom that has become a place to put piles of "stuff" when ever guests were coming over. And of course, those piles just built up. Plus, somehow yarn and fleeces and roving and fabric and notions kept miraculously appearing in our house.... and especially the yarn and not-yet yarn was all mixed up. So I have been sorting and organizing and TOSSING and cleaning! Not through yet but already a big difference! Tomorrow I have some knitting and spinning and sewing on my agenda!!! And get back on the treadmill and try to do some running. Sign up for Bolder Boulder is coming right up, if it hasn't already opened!
Everyone stay warm and cozy!
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Yes - are you in CO? I haven't seen anything about the Bolder Boulder, but I'm not a racer so wouldn't be on the look out for it.
DD#1 co-worker tested positive for Covid. She was at work all last week, though she wore a mask. My daughter is furious that their boss let her stay at work. DD is worried about Covid and she is fully vaxxed and got her booster the beginning of January, not quite 2 weeks ago.
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My family are in Evergreen (almost Conifer), one of my nephews in is Boulder, a niece is in Greeley, and that niece is getting married between Greeley and Boulder a week before the Bolder Boulder. I am in Vermont, but since family are gathering for the wedding we (my sister , another niece and nephew and a bunch of my cousins) are planning to run the race the next week.
How infuriating about your daughter's co-worker!
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Yes, when we first moved to CO 36 years ago, we lived in N. Evergreen for 5.5 years then moved down the mountain. We moved houses twice in Denver and have been in the house 28+ years. Prior to moving to CO, VT was one state my DH and I would have considered moving to, but once we got to CO, New England fell off the list as the weather in CO is so much better. I love VT. When I was a kid we would go to Stowe on a regular basis. Also Lake George and Plattsburgh. One year when I was young, my uncle took me to Stowe and to the Trapp family lodge and one of the daughters answered. I don't remember the connection my uncle had with the family, but he had an invitation. I haven't been in that area for over 25 years. The year before DH and I got married we went to Stowe on way to Montreal. We have a great photo taken on the Trapp family property with the mountains in the background. I should take a photo of the picture and post it here. It's one of my DH's favorite photo of me. I was just a kid - well we both were!!!!
Going to do my banking then bake. I asked both my DH and my DS what cookies they want me to bake and got DK. Then DH asked for Mexican wedding style cookies but I don't have powdered sugar. DH also wants this streusel cake but I need more pareve sour cream. I don't think I have enough for 2/3 cup. I wonder if 1/2 cup plus 1/3 cup margarine would work but I don't remember if it call for butter/margarine or oil or neither so need to check the recipe. I do often substitute ingredients. Everything I bake is pareve (not dairy and not meat, not vegan either as I use eggs so I guess you could call it vegetarian).
Those in the way of the storm, stay safe, stay warm.
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Hi everyone,
I got moved in 2 days ago and busy with unboxing. I am convinced that I must be the original "Material Girl!" I got fog for the drive, but no snow which was a blessing. Right now, it's glorious sunshine out but I am stuck inside working on the final report that is due Tuesday. The Topline was a home run, which is marvelous news. I am hoping for more work there.
My exercise has been lifting, bending, walking back and forth, and stairs as I live one flight down. My new place is wonderful, and it feels like I have my own private walled garden. Lots of room for planters at the edges of my patio, enough for a real garden of herbs, tomatoes, and flowers. About 24' of growing space, plus planters for geraniums. I think I can even do roses in tubs!
My electric fireplace arrives Wednesday. It will be lovely to sip my morning tea in front of it. My sofa bed fits into my new office. People here are super friendly with one upstairs neighbor offering her buff boyfriend to help with any lifting and another offering his stepladder for when I put up artwork.
Will report on how assembling the electric fireplace goes.
Next up is ordering garage shelves plus ones with casters for the laundry room. Those should be perfect for all the small appliances.
I have read everything so am up to date. Enjoying the sun that is streaming through the windows. More later.
So thrilled that I made this move. Now to get everything unpacked. YIKES!!!! - Claire
p.s. I have discovered the real purpose of boxed wine. It's for when your corkscrew is in one of 30 possible boxes. I shall eventually get there. I can't believe how wonderful it is to have a place to store my cutting board, plus a myriad of other items. Feel like I am in the lap of luxury.
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Sounds like a wonderful, exciting time, Claire. Enjoy!!
Hope everyone in the path of the winter storm can stay safe. What a dreadful winter it has been just about everywhere.
I'm still on the 'injured reserved' list. Yesterday I was still coughing randomly & very tired. So I have given up trying to push myself & will have to wait it out. I could have gone to yoga today (and been fine) but was at a visitation at a funeral home instead. The mother of some good friends has passed away. The Prayer Service and funeral are both going to be BIG. Since we just aren't comfortable in a large crowd of people right now (because of how fast Covid is spreading combined with the lack of vaccinated North Dakotans), we decided to go early to the visitation when there wouldn't be many people around. We'll watch the funeral on the church's live-stream. Sad how the virus is still dictating so much of our lives.
Karen, how interesting to read about your connection with the Trapp family. I would love to see that picture if you can find it!
Maybe tomorrow I can report some actual exericse!!
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Karen: I'm so sorry about your friend's passing. Hope the mask was enough protection for your dd so she doesn't get sick.
Celia: Too bad that SS stopped offering the dance class you have been enjoying. I have also wondered where LB is. Hope she responses to Ruth's message.
Ginger: How was your Christmas gift?
YesIAm: I have an area just like you described. Always a mess until I clear it out so it can start to get cluttered again. It's mainly papers and mail so easy to address. Question: do you spin your own yarn???
Claire: All sounds absolutely wonderful. So Happy for you! You deserve all of this and more.
Ruth: Ugh. Sorry you're not all the way better yet. I'm sure you want to be at the funeral for your friends but you're doing the right thing. Live streaming church funerals have become popular. I think they will be here for a long time.
Hi All! I had my mammo on Friday and passed with flying colors. Always a relief to get those results. Yesterday was Girl Scout Cookie Delivery Day. It's outside for several hours and always cold. Yesterday was no different. Luckily it wasn't scheduled for today bc we had 3-4 inches of snow, sleet, rain.
I've been walking regularly except for today.
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Ruth - I'll take a picture of the photo - DH has it in his office. The picture does not have the lodge in it, but the mountains in the background. I'll then post it from my phone. The photo is from September 1976. I really wouldn't say a connection with the Trapp family. I don't even remember why my uncle or who my uncle knew. That was in the 1960s. The Trapp family lodge was destroyed by a fire in 1980. I believe that they rebuilt the lodge. It was a "hotel" so to speak, thought Maria and at least one of her kids lived there (I just googled to see when the fire was - my memory is not that good!!). The Sound of Music is my favorite movie, so of course when in Stowe, you visit the tourist Trapp family lodge!
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I think the photo in the black frame was taken during a hike but both photos on the same day. September 1976 0 -
Karen, I can vouch for the view. Just to the right of your head in the distance is where I grew up. This was a pasture where they raised Highland Cattle. Just down the road was Johannes' house where I babysat for his young children.
You may have met my late friend Kathy who was waitressing there at the time.
The Baroness was quite different from the image she presented. Let's just say that I did not appreciate being considered one of the "peasants of Stowe." Ironic that her grandchildren have an award-winning dairy in Waitsfield.
Johannes went on to do many good things including preserving the mountains you see in the distance where I hiked with our dog Tippie. No worries when she was around! (I still miss her. She would plunge into flowing water when 10F and then roll in the snow. Perhaps I am her real daughter as she never had puppies.)
The last time I was there, I got to ski a trail called the "Hairline." Spectacular winter views of the valley. Must get there again.
Hard to believe that Johannes is now in his 80s. I remember him as a dashing man in his 30s. Must see what happened to the children.
A hard life for all of us. Hardly the "Sound of Music." - Claire
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What a cool connection we have discovered between Karen & Claire!! And what darling pictures of you & DH, Karen.
I would not be at all surprised to learn that you were somehow Tippie's human daughter, Claire!
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cancer meds means: I have the time and energy to exercise, but because I took my meds 2 hours late every work out is interrupted multiple times to run to the bathroom
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NotAsCalm: Sorry about the bathroom trips! The good news is, it all still adds up.
We have a lovely winter wonderland here. Really hoping it does NOT change to rain during the afternoon.
I have registered for the BolderBoulder now. I can always walk it if I need to, but am up to 8 minutes on my running intervals. I have my EMG/Nerve Conduction Studies (finally!) this Friday and I sure hope they are helpful in terms of neurology being able to HELP me with my balance issues. Yesterday I hit a wrong button on my treadmill and couldn't figure out how to cancel so ended up doing some of my intervals at 7% grade. My behind is sore today!
ETA: Wonderland: yes, i do spin. I also have a collection of antique spinning wheels in various states of repair, along with many types of spindles for various tasks.
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I went to Pound tonight, which felt great after a week of doing nothing!
Also, today I made a donation to my local Humane Society in honor of Betty White's 100th birthday. A neat way to honor her.
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Ruth - I also donated to a local rescue in honor of Betty's 100th birthday. Glad that you are feeling better
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I somehow missed that today was Betty White's 100th birthday. Something about having taken on far too much at once and today was the date that it all caught up with me. I was frantically trying to finish up a report forgetting that the 20th is Thursday, not Wednesday!
What this means is that I am in extremely good shape as have most of the backend work and thinking done. This will give me time to think through the refinements and deliver something outstanding.
I discovered that they were fortunately able to rent my old apartment prior to the end of December. This means that my financial obligation was one-third what I had originally planned on with monies directed at the extra packing hours and boxes for the move and now things to store my loot. Put in a large Amazon order for garage shelves, organizers, and the like. While I have lots more kitchen and pantry space, I don't have a linen closet.
I also ordered a multi-pot lid which can live underneath the stove. I didn't have room for one before. But now, I have a home for my baking tins, so free space. No more grungy pie plates!
Glorious full moon this evening. Spectacular sky. Attaching a picture from yesterday's early evening walk....a true incentive to get out the door as just a half mile walk from here. - Claire
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Karen: LOVE your photos! How special that your dh has them in his office.
YesIAm: I'm so impressed that you spin your own yarn! You possess a unique talent that so few people have.
Ruth: Sounds like you are feeling much better.
Claire: Pretty! Looking forward to more pictures from your new location.
Not much exercise today. I shoveled the sidewalk and also made a Swedish snowball lantern called a Snolykta. I saw one a couple of years ago and wanted to make one ever since. I placed solar powered lights in the center.
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Beautiful, Claire!
Wonderland, very neat & mysterious lanterns.
I went to Sift & Lift this morning. It's a good thing I did because we are now in the middle of a blizzard and everything is cancelled and shut down.... this will be followed by arctic air. What a long winter this is becoming! I did an indoor walking DVD this afternoon.
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Karen, Claire and Wonderland - Enjoyed your photos.
Wonderland - How does one construct the snowball lantern? Very pretty.
Ok, RuthBru, I just have to know what type of exercises are done in Sift & Lift. Sounds intriguing.
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Here is the official description of Sift & Lift:
SH1FT and L1FT
SH1FT and L1FT is the perfect class for those looking to tone and burn calories! With the combination of body weight and light weight exercises, participants will experience a total body workout that focuses on functional fitness. No matter your fitness level, these safe and gradual progressions will help improve your balance, agility, flexibility and overall strength.
*the instructor concentrates on a different area of the body each class. Today we did lower body, repeating a series of exercises twice through (30 minutes worth) and then we did 15 minutes of abs.....two reps through the series of exercises. You pick what size weights to use (or not use weights at all) so you can make harder or easier.
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wonder-love the snolytka.
We were supposed to get freezing rain over night but thankfully it hadn’t started yet.
Got to jump in the shower. Will fill in about work tonight
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Sunny here but very cold. The windchill right now is -35....tomorrow sounds even worse. Here's the Wednesday Walking Women doing our thing.
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Drizzle this morning and this evening - first day in a long time that I didn't get a walk outside. The school I"m at now on W,TH is an old high school building (1920s) and is 3 floors - so I walked to the 3rd floor one end hall to the other down the steps and a couple more trips. After dinner, I walked around the house and up and down the steps to the basement a few times. I miss the outside walk, but DH and I both wimped out tonight. It's 18F. Normally, we would have bundled up but didn't feel like it tonight. But also worried about it being slick out. DH is on Plavix and says he's cold now when he didn't used to be - either its the Plavix or by-pass surgery unclogging his arteries. Tomorrow it will be in the 40s.
Ordered 4 free antigen home tests from the government. Now want to get KN95 masks. I've been wearing cloth over surgical masks for a better fit. At least. in my office if I'm alone, I can take it off so. not the whole 8 hours with the mask on - but I wouldn't do it any other way.
Ruth - 18 with wind chill of 10 is nothing compared to your weather. Stay warm and safe
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I am smiling this morning as done with the consulting project. My client just loved the final report, so that is in my rear-view mirror. This means that I can concentrate on finishing up the unpacking and on putting my electric fireplace together.
Dismal out with temps just above freezing and cold pelting rain. Boxes will go into my car later to take to the dump (or rather transfer station, but I prefer the 4-letter word).
The kitchen and larder are now mostly set up. I will say that it's wonderful to have potholders again and not need paper towels to protect from the oven. Even nicer to have ample storage for my pots and pans.
I can't believe that I finally made it to this point. Hoping to get out skiing this weekend. It's been far too long. - Claire
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Pound this morning. Tomorrow we hopefully take off for a week in Arizona. We have vouchers from two years ago that are about to expire and friends in Mesa who invited us down for the week. They are vaxed, boosted & careful (as are we). Covid is horrible around here and bad there too, but at least we can be outside. We are flying Alligient in and out of small airports so are hoping for the best (also hoping to beat the next system which rolls through tomorrow...argh!!).
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Have fun Ruth, I know how you look forward to this mid-winter respite each year...and how you have missed some recently.
Here in SE Virginia we have had a cold spell (20's) with 2 inches of snow...everything closed early!
Stay safe/warm everyone. TT
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