Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?

This is what happen on Friday morning on the ship....my husband did the  whole walk and I did a little bit...the got a donation from both of us, so didn't really have to walk, we both got caps.

Termite, I am doing well ... thanks for asking.  I hope the student you wrote about gets help so that the melt downs stop.  So sad to see children suffering.

Lois, Di, and Sandra, you all look so happy ... you must have had a wonderful time.  Thanks for sharing the pics.

Chevy and Cami ... so enjoy your repartee!

Alaska Angel, Sandra, Di, love those pics!  I notice the cozy jackets that are typical summer wear in Alaska.  And the pole dance...hysterical!

Cammi, you are way too funny....can you and Chevy do a Saturday Night Live?  in Crocs, of course. 
Cammi, my job isn't terrible.  I just am spoiled and have the summer off (without pay, so I guess not too spoiled)...so when I have to go back, I whine and complain.  Anyway, I have a physically easy job but because I want to have my own classes and don't have seniority, I have to teach late afternoon and evening classes.  So, two days a week, I leave my house at 7 am and don't get home until almost 10 pm.   That's what is doing me in.  But I like what I do.  And nobody's watching over me.

Chevy, when you give DH the phone you should flip that story and tell him that you want him to have it in case YOU need HIM when he's out on the town...how could he turn you down? 

Jackie, I loved hearing about your adventures. It's amazing how you got the courage to leave home and move around for those years.   I know there are a lot of well-traveled ladies on this thread.  I have always had an adventurous streak; but I am able to do more traveling now than when I was younger. 

I had a great day at Yankee Stadium but went with an injured knee (not sure how) and had to park far and walk a lot.  DH had an ice bag for my knee and dinner waiting when I got home. 
Work in a few hours...going to try to sleep. 

Hi girls. We got back to San Antonio last night at 10:30 pm after a l-o-n-g but smooth day of travel. Ten days of fun has taken it's toll and I've been in my recliner all day. May not get out of it tomorrow either! I have lots of pages of back posts to go through.

Here are a few more photos from our Seattle meet up.

Morning gals~ Oh, I love the pictures! I must
have missed them before! I love being able to see who you all are...... So
don't go changing seats, or I will forget!

Ha, Hah! Pole dancing! You little devil's you!
That's too funny! Oh, I see what it was.... we posted at the same time
Di!

Jackie, yes..... "Neighbor's." I really am getting used
to our neighbor on the one side, but the NOISE he makes when he starts up that
damn Corvette in the garage, would just blast your hearing aids out of your
head! He is such a MORON! I'm trying to not SAY anything, but DANG! I
really like his Great Dane Thanos though. That dog is hilarious! I give him
dog biscuits whenever he is out front, and sometimes he wants to play... He
weighs about 170 pounds, so when he starts bouncing around, up and down his
porch down onto the sidewalk, I am afraid he will hurt his legs! But we like
each other....

Cammi, isn't it funny, when we LOOKED good, we didn't even
notice.... like it was just fun being young, and people noticed.... But those
days came and gone, and I just wish I KNEW I looked good when I did.

You had white jeans? With what YOUR job was? And I'll
bet they were tight too!

I'll bet you looked right dandy with that which ever
husband it was! I don't have a horse.... by the way....

I have a.... MAN, I can't think of what to SAY to THAT
one! Ha, ha! I laughed out loud, and DH stirred, meaning I was making too much
noise.... Tough.

Now Jackie, you are in on this WITH her! She just thinks
she is funny.... at my expense.... and I LOVE it!

Her and all her blabbin' about me and my little Pony. I
became famous after that.  They even made a toy because of me.... and my little pony.

You know, I was soooo short in school, that I was shorter
than anybody in my class. Someone must have stomped on me when I was born...
One time...(I remember this, and felt so awkward afterwards).... A Photographer
came to school, and had me and this other little (big) girl stand outdoors
together, and he took a picture of us backwards. This was because she was the
tallest and I was the shortest.... but I think it made us BOTH feel like
freaks! It was going to be put in a magazine, explaining how "some" children
are different heights, but are still normal. Or some damn thing!

I SHOULD have turned around and kicked him in the knee.... or even
higher, but I couldn't reach him there. I would have fallen......

Di, you gals looked so happy there with your Husbands and all!

And Morning Sally... glad you are doing alright!

Oh Joan, that is a GOOD one! Yes, Cammi's brilliance is
catching on! And even when we are up in Central City, and he walks all aROUND
the town, if we need each other, we could just call! THAT"S what I will
do....!!! Thank you!

YOU have someone like him? I mean that stubborn?

I, we, don't travel either.... just never had enough money to do that....
We traveled to Wyoming once to fish though... And I flew to see my folks in San
Francisco when my oldest was 8 months old, but we never moved around much...

Your Husband was soooooooo sweet to do that for you!

Di, don't even try and figure it out.... Cammi and I are on our
own adventure..... even if it IS all in our own heads.... Ha! Except,
SHE is the trampy one.... I am the Pole Dancer... or at least I WAS....
SHE.... it was SHE that greased that pole, so I would fall off....She says it
was an accident, but I SAW that she had bag-balm in her hand, and she was
standing there laughing!

She uses Bag Balm not only for her toast, but she carries it around in her
little knap-sack for her dried up little hands..... not to MENtion her feet!  Sheesh!

More fun pictures Sandra! I'll bet your DH was holding a Bloody
Mary?

MAN it looks cold there! I would LOVE Alaska! Or was that in Seattle?
Couldn't be.

I found this article about Joan River's Husband.... I'm still in
shock because of what happened to her.... We watched an older show she used to
have, about "How'd you get so Rich?" And she comes up with some real
zingers!

The show is coming on again, sometime soon....She had it on every week... like a series....

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20097002,00.html

Hi Blondie, Puffin, and Chevy.

Joan, it's wonderful that you love your job.  I always said I got paid for my hobby because I loved mine too.

Sandra, thanks for the pictures.  

Teka, I am thinking of your "coffee" pictures as I wait to have mine ... 30 minutes after Fosamax ... today the wait seems long.

Good Morning.   I sure enjoyed reading the article about Joan Rivers.  I recall ( I was fairly young then ) her husband committing suicide and just thinking of it as odd.   Just thought it was due to health issues -- which it was, but it was much deeper than that. 

It will be interesting to hear if an autopsy will show why this rather routine procedure ended her life.  I "understood" from the first time they said she was rushed to Mt. Sinai that likely you could expect a bleak prognosis.   After, when they said she was on life support I knew it was just a question of time till her loved ones got used to the idea. 

Just does show that we don't know when.....and we likely won't know too much about the how and why either maybe.  Of course, most of these things that are done have side effects and as this shows, they can be pretty darn negative.  There are always warnings, but sometimes you just have to do whatever it is on the chance that doing nothing is just as bad or worse.  So, I wondered right off if whatever they were going to be 'looking' for or at, had something to do with the dire results. 

I always love pictures.  The more the merrier.  Anywhere I am, if there are pictures around I'm looking at them.  Doesn't matter if I know the people in them or not.  Most pictures are taken when families or people are enjoying themselves and I never get tired of "enjoying" someone else's enjoyment.

Will be a bit warmer here today, but still should be fine.  We are actually going to have a couple of days that only get up to the mid- 60's which will be a real preview of Fall.  It has been coming on with the change in the grass which has lots of brownish patches now.  The trees have dropped a  lot of acorns and nuts, and even a couple of errant dried up leaves.  They are ok for now, but I know it is just a question of temperature changes and they will start looking tired and ready to begin the process in earnest of dropping their leaves.  Then a lot of our heavy Fall work will begin.

I love all the seasons and towards the end of our/my 25 yrs. living in southern California, I really became lonesome for those seasons.  You might know, we were only back home here a very slight few days ( less then a week, I think ) when we had a 'freak' snowfall in April.  It didn't last but the flowers that had popped out on the little redwood trees were covered with snow for a few hours.  Well --- trial by fire there.....I got my induction back into seasons rather soundly.

Off and running for the day -- a big hi to all my favorite people -- whether they strip or not.

Blessings

Jackie 

"The sun actually does produce sound - like a deep kettle drum, it reverberates once every 5 minutes or so (this is from the pulsing of the magnetic fields in the interior of the sun). 

But we can't hear that sound since sound needs a medium (like air or water) to carry.

Smell - no. Smell also requires air to carry the molecules, plus smell needs an olfactory sense organ (like a nose) to detect those smells"

So okay.... what else do you want to know....  .

A few more from Ketchikan.

Picking out exactly the right pole for our "dance." Appropriate that we were in front of the most famous house of ill repute in Ketchikan, Dolly's House.

Mike and I took the tour and I believe I found your initials carved into the wall in one of the rooms, Chevy.

Way to go, Di! Very cool - what a great way to complete the trip!

A.A.

Di, what an honor! Congratulations.

Chevy, isn't this a photo of you back in the day? It was taken in the doorway of Dolly's House.

or maybe you were one of these?

Some breath-taking pictures there.  Loved being in the forest with you, and watching the Eagle.

Jackie

Hi All,

Really did enjoy all the Pics.  Of course it is late.  Our hot water heater bit the dust on Sat.  DH had another that he had bought used a few years ago, so have been making modifications, but not quite done yet.  Have a big mess in back hallway and need to do laundry.  DH and his friend are going out into the desert tomorrow to gather yucca, so guess I will take DGD to school and come home and mop floors and clean bath.  I just can't keep up anymore. 

It could be worse, back in the winter of 1971-1972 we lived at Lake Ponderosa in Iowa.  Everything froze up solid and I carried 5 gal buckets of water and boiled them on the stove for baths, etc. Mind you I was also pregnant with out first born.  We would wake up with snow on the head board of our bed.  Talk about an experience.  We made it through and are still married. Such fun

Everyone take care

Hugs

Well Blondie.... See, Cammi asked what
Sunshine smelled like, so I of course had to look it up, and explain it all to
her... because she is somewhat computer researching challenged sometimes... So
I helped her out.

Oh WoW Mommarch! I can just see you with snow on that
head board! You must have had a coal-stove or something? And didn't keep it
going through the night? Our pipes have frozen HERE in some of our
Winters.... And our washer is on the North side of our house, so the pipes to
that, are in-between the walls on that side, and yes, it really
freezes.

When I know it will get down to maybe 15-20 below zero,
I'll fill the washer with hot water, to sit overnight.... and that helps. And
we let the faucets in the kitchen and bathroom drip a little, just so it won't
freeze.

I know Iowa gets about the same weather WE do in the
Winter.... You were a work-horse, back in the day! Sheesh!

Di and Sandra, what a great trip! I LOVE the photo's
also... Alaska HAS to be one of the most beautiful States we have!

And Sandra, you and Angel AND Di, just KNEW that was a
photo of me.... Ha, ha! Yes, I miss going to work every day!

That is where I honed my pole dancing skills! Did the
guys keep asking for me?

Di, you know your Avatar? Is that a picture of someone we
should know about? You are really pretty.... So is your DH.... I mean
handsome!

That Eagle and the Whales are magnificent!

Morning Jackie and all! Cammi must have had a hard
night.... You know talking on the phone with those guys on that "service" she
provides, just wears a gal out sometimes.

Morning every one.  It sure is pretty out and still nice and cool. mommarch, I think you are so close to being a pioneer woman --- and I'm sure if you were you'd have been a superb one.

I can totally agree with how difficult it can be to keep up.  Since we live by the lake, it also means that there is more dirt -- no pavement out here --  so dirt filtering in to the house is a rather constant thing.   Also with indoor cats -- there  is always a little hair where we don't want it.  Dh could be abit more help but he usually pretends he doesn't see a lot of what has to be obvious if I catch a glimpse with my eye-sight. 

Our house growing up was pretty cold back in the bedroom area.  We heated with an old coal stove for many, many years....then switched over to a stoker furnace which is actually, really small coal which was added to one side of the furnace which was a hopper that constantly fed coal to the furnace.  Great innovation for someone like us and did keep the whole house warmer.

As kids though ( and I was always underwt. then ) carrying the coal to the house to fill the hopper was  -- at least we thought --  far from a fun chore.    It was a way of life then, and I do feel like my early indoctrination help set the stage for making me something of a hard worker.   My dad used to say about some of the work at home we were asked to do --- "do it, it will build character" and I'll be darned, I think he was right. 

I learned I really could and as well, I learned I did not turn to dust or get worked to death, and I learned that when you feel a sense of accomplishment you feel good about yourself.  Still, being honest, there were a number of times when those attributes had less importance -- when a little resentment crept in while I was held back by chores when I really wanted to go have fun NOW !!

I guess that old quote is right -- what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.  Well that must mean that most of us here could knock a mountain off its' foundation, don't you think.

Working this morning, walking this afternoon and in between a lot of "stuff" that needs attention.  The merry-go-round may slow down momarch, but it never stops. 

Hi and big hugs to all. 

Blessings

Jackie