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

Betrayal, trust an inquisitive cat to walk in the paint. Lol. Glad your painting work is getting done and you can get rooms back into order. You're fortunate to have a good, reliable painter in the family.

My hair stylist did some "shaping up." Surprisingly, a longer hair style isn't more difficult than the shorter style I had for many years. "Longer" is down just past my ears. Afterwards I went to the Walmart, which is much newer than the Walmart in our area. The produce department was a mess but I found a bag of green beans to cook for dinner. The prices in Walmart on many items are definitely cheaper than prices in the supermarkets near us, but the supermarkets are more convenient. We have an ongoing list on the kitchen island.

Wishing everyone a good Wednesday.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

Happy birthday, Abe.

Canarycat - good to ‘see’ you. I’m also watching the Olympics. Piper and Paul had a wonderful skate so I was happy to see them win a medal. I loved Piper’s skating costume. Personally I thought the U.S. should have taken the gold but the French skaters were very artistic and graceful.

betrayal - glad your painting is getting done so you can move onto the next project.

Cindy - I love that you go to the music fests. It’s a bit cold here to do that. It’s in the high 30s and a bit of sun today so I’ll go out for a walk later.

Intolight - the knitted dolls are adorable.

Carole - we are also working on jigsaw puzzles. We’ve completed six small 4”x6” puzzles and are now moving onto a 1000 piece puzzle. The small puzzles are quick but those pieces are so tiny I need to wear my reading glasses.

Taco - thank you for the suggestion of looking into a craft store for crocheting lessons.

Waving ‘hi’ to all.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Baltasar Gracian

I had a new experience today - I went to a "Galentine" Party. I'd never heard the term before but have since seen it several times. Ladies party - lots of champaign and lovely appetizers and mini deserts for a very reasonable price. Five of us went together and just had a fun visit. I was pleased that when I asked for a non-alcoholic alternative, I got nice sparkling cider instead of fruit juice. They also had chair massage available for those who wanted it. She was good.

There will be 8 at our usual Saturday dinner tomorrow and that's really too many for our table so we've decided to just get pizzas and eat on paper plates in the living area. I'll wash down the patio if Ella and her friend want to be outside. I can't imagine that two 15 year-olds really appreciate the adult company.

We haven't seen as much of the olympics as some of you but was really impressed with the snowboarding last night. That super male skater was the guest performer at Ella's holiday show a year ago. I think he's from AZ.

Petite, you know how great I think it is that you've found that second home even if some days it seems like you will never get everything fixed.

Have a good weekend everyone.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

Charles M. Schulz

Happy Valentine's Day.

Teka, you have a loving one. A real keeper.

Taco, what a wonderful party.

Betrayal, your work on the house makes me tired.

Cindy, your armadillo sounds cute, even though they are not soft and furry. I haven't watched the Olympics at all. I don't think I can without shelling out more money, and I have been spending too much lately.

Cindy and Carole, I have used a brush/dryer for several years. Nice to coax a bend at the ends, but lately it has been straight.

Petite, your second home sounds like a wonderful retreat even now. I hope you get it up to your standards soon.

Harley, your puzzles look like a great way to spend the time. But I did one about four months ago, and I did almost nothing else for a week. Now I am obsessing with Facebook and MSN homepage. Never ends.

Canarycat, glad you are keeping up. I have a mammo on Thursday, the day before hand surgery.

My cleaner came in on Monday, did the oven, cabinet under the sink, futon cover, and a few other things that I can't manage on my own. I rearranged my bins. Garbage, recycling, and soft plastics. First two covered. I am happy with the coffee and tea corner, and the more accessible microwave.

Our snow is melting like crazy. Usually, the snow depositories don't completely melt until May.

I experimented with MSM, Boswellia, and turmeric for arthritis (in addition to the gabapentin), but I couldn't remember one moment from the next. I stopped it in prep for surgery, will resume at half-dose after.

Tippy and I are getting interested in discussing what is on the calendar for "today" and "tomorrow." He doesn't like surprises. The weather is another interesting subject for conversation. Soon we will change "rain" for "snow", and then "hot" for "cold". We already have "nice". He has been getting "paw medicine", will continue it past wintertime to desensitize him to uncomfortable grooming procedures.

I have been eating two eggs (in cups) and toast for breakfast instead of cereal. One day last week I had cereal and a hot chocolate, and again had diarrhea. Yup. Now I have figured out the offender. About two years ago I was drinking Silk Soymilk in the possibility that I had lactose intolerance, but decided it was too expensive. I am taking a cab to get groceries today. My friend drinks Fair Life, which is awfully expensive, but I don't want to talk about it. Cab fare is up to $5 anywhere in town for seniors.

Happy Valentine's Day to all. Quiet day for us here. Weather warmer into the 40's and we are getting some melting finally.

I decided to write a family history on a maternal lineage that I haven't given much attention to recently. I had been able to track the family back as far as 1771 in the US, with roots originating in France. So I started to write up a brief history of this first family with plans to do the same for each subsequent generation. I started finding so much new information on Ancestry that was interesting that I started to lose my focus on my original plan. So today, I started with my 4th great grandfather (the first here) and will write a few paragraphs about each generation including information on spouses, names of their children and their respective spouses, and then the number of children by gender each had, but not providing more information on them. I wanted to, but it was becoming confusing and cumbersome since they had a tendency to repeat family first names within the same generation. There are still gaps with surnames for some of the wives, or some children that were born and then there are no further records on them. Where did they go? Philadelphia closed so many of the older cemeteries and if they did transfer the remains to another site, the new sites have no information on them. Many of the closed cemeteries tossed their grave markers thrown into the Delaware River rather than transfer them, and every year there is a report of them being found at low tides.

One cemetery I visited about 20 years ago, with my cousin and her DH, was in such disrepair then we couldn't find the grave site in what was an overgrown jungle, littered with old box springs, and disabled autos. So much for perpetual care. The relative was a Civil War Veteran buried with his extensive family including his sister-in-laws, and sometimes their deceased offspring. It has since been purchased, cleaned up with some order restored, but the original records were in shambles so they erected large plaques listing the names of families buried there whose grave sites are not intact anymore. I have found the records for some, but if there were grave markers, they have long ago disappeared. It's in a neighborhood I would no longer feel safe in visiting, sadly.

So today, I decided to regain my focus and do one generation at a time until I reached my great-grandfather. From this generation on I should be able to flesh out the family using census, birth and death records and some family records. Census records prior to 1850 do not provide the names of the family members, just a count based on gender by age group and the age groups are spreads like 1-5, so no help.

My niece who got married in November 2024, notified me today that she is pregnant and ecstatic. I am so happy for her and her DH. It was such a nice Valentine's Day present. So it looks like the baby will be due in August. Maybe a birthday present for me? They know the gender, but my niece loves to plan and execute events, so I am sure a gender reveal party is in the works.

I did clean in the dining room, finishing the glass inserts for the shelves, and reinstalled them in the china closet. I did also clean the interior of the cabinet, cleaned the glass doors (interior and exterior) and hopefully tomorrow I will start looking at what will return to the base drawers and storage areas. I did reline the drawers recently so they are good to go.

Hope everyone had a great day and waving "hi" to everyone.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

Galileo Galilei

What I know now is that we're all interconnected and that's a really beautiful thing. We have links to everyone else in our lives and in the world. Different people have different journeys for different reasons. You can't judge, but you can celebrate that there are connections everywhere.

Jane Seymour

This is before everything turned brown.

@petite1 Lovely cottage.

I went to my first book club meeting in our community. I adored the book - " The Correspondent." It took place in Annapolis, MD and was about a quirky women who writes letters. Highly recommend but women in our group who listened instead of read the book said it took getting used to due to the letter format of the book.