I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

bluedahlia

OK Linda, CS just gave me a new idea for salads.

Anonymous

BTW: Gardening Grannies can include folks like me who are "Extra Grannies" for very, very special little people, who happen to have been born iinto different families.   We get to SPOIL even more

bluedahlia

Do I look like a granny?

 

OK OK, that was taken 30 yrs ago, but still!

duckyb1

Hey Blue......................no fair cheating.............If I showed a picture from way back everyone would say (like my grandkids did)........................WHO IS THAT...............................Nasty little shits............................

My husband and I had "Honda Scooters", when he was alive.....................we had them at our home down the shore...........I had Red.............he had Black..............the first time we drove them I realized "hey this little sucker can go 45mph"...........................I hit that thing hard, and left my husband behind......him shouting "you do this shit all the time, SLOW DOWN, well I just laughed and kept going.. next thing I know ......................a cop pulled up beside me, and was waving.............I waved back and smiled..................he waved again...................and so did I...................thought................this guy is either an idiot, or overly friendly................finally he shouted "PULL OVER..................................moral of the story...............................never ride a scooter without a HELMET..........................The bastard gave me a ticket..............my husband drove right by laughing..............................never stopped..........................acted like he had no idea who I was......................when I got home he just grinned and said "paybacks are a bitch"..........................and that's true.................he didn't get dinner that night.

AnnNYC

Good luck, Cindy (I'm whispering from inside your purse!)

Thinking of Jancie, too -- who's probably already done with her procedure?  Fingers crossed.

ETA: What a beautiful picture of a beautiful family, Blue!!! ♥♥♥

Anonymous

Jancie  - open it's a very easy solution to a terrible problem.

ducky - great story - just a great story!!  Love your description - nls, "out of the mouths of babes" yup, truth...even I don't recognize me from 30 yr old pictures

bluedahlia

Ducky, you had me LOL!

Sometimes I look back and think how quickly those 30 years went by.  I remember when I was a kid how long summer vacation seemed.

Jancie, hope you're on the mend!

Cindy, good luck!

sewingnut

Ducky,  too  funny.  

lassie11

I want to join the scooter gang too!!  I even have a motorcycle driver's licence from some adventures in the distant and not so distant past. Oh, just figured out that when you say 45 or 75 you mean miles per hour. The fastest I took mine a few years ago was a bit more than 90 km/hour (down hill, by accident) which is close to 55/60 mph. Scared myself and slowed down to the required 80km on that highway. Sold the motorcycle when it had mechanical problems and my grandchildren became more fun. An electric scooter might just fit my speed now!

sewingnut

I want to join too..... I can't paint, but I can sew the patches on our leather jackets (as long as they aren't pink)  =:0)

3monstmama

Happy 500 pages!!!!!  sorry I missed the party.  I was quite busy with roasting veggies (cauliflower and carrots with olive oil and garlic) for pasta as well as roasted potatoes with sauteed morels.  I did have a cherry liquor last night so you may add that to the drinks list.  Something from Clear Creek Distillary in Oregon.

I am not competent to join a scooter gang---can barely balence on a bicycle.  But I have to tell you, I have seen hoards of roving vespa riders out here.  There were about 40 in the group and they were headed to Vashon Island on a sunny day.  We laughed and laughed. . . . so there's either precedent OR a rival gang, take your pick!

slight medical question:  I seem to have pulled a muscle on my zapped side under my arm.  Except it doesn't feel like a normal pull, more like some one tossed me in a dryer and now my skin on one side is too tight if that makes any sense.  Anyrate, its been this way for over a week and I was wondering if anyone ever had that before.  Its rather annoying since I tend to fold my arm under my head to sleep or snuggle monsters and now when I do that, it hurts!

RetiredLibby

Oh, 3m, I had that, too, after rads.  Is it like a pulling under your arm?  Not the skin outside, but the muscle inside?  I discovered that when I was in an exercise class and they told us to lie down and put our arms over our heads.  My radiated arm wouldn't go all the way down and it pulled across my chest and under my arm.  I was surprised because they never told me to expect that, nor did they give me any exercises for it.

I figured out that they had "cooked" my pec and my axilla and they were tight and scarred.  So I started stretching them myself -- walking through doorways with my hands above my head and catching the header and taking another step to stretch the arms out above my head.  Or raising my arms above my head, putting the palms together and bringing them down behind my neck until I felt a pull.  I did anything that made the muscle pull so that it would stretch out.  It eventually did.

Not sure if that's what you were feeling or not -- hope that helped someone.

L

3monstmama

Hey HappyLibby, I will try that.  What annoys the heck out of me is that I finished Zaps last May ('10) so I never figured I'd have side effects now. . .. grrrrrrr.

Maybe this is the motivation I need to start up my yoga class again. . . .now where the heck did I put that groupon for the yoga class?

1Athena1

Jumping out of Jancie's bag and into Cindy's.

I will ride a scooter.

Was writing this message as I got an interruption, so I hope it's still pertinent.

Bren-2007

Just got home from a lovely lunch with my sis .. and checking on Jancie and Cindy.

3Mon .. sorry you're having problems with your arm.  I have chronic pain with mine since rads.  Most of the time I can't get my left arm around back to unhook my bra strap.  And I'm four years out from radiation.  I hope yours improves.

Blue .. what a wonderful pic of you and your kids.  I was so hot when I was even 40 .. that I'm quite sad I'm starting to look old and tired.  Even my sis says that I'm getting to the old side of 50 now!  Isn't she supposed to tell me I'm still beautiful?!?  I thought family was supposed to lie to you!

Hope everyone is having a good day so far,

Bren

bluedahlia

You're beautiful Bren!

Anonymous

Athena, your words are always purrrrtenant

Anonymous

HL

Bet you "over stretched." - it is so, so easy to do.  I still use the "old fashioned" Bob Anderson book on stretching.  That's where I learned I was often "over stretching" actually creating little muscle tears.

ETA:  realized you were responding to 3Monsmom....sorry about confusion

CherrylH

Hi,

Just checking in. I , too want to join the gang. Who is ging to design our patch? I'll be happy to knit one for each of us.

RetiredLibby

Oh, that's OK C-S ... thanks for the tip about overstretching.  I had so few SEs from rads (just a perma-tan for a couple of years and no hair in half my armpit) that I am always surprised when something like that pops up.  I sure was surprised at the pull I felt there!  I still do the stretching to keep it limbered up ... and now, of course, I will learn all kinds of new exercises for keeping my whole upper body limbered up.  I actually have a pre-surgery appointment with a physical therapist who is a lymphedema consultant at the hospital, set up by my PS.  Not that anyone thinks that I will get lymphedma, but they want to prepare me just in case ... and give me exercises to do before surgery.  They think of everything these days!

I can't design the patch -- I have no visual creativity whatsoever.  DH even decorates the house, because all I want are bookshelves and comfy chairs.  He does the rest.

L

Anonymous

do we really need anything but bookcases & comfy chairs?  BW, a comfy chair for me, means a wooden rocking chair, I can even fall asleep in one...

Enjoyful

Same here.  I would vote for green.  Just green, no design.

See why nobody lets me decorate anything?

3monstmama

well don't we need lots of bookshelves and comfy chairs in the clubhouse? 

We get a club house, right? 

thanks for the thoughts from everyone on the stretching.  Annoying Zaps!!! i thought i was done thinking 'bout them......

Bren-2007

I love to decorate!  I have tons of books on decorating and all kinds of crafty stuff.  Of course we have to have a clubhouse for the scooter riders!  Can't be biker chicks without a clubhouse!

hugs,

Bren

RetiredLibby

Yes, we need a clubhouse.  All scooter clubs have clubhouses!  OK!  I'll decorate then!  Bookshelves and comfy chairs for all.  Green for E, blue for me ... nice, restful colors for us to relax in after we go out hell-raising on our scooters and cleaning up the streets, weeding the treelawns and painting mailboxes!

Anonymous

And a BIG sign - "gurls only"

3monstmama

and comfy slippers to wear inside so we never have to clean!!!  I'll start knitting them now......

I would like a purple chair please. . . or just one with purple cushions. . .

Anonymous

we never have to clean - just wear OLD socks and slide around the floor.  Best way to clean wooden floors, IMHO.

RetiredLibby

Oh, purple and green and blue go together beautifully!  Purple chair it is, 3M!

Anonymous

Purple & green - we could also call it Barneyville