Spirited and Lively Older Women Thread

It is essential to hide cake. I even have to hide my weight watchers bars!!!

I see the cake here over the pond ! And what a magnificent cake it is.

If I had a go at this it would be lopsided, and all sunk in the middle. HOW does everyone else manage to bake like this ?? My cooking has been a disaster for nearly 50 years. Was bad to start with, and gradually got worse ! I suppose never being interested in cooking in any shape or form doesn't help !! Always saw it as a chore , to be done as quick as possible....my 2 children survived, so suppose it could have been worse.

Isabella.  

Isabella, I found a couple years ago that given the time and ingredients and a good recipe, or at least a base recipe, I can actually cook quite well! I'm not fast though, so since I'm still working full time, hub generally cooks us dinner - he gets home an hour earlier than I do - but on Sundays I'll cook something big and different. I really enjoy it, it just takes me 4 hours, no kidding, to make something that others can probably whip up in an hour. So it has to be a day when I have nothing else going on, which of course doesn't happen too often! I make a killer meat loaf and great chili (white chicken or traditional red) and a few good soups. Our dd is preg, due any day, so last week I made both of us a meatloaf and the chichen chili and froze hers. So she and hub won't starve the first week anyway! I found that when I didn't have to do it ... but wanted to do it ... I got better at it!

I looked and others have complained to the Mods and they are trying to fix it. I think they said they migrated to the cloud.

Probably has to go to Mars and back..

Chabba that's lovely, rain drops on a spider web look like strung diamonds! Did I say lovely? How about beautiful!

What is this cloud thing ?? I keep hearing about things going to clouds, and have no idea what they're talking about.

This is from someone who just bought herself a new printer, and it's still sitting there in its box waiting for 19 yr old Gson to sort it  !!  So clouds to me are something that are over my head !

marlegal...4 hours to cook a dinner ??? My goodness ...THAT'S why cooking is such a waste of my time !!! If my food isn't something fresh, or a dinner out of a box I just do not want to know. 2-3 MINUTES to plate my meals up is all I will do !

Isabella.

The moon over our local lake.

I have a magnet on my frig

"I love to cook with wine

and sometimes I even put it 

in the food" 

Lisa, that's me...yup!! But of course, you already knew that since you shared a room with me for a day!!!

Isabella ~ iCloud stores your content for the iPhone, iPad, iPod. If you lose your phone, etc, you can retreive your music, mail, calendar, documents,contacts, whatever you send there. I don't know what the other smartphones use, maybe the same thing, I don't know. I have an iPhone & I back up to iCloud regularly. I think it works the same way that one would back up their computer files. Content stored in iCloud is pushed wirelessly to your other iOS devices & computers set up with the same iCloud account.



I'm sure there's more to it than that, but that's it in a nutshell.

Isabella, I'm with you. I might have an IOS, or two!! but I'm not sure.... How are we supposed to learn all this stuff when the kids are all grown?? My 18 month old grandson can open his Dad's Iphone (by swiping his finger across) push the right button to get music and then dance while holding the phone to his ear like he's talking to the band!!! Maybe when he's two he can help me with my simple phone...sigh.

I am getting less techno savvy as each day passes.  I was thinking about getting a new phone sometime in the future when my current 5yr old one spits the dummy. 

As I thought about the new phones and learning how to use one, I got such an attack of butterflies I was nearly sick.  It was like thinking about having brain surgery!

I think I might be past my 'use-by' date.

I remember watching my M-i-law many years ago trying to use a new pair of tongs with scissor-like handles.....Only she was using the tongs (two handed) as handles

and trying to pick up the salad with the handles.  I often wondered if she was just not mechanically minded or was she past her 'use-by' date at about age 47.

Being a bit mechanically minded myself, I was quite wary when I hit that age in case I started to get mentally challenged. Nothing worse than a house full of teenage boys

who think you are redundant in the role of a controlling parent.

I didn't seem to get any less smart but my body decided I needed a dose of BC for 48 and grew me some nasties.

I think, if I'd had my d'ruthers, I would have settled for less smarts.

Sheila. 

I still don't have a smart phone..they are soooooo small and I can hardly see to select anything. My DH says I am not trying hard enough. I will stick to my laptop and 7inch tablet. I do want to go 4G but at the moment WIFI is enough with a regular old home phone:-) I do have a wireless phone for emergencies only. And we still have our tube TV

I was waiting to see my Rad Onc today at hospital in next town and thought I would try my Kindle out with the wi-fi.

Well.........I left the page I was reading and went through the steps to connect and then search, then waited.......and waited until

I realised the whole thing seemed to be frozen!  I couldn't even switch it off.

Unfortunately, I was called in to the Dr then and when I came out and checked the Kindle, it had gone to sleep. 

At the end of the day, I'm not even sure I connected to wi-fi but it said it was, so I can only assume it was a very slow connection.

I felt like grabbing one of the children running around and asking them what I had done wrong but that would have busted my cool Grandma factor,

can't have that now, can we?

Sheila.