For Older People with Sense

Alyson, thanks for sharing the wonderful news about your grandnephew.  I know you and everyone else are thrilled, and with just the best reason!!

Chrissy, you've got good news too, being home at last!  I'm sure you're more at ease there.  You keep on letting DH wait on you, too!

I never played golf or tennis.  At the time I went to college, we were required to take a form of PE each semester.  My freshman year all the upperclassmen got the best classes, and my roommate and I got field hockey, the only class left which wasn't full.  I remember us hiding under the bleachers when a visiting team made of Amazons (I swear) came to play our team!  The coach later asked where we were during the game and we said we'd been right there on the bench!  In later semesters, I took archery and horseback riding, swimming and basketball.  (And being only 5 feet tall, I wasn't all that good at basketball!)

Have a great Saturday!

Kathy

Chrissy, so glad you`re home!! Nice to have your own bathroom back, eh?

Golf is probably the only outdoor sport I can do without sweating. I HATE sweating!!! I use a cart so I can do all 18 rather than be crippled at the end of the game (which I still am sometimes). I can`t bounce around on a tennis or squash court to this works for me but it can get expensive. I learned by playing the PGA game on Playstation!!! My DH always played and when I learned about the different numbered clubs, well, I just had to see for myself. 

Carole, get into hybrids. I also have a `rescue`club I use a lot and even use a 5-wood on the fairway! Whatever works.....

Lisa, I was nervous about golfing again after my double masts and my back issues. It took until last year that I finally picked up a club again - 4 years after surgery and 2 years on disability for my back!! I must admit....I GAINED 50 yards without my breasts in the way!! LOL

I actually found the swinging to be a good exercise for my back as there is no impact involved. I have only played in 9-hole segments but hope to build up my stamina to 18 again this summer. I can`t image the high-impact of tennis on my poor body! I admire those that can still jump around.

Lisa, have you tried Gabapentin? I`m sure you have, but I just couldn`t NOT answer....  Too bad you couldn`t use a cart in tennis! 

Hi Ladies, just popping in to say yahoo for all the good news!!!

heal well, Lisa and Chrissy!

I am still very busy with DD. But we made it home and are trying to get a routine going! I have to inject her with fragmin everyday. It is a trial. She hates it so then I get tense. She is getting more independent, tho/

I have a good friend coming to visit tomorrow. An old friend from high school, so when I say old I mean old!! lol

I'll try to add a pic of the house, the windows are in now!!!

this is taken from the inside with sink placed to see how it will look. We had to take it back out to get the plumbing and flooring installed. It's exciting!!!

my DH seems to be falling asleep more and more as we watch TV.Why doesn't he just go to bed if he wants to sleep. 

Lisa I am sorry to hear that you have neuropathy too. So far I only get the pain in bed in my feet. Have you tried neurontin?  As long as I am getting in your business here I wonder if you could add a heater to you pool. It would seem worth the cost for your health benefits. 

I am so Impressed that you can play golf, I tried once and by hole home I was trying to beat the ball into the ground.

Lisa, I let my DH snore loud enough to wake himself up while I surf the net...hehehehehe. I refuse to be his mother and tell him to go to bed! It happens when he first starts Marshalling on the golf course for the year as the fresh air just knocks him out until he gets used to it...ehheheehhehehe

mac that looks STUNNING!! Better even than the shop pic of it. Thank you for letting us join you on this journey.

Chrissy, my DH makes tea in a thermos like they use in restaurants so when I get up I have hot tea. We`ve been doing this for as long as I can remember! It holds about 1.2 litres so he has what he wants before he heads off and then I can get what I want later. Tea pots just aren`t big enough for how much tea we drink.

Ginger, I like that `getting in your business`comment...hehehehe. It`s kind of implied here though isn`t it? I`ve been getting in everyones business for over 5.5 years! That is a good idea about the heater, or Lisa, do you use a solar cover? Having a pool and not being able to suspend yourself weightless in it is just a crime. At my bro`s house we just float on noodles for hours as we chat.

Chrissy, I can see how your DH would be awkward helping you as he would be afraid of hurting you and he could! Someone used to doing a shower or bath for someone would be a better help. Do they charge you or is it part of day-care so you can leave the hospital? Do you have a shower-chair? I have one and it helps tremendously with the hand-held shower I can slot on or off as I use it. Hoping you get freshened up and into a clean nightie today!!! Hugs to you. (A bit annoyed he`s left you at home alone so soon...but hey, JMHO) 

50 years ago today I graduated from college and I was commissioned as a Navy Ensign Line Officer

Brains and looks in one package!

Still gorgeous Lisa and Wilsie, we are our own worst critics. I`m not terribly happy with that picture of me, but at least it`s recent! When I look in the mirror I swear I still see a young hippie, not a 56 year old grandma.

Nice view mema, you are really close!! Do you have to get special insurance for your windows? I laugh when my DH tells me a homeowner comes running out yelling when they get a broken window...hey, you live on a golf course!!!!

When I was at the tournament on Wednesday I was paired with a non-or-new-golfer (she just bought clubs). We had a tent over us but were on the up hill of a par 3. I told her if anyone yelled FORE to bend over and cover her head as it would be serious (the people teeing off could see us). She laughed. Until the first group yelled FORE!!! and then she ran!! hehehehehhehee (They put our tent at the womens` tees but there were still guys playing for the first hour before the course cleared for the tournament.)

Lisa, you are a gorgeous young woman in that picture. 

And what a lovely pool! 

I was back playing golf as soon as my PS cleared me to play after my BMX with recon.  I think it was about 8 weeks.  But it might have been 12 wks because I had some healing issues with lefty.   I started walking out in my neighborhood after about a week.  At first I must have made a pitiful sight, managing only about a block and my motion was more creeping than striding!  But I wanted to get back to being active asap. 

I think the homeowner on a golf course has to make sure his/her home insurance covers window breakage.  It's a hazard of living in that location.  The golfer is not liable.  That's what I read, anyway.  It may vary from place to place. 

I just bought a "new used" set of Taylormade irons on Ebay.  Hope I'm not repeating myself.  They should arrive on Thurs.  And tonight I ordered some Volvik golf balls, a dozen orange and a dozen bright green.  I saw some of the LPGA players using them recently at a tournament in Mobile, AL, and I liked the way they look.  Volvik was one of the sponsors of the tournament. 

Barbe, the LPGA were playing in Canada this weekend.  I don't know exactly where.  I watched it on tv.  We record a lot of sports events on the DVR and watch them at our convenience.  DH watched a lot of the French Open tennis.  I watched some of it. 

Today was dh's 75th birthday.  We celebrated it at my mother's house today.  Five of her six kids were there.  It was a nice day.