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

Happy Mardi Gras!!!

Love the Mardi Gras pics. Carole.  Wow, you were kept busy with all the "loot", huh !!!!  There is Mardi Gras tonight over in St. Louis.  We never go, but it is going to be soooo cold tonight.  I guess in true style -- they don't call it off. 

Curious about the deleted post, but guess we will never know.  Glad the Mods keep an eye -- but you do wonder what idea someone hoped to present.  Obviously had no place here.  I'm off to work on a very cold morning with snow everywhere.  We shouldn't be getting any more today -- so they say, but the cold and possibility are going to be with us for awhile.  Not sure --- but probably close to a week.  Sigh !!!!  We have had snow before this time of yr. but somehow the truly nearly toasty temps. of a few days ago left me full of hope that this wouldn't happen.  Did I jinx us or something????

See you all later -- hoping you all have passable weather. 

Blessings,

Jackie

Doing some spring cleaning today, going through file drawers. Felt good to purge the Cancer folder, kept reports of course but found a lot that wasn't necessary any more.

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DH plays with a samba band and they have a long gig tonight for Mardi Gras. Their dancers have some pretty elaborate costumes. Not like NOLA or Rio, but still very fancy. The post was about Ann Silberman's petition on change.org asking that 50% of BC earnings be used for research. I hope there are enough signers to get fund raisers to pay attention.

We're having the warmest winter on record and the snow pack in the mountains is only 11% and melting. 60 here today and sunny. Wonderful now but we depend on snowpack for summer water and electricity. Looking like rationing might be in the future.

DH is playing with the samba band tonight for a club here that does Mardi Gras. People from New Orleans take it very seriously. In Houston, we knew the people from NO would not be in the office during the festivities. They never let work interfere with a good time. I made gumbo Monday night for dinner but it needed okra. I've found it at New Year's but most stores here don't carry it.

Sandra, We moved here and people were talking about Settende Mai. It's Norwegian constitution day and there's a big parade in my part of Seattle. One time the king & queen of Norway came and were in the parade. Our little downtown bank had tellers who spoke Norwegian and a travel agency to book their trips back to see relatives.

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 with yourself as you do with those around you?. . . . Know your limits.
 You are one of the most important people you need to look after and love.
 Balance your time, your energy, your life with those around you.  You'll be able
 to give more freely and joyfully as a result, and you'll be more open to the
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hi, got wear long Johns here, was -8 when I got up, but it's another sunny one. Don't feel so cold when it's out and not windy.

Hello to Blondie. Hope you're doing well. Jean

Good Morning, I have ketchup to do but I'm doing it page by page.

Sandra this sounds so promising for Mike, I realize they have to give odds but when u think o it it couldn't be better---(((PRAYERS)))

Anne u do have a lot of places to go, but the best is when u'r with as much of the family that u can be with.

Mommom what a nice vacation u had, it's so nice to get away, and nice to come home too.

Mommarch what can I say, accident , fire al at the same time and now u have it figured out--good thing
Oh when I would have my car and it didn't work, that would upset me so badly,.but u and u'r DH are pretty good about all this confusion.

Jackie u have the best attitude--it's like there is always sunshine behind each cloud. But u actually live it, it must be so peaceful in u'r mind is u'r DH like u? It's wonderful.

Rita u'r stil in FL right, u another one who confuses me all the time. U sound good tho.

Carole just drive that car the way it is. That sounds like an awful lot of money, but it always is. When I had my car (it was old) I bought those huge magnetics bandaids and just put them where the car was not feeling well.

Teacher I'm so sorr about Penny--we know hos our furbabies affect our lives and we love them so.

Blondie it's so nice to see u post, but u sound like u'r ready to come home--how can anyone take things from anyone who's recuperating and really can't keep u'r eyes on anything. That's crap--Just hope u'r doing better--(((HUGS)))

OK I think I've accomplished what I set out to do---ketching up---

Carole I forgot u live by Mardi Gras--always seems so exciting and so many people showing their boobs for necklaces, like that. It's such a big deal there, where other places have nothing to celebrate. All we have is a few different bakery items to celebrate with--u'rs is so much better.

Termite u have to be in this cold for sure--it's below 0 with of course wind chill - 30--that's way to recockulous, just a few minutes outside and u can get frostbite in a second and 1/2 or 2 seconds-whatever, so everyone stay warm who's in this, or stay dry if u'r in the other area where there is all snow.

LOL!  LOVE the bandaid for the car!  Only Cammi would come up with that cure.

Chevy, your get-together with your old friend sounds like great fun.  I can just imagine how much you two laughed and carried on.

I'm off to my PCP this morning.  She's going to be disappointed with my weight gain of about 5 lbs since the apptment last year.  I'm hoping to get a good recommendation for a foot dr. She'll also order blood work, which is the best indicator of what's going on with my general health. 

Happy Thursday to every.

The sunrise this morning was so beautiful.

I guess I'm mostly a lurker, too.

I loved hopscotch, bike rides, roller skating and board games.

Lots of Louisiana transplants here means lots of hoopla about Mardi Gras. I don't get into it though. My DH did come home with beads Tuesday because he said they were in piles all around the office. That was it for us.

Last week I got through a colonoscopy successfully and had a cardio visit yesterday. It was supposed to just be a pacemaker check but because of episodes of tachycardia, my doc brought up ablation again. I just don't want to do it but will if the episodes become more frequent. He said they aren't life threatening so I don't want to think of surgery. I'd like for my DH's time off to be for relaxing instead of hauling me to and fro to see docs like last year

I've been surprised that in spite of the cold that weeds are flourishing and there was a mosquito in my car! My daffodils are peeking up but not blooming yet. It's supposed to be in the 70s this weekend, so I think I will vent some frustration on weeds. I'm ready to play in the dirt and have color outside.

Sea otters are so cute.  I just loved watching them when we were in Alaska. 

Morning gals! I found this video years ago, and I kept it with my "favorites".... There is another one, about why they hold hands, and wrap their babies in sea-weed.

They keep talking about Denver getting up to 16 inches of snow starting tonight! I am a little weary, to say the least, about all these Winter storms ganging up on us, but at least it isn't like further East, with those bone chilling freezing temps, and the mountains of snow! We at least get some days of 60 degree weather in between!