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No one ever came to the door on Halloween, ever!
The community is for over 55 seniors.
Not even their grandchildren went here on Halloween.

Even after a small percentage of non-senior families moved into the neighborhood, and there are now small children, no one comes for candy.
We always turn out the lights anyway, to make sure no one comes.

I just finished making the 'Original Fantasy Fudge' recipe, it's cooling now.
Maybe if y'all ask for the recipe or google it, I won't have to send you some.

I gave out Easter candy Pez this year. Take one turned into taking 3, and asking for more to take to sister...uh, no. I understand, cute spoiled little kids, but no.
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Are you doing Halloween this year?
I get so few kids (a dozen or so) that I was planning to skip it this year, but now I'm feeling like I don't want to disappoint the kids who do make it to my neighbourhood. What do you think, open or closed?
One other consideration - I already ate the candy and would have to buy more...
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Good morning Cwillie!
Every day has been a bad hair day lately.
It grew and grew, and cannot cut it yet because last time I had the scissors in my hand I really messed up dh's haircut. His gray made him look bald in some places.

Once the gray starts to come in, the hair does it's own thing. Even my bangs grew out, and won't be trained to be on the side.

Not used to longer hair. Shoulder length was okay all these years.

Isn't it time for designer masks? For winter?
Very funny about having a hat for your face. You woke up funny?
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Bad hair day Send? I think I've mentioned before - that's what hats are for.
If it's too much hair in all the wrong places wearing masks in public places is kinda like having a hat for your face🤣
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Let's have a redo on hair.
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I wish I had some profound words of wisdom for you. I do know what it feels like to lose someone you love and to feel alone. I get my strength from my faith and good people like the ones on here

Keep posting Mary!
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Feeling sad. My 96 year old wwii vet father died a few weeks ago when I was holding his hand. He was a cantankerous guy but he could be sweet abs funny too. Both him and my didn’t want to leave their house for 60 years but we had to live them to assisted living because it was too hard on them. My issue is my Mom is 84 and has dementia. Not sure what stage but she usually remembers me, but not the grandchildren. I live in another state and am just worried about her. She’s all alone. We had a dysfunctional family and basically the kids took care of the moms emotional needs and my father took care of everything else. No question just feeling sad tonight and feel even though my mom is here that I’ve lost them both. Thanks for just being here.
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I had my covid booster shot yesterday. Pfizer . Wow was my arm sore this morning, and I had a terrible headache for a few hours. A bit tired but that could be because I got it in the arm I sleep on,, ( don;t do this). Ran into a friend who got hers the same time,, same symptoms. At least its done ( for now) and I was much sicker with the 2 original shots
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I just read that Robert Munsch has dementia :(
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CWillie,
These days, just getting out of the house for any reason, I give people kudos!

You are not alone in not finding a connection at church. I have been online for church, and can watch some of my favorite pastors who teach from the bible. The attendees when a church does meet often seem very white-haired.
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I went to real, in person church this morning, the church down the road in the community where I grew up. Oh my, there are so many white haired heads😟.
I always felt more of a connection to the people of my parent's generation (those folks who still sometimes mentioned my childhood with a twinkle in their eye) and now there are very, very few. And those under 40 probably don't even know who I am - if they notice me at all.
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In the U.S., looking back on the events on 9/11, we can reflect on how we have coped with the traumatic losses. September 11, 2021 will be twenty years, a very sad and emotional anniversary date.

Add that to the pandemic years, and recent earthquake and storm losses, I know there are some very stressed out people across the U.S. and the World.

So, I wanted to lift my head up momentarily from my own cares, and give acknowledgement to the heroes of 9/11.

Some of those heroes are the daily caregivers who not only survived these times, but gave their time to make the lives of others better. Thank you caregivers!
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I just want to say how much the site has meant to me while Tony has been away. Alice Springs is not ‘home’, though I have tried to do the right thing about making contacts with people here, and some locals have been kind enough to be in contact with me too. But all of us on the site have been people to ‘talk’ to about real things, important things, and things where I would hope to think I can help a bit. And I can do it even when my difficult back is making things awkward for me to choose other things to do. Now that I have Tony to talk to in the flesh, I realise how much the site contacts have helped.

I am so grateful to all our ‘friends’, and to the moderators who make this all work. I hope that it fills a real need for other people too, as well as just useful advice. Thank you, friends!
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Tony is here! He’s unpacking the truck, and I’m trying to cope with 3 months of mail, including overdue tax stuff (grovel grovel). This morning we went into the hospital for Tony’s overdue eye injection for his wet macula, followed by a walk around the corner for both of us to get our second vaccine jabs (astra zeneca, 3 months between jabs). I went on the wagon for the whole time he was gone, so I’m enjoying both red wine and a husband! I’m so glad he’s here, and so sorry for carers whose spouses aren’t really with them now. Tomorrow Tony faces getting the backhoe (digger) out of the truck without a loading ramp. I will just look away...
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Oh Gershun I hope you both feel better soon! I am home alone ( with 2 small nervous dogs and 21 feral cats,, LOL ) and hubs had to go the the river house for the night as they are calling for the potomac to rise 25 feet !! He got the boats out and will get the dock out tomorrow am, then help the neighbors get thier stuff out. It is always great they all work together. It should not reach the river house but will surely be in the yards.. I called out of work for tomorrow as I can;t leave the dogs home alone in case he is stuck another night, and if the power goes out I have to deal with things here. And Irony,, the whole house generator is due to be finished,,, Thursday... LOL So I guess I can sit in the house and imagine I have power and water... We lose power a good bit and this rain and flooding even here look to be bad, Tornado watches in effect.
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Well, hubby and I both got our second shots yesterday. We are both really ill today. It figures. No way I could be one of the lucky few. Yep.....🤒
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I think it’s hard to know exactly what things are like in other places. The media report extreme ‘newsworthy’ things, and the moderators are not alone in thinking that Covid is political and against the rules for comment. Things have varied a lot across Australia. Since January 2020, I’ve been in South Australia (2 one week lockdowns), and the Northern Territory (1 one week lockdown). Melbournes has had months of it, very very different. Australia did so well in the beginning that the vaccine roll-out was complacent, unlike the brilliant rollout in the USA. Then the Oz eastern states were badly hit with Delta. If we believed the US media, there are millions of lunatics there ignoring the whole thing.

My DH Tony has been in SA for 3 months. He was close to return to me in Alice Springs NT when those truckies went through, so I was hyper-vigilant. And Pt Augusta is an ‘unimportant’ SA town that I’ve just realised could stop virtually all road and rail transport country wide, and that’s a bit unusual. 3000kms Darwin to Adelaide, 4000kms Sydney to Perth, both through Pt Augusta. Tony will be going through it today!!!! Yeah!!!
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There's such a weird dissonance when I read posts like this from people in Australia Margaret, it's like you are finally joining the club we in North America have been in for a year and a half (meh, been there done that)!
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Let’s hear it for the truckies! Two drivers went from Sydney to Perth without passing on a Covid infection that came up on the way. They said that most truckies now drive in a pair, and each drives in 12 hour shifts. They stop only for fuel, are careful when they pay, then drop the load and pickup at a designated point and return. Almost no interactions with people. They refueled at Pt Augusta, which is a crossroad for virtually everything going east west or north south across Australia. They saved thousands of people from lockdown and infection!
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The reason I'm unsure is that sis never did manage to talk to the social worker about next steps and discharge planning, however she did tell everyone else she talked to that the reason she needed to make plans is that the family did not feel MIL could be safely discharged to her home because she lives alone and family was not able to care for her (all the buzz words I learned here).
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Cwillie,
Having strong advocates makes a huge difference in the care our elders receive. I am sure of it.
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Thanks Send. Sis's MIL had 3 stents and is waiting for an opening in a rehab facility (something that is rarely offered here), it's hard to know if sister's advocacy had anything to do with that. She adamantly does not want to move to a facility full time, only time will tell whether a return to her senior's apartment is possible (I have my fingers crossed for her).
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CWillie,
Hoping that your sister is managing okay with her Mil having had a heart attack.
It is good that you can be there for your sister.
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Cwillie, I had to laugh at "eat off the floors", my dads 2nd wife keeps a VERY immaculate house. My dad and uncle were talking about it one day and my dad said, "You could eat off her floors they're so clean", my uncle responded, "You can eat off my floors too, only you'll get real food".

All about perspective :-)
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I was out cleaning my windows when someone from my home town happened to be walking by. This fellow's MIL was a neighbour of my parents and she was know as a real haus frau, one of those people who did the window once a week and whose floors undoubtedly were literally clean enough to eat off of. I couldn't help but think all those ladies would be spinning in their graves if they could see my cleaning method - sponge the grime off with a bucket of dawn detergent and a floor mop then rinse with the hose. The end.
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My husband's build and movement are so much like the new Tesla Bot, what can I do with this information? The Bot is said to be friendly and not aggressive, but elonmusk explains just in case, it can be out run, and one can likely over power it.

I can only laugh at this moment. 🤣💫🤣
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"Professor Luc Montagnier is a French virologist who won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)."

See what he says about the vaccines.
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Thank you Send.
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Condolences on the loss of your Uncle, CWillie.

My Uncle passed one year ago this month, after having lived a wonderful life.
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It was so much easier when the doctors came out and said "I'm sorry, there's nothing more we can do", today they come out and offer too many options.

At my uncle's funeral yesterday my cousin told us how my uncle, caught up in pain and confusion of the moment, authorized them to do everything, effectively overriding his carefully thought advance directives. The poor man.
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