I am a retired university library employee who lives in the wilds of North Idaho with my hubby and 2 spoiled rotten kitties. I am a fantastic cook who enjoys good movies, the great outdoors, and creating. I have been a fat/size activist for a number of years now, ever since I got off the diet roller coaster and found that you don’t have to be a size 2 to have a wonderful life. …

Back in the late 80s, there were some commercials with an actress named June Allyson. I used to giggle about the subject and wondered how anyone could star in them, especially an actress like June.

Now I understand and I’m not laughing quite as much anymore.

If you aren’t into a discussion of bodily functions, you may want to check out an old post of mine:

Okay, onward to the discussion for those still here.

So, apparently, as you grow older, certain body parts lose effectiveness (by the way, it ain’t just women!). I had gotten used to the…

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So we’ve been hitting the gym on a regular basis, tho we’ve missed the odd morning here and there. We’ve dropped the pool, we just weren’t getting as much out of it as we would have liked. At least at the gym, we have no set time we HAVE to be there and no time limit.

Currently, we are alternating workouts, functional one day, weights the next. Works out that if we go in 3 days a week we may be doing weights twice in a week or functional twice in one week. …

Dispatches from the little homestead in the mobile home park.

The hot weather seems to be over (knock on wood). We won’t pull the air conditioner from the living room window just yet. No sense in tempting the Universe by doing something silly.

But our overnight temps are dropping, we’ve almost had frost here in town. Friends out of town did get frost one night. Luckily not much damage to their gardens.

Speaking of gardens, my greenhouse is now underway. The base is down and next up will be the walls. We have a friend who is building it for…

Garden

There is nothing like the taste of a tomato fresh off the vine on a warm summer's day.

Carol Lennox wrote a story about getting a shiny new red walker and I commented that I have one I started blinging with nail polish. She responded that she was going to need pics. So here they are.

In 2019 I was flying out to Maine with my mom to clear out one of my late brother’s storage lockers from when he lived out there. The hubby and I had gone to Goodwill to see about finding a decent-sized backpack so I could pack everything I needed as carryon. No backpacks, but he spotted a red Invacare rollator for $27.

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As I rapidly approached 60 I have been finding some things harder to do. While I have become more active in some ways since I’ve retired, I am inactive in others.

With the recent seriously hot weather and poor air conditions thanks to the fires in the Pacific Northwest, I am not out in my garden and studio as much as I’d like to be and spend more time sitting at the computer.

At least when I was still working I had to get up and move quite a bit around the library which was nicely air-conditioned.

I’ve never had…